Example sentences of "be an [adj] [noun] [unc] " in BNC.
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| 1 | And next door to him , number five they 're an elderly couple erm and they 've got one of their sons living there at erm he 's disabled in some way but I 'm not quite sure how . |
| 2 | Platies are an ideal beginners ' fish because they will stand poor water conditions — but no fish can survive poisoning caused by poor filtration . |
| 3 | ‘ No , I 'm not , Elaine ; I 'm an underfed vicar 's assistant . ’ |
| 4 | My Lord that is in dispute , it is in dispute firstly that in fact as a matter of fact , Mr had ever held himself out to be an experienced man er of business , that Peter believed him to be as such , er and in any event , even if he was to seem as such it is the plaintiff 's case that there was still a duty upon the solicitor in that situation . |
| 5 | Research indicates that there may be other causes which could explain why younger women also suffer from what should be an elderly person 's complaint . |
| 6 | Part of the buildings used to be an old cobbler 's shop , hence the ‘ Cobblers ’ wine bar and restaurant . |
| 7 | ( There used to be an old sailor 's trick for getting rid of tapeworms , using a raw egg with a pinhole in one end . |
| 8 | And we think that it would be an excessive size er for that particular locality , and it would n't really fit in erm with er the path of the settlement pattern . |
| 9 | I think it 's an important erm requi it should be an important requirement th the philosophy behind that that er that that argument should be pursued that it should be free standing . |
| 10 | The suggested Fifth Man badly needs to be an up-and-coming forwards ' coach . |
| 11 | Now , you , you could have the linear ordering that 's an alternative proposal erm , but then you 've actually got erm you 've got to come up with a kind of proper account of these structures of how they come about and of the relation and then you 've got to check it out against all the other data and all I can say is as it happens , I 've tried that and it does n't work but that 's only and we want to find out if you can see that the quite a long way . |
| 12 | ‘ It 's an anatomical artist 's dream , ’ she thought . |
| 13 | So it 's an important issue er , of principle . |
| 14 | It 's an outrageous claim erm I do n't think it 's substantiated by any research whatsoever . |
| 15 | I think it 's an old wives ' tale that make-up ruins the skin . |
| 16 | It 's an old wives ' tale that make-up ruins the skin |
| 17 | Well well it 's an old thing i it 's they 've raked old |
| 18 | Cos if you 're thinking the way they carry the baby it 's an old woman 's tale I think , I never used to think |
| 19 | Anyway , she 's I think it 's an old people 's flat . |
| 20 | Yes , yes it 's an old people 's home sort of thing , mm . |
| 21 | it 's a , it 's an old people 's home now private |
| 22 | It 's an old lawyer 's trick to get people rattled by getting their name wrong , if ever so slightly . |
| 23 | I think the York area 's an attractive area er er for development . |
| 24 | It 's an English-built rocker 's tool finished in cellulose all over and powered by a combination of a Seymour Duncan SSL-1 , a DiMarzio Fred and a DiMarzio PAF Pro . |
| 25 | Semenyaka is an honoured People 's Artist , but she agrees : ‘ Our heyday was the time of Diaghilev , Nijinsky and Karsavina , and the fact that they inspired Fokine and Balanchine . |
| 26 | Next resolution five which is an ordinary resolution er , set ou set out in the notice of the meeting which is to authorize the company to make market purchases of the ordinary shares of the company . |
| 27 | Can I just clarify , what , what you 're saying is that in a sense there is this overall aim of getting through to socialism but the means of getting there have now changed so that we 've gone from absolute egalitarianism , which is , is an immediate step tow towards socialism you 've gone away from that and the position is now to create a rich peasant economy in order to industrialize , in order to get through to collectivization , I E into socialism . |
| 28 | Alright , now , whether there is a perverse supply response is , is an empirical question erm , and it 's generally observed that perverse supply response is about as common as a that we looked at in demand analysis . |
| 29 | Two reagents are in general use , one is an acidified Tyrode 's solution ( 22 ) and the other a solution of pronase ( 23 ) . |
| 30 | Then er even one percent of nuclear weaponry that er could be used is a danger to world congregation and I fear very much er that unless there is some kind of a proper cast iron guarantee er with the successor to the Soviet Union er there 's going to be much er trouble especially if er there is an ethnic violence er erupting on the borders and again er Boris Yeltsin has said that er , er he is going to want to control er the position on the borders , well he may not get the agreement that he seeks , er one hopes that he will , but he , he may not . |