Example sentences of "[be] [det] a [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The world is unified at the ideal level , but the physical manifestations of the vertebrate archetype are each a distinct product of the Creator 's will . |
| 2 | Although there are half a million Methodists , there tend to be 50 speakers who dominate proceedings I am told , but the democratic ( half ministers — half members ) quota means that some circuits can elect seventeen-year-old girls to be their delegates to the conference . |
| 3 | ‘ There are half a million soldiers out here , ’ she explained , ‘ and cold , wet and hungry they all look alike . ’ |
| 4 | There are half a dozen bows drawn on you If we fight , you will be the first to die . ’ |
| 5 | But for every example of an imaginative triumph over adversity — Roderigo 's ill-fated attempt to murder Cassio was staged in a bath-house for want of the necessary costumes — there are half a dozen examples of night scenes clearly shot in broad daylight , choppy scene transitions , and poorly recorded dialogue that drains Shakespeare 's lines of much of their beauty and meaning . |
| 6 | There are half a dozen songs tonight that have n't been released , and they 're all worth their stuff ; a bonkers instrumental after the Grateful Dead called ‘ Swashbuckler ’ , a flaming flamenco exercise ( ‘ Callin'-All ’ ) and a yearning epic sung by John that took the wired-up angsty quality of The Boys ' ‘ First Time ’ and put in some of Roy Orbison 's operatic noodlings for good measure . |
| 7 | But since we 've been on the flats , there 's probably been half a dozen muggings . |
| 8 | Although devoted to his family and always kind to them , he expected and strongly pressed his only son to follow the legal and political career in which he had been such a brilliant success . |
| 9 | That Darren 's car has been such a loyal servant is all the more surprising when you consider that it spent its first 50,000 miles in the hands of a company rep and was then driven for 22,000 miles by a builder — two occupations hardly renowned for lavishing care and attention on cars . |
| 10 | I ask the Chancellor to explain why there has been such a humiliating U-turn by the Prime Minister . |
| 11 | Now I ask the Chancellor to explain why there has been such a humiliating U-turn by the Prime Minister ; herself the inventor of the Madrid conditions , and now their arch destroyer . |
| 12 | It is doubtful whether they had ever been such a serious liability to the Yorkist regime . |
| 13 | It is doubtful whether they had ever been such a serious liability to the Yorkist regime . |
| 14 | Immediately she thought guiltily that if Betty had not been such a nice girl she would now remark acidly that a weasel had got it . |
| 15 | Paul never explicitly describes the heresy he seeks to expose at Colossae , though from his statement it is possible to piece together the evidence of what had been such a destructive influence . |
| 16 | Over the past two years , she pointed out , Saatchi had purchased major works by many of those British painters whose rise to prominence has been such a striking feature of recent years : Saatchi has bought work by , among others , Frank Auerbach , Lucian Freud , Leon Kossoff and Howard Hodgkin . |
| 17 | Apparently it was convenient for BR to say that , because , had there been such a high-speed line included in the Channel Tunnel Bill , it is possible that that Bill would have fallen . |
| 18 | How could he have been such a poor judge of character ? |
| 19 | Thus , but for their own agricultural ministry , there would have been no American criticism , nor would there have been such a well-publicised fillip for the Californian sparkling wine industry . |
| 20 | It had been such a good idea and all that had resulted from it was a double punishment for her and a complete failure to make anyone believe to Alicia or Daryl had played the trick . |
| 21 | It had not been such a dull night after all , she mused , hoped Travis 's head would n't be too sore in the morning , then found that , whatever diversions might occur , once the excitement was over she was back to worrying about the wretched mortgage . |
| 22 | Never has there been such a sporting farce over a straightforward issue : Was the ball out of shape through natural causes ( Law 5.5 ) or had it been damaged deliberately ( Law 42.5 ) ? |
| 23 | Kitty 's mother had been such a black-clothed incantator , full of rhyming recipes for ills and puddings , for scalds and weather and animal magic . |
| 24 | There had been such a wide expanse of firm ground that a trench had never been worn . |
| 25 | Why has there been such a lamentable delay in the implementation of the RENAVAL programme ? |
| 26 | A common tendency , reflecting perhaps a consciousness of the taboo on didacticism which has been such a strong feature of recent primary education , was for some teachers to ask questions rather than make statements or give instructions . |
| 27 | I 'm sorry it 's been such a long journey , but I could n't find a quicker route . |
| 28 | If we relate this to the changes in the Labrador Sea we see ( Fig. 2 a ) that the only time there has been such a long period with little or no change in salinity , followed by a sudden marked freshening , was the period leading up to the renewal in 1972 . |
| 29 | It 's been such a long time . |
| 30 | I do n't know whether I ever meant to call on Ben or not — it 's been such a long time — but I was interested to see the boat . |