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Example sentences of "[conj] [be] a [adj] " in BNC.

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1	He 'd never shortened her name , or been a demonstrative man , and she still found it almost impossible to guess what he was thinking .
2	Give brief details of yourself and any relevant experience or qualifications to show why you are interested in the particular job or are a suitable candidate for a general interview .
3	You may not get to attend client meetings , but this depends on whether you were employed as an experienced but young professional or are a new entrant who is just beginning .
4	Ketamine has been associated with recurring phenomena ( ‘ flashbacks ’ ) , although whether these result from drug induced physiological changes or are a functional response to anxiety in predisposed personalities is still unclear .
5	It is evident that a child may be a poor speller , but write well-structured and interesting stories , or be a good speller , but write badly structured and boring stories .
6	Or were a major problem ?
7	Thus rather than adopting the language of coercion and hence drawing parallels between corporate officials and , say , soldiers at the front in World War I compelled to go over the top at dawn to meet the German machine-gun bullets or be shot as ‘ deserters ’ , it might be more realistic to argue that corporate officials are frequently placed in a position where they are required to choose between impairing their career chances or being a loyal organizational person .
8	Where a defendant has a bankruptcy order made against him , or being a limited company is subject to a winding-up order , the plaintiff in a simple money claim should consider whether it is not best to ask for the action to be adjourned generally and lodge a proof of debt .
9	But there is more to successful management than just picking the team or being a gifted coach , just ask Ray Harford or Mel Machin , respectively sacked by Luton and Manchester City because their public image was n't considered good enough .
10	Some companies have an automatic deletion of all e-mail messages more than three months old with the proviso that any important messages can be taken out and incorporated into a formal , structured system ( for example , a word processing system or individual accounts ) if that message needs to be retained or is a key part of another , more important story .
11	Anybody who disagrees with giving the pensioners the right to watch T V without having to pay a licence charge is either the English football manager hoping to God nobody sees the team playing , or is a Norwegian player wanting to protect our old older members of the community from an early grave .
12	In my recent researches into drawing in the United States in the Museum of Modern Art in New York and in the National Gallery in Washington , I discovered a large resource of minimalist works on paper by women ( whether this is due to the collector/donor 's taste or is a real reflection of the state of practice is difficult to determine . )
13	Article 5(1) contains further definitions as follows : " a group of connected individuals " , in relation to the party disposing of shares in the company , means persons each of whom is , or is a close relative of , a director or manager of the company and , in relation to the party acquiring the shares , means persons each of whom is , or is a close relative of , a person who is to be a director or manager of the company ; " close relation " means a person 's spouse , his children ( including , in Northern Ireland , his adopted children ) and step-children , his parents and step-parents , his brothers and sisters , and his step-brothers and step-sisters and includes a person acting in the capacity of trustee or personal representative of any such relative ; and " single individual " includes two or more persons acting in their capacity as the personal representatives of a single individual .
14	Article 5(1) contains further definitions as follows : " a group of connected individuals " , in relation to the party disposing of shares in the company , means persons each of whom is , or is a close relative of , a director or manager of the company and , in relation to the party acquiring the shares , means persons each of whom is , or is a close relative of , a person who is to be a director or manager of the company ; " close relation " means a person 's spouse , his children ( including , in Northern Ireland , his adopted children ) and step-children , his parents and step-parents , his brothers and sisters , and his step-brothers and step-sisters and includes a person acting in the capacity of trustee or personal representative of any such relative ; and " single individual " includes two or more persons acting in their capacity as the personal representatives of a single individual .
15	Is it a question of the amount and frequency of the prescription or is a new remedy needed ?
16	‘ We are concerned she may be a young girl who became pregnant and has not told her parents , or is a young girl in care who ran off and had the baby over the Christmas weekend .
17	In addition to the disqualifications that apply to voting , a person may not be a candidate if he or she has been declared bankrupt within the previous five years , has incurred or authorised unlawful expenditure by a local authority above £2,000 , or is a paid employee of the local authority in question or the holder of a politically restricted post in another local authority ( see pages 88 — 9 ) .
18	Indeed , more information is required concerning the pattern of excretion of Cryptosporidium and other organisms , in order to investigate whether the chronic diarrhoea in these cases is a result of persistent infection or is a postinfective phenomenon .
19	Is this a good idea or is a bad idea , so there are problems , yes the , the test , some people will say the driving test is out of date but I think at the moment it 's the best we can offer given all circumstances .
20	The third either points to the index for the whole compound or is a dead end .
21	‘ Or is a chaste kiss on the cheek all you need from a man after all ? ’
22	He seems to invite us to think of the circle as something which embodies , or is a continuing expression of , the motions which generate it ; and this involves our thinking of those motions in a way which makes them less like efficient causes than like formal causes , at least as Aristotle intended them .
23	Most obviously , the power will be exercised where the patient is a known danger to the public or is a known suicide risk .
24	Some philosophers argued that the Prime Mover did not exist , or was a weak and feeble deity who was impotent to intervene in the machinations of the universe : Spike could not believe that .
25	Note that anyone who is or was a local authority foster parent for the child within the preceding six months can not apply for leave to seek a s8 order unless he has the consent of the authority or he is a relative of the child or the child has lived with him for at least three years preceding the application ( s9(3) ) .
26	Or was a separated woman still an outcast in Veronica 's circle ?
27	‘ Tribe is , or was a bad joke , ’ Finlayson said morosely .
28	Well I have to admit , with our group , the first ten minutes or was a little bit disorganised because I felt we , I came in , we set down the objects , I felt we did that well , and we were clear of the timescale from the very beginning .
29	Mr Smaje 's main role has been to mastermind the changes of behaviour that are a necessary requisite of the new operating style .
30	These are two main types : those that are basically preparatory schools preparing very young children for entry to a highly academic independent school later on — and those that are a fee-paying alternative to maintained nursery schools , either because pre-school places are in short supply or because the school adopts a particular educational philosophy , such as the Montessori method .