Example sentences of "be [prep] [adj] a [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | I have been through such a storm before , and it is the gusting that is most dangerous . ’ |
| 2 | ‘ Hopkins 's sister is a widow and has been for many a year , ’ the fellow replied . |
| 3 | Well , now I 've been past many a field of hay but it does n't smell like it used to in my young days . |
| 4 | " Employment on the railways as in other sections of the transport industry can not be said to have been of such a character as to fit in with the theory of labour aristocracy . " |
| 5 | The conduct had also to be intended to provoke a breach of the peace or to have been of such a nature as to have been likely to have occasioned such a breach . |
| 6 | We consider for the moment only the case where His non-negative and D is positive , and assume they are of such a size that overflow does not occur ( see problem 2.4 ) . |
| 7 | a single prostitute who provides services in private premises to one client at a time without spectators is guilty of the common law offence of keeping a disorderly house if it is proved that the services provided are of such a character and are conducted in such a manner … that their provision amounts to an outrage of public decency or is otherwise calculated to harm the public interest to such an extent as to call for condemnation and punishment . |
| 8 | The changes identified by the Tomlinson report are of such a magnitude and involve so great a culture change that the planning and decision making will need to be made with a great deal of care and integration . |
| 9 | Earlier in his essay on the rule of law Oakeshott had suggested that to deliberate the jus of lex is ‘ to invoke a particular kind of moral consideration : … the negative and limited consideration that the prescriptions of law should not conflict with a prevailing educated moral sensibility capable of distinguishing between the conditions of ‘ virtue ’ , the conditions of moral association ( ’ good conduct ’ ) , and those which are of such a kind that they should be imposed by law ( ’ justice ’ ) ' . |
| 10 | We may even feel , as certainly I do , that some of the later cantos are of such a nature that it 's hard to conceive in any age of a way of encountering them other than the way we 're here embarked upon . |
| 11 | No particular form of words is necessary to create a floating charge ; it suffices if the intention is shown ( a ) to impose a charge on assets both present and future , ( b ) the assets are of such a nature that they would be changing in the ordinary course of the company 's business , and ( c ) the company is free to continue to deal with the assets in the ordinary course of its business . |
| 12 | No , it did n't form part of it and erm if it were to be done it would be having , shall we say , a political impact , but the sums are of such a nature that they are of no significance in the context of the budget as a whole . |
| 13 | strip , straight them open so that , they 're like that a bit instead er |
| 14 | Been like that a couple of days . |
| 15 | just got really unsafe unless the two sites are like half a mile , well at least half a mile if not , but I |
| 16 | How else would he have been with such a father ? |
| 17 | This is not , as it might have been with such a tale , the cuckolded merchant , but rather Margery , the stupid wife , who is particularly funny because she is so unthinkingly conventionally good and who effaces any real self she may be imagined to have within a cluster of clichés . |
| 18 | I HARDLY know how to begin this , I am in such a state . |
| 19 | Eventually he wrote ‘ I am in such a stew over Primavera that I have made some sketches myself . |
| 20 | According to the assessments of relatives , friends , and neighbours who answered the questions , the quality of life of people who had been in a residential home for a year or more before their death was similar to that of others who died but had never been in such a home . |
| 21 | The proportions reported to have had difficulty with various aspects of caring for themselves ( getting in and out of a bath or shower , dressing and undressing , going to the toilet , washing and shaving , feeding themselves , making a hot drink , or needing help at night ) for a year or more before death was 87 per cent of those who had been in a residential home for a year or more , 60 per cent of those in for a shorter time and 25 per cent of those who had not been in such a home at all . |
| 22 | A few of the teenage mothers in this book had been in such a home . |
| 23 | But he had been in such a degree of desperation because of his financial position . |
| 24 | Even more exhilarating was the fact that already his ambitions as a choreographer were making progress : ‘ I have been in such a state lately ! |
| 25 | Why had Carmen been in such a hurry ? |
| 26 | She would have liked Nice — if she had not been in such a hurry to be in Paris . |
| 27 | Mind you , it could have been cheaper if you had n't been in such a hurry . |
| 28 | ‘ No , but it is not the first time I have been in such a situation . |
| 29 | She had never been in such a place before , and she saw at once that most of the men had girls with them who were certainly not their wives , or the kind of girl one took home to mother . |
| 30 | hold a position of responsibility within the industry and have been in such a post for at least two years |