Example sentences of "[noun prp] be [art] [adj] [conj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Amanda Hornett , six , and newborn Sophia Pepperrell are the oldest and youngest children conceived through Professor Robert Winston 's pioneering test tube techniques at Hammersmith hospital in London . |
| 2 | The burghers of Lichfield are a cultured and discerning lot , and were clearly charmed by guest speakers Joanna Trollope and Mark Wallington , who could hardly have come from more different writing genres . |
| 3 | Once again the umpiring , by two Pakistanis , left something to be desired , but Pakistan are a fit and talented young side with players of flair . |
| 4 | The thousands of East German refugees in West German embassies , the tens of thousands who have poured out to the West through Hungary are a terrible and unending indictment of his Stalinist regime . |
| 5 | The Kelantanese are a perverse and parochial bunch — ‘ like Yorkshiremen ’ , says one foreign resident . |
| 6 | Great dockyards such as Chatham , Brest or Kronstadt were the biggest and most complex unified industrial enterprises of the age . |
| 7 | Much against their natural inclinations , Jesus 's earthly followers were gradually persuaded that far from the Friday being the disastrous and final demise of their hero , by some inexplicable divine miracle he had dealt death itself a death-blow , and had risen from the grave to a new and everlasting life-form . |
| 8 | Copywriting is a lively and varied job . |
| 9 | Mr Hill is an elder and past regional chairman of the Northern Region of the Royal Institute of British Architects . |
| 10 | He said : ‘ Monkou is a whinger and I will be waiting for him when Southampton come to Highbury . |
| 11 | Friday is a thrilling and playful solo dance piece and is based on Michael Tournier 's novel of the same name . |
| 12 | When it comes to supporting the private sector , Scott is a vociferous and tough opponent . |
| 13 | The green and pleasant district where the Royal County of Berkshire meets Hampshire and Surrey is an affluent and elegant area . |
| 14 | ‘ Phil is the practical one , Edward is the academic and I have the business head , ’ said Mrs Spence . |
| 15 | Ah but perhaps Ken 's the same as you then ? |
| 16 | Cradled between North and South America , Mexico is a fascinating and vibrant country steeped in history . |
| 17 | There is no doubt that Courtney is a dangerous and manipulative liar whose life is geared towards sex . |
| 18 | With its sequence of four thousand years of remains , Jarlshof is the longest-lived and most complex archaeological site in Historic Scotland 's care . |
| 19 | DLT is a safe and powerful tool that will save you hours searching through files and directories looking for those unwanted files to delete . |
| 20 | Stonehenge is a unique and powerful prehistoric monument started over 5000 years ago on Salisbury Plain in Wiltshire . |
| 21 | Basically everyone raved about Leeds that day — and Tuesday was a comfortable if a little uninspired . |
| 22 | TUESDAY WAS the third and last day of the Pipeline Masters . |
| 23 | Montagu was a serious and talented , although not publicly charismatic Liberal politician , who chose to seek his pleasure and friends in a close-knit coterie whose speciality was ‘ in ’ jokes , to which some contribution was made by the more sophisticated aspect of pre-1914 ( and indeed pre-1939 ) English upper-class anti-semitism . |
| 24 | The Reverend George M. Musgrave was a digressive but observant fellow . |
| 25 | Heavily bearded , Scott was a witty and apparently sociable man but became increasingly pedantic and intolerant of views divergent from his own , Doubtless this contributed to the personality problems within the British meteorological establishment during the later nineteenth century . |
| 26 | The manager thought his lunchtime call to Anfield was no more than a formality . |
| 27 | ‘ My father , puzzled for an instant as to the meaning of this accident , since Mrs Goodyer was the gentlest and most inoffensive of our Church members , decided that it must be because she had made an idol of her husband … ‘ |
| 28 | Brought in by his friendship with Bobby was the tall and often silent Owen Wood who turned sixteen soon after he entered Camberwell in October 1945 . |
| 29 | The Leviathan was a ruthless and cruel creature , with ‘ a heart as hard as a millstone ’ , and it destroyed anything which came in its path . |
| 30 | Petronius Redburnus was a daring and fortunate gambler . |