Example sentences of "[be] [prep] [adj] [art] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | I have been through such a storm before , and it is the gusting that is most dangerous . ’ |
| 2 | ‘ Hopkins 's sister is a widow and has been for many a year , ’ the fellow replied . |
| 3 | ‘ You must show cookie here how grateful you are for all the trouble she 's taken . ’ |
| 4 | Supposing that the essential words conferring the primacy on all successive archbishops of Canterbury were in fact in the letters which Lanfranc mentioned , why did he go on at such length about the facts drawn from Bede , when a single quotation from one of the passages granting the primacy in perpetuity to the archbishops of Canterbury would have been worth all the rest of his argument put together ? |
| 5 | " But it 's been worth all the pain and trouble . " |
| 6 | We 're trying to look to the gaps , and I wonder if we are , as you suggest in the comments that you 've received perhaps losing , we 're not perhaps sufficiently direct in addressing the parish organizations which are after all the core of a parish . |
| 7 | Well , now I 've been past many a field of hay but it does n't smell like it used to in my young days . |
| 8 | " Employment on the railways as in other sections of the transport industry can not be said to have been of such a character as to fit in with the theory of labour aristocracy . " |
| 9 | The conduct had also to be intended to provoke a breach of the peace or to have been of such a nature as to have been likely to have occasioned such a breach . |
| 10 | We consider for the moment only the case where His non-negative and D is positive , and assume they are of such a size that overflow does not occur ( see problem 2.4 ) . |
| 11 | a single prostitute who provides services in private premises to one client at a time without spectators is guilty of the common law offence of keeping a disorderly house if it is proved that the services provided are of such a character and are conducted in such a manner … that their provision amounts to an outrage of public decency or is otherwise calculated to harm the public interest to such an extent as to call for condemnation and punishment . |
| 12 | The changes identified by the Tomlinson report are of such a magnitude and involve so great a culture change that the planning and decision making will need to be made with a great deal of care and integration . |
| 13 | Earlier in his essay on the rule of law Oakeshott had suggested that to deliberate the jus of lex is ‘ to invoke a particular kind of moral consideration : … the negative and limited consideration that the prescriptions of law should not conflict with a prevailing educated moral sensibility capable of distinguishing between the conditions of ‘ virtue ’ , the conditions of moral association ( ’ good conduct ’ ) , and those which are of such a kind that they should be imposed by law ( ’ justice ’ ) ' . |
| 14 | We may even feel , as certainly I do , that some of the later cantos are of such a nature that it 's hard to conceive in any age of a way of encountering them other than the way we 're here embarked upon . |
| 15 | No particular form of words is necessary to create a floating charge ; it suffices if the intention is shown ( a ) to impose a charge on assets both present and future , ( b ) the assets are of such a nature that they would be changing in the ordinary course of the company 's business , and ( c ) the company is free to continue to deal with the assets in the ordinary course of its business . |
| 16 | No , it did n't form part of it and erm if it were to be done it would be having , shall we say , a political impact , but the sums are of such a nature that they are of no significance in the context of the budget as a whole . |
| 17 | strip , straight them open so that , they 're like that a bit instead er |
| 18 | ‘ You 're like all the rest , ’ he said with disappointment , reading her helplessness with humiliating ease . |
| 19 | ‘ I suppose you 're like all the rest — a city-kid who 's never been away from the busy streets before . ’ |
| 20 | Been like that a couple of days . |
| 21 | In the past month in here , well , it 's been like that every day . |
| 22 | Resenence Jeopardy still expected him to work hard , was still friendly and attentive , but had n't he been like that the day before ? |
| 23 | just got really unsafe unless the two sites are like half a mile , well at least half a mile if not , but I |
| 24 | ‘ Well , considering I 'm working as hard as I am with all the stress involved , I think I 'm probably very fit . ’ |
| 25 | Now these counting numbers they 're okay are n't they you know where you are with those no problem . |
| 26 | How else would he have been with such a father ? |
| 27 | This is not , as it might have been with such a tale , the cuckolded merchant , but rather Margery , the stupid wife , who is particularly funny because she is so unthinkingly conventionally good and who effaces any real self she may be imagined to have within a cluster of clichés . |
| 28 | I am in all the history books . |
| 29 | I HARDLY know how to begin this , I am in such a state . |
| 30 | Eventually he wrote ‘ I am in such a stew over Primavera that I have made some sketches myself . |