Example sentences of "[be] [adj] [det] a [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Perhaps they were too busy to feel queasy , but as far as I was concerned , before we had been airborne half an hour I felt like crying out , ‘ Stop the plane , I want to get off ! ’ |
| 2 | This definition would make central to pragmatics a notion of appropriateness or felicity : ( 14 ) Pragmatics is the study of the ability of language users to pair sentences with the contexts in which they would be appropriate Such a definition should have a nice ring to it , from the point of view of those who wish to place pragmatics on a par with other aspects of linguistic inquiry . |
| 3 | Bars are open half an hour before the performance and during intervals . |
| 4 | Dr Runcie , he writes , ‘ is calling for a social market economy ’ , the implication being that such a marriage between free market principles for wealth creation and collective provision for social needs does not exist in this country . |
| 5 | Nobody asked to see their passports and they were airborne half an hour later , on their way to Keflavik on the western side of Iceland , where they landed seven hours later . |
| 6 | Or is that all a blind ? ’ |
| 7 | ‘ Why is that such a problem ? ’ asked the doctor . |
| 8 | ‘ I 'm returning to Malawi to advocate multi-party democracy — is that such a crime ? |
| 9 | Is that such a crime ? ’ |
| 10 | Is that such a crime ? |
| 11 | What gives what persuasiveness it has to the probabilistic idea about causation is neither such an argument for it nor the earlier diagnosis of the appeal of the opposed view about necessitation . |
| 12 | This was infrequent in the units participating in this study , but in centres where the relative surgical and endoscopic expertise is different such a situation may well arise more commonly . |
| 13 | The Department will be connected via a private telephone line to the processing units in the computer room which is some half a mile distant . |
| 14 | Is half such a policeman as me . |
| 15 | Is this such a case ? |
| 16 | What 's this half a day then ? |
| 17 | ‘ It 's all such a mess , ’ said Michael . |
| 18 | It 's all such a waste . ’ |
| 19 | For example where it is alleged that a solicitor . |
| 20 | There is a fully licensed bar at the Sir Jack Lyons Concert Hall which is open half an hour before each performance . |
| 21 | Falling demand and rising costs are tempting many a finance director to curb spending on his firm 's in-house training , let alone its contribution to the local TEC . |
| 22 | When I was pregnant many a night I 've run out and slept in passages till the morning . |
| 23 | And why it was that such a man should want to fight against the Seven . |
| 24 | His unspoken premise was that such a space for freedom would always continue to exist ; he saw Parliament and the courts as guardians of liberty . |
| 25 | And was that such a fault ? |
| 26 | Within the general framework of his attack on the humanistic Hegelian tradition of Western Marxism , Althusser 's specific objection to Sartre 's attempt to mediate Marxism with existential subjectivity was that such a move went against the crucial discoveries which had founded Marxism in the first place ; in an extension of Lévi-Strauss ' argument , he maintained that the notion of ‘ man ’ that Sartre used was derived from a particular ideological definition of the human subject which represses Marx 's insight that the human subject is not the centre of history , together with Freud 's that the subject is not centred in consciousness . |
| 27 | The core of their problem was that such a device necessarily had to be a computer and a powerful one . |
| 28 | The monistic position , as we saw , was that such an idea , ii closely examined , does not make clear sense , because there can be no unequivocal criteria of numerical diversity . |
| 29 | Or was this all a mistake ? |
| 30 | They were aroused , no doubt , by the rumble of the all-metal wheelbarrow , which was audible half a mile away . |