Example sentences of "be an [adj] [conj] a " in BNC.
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| 1 | The last two unionist mayors have been an independent and a DUP councillor , making an Ulster Unionist the favourite this time round . |
| 2 | Oh , well , I say I 'm on early but I will be , I could be an early or a late . |
| 3 | But a librarian , more likely to be an Adonis-type than a Boar or a Goddess , might be tempted to catalogue this book under ‘ Hughes ’ rather than under ‘ Shakespeare ’ . |
| 4 | ‘ Not compared with Ricky , ’ snapped Perdita , ‘ and they all think Drew 's absolutely marvellous , because he 's an eight and a Falklands hero and all . |
| 5 | Bungay is a , is an historic and a delightful town and one that qualifies on environmental ground alone for a bypass , I refer to paper T one , erm which is er , paper of the ninth of January nineteen ninety two , and if you refer to little B , seven , five bypasses for towns and villages where there is serious and environmental intrusion by through traffic . |
| 6 | Golf : There is an eighteen and a nine hole course near Kitzbuhel , and minigolf is available in the resort . |
| 7 | The second dimension used three variables : whether the state is unitary and centralized or federal and dispersed ; whether the legislature has one or two ( strong ) chambers ; and whether there is an unwritten or a written , rigid constitution . |
| 8 | This was an embattled and a battling faith . |
| 9 | On the other hand , for all his ferocity in matters of principle , the archbishop was an aged and a sick man who had suffered too many humiliations and had offended too many of his fellow prelates in the 1290s and since to command strong support from them ; he was still unsure of papal backing for his measures , and indeed found them countermanded by Clement . |