Example sentences of "[be] [det] [verb] a [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Our experience has been that to create a new expression of the body of Christ has been to create a new possibility of conversion for many such people . |
| 2 | There are four men wearing animal and bird masks ( fig. 14.13 ) , two are each holding a hooked stick , the lagobolon , used for hunting hares . |
| 3 | The three major national firms are each trying a different solution . |
| 4 | We 're all seeing a great deal of concern about dioxins in tampons and nappies , but did you know that incinerators and leaded petrol are also major contributors towards the levels in our environment ? |
| 5 | They 're all missing a good shot . |
| 6 | Subjects ranging from the ferries and Mersey tunnels to the Tall Ships Race and local tourist attractions are all given a lighthearted treatment . |
| 7 | Those who work in our shops , those who arrange events , those who collect great and small sums of money from companies and from individuals , are all playing a vital part in the continuing work of Save The Children Fund . |
| 8 | Conspiracy remains a crime as well as a tort , but the scope of the crime has been curtailed by statute so that , broadly speaking , the only conspiracies which are now indictable are those to commit a substantive criminal offence , to defraud or to corrupt public morals or outrage public decency . |
| 9 | Taylor and Cameron 's critique of CA methodology can be taken as a warning that purely ethnomethodological methods may not be enough to give a satisfying account of code switching . |
| 10 | For our purposes , it will be enough to have a general idea of what distinguishes the Caribbean Creoles from the varieties of British English to which second-generation Caribbeans in London have been exposed . |
| 11 | In the adjoining sectors of Chantoisel and Basqyuet , the beautifully intricate , airy aréte of Tamponoir Brisée ( E15b ) , the wall and crack of Réve de Visnu ( E25c ) and the enticing natural line of Pulsion du Jour ( E15b ) would be enough to make a memorable day for any lower extreme leader ( with the classic HVS flake crack of Flute de Krishna for a warm-up or down ) . |
| 12 | There would still be enough to make a good-sized book out of it . |
| 13 | This vagueness will not matter so long as one is clear about the level at which the formula of ‘ ought implies can ’ is being applied : thus the latter , and weaker , kind of ‘ can not ’ would be enough to provide a strong argument against the behaviour being made into a norm for a human society , but it would not be enough if the question concerned the adoption of a personal ideal in an individual case . |
| 14 | These nations also recognize that their public sector purchasing would not be enough to maintain a full array of aerospace , telephone switch and computer industries . |
| 15 | Milk shakes , fudge sundaes , brownies , banana splits , mocha mud pie , devil 's food cake — the names are enough to provoke a cardiac arrest . |
| 16 | Of course , Westland and all the associated issues about the harmonisation and rationalisation of the European defence industrial base are important , but I doubt that one specific case would in itself have been enough to become a resigning Issue . |
| 17 | Yet such as it is , what I have witnessed has been enough to throw a strong light on the materials I have used , and , for me , has made the dry bones live . |
| 18 | The general comfort , feel and fit of its shoes has generally been enough to attract a regular and loyal band of supports . |
| 19 | The Cambridge Committee brought over at least seventy guaranteed children from Germany , mostly teenagers , who were all given a decent education . |
| 20 | It was a brown room , like the shop and the passages , which were all painted a thick , dark brown . |
| 21 | Once , coming back from New York , we were all watching a romantic comedy . |
| 22 | They all thought she was gorgeous and they were all making a big fuss . |
| 23 | Two major Jacobite risings , and the plotting which took place on other occasions , were enough to put a considerable number of gentlemen in danger and , indeed , so long as the Jacobite cause retained a substantial following in Scotland it had a further effect upon politics , for the unwillingness of many gentlemen of Jacobite sentiments to take the oaths to Government further limited an already small electorate . |
| 24 | One surprising factor is that given a new case is only around £50 there is nothing stopping you from moving everything into a new box if the old one is n't big enough to take a standard size motherboard . |
| 25 | One of the biggest problems in desktop publishing is that to archive a finished newsletter or whatever takes up an entire floppy disk for one issue — and it 's even worse if you want to squirt the thing down the wire for someone else to print out . |
| 26 | It 's all become a sinister tale of a simple English city |
| 27 | I know it ai n't much , but I du n no if it 's enough to get a proper meal like . |
| 28 | It is enough to mount a convincing argument , in this instance by someone who is prepared to get dirty hands for her convictions ; which is not to say that she must convince everyone . |
| 29 | G.K. Chesterton on the artifice of the simple life is enough to turn a Green purple , Orwell on Gandhi is subtle and sinewy and James Baldwin on being the first black man in a Swiss valley is dignified and sad . |
| 30 | The big day arrives , the sun shines , the interest of the agents in our new protection contracts is enough to ensure a full house — or is it the choice of our unusual venue ? |