Example sentences of "be a [adj] [conj] a " in BNC.
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| 1 | And when you 're choosing your bag you 'll need to take account of what your metabolism is like — whether or not you 're a cold or a warm sleeper . |
| 2 | Although he differentiated his position from that of Draper , suggesting that the struggle had been between science and dogmatic theology rather than between science and religion , A. D. White insisted that there had been a theological and a scientific view of every question , invariably at odds . |
| 3 | And yet , it is said the Rochesters have been a violent than a quiet race in their time , perhaps though , that is the reason they rest tranq tranquilly in their graves now . |
| 4 | De Valera was continuing the now dominant culture recognized by Eoin MacNeill and Douglas Hyde when , in his St Patrick 's Day address to the United States of America , broadcast in 1935 , he underlined the spirit of that preamble : ‘ Since the coming of St. Patrick , fifteen hundred years ago , Ireland has been a Christian and a Catholic nation . |
| 5 | The external schema is the subset of the database which is relevant to the particular user , and though it may be a summarised and a very restricted subset , the user may think that it represents the whole view , because it is the whole view as far as the user is concerned . |
| 6 | The whole area of Clacton always seems to be a tidy and a very pleasant town to visit . |
| 7 | According to a pamphlet of 1704 , the present war was about whether England should be a popish or a Protestant country , since Louis XIV was advancing the cause of a popish prince to the throne of Great Britain , whilst at home the strength of the papists was increased " by the Non-Jurors and Disaffected Persons of all sorts " , who were zealous for a popish prince . |
| 8 | These pictures , rarely cordial , have become more and more baleful : it is as if he is holding himself back from physical assault on a reader supposed to be a trendy and a lefty , which is , indeed , what many of his readers have always been . |
| 9 | As I said it could be a thirty or a sixty minute job . |
| 10 | That was because I mean you take now the , the , the Dredging Company what they call the in their funnel they used to have erm a square and in halves that used to be a blue and a yellow . |
| 11 | This year , for the first time , there will be a one and a half-day open seminar preceding CentCom , with the aim of raising WACC 's profile in North America . |
| 12 | ‘ He ought to be a twelve or a thirteen , he 's so good . |
| 13 | It may make for easier government and public convenience to restrict the tradition of marching and assembling for protest , but it would be a dangerous and a foolish idea to believe that public protest can somehow be laid aside as belonging to a bygone age . |
| 14 | However , two of the First Class singles illustrated seem to be a late or a second printing . |
| 15 | Or is it OK by you to be a Nazi and a Madness fan ? |
| 16 | ‘ Rather be a tart than a Gallegan . ’ |
| 17 | Asked , when Our Lady of Finchley was still in her niche , all candles blazing , if he were a Thatcherite or a liberal , he modestly admitted to being a liberal . |
| 18 | Examples of peasant or pastoralist protest where official conservation policies were a catalytic or a leading grievance are Kenya ( Heyer et al. |
| 19 | Dostam 's support for Masud had signalled the end of the Najibullah regime , but Hekmatyar accused him of being a communist and a war criminal . |
| 20 | The finer points of the differences between being a Christian and a Muslim were rarely discussed between us . |
| 21 | Far from being a luxury or a peripheral activity , music often meets basic needs : ‘ There exist a good many people for whom music is so important that it is difficult for them to conceive of life without it . |
| 22 | Have we got that here yes here 's a five and a three so we could make forty five . |
| 23 | You draw a line and you know at once whether it 's a good or a bad line . |
| 24 | Do you have any thoughts as to whether it 's a good or a bad thing that food is produced artificially , as it were ? |
| 25 | It 's a two and a half second sequence — I 've timed it . |
| 26 | Do I just switch off the tape recorder and go back and say , ‘ Here 's a two and a half minute speech ’ ? |
| 27 | If it 's a million , if it 's a million and a half dollars it 's er three quarters of a million pounds |
| 28 | I do n't know if it 's a sweet or a Dan say Arthur . |
| 29 | Historically , this is a surprising and a disturbing conclusion . |
| 30 | It is a deadly and a serious one . |