Example sentences of "[be] [adj] a [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | She 's not been asleep a minute all night ! |
| 2 | They 'll go to 500 SPECmarks89 and are due a year after EV45 and into 1995 . |
| 3 | Performance will go to 500 SPECmarks89 and are due a year after EV45 and into 1995 . |
| 4 | There is good news from the tax man our deregistration on subscriptions has been accepted and we are due a refund . |
| 5 | ‘ I asked you here because you are due a bonus . ’ |
| 6 | But , we know that April was a low figure , we also know that July and August are low a figure which comes out from this graph and was given to me by the director yesterday , is a genuine average which is turning out to be between a hundred and a hundred and ten placements per month twelve hundred to fourteen hundred placements per year a thr over a three year average residency period three thousand six hundred to four thousand two hundred placements in residential care , where then is the real problem . |
| 7 | These other departments are situated on two sites which are each a mile or so from the Main Library , and about two miles from each other . |
| 8 | A word group is all the most usual forms of a word ; so table / tables , look / looks / looking / looked , go / goes / going / gone / went are each a word group . |
| 9 | Otherwise they are half a mile away and it is ridiculous . |
| 10 | As the crow flies , they are half a mile away . |
| 11 | A senior security service officer had been machine-gunned a week earlier in Fayoum town ( about 100 km from Cairo ) as local tensions that dated from the previous year had flared up . |
| 12 | I mean they 'll just they 'll just have it sat there empty , it 's been empty a year now . |
| 13 | Judges ought , when they are pre-reading a case , to be able to pick up the skeleton argument , and they ought actually to be able to start with the skeleton argument , which would tell them in very succinct form the background facts and what the points are . |
| 14 | This popular hotel has been such a success with Club 18–30 that we 're delighted to feature it again as our Club Choice for summer ‘ 90 . |
| 15 | Even that seemingly most child-aware artist , Dick Bruna , says ( 1984 , p.43 ) , ‘ I 'm sure that if the books had n't been such a success , I would still be continuing in the same way . |
| 16 | After a while I thought that as Dateline had been such a success the first time why not have some fun and do it again ? |
| 17 | The 1951 Stratford season had been such a success , it would have been foolish to have followed it with any lesser thing . |
| 18 | Why has Futuroscope been such a success ? |
| 19 | But what happened to the crushed tomatoes which had been such a success , Were they abandoned in favour of whole canned tomatoes ? |
| 20 | It has been such a success within the company over recent months that JT Design Build are now making it available throughout the construction industry and to the industry 's clients . |
| 21 | Without your hard work , the development of the new courses could not have been such a success . |
| 22 | Dr Marshall says it 's been such a success he 'd like to see his research go up in flames again |
| 23 | Dr Marshall says it 's been such a success he 'd like to see his research go up in flames again |
| 24 | He remained in detention during the rebellion but stated in a letter published in the press that he had been responsible for it , a claim which was interpreted more as a dramatic personal gesture than a statement of fact ; earlier reports stated that the rebellion had been such a surprise to him that he had requested a pistol in order to shoot himself . |
| 25 | Not since 1949 has there been such a chance to abolish blood sports and just 13 absent MPs blew it . |
| 26 | For the control practices , with their low rate of cross boundary referrals , this may not have been such a concern . |
| 27 | ‘ By the way , ’ she began , hardly able to credit that , when earlier that morning her car had been such a concern to her , great expanses of time should now elapse without her giving it so much as a thought , ‘ could you tell me the name of the garage where my car — ’ |
| 28 | It may have been such a realisation ( along with the generally hostile reaction to the Framework document ) that encouraged the DES to be less specific in its second attempt at producing a framework for the curriculum ( almost a year after its first attempt ) . |
| 29 | Travelling , which had once been such a bore to him , was now a continual nightmare . |
| 30 | If I had n't been such a coward maybe they might have turned out better . ’ |