Example sentences of "[be] [adj] [noun sg] [art] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | So I 'm zooming down , which I thought must have been fifty mile an hour , but it was probably only about five really , or ten , but er put the brake on for the platform to stop , no chance , it just kept going . |
| 2 | Some newcomers have been indifferent to the sensibilities of the local population ; others , as we shall see , have been oversensitive to what they believe the needs of the village to be-In each case the effect has been the same : members of the former occupational community , faced with an invasion of ‘ their ’ village by outsiders , have tended to retreat in upon themselves and form a community within a community , cutting themselves off from the separate world of the newcomers . |
| 3 | This identification and sense of hope are technically possible in the home situation or in hospital but here is a serious risk that family members or medical and nursing staff will , by their own concerned actions intended to help the sufferer to eat , actually thereby enable the addictive disease to continue : there are few hinge the disease likes more than getting other people ( rather than the primary sufferer ) to take responsibility . |
| 4 | In those days too , there 'd been another festival a month or so later , called ban chho āi , the leaving of the forest . |
| 5 | ‘ It must have been some idea the architect had . |
| 6 | As a mere male , what can I do but worship , you 're all woman every bit of you , the funny silly things you say and do . |
| 7 | Could you put you 're head back a bit , move ! |
| 8 | I said well do n't go out till you 're ready , as simple as that , if you do n't think you 're ready stop the way you are |
| 9 | It was time for reflection : are these mountain the answer was yes , to both questions . |
| 10 | Also to be avoided are white wine an champagne ( the better the quality the worse the case ) because of their sugar content . |
| 11 | In both examples , a conscious attempt has been made-to segment the market . |
| 12 | They make their way down through the courtyard past the concierge 's busy-lizzies and geraniums in their cluster of terracotta and out onto the street where the Mercedes and driver are double-parked squeezing the traffic to an irascible trickle . |
| 13 | PUPILS at Ayresome junior school , Middlesbrough , have been busy painting a mural which was declared officially open yesterday . |
| 14 | The excuses have been collected by community dieticians from Bradford Hospitals NHS Trust who have been busy spreading the word about the importance of healthy eating . |
| 15 | A Turkish two-and-a-half-ton truck from the Host Nation Support Unit is parked outside , and several members of the Company , assisted by an Italian and a German soldier , are busy loading the truck with all manner of fresh produce . |
| 16 | The two new rules most likely to be modified concern the number of sets of tyres allowed at a grand prix and limitations on the use of spare cars . |
| 17 | In Dorset , where he came from , there would be fresh meat every day ; cheese and new-baked bread . |
| 18 | So he said oh oh said his moan and groan so he said well I spoke to Blue he said , he 's off sick he said and he gets ninety pounds a week for being at home I 've been working here all week he said , for a hundred and forty so I 'm forty pound a week better off than him ! |
| 19 | I 'm not a legal man myself , but there has to be some charge the law can bring . |
| 20 | I got to be careful crossing the road , specially when I ai n't feeling too good . |
| 21 | They could not be offending the Gruagach , and they especially could not be offending Goibniu the Greediguzzler . |
| 22 | There must be real doubt the power of HDTV to persuade on the basis of picture quality alone . |
| 23 | So right enough Richard was pleased for Richard thought it was gon na be ten pound a week |
| 24 | ‘ The political stance adopted by a class at any given time will be i part a function of the structure of the political system as whole and the concrete possibilities which exist in a specific situation for the application of various kinds of class alliances ’ ( Roxborough 1979 : 82 ) . |
| 25 | There 'd be one night every month when somebody took a knife to the softest part of her . |
| 26 | I were in power there would n't be any money no need for it ! |
| 27 | Most had to be ploughed flat every spring to enable them to be used at all . |
| 28 | We 've argued for years about meals on wheel service that there should be seven day a week service throughout this authority , we 've only got it in the City , we want it throughout the authority . |
| 29 | Well I suppose more salted meat I mean more home home butching and erm making bread I suppose or the womenfolk were likely baking every day . |
| 30 | They were busy packing a basket with the things that Sigarup would need , talking quietly , moving back and forth between the two rooms : collecting blankets , cooking pots , a bag of wheat flour , salt and chilli , the cotton tarpaulin that they stretched across upright sticks to make a tent . |