Example sentences of "be [adj] a [adj] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Ideally , you will be due a lengthy period of notice if your employer wishes you to leave . |
| 2 | The opera was to be half a triumphant progress of a great queen through history ( and how appropriate that it should contain , in Act Two , a Royal Progress ) , and half a story of an old woman disappointed by a selfish man . |
| 3 | For this to be conceivable a specific decision must be taken by the British Government that Britain will not be party to political union in Europe . |
| 4 | ‘ It could be prettier a pale shade . |
| 5 | The incident , trivial in itself , of 20 November 1946 , culminated three days later in a terrible bombardment of Haiphong which was a prelude to pitched battles in Tonkin between the Vietminh forces and the French ; and although the usually quoted figure of 6,000 Vietnamese dead in Haiphong may be too high , the ease with which casualties of this order could be inflicted , with a French cruiser joining in at close range , suggested misleadingly that when French forces were fully engaged it would be such a one-sided contest that the Vietminh would learn the appropriate lesson . |
| 6 | Do n't be such a lazy oath . |
| 7 | What 's much more important for him is of course is that he 's score , got his name on the score sheet and Tony will be such a relieved man , and the crowd 's so delighted for him . |
| 8 | The bazaar drew nearer and nearer — and what a strange thing , McAllister thought , to be such a central part of her life , and she and Matey worked together now , in that , as in everything else , and Matey 's liking for her grew daily , for the eyes McAllister turned on him were always so full of love , and he was easy and happy with her , as he had not been since he was a boy before Africa and Angela Deverill 's betrayal . |
| 9 | I I 've always assumed that that meant that it would be such a tremendous lever for the enemy to hold someone like that . |
| 10 | The children who are coming up from the primary schools to secondary schools are going through a change themselves , and it would be such a broad area that we could integrate Science , English , Maths and everything under that sort of umbrella . |
| 11 | However , this did not turn out to be such a cheap solution in the long run , since it set up conditions of even greater instability , necessitating repeated operations every two years.5 Major work on the river Taff and the river Usk in South Wales , carried out in the early 1980s , has precipitated extensive and unforeseen repair bills . |
| 12 | Moore said : ‘ If people get into wrong positions inadvertently , there will be such a desperate desire to get out of them because they need the ball , I think it could increase violence . ’ |
| 13 | ‘ It could be such a nice room to have breakfast . ’ |
| 14 | She waited till Sophie nodded reluctantly , then she added smoothly , ‘ So come to my party and do n't make an enemy of the man who has proved to be such a good neighbour . ’ |
| 15 | While programmers have not been able to do that the results they have achieved suggest that this may not be such a good idea . |
| 16 | If you have to rely solely on public transport then the rural life may not be such a good idea , unless everything that you have to be near is within your area . |
| 17 | If your partner is opposed to condoms , uncooperative or not interested , sexual intercourse may not be such a good idea . |
| 18 | But the imbalance grows on you , even if structurally it may not be such a good idea , since some very squat buttresses on the left-hand or north wall had to be built on during a partial restoration of the building in the last century . |
| 19 | Sue Stocker says she had no idea her husband would prove to be such a good performer in front of the camera … |
| 20 | So , the thing is you should n't be such a good cook Graeme ! |
| 21 | I say well should n't be such a good cook ! |
| 22 | The Phoenix used to be such a good pub . |
| 23 | It ceased to be such a good bargain . |
| 24 | And would that be such a good thing , after all ? |
| 25 | And he did n't take much interest in my mother either and that put enough emotional pressure on her to maybe no , not be such a good mother as she might otherwise have been . |
| 26 | ‘ Do n't be such a goddam bitch , ’ but she said it affectionately . |
| 27 | ‘ I know so much about it , from a working point of view , that is , that I ca n't really envisage how it would feel to be such a complete outsider , and yet privately so necessary to someone . |
| 28 | As was the case under the previous law , there is no power to ban specific as opposed to classes of marches , or all marches , and a proposal to the effect that there should be such a specific power was rejected , on the grounds that it would place the police in a situation where they would be subject to allegations of political motivation and partiality whenever they exercised the power to seek a ban on a particular march . |
| 29 | Last Thursday was supposed to be such a practical lesson , but when we got there Mrs Glen told us that we 'd have to carry on with our writing topic . |
| 30 | Failure would be such a terrible thing . |