Example sentences of "[be] a [noun sg] [verb] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | So if you 're a boxing fan this is the sort of video that you would enjoy , now it 's a boxing question , name the three world heavyweight champions that currently hold titles . |
| 2 | You 're a villain saying that ! |
| 3 | Do you really think I am a man to do such things ? ’ |
| 4 | The same happened to Foxley Wood ( Hampshire ) and Tillingham Hall ( Essex ) , new towns that would have been a dream come true for some people , but which were deemed unjustifiable and unnecessary by the Government inspector of planning appeals . |
| 5 | As part of the Aquino governments crackdown on the 19 year old communal insurgency , there has been a drive to outlaw legitimate political groups , including GABRlELA . |
| 6 | As Henige ( 1982 ) points out , there has been a tendency to use such informants to the exclusion of others , with the result that data are biased towards the experience of a small number of individuals . |
| 7 | A number of economists have placed some of the blame for poor economic performance on a failure to modernize ( there has been a tendency to retain old plants and to support traditional but declining industries , such as textiles ) ; on the emphasis given to maintaining a balance of payments surplus in order to fund overseas military spending and foreign investments , pursued at the expense of economic growth , and on a failure of postwar economic management to manipulate supply as well as demand . |
| 8 | There has also been a tendency to impose new curricula and policies without sufficient preparation of teachers and administrators . |
| 9 | Lastly I fear that because the Mathematics programmes came first and were so well organised and established , with the neat sequential task of curriculum development so easy to define ( despite its obvious size ) , there may have been a tendency to concentrate scarce resources upon an item which , on sober reflection , I believe now to be a lowish priority in the primary curriculum . |
| 10 | That Conservatives have been keen to sustain this argument should have sounded alarm bells for scholars of Conservatism , but the only alarming thing has been a tendency to accept this concept of Conservatism almost at face value . |
| 11 | Perhaps because the mind is the crucial organ in the human body , there has always been a tendency to ostracize such people from society . |
| 12 | There has been a tendency to regard such provisions as government largesse to be dispensed at the unfettered will of the public body . |
| 13 | She 'd been a fool to think one polite little apology would be enough to put everything right between them . |
| 14 | It has been a privilege to enjoy close contact with the College and so many Somervillians . |
| 15 | ‘ If there 'd been a way to avoid this mess , we 're experienced enough in the business to have spotted it ! ’ |
| 16 | It would have been a pity to break those very handsome seals , I 'm glad I held my hand . ’ |
| 17 | It must have been a wrench to give some of it up , but you had a choice ; I never had a choice . ’ |
| 18 | And Armistice Day is the best and brightest memory of all because it had been a war to end all wars and no one would ever allow such a thing to happen again … |
| 19 | it would normally , if I recall correctly at the time , there would normally been a memorandum listing new charges for each development |
| 20 | Since this value system is so pervasive and so accepted there has never really been a need to develop other value systems that arise from actual social situations . |
| 21 | There has been a failure to see constitutional theory and political practice as in dynamic interaction each with the other ; there has been a failure to recognise that interpretations of the constitution are always relative to time , place , and our position as observers ; and so there has been the simple view that the constitutional set-up as it is , as it is said to be , and as it is said it should be , have all been as of one . |
| 22 | In recent years there has been a move to teach young people in residential care practical skills such as cooking and budgeting which they will need when they leave care . |
| 23 | Alternatively it might have been a shop purveying cooked food , or it could have provided eating facilities for travellers along the road . |
| 24 | But if the videos seem like some psychologist 's nightmare , to the people who make them , they are a dream come true . |
| 25 | Regular trims are a must to keep split ends at bay . |
| 26 | This question is for the railway specialists , but is also included because quizzes are a way to learn odd railway titbits . |
| 27 | The others are a bit sprawling those blackbirds I think . |
| 28 | It is this question which is the ultimate one ; the others are a screen to hide modern man from his real self , as T.S . |
| 29 | Henley I 'm told are a team transformed this season , is that down to Clive Woodward ? |
| 30 | Neither objectives nor plans are an invitation to become inflexible . |