Example sentences of "to [be] [adj] a [noun sg] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | It is about time fortune smiled on United and the way they went into the lead was to be honest a bit of a fluke . |
| 2 | If you pay money to an artist how can you tell if he 's going to be famous a couple of years from now ? |
| 3 | From now on , it appears , it is going to be all a question of fighting for market share . |
| 4 | It seems to be all a matter of priorities , of what is most important to people and how they choose to use their time . |
| 5 | Flickscreen arcade adventures seem to be two a penny on the C64 , and really have to be something special to stand out . |
| 6 | She had not expected to be such a kind of girl ; she had watched this kind of girl for years ( the lips discreetly reddened , the loud laughter on the school bus , the tossing of long hair beneath rakish berets , the swinging of hips , the whispering in the garden ) but she had never expected to become one . |
| 7 | ‘ Kalli ’ , who proved to be such a success with Warwickshire between 1971 and 1990 , has been signed on by Shropshire to play Minor County cricket now that he is English-qualified by residence . |
| 8 | Is this because the construction of racialized identities depends on the existence of the Other , while at the same time it is this ‘ alien presence ’ which is seen to be such a threat to identity that its total annihilation is required ? |
| 9 | In the key marginal seat of Stretchford North , for instance , where John Grudge , nephew of the veteran retiring member Arthur Grudge , is standing for Labour against the Conservative Mike Jelkes ( formerly known as the Hon M. S. B. St J. St X. Haggard-Jelkes ) and the Liberal Democrat Frank Pale-Jones , a former official of the British Boring Board of Control , there is said to be such a degree of apathy that any one of the 26 ‘ fringe ’ candidates may easily win . |
| 10 | This group , of parasites tend not to be such a problem in young dogs as roundworms . |
| 11 | For there to be such a fact about me is for it also to be true , roughly , that in certain circumstances I would consciously believe , desire , fear , intend , or whatever . |
| 12 | For example , that ‘ the shortest distance between two points is a straight line ’ , would appear to be such a truth without the need of proof . |
| 13 | There has to be a time , wrote Harsnet , and Goldberg , laying down the pen , began to type again , there has to be a time when excuses are no longer necessary , will never again be necessary , there has to be such a time in everybody 's life , when too soon and too late no longer mean anything , a time , wrote Harsnet ( typed Goldberg ) , when one starts because one starts and for no other reason . |
| 14 | Apart from the thousands of common criminals who proved to be such a bane for Siberian society , the nineteenth century also witnessed a steady increase in the number of people who , either by judicial or administrative process , were banished to Siberia for political crimes — committed or suspected — against the state . |
| 15 | There was to be great a embankment across the Welland Valley to carry the canal southwards well to the east of Barnes 's line but eventually joining the Grand Junction again very near to Long Buckby . |
| 16 | Maybe to be fair a vote about the closure would settle the dispute . |
| 17 | Maybe to be fair a vote about the closure would settle the dispute . |