Example sentences of "be [adj] [conj] a [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 61 | This ceases to be possible where a document accepted as binding is bindingly interpreted by an external court . |
| 62 | In Derry , newly-elected SDLP councillor Jim Clifford said today his daughter was lucky to be alive after a brick was thrown through the front window of the family home . |
| 63 | It would be odd if a transaction were outside the section in all circumstances solely because it was governed by a foreign law even though , for instance , all the parties were in this country at all times . |
| 64 | Yesterday 's statement said the funeral would be private and a memorial service would be held later . |
| 65 | Siemens Nixdorf 's biggest problem is that it is a combination of a company that was just about to go ex-growth with one that was already failing , so it very much needs any partner to be a firm seen to be strong and a winner : Hewlett-Packard and ICL presently best fit that profile . |
| 66 | It would seem to be doubtful whether a fall of this magnitude was commensurate with the effort put in by those who called for a boycott , that is , Provisional Sinn Fein , I RSP , Unity and Fathers Faul and Murray . |
| 67 | At common law it appears to be doubtful whether an agreement for a " knockout " , ie a contract between interested bidders to refrain from bidding against each other , was illegal . |
| 68 | Sometimes the original number of volumes is found to be inconvenient and a work is compressed , and so that we can get ‘ four volumes in two ’ , ‘ eight volumes in four ’ , etc . |
| 69 | It would be different if a school was making parents feel morally obliged to find these extras for their children , but we do not . |
| 70 | The situation would of course be different if a method eventually became available whereby the sex of the offspring could be selected at conception . |
| 71 | ‘ Well , Watson , ’ Holmes said to me , ‘ I 'm afraid that a doctor from Devonshire wo n't bring us anything of real interest . |
| 72 | I 'm afraid that a lot of gardeners will have been put off coir by these spurious trials , and I really think Gardening from Which ? should publish a withdrawal . |
| 73 | I did n't in the beginning but I do now , she can be funny although a bit bitchy at times . |
| 74 | If legislation were introduced at this point it is possible that it would fall foul of the decision by the European Court of Justice and thus be impracticable and a waste of public funds . |
| 75 | Quite apart from the fact that they would appear to be unorthodox and a distortion at its best of Christian theology , I believe it must be said of all these suggestions that , if what is intended is that they should give an equal place to women or to the ‘ feminine ’ within the Christian religion , they fail . |
| 76 | It should be clear that a God who was simply ‘ outside ’ the world in the way that the President of France was ‘ outside ’ Britain could hardly at the same time be present in it . |
| 77 | In some families with aggressive children the boundaries and limits on the child 's behaviour may not be clear and a struggle for power can take place between the parents and child which rapidly escalates into violence . |
| 78 | The term ‘ consultation ’ is often used inaccurately ; we should be clear as a union , but also CA as an organisation , as to what we mean by it . |
| 79 | It would , indeed , be foolish and a misreading of history to do so . |
| 80 | Up on the downs it would be dark as a velvet bag . |
| 81 | Most characters are simply sketched types rather than carefully constructed characters : the beautiful young wife , either licentious or honest but nearly always cunning ; the prostitute ; the husband , more often foolish than wise ; the lover , more likely to be clever than a husband is . |
| 82 | The family benefits that would be payable when a pensioner dies , very much mirrors erm those that would be payable if you were to die whilst employed in pensionable service . |
| 83 | In addition a ‘ terminal ’ bonus may be payable when a policy becomes a claim by death or maturity ; the level of this bonus may be reviewed at any time without notice to reflect changes in the value of the assets of the life fund . |
| 84 | In addition a ‘ terminal ’ bonus may be payable when a policy becomes a claim by death or maturity ; the level of this bonus may be reviewed at any time without notice to reflect the changes in the value of the assets of the life fund . |
| 85 | Other arrangements may be appropriate if a printer is engaged at an early stage . |
| 86 | Subsequent learning about the pre-exposed stimulus will then be impossible until a discrepancy between the values of λ and V is established ( as will happen when the US is introduced at the start of the conditioning phase of a latent inhibition experiment ) so that the value of α will be increased for the next trial . |
| 87 | Although the Sandinistas have repeatedly pledged democratic elections in February , Mr Arias was said to be fearful that a failure to disarm , relocate or disband the contras could provoke a Sandinista cross-border sweep against the rebels and cancellation of the polls . |
| 88 | Although the Sandinistas have repeatedly pledged democratic elections in February , Mr Arias was said to be fearful that a failure to disarm , relocate or disband the contras could provoke a Sandinista cross-border sweep against the rebels and cancellation of the polls . |
| 89 | But on any one day , although there will be subject assessors beavering away in places all over the country , their activity is not very visible unless you happen to teach in a department being visited ; the rest of the staff in your own college or school may be unaware that a subject assessor is there . |
| 90 | However , it can be dangerous when an artist becomes very established . |