Example sentences of "[noun] [adj] be [art] [noun sg] " in BNC.

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1 And our comment to them at that particular stage was , ‘ Well , if that 's the case that 's the case .
2 Collateral is something purely nominal : clothes given as a pledge must be returned at night in case that is the person 's only possession .
3 That 's a bit that 's a bit risky is n't it ?
4 Yeah well it 's a bit that 's the truth though I mean that is a bit silly is n't it ?
5 And it 's that three hours that 's the impression that they take away with them .
6 He says , I feel awful we were making plans that being the week to go out so they had trouble with wagon so we had to spend some time on wagon .
7 So that the six three O eight was a product that had supplied ?
8 Calling our resources , uniting our activists , achieving by cooperation what we 've never achieved by wasteful competition , but then of course that 's a vision .
9 My Lord my initial reaction is it sounds logical as well and I I wondered if if what my learned friend has said i if and also what your Lordship 's initial view is , if the matter can be left in that way er i if after further reflection , it seems right then of course that 's the way that we will approach it .
10 ‘ Of course that 's an exaggeration , but it illustrates the point , ’ said a local police source yesterday .
11 But of course that is a discussion which would be quite proper and er for us to have and for the board to take a view on and er for funders to comment on and so on and so forth .
12 of course that is a point that we 've made all the way through , it 's not if nobody would bid , it 's if the franchising director was not satisfied with the quality or the long term viability of the bids he 'd received
13 No , no , it 's not only their own er we have got er entries from W I members of other villages , but mainly its from the members who live in the villages and of course that is the beauty of the book , where it differs from the normal travel book , it 's the story of villages by people who actually live in them .
14 Erm another one we used to erm do of course that was a bit more adventuresome as we got older , what was called er Spirit Tapping .
15 Er but erm actually , I I , in erm erm sorry , er , but of course that was a bathroom , but we did n't have a blind up .
16 But of course that was the answer .
17 ‘ I 'm not the slightest bit embarrassed by my holiday arrangements ’ — And of course that was the trouble
18 From the magically perfect opening harmonics this was a performance of impact , precision and style that reminds us what a marvellous work this is when performed with such burning intensity .
19 For those who fly these unusual objects this is a sport which gets you hooked .
20 In her case this was a consequence of living with two women like Phoebe and Rachel .
21 Sierra On-Line is a software house that is justly famous for its high-quality games .
22 In the first case , the maturity value of the deposit at the end of two months is where is the current l-month rate , is the 1-month rate beginning in one month 's time , and N 1 and N 2 are the number of days in the months of January and February .
23 Deposits can sometimes be peeled from surfaces in rubbery strips this is a change known as polymerisation .
24 In large measure this was the result of the steady spread of market relations .
25 In both cases this is the opposite of the prevailing trend in manufacturing industry .
26 Despite the penalties the recession and the increasingly sophisticated technology used by counterfeiters mean unlike the dinosaur this is a problem which wo n't go away but threatens to grow over the coming months .
27 Of course this is a work where even Karajan 's detractors can only suspend prejudice in the face of his two superlative versions on DG , but Rostropovich communicates a sense of stark yet searing tragedy which makes his performance , of the first movement in particular , very special .
28 It 's a good way of doing it , just saying , ‘ Well , my personal view is of course this is a tragedy .
29 Of course this is an illusion , but the exact nature of the change is now difficult to discern , except perhaps among such essentially novel agriculturalists as the settlers in the American West , ready to change farm and crop according to the prospects of prices or speculative profits , equipped with machinery and already buying the city 's products through the new-fangled device of the mail-order catalogue .
30 Of course this was a one-off : a meaningful spasm , as it were — a directional seizure of humours or sick pressures already present in society .
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