Example sentences of "be a [adj] [coord] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | " You 're a dear and kind gentlemen , and I wish you were my father . " |
| 2 | Every by-election from now on must be a Labour or Lib Dem victory . |
| 3 | He considered that it was his primary duty to be a divine and theologian rather than a political bishop . |
| 4 | It 'll be a daunting and soul destroying task . |
| 5 | In autumn — as the storms begin again — there may be a re-stirring and distribution of nutrients , and another bloom . |
| 6 | Deng Xiaoping , it was stated , had never supported demonstrations since these were a disorderly and unsocialist method of making a point . |
| 7 | All known societies appear to use language as one means amongst others of marking out gender differences ( gender , strictly speaking , being a cultural and sex a biological category ) . |
| 8 | In her forty-four year life , Mary ruled for only six , so that we are faced with another thirty-eight years when she had virtually no role in her kingdom , being a minor and absentee ruler for the first nineteen , and a deposed queen for the second . |
| 9 | Hoskyns Group Plc , London , is to distribute New Zealand firm Pinnacle Software Ltd 's a financial and manufacturing software tools in the UK . |
| 10 | When an airstrip is spotted land on it ( whether it 's a friendly or enemy base ) , and you enter the option screen . |
| 11 | Whether it 's a knitted or fabric item , suitable fillings will be required so we thought we would tell you about a couple of products from Abbey Quilting Ltd , a company which specialises in wadding and filling products for craftwork . |
| 12 | One consequence of this layering of different sizes and characters of nation within Europe is a political-economic and policy pyramid , which is built on shifting grounds and whose complex detail is always changing . |
| 13 | It is a small but spread-out , almost incoherent town , the pleasantest part of which stands up above the river and has a row of modest hotels . |
| 14 | Any change must not make it easier for a defendant to escape conviction for murder in cases where there is a planned or revenge killing . |
| 15 | An aneurysm is a swelling or dilatation caused by a weakening in the wall of a blood-vessel . |
| 16 | One field can not exist within another field without an interaction between them , therefore it can be argued that the Universe is an energy field and that everything that exists in it is a subsidiary or component part of the total field . |
| 17 | Dainfern is a residential and golfing estate developed by the Group 's property division . |
| 18 | The only options open to the courts to enforce compliance with a contact order is a fine or imprisonment . |
| 19 | There is a tricuspid or heart shaped apical papilla flanked on each side by two distal oral papillae , which arise on the adoral shields occasionally the more distal one is divided making it appear as two papillae . |
| 20 | Senior political figures do not even acknowledge that torture exists , let alone accept that it is a widespread and routine event . |
| 21 | There is a pointed or heart shaped apical papilla with one pointed oral papilla on each side usually arising on the oral plates . |
| 22 | Bob Spottiswood was a strong and pacy right half-back who played for his native Carlisle United before coming south to appear for Croydon Common for the 1908–09 season . |
| 23 | By the 1870s Christianity had survived and flourished , and it was not now mirth and ridicule from hedonists — the scientific age was a serious one-but assault from intellectuals and moralists which would shake the churches . |
| 24 | My next girl friend was a friendly and kind girl and we liked the same things . |
| 25 | I had an awful pain in my chest and did not know whether it was a coronary or indigestion . |
| 26 | But he was a warm and kind man . |
| 27 | It meant a lot to me and was a fine and understanding gesture by Lynn . |
| 28 | The initially strong emphasis on special educational needs ( and the attendant confusion over whether PNP was a special or general needs programme ) gave way to a concentration on curriculum development , mainly in response to the shifting national agenda . |
| 29 | When the claimant was a relative or friend , the first reaction after the hugs and kisses was to take hold of the label round the child 's neck , tear it off and throw it to the ground . |
| 30 | He was a vegetarian and teetotaller and , in Hobbes 's view ( so Aubrey tells us ) , ‘ the sweetest-natured man in the world ’ . |