Example sentences of "[noun sg] be a [adj] [noun pl] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Golden-leaved marjoram , yellow-variegated lemon balm , white-variegated pineapple mint , purple-leaved sage , blue rue , the filmy leaves of bronze fennel , and the pink , purple and blue , leaf-like bracts of clary are a few herbs of this kind . |
| 2 | The most attractive race on the card is a 631 metres event which sees McDermott 's improving young stayer Too Fast , running off scratch , giving 15 metres start to top marker Baron Again and 11 metres to Lee Anns Tramp . |
| 3 | The other important ingredient is a huge fireworks display . |
| 4 | He is desperate to receive fan mail at the following address : Please do not enclose an SAE for a reply as Old Fishfinger 's dictionary is a few letters short of an alphabet . |
| 5 | The head is made , erm , the tail , all the bits are made and eventually they , they all stick together like a kind of Lego , and the result is a new bacteria is made and this goes on until eventually the cell , there are so many inside the cell , that erm the cell just ruptures , when there 're about two hundred or so , the cell is now bulging with T four bacteria , it ruptures and releases a whole blob of new ones to start the cycle all over again . |
| 6 | The result is a mid-engined sports racing car for the road that borrows its styling from the Pininfarina Mythos . |
| 7 | Focusing on revenue is a thousand times more positive and productive than focusing on costs , which can prove debilitating and negative . |
| 8 | The Shippers Club is a vital communications link for the airline , helping it to monitor requirements such as the spread of capacity geographically . |
| 9 | Low maintenance is an important criteria in many modern gardens and this planting combines ground cover with taller shrub material . |
| 10 | He told me that in my back bedroom was a sensational sports story of sex , drugs and liniment . |
| 11 | The result was a threatened players ' strike in 1909 , which led the authorities to re-recognize the union . |
| 12 | His own car was a few yards ahead , and he could be in and started before they turned the corner — but not out of sight . |
| 13 | Outside the window are a few sticks lying around on the grass . |
| 14 | In that sector project and assignment work is a flowing librarians the chance to broaden their work ( importantly in co-operation with teachers ) to incorporate study skills training as an essential aspect of information skills instruction . |
| 15 | All that exists of the imposing dwelling is a few feet of wall and an open fireplace adjoining Cumnor Church . |
| 16 | The Medical Research Council is an Equal Opportunities Employer . |
| 17 | To pull back just a few metres on an Alpine climb is a dozen times harder than on the flat . |
| 18 | The rheidity of ice is a few weeks , that of salt about a year , but igneous rocks will only exhibit rheid flow after a stress has been applied for hundreds of years , in the case of deeply buried rocks subject to elevated temperatures , or tens of thousands of years for rocks at the surface . |
| 19 | Bankruptcy was a thousand miles away . |
| 20 | The 1822 Sprinter was a Regional Railways train . |
| 21 | Midlands Electricity plc are an Equal Opportunities employer . |
| 22 | May God 's punishment be a thousand times worse on you than the harm that you have done to Hector . ’ |
| 23 | Kabelvåg campsite is a few kilometres beyond the village , on the flanks of a charming little beach and remarkably civilized . |
| 24 | The fee was a million dollars : there could also be percentages . |
| 25 | Godoy was a good-looking Guards officer of twenty-five when he was granted power more absolute than that possessed by any subsequent ruler of Spain until General Franco . |
| 26 | Silver and the rest were a hundred metres behind , and I heard him shouting , ‘ Jim , Jim ! ’ |
| 27 | the other school blazer 's a hundred pounds |
| 28 | The Civil Service is an equal opportunities employer |
| 29 | His cellarman who had to make the journey to Culver Street at least twice a day was an ex-City Police Sergeant named Golding . |
| 30 | Now they managed to get along together reasonably well , but she knew their relationship was a million miles from what it had once been , and it was an enduring sadness in her life . |