Example sentences of "[adj] [conj] [be] [adv] a " in BNC.
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| 1 | Was change incremental or was there a sudden , sharp turning point ? |
| 2 | By pointing out a flower or describing a rarity he could make a walk supremely interesting and was indeed a charming companion on any expedition in the fields . |
| 3 | The house was left empty and was often a target for vandals and Sutherland was unable to sell it . |
| 4 | They are usually developed in soft material and the relief of these and related forms may be up to 50 m ( 150 ft ) high but is usually a lot less . |
| 5 | If he were his value would be high because is also a forward . |
| 6 | Sorry that 's just a bit of advice |
| 7 | The oral shield is arrow shaped or light-bulb shaped and is about a quarter of the disk radius in length . |
| 8 | They had all become part of campus life but the chuguo chao , the ‘ going abroad tide ’ , was probably the most noticeable and was certainly a ‘ hot topic ’ ( translated from the Chinese ‘ redian ’ ) among students . |
| 9 | Academic , or theoretical , discourse is not privileged but is instead a form of accounting which uses abstraction to illuminate . |
| 10 | It was black , the sort of black that is less a colour than a graveyard of colours , and there was a highly-ornate runic inscription up the blade . |
| 11 | The last ball preceding Lent coincided with Carnival and was generally a fancy dress affair . |
| 12 | It demonstrates Minton 's illustrative talent at its most dramatic and is compositionally a tour de force . |
| 13 | Cover-up sticks or creams and lighteners are too heavy and are invariably a different colour from the foundation . |
| 14 | The resulting 18 page document might seem complicated but is actually a clear and simple statement of shared commitments . |
| 15 | Patterns for these are readily available and are basically a petal of one double crochet , one half treble , and a few trebles , one half treble and one double crochet all into a chain loop behind the previous row of petals . |
| 16 | The rhyme scheme of the sonnet is not recognizable as being either a Shakespearean or Petrarchan sonnet ; the scheme is ababababcccdcd . |
| 17 | But to automatically assume that this is the woman 's role when other choices are available or when the task can be shared is n't fair and is certainly a point of discussion . |
| 18 | By the time he had been through that and was ready to return , Jennifer had been married and divorced and was almost a stranger again . |
| 19 | In neighbouring Alsace there is the Vosges , a black-and-white colour-sided mountain breed which , like most of this upland group , was originally triple-purpose and is now a milk-and-meat type . |
| 20 | Training is not only highly desirable but is now a statutory requirement and last year 2,000 U.K. Rentokil staff and 145 managers attended courses and seminars in addition to their training at local branch level . |