Example sentences of "[adj] [to-vb] be a [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | I can illustrate County councils a dot blank here in eighty four eighty five an election year for county councils I E Essex County Council dot dot dot eighty nine an election year dot dot dot and ninety three you 'll all be er happy and delirious to know is a county council election year so next May Thursday county council elections will be held . |
| 2 | Too unsettled to have been a torturer . |
| 3 | I think L was very fortunate to have been a child in the days when children could roam in woods and fields , unafraid , and when doors could be left unlocked ; when there was less traffic , less noise and less hectic rush . |
| 4 | Schools did lose staff but it seems more likely to have been a reflection of the generally low level of teachers ' pay at a time of full employment . |
| 5 | When she returned to Jedburgh that evening she was in great pain from what is likely to have been a haemorrhage , of which she had suffered several since her son 's birth . |
| 6 | And it would balance her table , thought Mair , although that was hardly likely to have been a consideration . |
| 7 | The erection of a large shrine as an imposing architectural feature is not unusual in the Roman world , although the only other example in Britain appears to be the extraordinary octagonal structure at Lufton , identified as a ‘ cold plunge ’ but more likely to have been a shrine associated with a water cult . |
| 8 | Well yes I mean it 's it 's it 's more likely to have been a muscle than anything else , with pain that comes and goes . |
| 9 | We can assume that Jacques not only played the oboe but was also likely to have been a woodwind maker , as was his brother , Jean , who is noted in the Livre commode ( 1692 ) as being among the most highly regarded master makers of woodwinds . |
| 10 | A small islet at the other end of the loch is supposed to have been a prison . |
| 11 | This bayonet is supposed to have been a murder weapon . |
| 12 | ‘ The only blow job you 're likely to get is a bike pump up your arse . |
| 13 | Looking immaculate in a bright red suit she said : ‘ I have been looking forward to this moment for a long time and I am glad to have been a part of it . ’ |
| 14 | For a start the receptacle into which I was supposed to ejaculate was a minute plastic container — which would have been tricky enough . |
| 15 | Another function in London which I was able to attend was a lecture by Eliot at that same Group Theatre at which I had seen Sweeney Agonistes . |
| 16 | You may be able to fake being a grunge rock hero , a techno guru , or a new age ambient space cadet , but you can not fake being a pop star . |
| 17 | ‘ You know I 've never been able to combine being a father with analysis . |
| 18 | And what we have found that is the county , Harrogate certainly and ourselves from direct experience this last two years , is that one of the features , we have an attractive county to such inward investors , its its environment , its people , its setting , its air and everything else is good , but one of the features that we have so far been unable to offer is a planning framework which means that the marketing authority can deliver , guarantee delivery of the planning consent that would make it happen . |
| 19 | In the middle of a prime corn-growing district , Chichester is unlikely to have been a centre of putting out ; high wages there probably showed the influence of a craft-based manufacture , though on too small a scale to have any marked effect on the level and distribution of wealth . |
| 20 | Brown and Birley ( 1968 ) found 46 per cent of their sample of schizophrenic patients to have experienced an independent life event ( one unlikely to have been a consequence of the previous illness ) in the three weeks before onset , compared to 14 per cent of a comparison group of factory and office workers in the three weeks prior to their interview . |
| 21 | I 've been using both for over a year now and the best I 've been able to get is a ratio of 1.8 to 1 . |
| 22 | But since one may suspect that one 'll be thought a fool for having done so , it may be necessary to overact being a fool and murmur ‘ Forget my own head next ’ . |