Example sentences of "[be] a [adv] [noun] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Shallow , samey gameplay ruins what should 've been a really rad game . |
| 2 | The development of a right of parents and pupils to see the pupil 's personal school record has not been a specifically education issue but has arisen as part of the wider campaign for access to personal records . |
| 3 | This would be a similarly reductionist theory , compatible with the demands of empiricism and the verification principle , but it would not perhaps have all the metaphysical and epistemological attractions of the traditional theory . |
| 4 | and so on , but he 's moving away from being a completely response lead |
| 5 | Under this leadership over the past decade the company has grown from being an essentially UK woodworm and pest control company , to an international enterprise with a broad base of environmental services in every major world economy . |
| 6 | That 's a worst case scenario . |
| 7 | yep it 's just that some of the cottages tend to be a bit smaller so that it might well be that we can get you something where there 's a perhaps ground floor extension or whatever okay . |
| 8 | Normally , I 'm pretty good with nurses , although that 's a terribly chauvinist thing to say . |
| 9 | The reason this figure was produced is erm because one of the comments we had back from the other induction courses er Gareth , the reason we had produced this video was erm structure you 've never shown it , so it 's not necessarily tongue in cheek but it is a strictly sales structure but it will give you a clearer idea of our guide what to do to the role plays this morning , Saturday and tomorrow . |
| 10 | This is a decidedly minority view and goes against the overwhelming majority of scientific evidence . |
| 11 | Where there is a predominantly yin landscape , the favourable site would be one which had yang characteristics , such as Glastonbury Tor , or the sacred aboriginal site of Ayers Rock in Australia , both prominent features rising out of a flat plain . |
| 12 | No. 140 is a purely Leipzig piece dating from 1731 when it was sung on the rarely occurring Twenty Seventh Sunday after Trinity . |
| 13 | The example illustrated in Fig. 561 is a purely timber log structure of the type built all over eastern Europe till long after the Middle Ages . |
| 14 | The wretched state to which the company has been brought is nevertheless a tragedy , a tragedy for all the towns in America and across the world where IBM was until recently the biggest employer , a tragedy for all its surviving employees , who now have to operate in an environment pervaded with gloom and a sense of failure , a tragedy for all the data processing managers that made it their business to know all that could be known about the company and its products and culture , who now find their hard-earned knowledge is a rapidly wasting asset . |
| 15 | But as well as all the companies — and there is a host of Cambex Corps and IPL Systems Incs just under the tall poppies of the IBM marketplace , there are thousands and thousands of individuals who must now feel devalued in a deeply demoralising way , people that have made it their life 's work to understand everything there is to know and understand about IBM and its mainframe products , who now find that all that hard-won knowledge is a rapidly wasting asset — not just industry commentators and pundits who will soon find that the market ca n't bear any more ‘ Into the Big Blue Yonder : the Decline and Fall of an American Icon ’ books , but an unsung army of data processing managers who now feel they are too old to start again and learn something new and fundamentally different virtually from scratch , and will instead sink back into the anonymity of early retirement . |
| 16 | It is a really virtuoso performance — can I put the tip down on my tax form as ‘ entertainment' ? — and I am reminded of R2D2 , the smaller robot in the Star Wars films . |
| 17 | Nye derived equations for glacier flow assuming that ice is a perfectly plastic substance , that it flows down a valley of constant slope , and that the conditions of temperature , accumulation and ablation are simple and uniform , and his model could be compared with field observations . |
| 18 | Londesborough is a truly country village with many families having lived there for generations . |
| 19 | Greg , from Aylesbury is an ultra marathon runner … the British Champion over one hundred kilometres … or 62 miles . |
| 20 | Whereas the offence under section 1 is a summary offence , a charge under section 2 is an either way offence . |
| 21 | The square law of force means that both alternating and direct currents are registered but there is an essentially square-law scale which is cramped at one end . |
| 22 | I was brought up in the world of the arts because , apart from the Rothschild side which had some influence on me , my mother was a completely Bloomsbury figure , and her mother was a great friend of Matisse and a distinguished collector — she was a Strachey , very English . |
| 23 | The army was a mainly infantry force , with a light cavalry screen , supported by a strong artillery arm . |
| 24 | Black was decreed to be the only acceptable colour ( though a few white hairs in the switch and a little white on the udder were permissible ) and the most prized colour was an almost chocolate brown-black . |
| 25 | I REFER to the feature ( Echo March 23 ) about the Durham Diocesan Synod which could leave the average reader believing that the Synod was an entirely clergy body , whereas it has a House of Laity of equal size . |