Example sentences of "be an [adj] [conj] [art] " 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 After two or three hours , Harry say a sign indicating that Hamburg was 300 kilometres away , and he took this road as he knew Lubeck might be an alternative if no vessels for Sweden were berthed in the larger port .
3 Oh , well , I say I 'm on early but I will be , I could be an early or a late .
4 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 ’ .
5 The figure of 2 km assumed here for the area of interest further north is therefore more likely to be an over than an underestimate .
6 The publishing history of Mills and Boon emulates precisely that of the developments in mass market publishing in Europe and America ; it may be an extreme but the dating of shifts in their ownership and distribution structure conforms to the major historical changes in the publishing industry .
7 ‘ 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 .
8 It 's an additive that the Hyperactive Children 's Support Group recommends eliminating from the diet of susceptible children .
9 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 .
10 Golf : There is an eighteen and a nine hole course near Kitzbuhel , and minigolf is available in the resort .
11 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 .
12 This was an embattled and a battling faith .
13 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 .
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