Example sentences of "to [be] a [adj] [conj] a " in BNC.
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| 1 | That was because I mean you take now the , the , the Dredging Company what they call the in their funnel they used to have erm a square and in halves that used to be a blue and a yellow . |
| 2 | ‘ He ought to be a twelve or a thirteen , he 's so good . |
| 3 | These pictures , rarely cordial , have become more and more baleful : it is as if he is holding himself back from physical assault on a reader supposed to be a trendy and a lefty , which is , indeed , what many of his readers have always been . |
| 4 | The whole area of Clacton always seems to be a tidy and a very pleasant town to visit . |
| 5 | However , two of the First Class singles illustrated seem to be a late or a second printing . |
| 6 | Or is it OK by you to be a Nazi and a Madness fan ? |
| 7 | But a librarian , more likely to be an Adonis-type than a Boar or a Goddess , might be tempted to catalogue this book under ‘ Hughes ’ rather than under ‘ Shakespeare ’ . |
| 8 | The figure of 2 km assumed here for the area of interest further north is therefore more likely to be an over than an underestimate . |