Example sentences of "be [adj] [coord] a [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Yesterday 's statement said the funeral would be private and a memorial service would be held later . |
| 2 | well he should only be eight and a half , I mean they told us he was three and a half when he was rescued . |
| 3 | She must be eight and a half . |
| 4 | 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 . |
| 5 | Instead of having all these different mortgage companies , Abbey National and that , the government have er , have er , a whatsname to do it , they 're would n't be half and a quarter . |
| 6 | 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 . |
| 7 | 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 . |
| 8 | 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 . |
| 9 | 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 . |
| 10 | It would , indeed , be foolish and a misreading of history to do so . |
| 11 | He felt the first dabs of rain , and held out his palm to inspect the circles of water as though they might be gold or a map of the city . |
| 12 | Consultation will then be false and a facade for a ‘ sells ’ style of leadership whereby the manager hopes to win acceptance of his decisions by subordinates by pretending to listen to their advice . |
| 13 | But I suspect a lot of you would want to leave them with a matt finish , it 's entirely up to you Anyway when you paint , like I say , it 's just it 's because it 's porous it sucks the colour off the brush and er it immediately dries , so you can see , straight away , the colour it 's gon na be when you then put the varnish on you use a sort of matt varnish and so it brings the colour up but it wo n't be shiny or a shine , which you 're gon na choose like you might wan na matt varnish with this and shiny for the shell which ca it really brings the colour up , we wo n't get round to varnishing today erm and the other thing you can do , if you want erm a sort of a mottled effect you do pink in a base colour say Mikila wanted all greeny , bluey colours on that |
| 14 | filled in my Pools I might be lucky But a beggar cayent be a chooser |
| 15 | There is little difference , for example , between the position of a child trespasser whom the occupier knows to be present and a child visitor . |
| 16 | Shrubs are expensive , os taking cuttings will be cheaper and a lot more satisfying than buying plants . |
| 17 | I tried so hard to be good but a lot was expected of children in those days , and I often had nightmares thinking the man would know about me and would come and get me . |
| 18 | It should be encouraging and a challenge . ’ |
| 19 | By then the glider may be airborne and a cart-wheel will be unavoidable . |
| 20 | improving decision making which might otherwise be slower and a result of compromise because of differentiated authority ; |
| 21 | I thought , if you could be Welsh and a Jew , you 'd have everything going for you ! ’ |
| 22 | The process of adjustment to a new life-style has to be worked through , but gradually there has to be self-discovery and a move to new activities . |
| 23 | Can be difficult and a bit dangerous at times . ’ |
| 24 | Drainage may also be necessary and a pioneer crop may be required in the first year . |
| 25 | I think , I think the Chancellor in the erm , Budget speech on the thirtieth of November actually said that local government increase in spending will be two and a quarter per cent in nineteen ninety-four , five . |
| 26 | yeah cos er , yeah he must be two and a half , cos er |
| 27 | It has meant , that churches need to be bold and be young or a threat to what we belong to as the edges between church and and community have blurred we are now much more vulnerable . |
| 28 | And of course it 'll be four and a half after it 's paid tax , you know if you 've got any tax credits from your nationalized shares , you 'll see those come through , and y you 've got the net return . |
| 29 | ‘ If he were to institute proceedings for infringement before the patent for the invention was sealed , the procedural requirement of the proviso would not be satisfied but a statement of claim could not be struck out as disclosing no cause of action although it might be liable to be struck out as an abuse of the process of the court . |
| 30 | If you do n't go , Black Michael will be King and the real king will be dead or a prisoner . ’ |