Example sentences of "to [be] [prep] a [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Several weeks ago , the board decided the route out of a prolonged crisis had to be via a young , but internationally-experienced coach . |
| 2 | Moving further into the German market would be difficult given the strength of the major players there , and if it does happen , it is likely to be via a joint venture . |
| 3 | As we discovered in asking why clients would use search consultants rather than in-house recruiting , the salary attached to the job has to be above a certain ceiling to justify the fees involved . |
| 4 | In the long term , a dictionary needs to be above a certain size to provide sufficient coverage over a wide range of domains . |
| 5 | It is necessary for normal science to be to a large extent uncritical . |
| 6 | That sort of partnership can not be built up over a few years , it has to be through a long term commitment by both parties . ’ |
| 7 | For a long time the only way in which a truly selfless behaviour could arise seemed to be through a differential advantage accruing to groups of individuals that showed sacrifice in relation to their companions to a degree greater than in other groups . |
| 8 | We might claim , for instance , to have a right to life because we each have an interest in being alive that is of sufficient importance to justify holding others to be under a duty to respect our lives , and the government to be under a corresponding obligation to reinforce that duty by enacting appropriate laws . |
| 9 | American investors were the big buyers , mainly sophisticated funds prepared to gamble that GPA would cling to life or prove to be worth a substantial sum broken up . |
| 10 | It is , however , because religion is about the archaic heritage of humanity , and involves relations with parent figures , particularly the father , that one would expect emotional reactions to the subject ; either religion is the most important part of life , and immune to scientific investigation for that reason , or it is too trivial to be worth a working scientist 's time . |
| 11 | MADONNA 's new contract with Warner Brothers is said to be worth a cool $60 million . |
| 12 | What has not been developed to the same extent is the suggestiveness of his work on the novel for theories of genre , a suggestiveness which I will only touch on here , but which seems to me to be worth a great deal more investigation and discussion . |
| 13 | It seemed to be about a young woman , thinking aloud as she went about her home doing her chores . |
| 14 | As a rough guide two strands wound together make something approximately like three-ply in thickness and three together are usually reckoned to be about a four-ply. these fine industrial yarns used to be in the ‘ odds and ends ’ bins , but the manufacturers have caught on to the fact that they are popular with machine knitters , so now they can be bought under a brand name . |
| 15 | Now the more certain that we want to be about a particular inference , right , the smaller is the significance level . |
| 16 | You should dig a pit a yard deep ; for comfort while digging , this will need to be about a square yard in area . |
| 17 | The ‘ splitting off of consciousness ’ , and the alien , critical attitudes which result , help to account for departures from convention which are particularly marked in women 's writing at many points throughout the twentieth century , and continue to be as a strong area of postmodernist development . |
| 18 | Manager Steve Coppell is almost certain to be without a recognised striker for the grudge match against Graeme Souness 's men , who complained of Palace 's physical approach in the 1-1 draw at Anfield two weeks ago . |
| 19 | Nor could it afford indefinitely to be without a direct , local link with Asmar 's network , which was still using the agency 's video equipment to keep track of the hostages in Beirut as well as monitoring the activities of DEA/CIA operatives . |
| 20 | I used to be down a straight road here . |
| 21 | I used to be down a straight road . . |
| 22 | Might it be , for example , that members of a particular religion are more likely to be of a certain age , or a certain class , and if these variables are taken into account ( ‘ held constant ’ ) does the relationship still look the same ? |
| 23 | That is not to say that they do not have particularities , for a particular instance of a shirt has to be of a certain colour , and have pockets or not , or it would not be a shirt . |
| 24 | That case , if it was correct , would make it unnecessary for a lease to be of a certain duration . |
| 25 | The number is assumed to be of a certain maximum field width and the process also terminates if this field width is reached . |
| 26 | Whilst an object within LIFESPAN will always be of a specific class and therefore will follow the associated process model , it is not mandatory for it to be specified to be of a certain subtype . |
| 27 | This is understandable for actual evidence can be only archaeological , and that means that such evidence would have to be of a concrete nature . |
| 28 | We shall now take a ferromagnetic material that has a very narrow hysteresis loop so that we can assume with good approximation a unique ( though of course nonlinear ) relationship between B and H. The material is again assumed to be of a toroidal shape but it is now excited by a current I flowing in a coil of N turns ( Fig. 3.13(a) ) . |
| 29 | It was possible to estimate the approximate vicinity of the conjectural planet if it were to be of a reasonable size and to be responsible for the perturbation of Uranus ' orbit . |
| 30 | The fact that the form is exhausted , however , has not prevented those novelists held to be of a satirical bent from making squillions of pounds : Tom Sharpe , Clive James and Keith Waterhouse ( above ) all shift paperbacks like nobody 's business , and good luck to them . |