Example sentences of "[verb] [be] [adj] an [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Dwyer , who guided the Aussies to World Cup victory last year , insists : ‘ There has been such an improvement in Welsh rugby it could be us who go in as underdogs . ’ |
| 2 | She 'd been such an idiot , had n't she ? |
| 3 | There must have been many an occasion when agents , in particular , must have wished to see the back of him . |
| 4 | I walked round the camp for what I thought was half an hour , imagining myself hiding in woods , boarding goods trains , stealing food , doing anything except clamber over the wire . |
| 5 | The hospital and all that went with it had been such an oasis in the alarming wilderness of doing everything for , and chiefly by , myself ; now it came to the point of leaving it , I was scared . |
| 6 | Even if there had been such an agreement , there was nothing to stop the board getting rid of Mr Venables if it wished , said Mr Heslop . |
| 7 | He was young and fit , and had been half-expecting an attack . |
| 8 | He rode on the Sambre 's northern bank , drawn towards the town by the sound of musketry which had been loud an hour before , but which now had faded into silence . |
| 9 | It really was er of the sort , you know , if Cleopatra 's nose had been half an inch longer , history would have all been different , you know , that , that kind of trivia . |
| 10 | You could get to quite like these characters if all you got was half an hour a week . |
| 11 | When both electrodes have been pre-heated an arc is struck between them ( Figure 2 ) . |