Example sentences of "[adj] [conj] [be] a [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | It seems that being married is less stressful and more exciting than being a bachelor but both think doing something tough and physical such as white water canoeing would ease stresses and strains . |
| 2 | There 's some that are a bit , you know |
| 3 | well do you want some that are a bit hard ? |
| 4 | But it 's only doable , I 'm afraid that 's an Americanism that 's crept into our language , doable , erm only if you listen to the people who 've been doing it . |
| 5 | He was in his 30s and was a member of the Royal Irish Regiment . |
| 6 | In public life , Holford served as Conservative MP for East Gloucestershire from 1854 to 1872 and was a JP , but he took little interest in politics . |
| 7 | The adjacent campanile is also interesting and is a combination of Norman and Byzantine work . |
| 8 | The Bell 's food is always fresh and is a lot nicer . |
| 9 | Today the business holds its head high and is a world leader in its specialized fields . |
| 10 | The oldest rock of all is 4600 Ma old and is a silicate type called dunite . |
| 11 | Lloyd , who was born in Essex , emigrated to South Africa as an 11-year-old and is a graduate from the same riding academy as Roberts . |
| 12 | He has been chairman of the cereals committee since 1985 and is a member of the Yorkshire ( East Riding ) branch . |
| 13 | An acidified lake looks very still and clear but is an animal and plant graveyard . |
| 14 | Erm and without s sounding too pretentious about it I mean there are I can see this as being a sort of mission if you like . |
| 15 | If we have 2 or 3 good results now I can see this as being a watershed for Leeds , and we can build on the renewed confidence and self belief to challenge again . |
| 16 | Sorry that 's a question |
| 17 | This oh sorry that 's a stroke |
| 18 | It is sometimes a question whether a particular confession is the unaided work of an accused or is a fabrication of a police officer . |
| 19 | That 's an alternative choice , perhaps somebody says oh I preferred the leaded that 's a buying signal |
| 20 | I pierced the mask of the temporal that is a facade made hideous by the graffiti of desires and I saw behind it the real of human beings , that is , a masterpiece on the wheel of Eternity . |
| 21 | Mr Roach stressed yesterday that his views were personal and were an attempt to defend the status quo in the police service . |
| 22 | As Mr Urban says : ‘ Everyone wants to look colourful and be a leader but I am afraid of it . |
| 23 | He said that credit costs had been rising partly as a reaction to global inflationary fears , but that the current high interest rates were necessary and appropriate and were a way of keeping inflation in check . |
| 24 | He makes training look easy and is a man with a terrific future . ’ |
| 25 | A decisive break with realist conceptions of the curriculum is long overdue and is a precondition for genuinely pluralist forms of radicalization of the curriculum ( Alvarado and Ferguson , 1983 ; Wexler , 1987 ) . |
| 26 | Does he further agree that , sooner or later , the talks will have to develop into meaningful discussions about constitutional change on an all-Ireland basis because the status quo is untenable and is a recipe for continuing conflict ? |
| 27 | HCFC22 is not perfect but is a lot better than CFC 11 and 12 . |
| 28 | Thus the Rescorla-Wagner ( 1972 ) model ( see Chapter 1 ) envisages conditioning as being a process in which stimuli present on a conditioning trial compete with each other for a limited amount of associative strength . |
| 29 | Thus , if the taxpayer created a discretionary trust before 18 March 1986 and is a beneficiary thereunder , the reservation of benefit provisions can not apply . |
| 30 | To claim that Britain has nurtured something in a matter ultimately pertaining to worship ( the choral singing of cathedral and chapel ) which is purified and controlled beyond anything possessed by Catholic Europe , which is purged of excessive artifice and rhetoric ( Continental reviewers consistently find English a cappella performances impassive ) and whose excellence gives Britain a mission these are among the ideas that have been the principal source of British national identity since the Act of Union in 1707 and were a foundation stone of English identity long before . |