Example sentences of "[conj] [be] [verb] a [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | If you are in your late teens or are doing a further education course and you are extremely worried about examinations , you are going to have to find a way to tackle academic stress that does not involve eating and drinking too much . |
| 2 | Thus , while the professional group was almost four times as likely to own or be buying a house as the unskilled group , it was almost nine times as likely to own or be buying a detached house as the unskilled group in 1971 . |
| 3 | UK Transport Minister John MacGregor yesterday published a paper proposal to introduce road pricing to ease congestion in London : under his plan , every car would have to be fitted with an electronic identifier , and its movements within the capital would be monitored by 4,000 roadside beacons : drivers would either establish credit with the system operator or be sent a quarterly bill , the Evening Standard reports ; the paper says that MacGregor has been trying to think up a snappy name for the thing , but reckless of the manner in which the Community Charge degenerated into the much-excoriated Poll Tax , he has settled on Congestion Charge . |
| 4 | they can help to liven up a salad or be used a nutritious snack , combined with an apple or another fruit . |
| 5 | Yeah I mean the part about the er about the savings erm if you 'd 've done or were doing a complete fact find that , that would come up anyway would n't it ? |
| 6 | She often made me feel vaguely guilty , as if I 'd forgotten to clean my teeth or was wearing a grubby shirt . |
| 7 | It is just the latest of many ignorant assaults that are damaging a national asset envied around the world . |
| 8 | States that are exploring a tough policy which borders upon coercion like Kenya will either find that open political protest will challenge the power of the state , or that like family planning in India , an onslaught upon the least economically and politically powerful is only temporarily feasible . |
| 9 | This will try to find markets for products and services coming from Montpellier and the other three European facilities in Havant , Valencia , Jrflla that are undergoing a similar process . |
| 10 | So it is possible to kill large numbers of rabbits that are doing a massive amount of crop damage by this method and by no other . |
| 11 | The infant Elizabeth will learn that being promised a sweet for behaving herself will result in more than the mere probability of its arrival ; the penny will have dropped when she realises that a promise entitles her to the reward — it is her due , to which she has a right . |
| 12 | The central party leadership , in fact , went so far as to issue a formal statement on the Baltic situation in late August 1989 , warning against the activities of ‘ extremist ’ and ‘ anti-socialist ’ forces that were pursuing a separatist line with ‘ growing persistence and aggressiveness ’ . |
| 13 | Some conversions that were done a long time ago would not pass today 's stringent building regulations . |
| 14 | We all got a rough average of the scale and the standard of these people , but somehow or other and — I never understood why this happened — I seemed to get the occasional chaps that were given a last chance . |
| 15 | It may be that there is now enough information available to answer questions that were asked a long time ago but never answered . |
| 16 | More specifically it was in southern California , Reagan 's home territory , that political issues began to surface that were to play a major part in national politics in the years that followed . |
| 17 | This , he said , helped to evoke and release suppressed memories and emotions that were having a detrimental effect on the health of these people . |
| 18 | And thoughts that were thought a long time ago are as dead as old Squeez-Ee detergent bottles , and as slow to biodegrade . |
| 19 | They all know that the Bill has been brought to the House in this form only because of the catastrophe of what happened on the Bills that were guillotined a few years ago — the poll tax Bills . |
| 20 | Nadine Meisner visits a Royal Ballet project that is encouraging a different sort of child to put on pointed shoes |
| 21 | This scale , which can be looked upon either as mode 4 of a major scale ( eg. G major starting from C , or a C major scale with a ♯4th ) , or the major scale that is found a 5th higher than the root of the chord that you want to play it against . |
| 22 | Nobody wants to close any bed that is offering a good quality service , that is wanted and being used . |
| 23 | The other word , kairos , is a word that is used a great deal to describe God 's breaking into our time and history to bring his salvation . |
| 24 | IT 'S the tape that 's caused a new storm for the Royals , still reeling from the scandal of Fergie 's holiday snaps . |
| 25 | The prison that 's providing a real pick-me-up . |
| 26 | Some residents on a housing estate that 's undergone a six million pound refurbishment say they were better off in their old flats . |
| 27 | Because somebody 's asked me to collect people 's conversations because it 's to , to do with a firm that 's making a new dictionary . |
| 28 | Is that , that the first one that 's opening a creamy coloured one ? |
| 29 | The Spanish custom that 's becoming a British habit . |
| 30 | So it 's all over bar the play offs … a season that 's brought a rollar coaster of success and survival for our local sides . |