Example sentences of "be [adj] [conj] a [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 31 | You are stupid and an idiot . |
| 32 | Judge Blofeld said : ‘ I am unhappy that an incident that requires a court hearing can not have one . ’ |
| 33 | By and large , he was saying what most ordinary people think : that it is not a good idea for very young girls to embark on motherhood , especially if they are poor or a bit dim . |
| 34 | Once , when he had been late and a crowd of louts from the factory had started to shout at her , calling out about her legs and what they 'd like to do to her , Georg had come storming down the road on a bicycle , jumped off , and knocked two of them down before the rest ran away . |
| 35 | You will have off days when you are tired or a bit under the weather . |
| 36 | To expand on that ; many girls would retain the values of civilisation and would want democracy and order and all that , as Ralph did , and eventually I am sure that a girl or girls would break away , causing a rift in the group , I think that the causes of the rift would be more trivial and the arguments more verbal and less brutally physical than the boys , but girls are capable of a great deal of spite and bitter unforgiveness and if more than one leader-figure emerges , they may later argue . |
| 37 | I was very relaxed , although I am sure that a lot of the journalists , cynics most of them , were still dubious about my time in Madrid . |
| 38 | I think Kenneth had a strong sexual imagination and I am sure that a lot went through his mind , but J do n't think it went further than that . ’ |
| 39 | We have all worked very hard to make sure that our district societies are representative of all members and I am sure that a breakdown of the composition of committees would prove this . |
| 40 | I am sure that an engineer could tell you of other differences between the punchcard and electronic machines too . |
| 41 | So , for example , a letter and a phone call are good but a letter , a phone call and a visit even better . |
| 42 | ( I am blind as a bat without and contact lenses are too expensive and who do you think you are , you should be studying . ) |
| 43 | We can legitimately ask to what extent such personal qualities are important as a source of power within the public sector . |
| 44 | It has in the past been notorious that a pupil in an English school , having learned French for seven years , and having even passed at grade A at A level , may yet be unable to utter more than a few halting sentences , and be hardly able to follow a simple conversation with a native speaker . |
| 45 | He said : I am concerned that an incident like this happened but I am confident that our security measures worked well |
| 46 | British medical charities are concerned that a refusal by one foundation to provide grants for experiments involving animals may stimulate the anti-vivisectionist movement and increase the difficulties facing medical researchers who consider such experiments to be essential . |
| 47 | Ramblers are angry that a golf clubhouse is being built across the route of a long distance footpath . |
| 48 | Tory councillors here are angry that a member of Sinn Fein is being allowed a platform in the city — they say the move is highly offensive to everyone in Glasgow . |
| 49 | Once you are happy that a marketing price has been reached then you simply instruct us to sell . |
| 50 | In the UK , it is estimated that 1 in 4 people are overweight , grade 1 obesity , the major reasons for dieting are cosmetic and a sense of well-being . |
| 51 | ‘ Would n't it be awful if a cat scratched your heart . ’ |
| 52 | bound to be , bound to be awful when a woman ca n't talk it must be terrible |
| 53 | Such an order has inheritance tax advantages ( if dissolution of the marriage has taken place ) , a saving in the HM Land Registry fees is available ( see Chapter 3 and generally ) and , as any financial provision can be expressed in the order to be in full and final settlement of the wife 's claims ( see Chapter 11 ) , it is less likely to be upset than an agreement between the parties not carried into a " consent order " ( see for instance Dinch v Dinch [ 1987 ] 1 WLR 252 where the court refused to make a further order on the grounds that the consent order had conclusively determined the rights of the parties in the matrimonial home ) . |
| 54 | It can not in our judgment be right that a judge can refuse to allow the prosecution to discontinue before their case is concluded if he believes the evidence already called raises a prima facie case . |
| 55 | ‘ It can not be right that a tenant in Middlesbrough , where housing is cheap , pays more than a tenant in Camden , where costs are very much higher , where well-paid jobs are much easier to come by , and there is such a concentration of commercial facilities . ’ |
| 56 | A court that tries to decide as Parliament would have wished is more likely to be right than a court that follows the words believing it was not what Parliament intended . |
| 57 | Go on , Hepzibah , I 'm strong as a horse now and I could do with some air . ’ |
| 58 | In a whole variety of ways , the novel shows conventional Western modes of thought and behaviour to be absurd and an obstacle to that goal . |
| 59 | In the story of Aladdin , his beloved is told that the wonderful palace he has got the genie of the lamp to build for her will only be complete if a roc 's egg is suspended from the dome , DC 3 . |
| 60 | In constructivism we view the organism-environment dyad from the outside and ask how it might be possible that an organism which has input systems and which is active could ever come to know that the environment exists . |