Example sentences of "[adj] [pron] be [adj] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | I wish you and your staff to know how sorry I am that Punch is to be no more . |
| 2 | That 's how old I am next week . |
| 3 | And I have a pair of goggles here but there is another safety device built into this which is this window . |
| 4 | FORECASTS from the Treasury have been proved to be hopelessly wrong which is one reason why the economy now seems to be in Freefall , leading to the closure of hundreds of Factories . |
| 5 | The diglyceride may be important in promoting membrane fusion of the dense body granule with the platelet-surface membrane and also as a substrate for the formation of prostaglandin endoperoxides and thromboxane A 2 which are powerful degranulation stimuli ( Bell et al , 1979 ) . |
| 6 | Well if I refer you , Dave Girt , Leeds City , if I refer you madam to the first paragraph of R P G 2 which is strategic planning guidance for West Yorkshire . |
| 7 | Even if this wo n't always happen , it will certainly happen often enough for the range of my knowledge to be considerably reduced , and this itself is some sort of an objection . |
| 8 | Before moving to Radio 2 she was chief assistant at Radio 4 , handling schedules . |
| 9 | This one is first class . |
| 10 | Put down your handbags and start dancing , because this one is pure class until the dubious vocals come in . |
| 11 | And this one is solid steel and beautifully streamlined . |
| 12 | So you 've labelled your diagram and you this one is that minus W minus Y minus X so on . |
| 13 | This one is free standing ; l when folded and can be collapsed easily with one hand only . |
| 14 | Despite their different interpretations of the song — the new version is a smoochy ballad , while the old one was pure country — Dolly was so impressed with Whitney 's version that she plans to use it in her stage show . |
| 15 | When that Committee reported in 1972 there was further delay before a White Paper , Computers and Privacy , was published in 1975 ; the Data Protection Committee was established in 1976 and reported , recommending legislation , in 1978 . |
| 16 | We were invited to stay with friends living in Northern Burgundy , and to visit a painting school at La Buia , in Umbria , with the idea that I might take a class there in May 1993. there was some discussion , earlier in the year , of another in Venice , and we will break our journey there , for breakfast , next week . |
| 17 | Paralysis , when a limb is paralysed there is complete loss of movement and feeling , if you 're talking about paralysis , loss of limbs , we 're talking about the severance , would you believe , of any two limbs . |
| 18 | For this there is little evidence , and what there is is all rather late : a text from Paul 's sententiae , one from Ulpian 's Epitome , and a constitution of Diocletian . |
| 19 | Beyond this there is little agreement , and the women 's weekly magazines , for example , have argued strongly in recent years that their particular editorial qualities and high coverage of a female audience make them a superior medium even to TV for many products in , particularly , food and toiletry fields . |
| 20 | To this there is one exception , to comply with Article 9 of the Convention ; an order may be made that a person should give evidence otherwise than on oath where this is asked for by the requesting court . |
| 21 | Fast typing is simply not possible on the membrane keyboard but whether in spite of or because of this there are several word processing programs available ! |
| 22 | With a swing like this there 's less likelihood that you will lose your balance , and the lower trajectory is less affected by the wind . |
| 23 | Um now I think maybe um again there 's this there 's this notion of of people developing distorted beliefs , distorted perceptions and so forth . |
| 24 | Johnson volunteered some information about the size of the excise duty his friend Thrale the brewer in Streatham had paid the previous year and , says Boswell , ‘ after this there was little conversation that deserves to be remembered . ’ |
| 25 | With this there was complete air-conditioning , thermostatically controlled , supplying warmth in winter and cool air in hot summer weather , the former by a combination of steam from the locomotive and electricity from the power-plant at times when the train was standing overnight without a locomotive attached . |
| 26 | On this there was general agreement between the three PNP Phases , with a tendency for Phase 2 schools to be most satisfied and Phase 3 least . |
| 27 | Following this there was considerable despondency amongst the committee as there seemed to be little hope for the future . |
| 28 | Following this there was some suggestion that in administrative decisions there was a lower duty to act fairly . |
| 29 | It was possible to settle for Canning 's amelioration policy which , if it worked properly ( and about this there was some scepticism ) , should itself bring enlightenment to slave-owners as to their own best interests . |
| 30 | At this there was more uproar and , encouraged by their chief , a posse of seven Scottish YCs in kilts paraded in front of the platform singing ‘ Rule Britannia ’ to the uncertain sound of Robertson 's trumpet . |