Example sentences of "be [art] [adj] [conj] [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Anderson does not deny that kin probably continued to be the main and the most reliable source of aid for migrants into the expanding towns , as they had been in the rural communities ( mostly in Lancashire and Ireland ) from which the migrants came . |
| 2 | The end result will be no different whether the shareholder takes up his or her rights or sells them in the market ; the end value of the holding will remain unchanged . |
| 3 | The external schema is the subset of the database which is relevant to the particular user , and though it may be a summarised and a very restricted subset , the user may think that it represents the whole view , because it is the whole view as far as the user is concerned . |
| 4 | The whole area of Clacton always seems to be a tidy and a very pleasant town to visit . |
| 5 | According to a pamphlet of 1704 , the present war was about whether England should be a popish or a Protestant country , since Louis XIV was advancing the cause of a popish prince to the throne of Great Britain , whilst at home the strength of the papists was increased " by the Non-Jurors and Disaffected Persons of all sorts " , who were zealous for a popish prince . |
| 6 | These pictures , rarely cordial , have become more and more baleful : it is as if he is holding himself back from physical assault on a reader supposed to be a trendy and a lefty , which is , indeed , what many of his readers have always been . |
| 7 | That was because I mean you take now the , the , the Dredging Company what they call the in their funnel they used to have erm a square and in halves that used to be a blue and a yellow . |
| 8 | It may make for easier government and public convenience to restrict the tradition of marching and assembling for protest , but it would be a dangerous and a foolish idea to believe that public protest can somehow be laid aside as belonging to a bygone age . |
| 9 | However , two of the First Class singles illustrated seem to be a late or a second printing . |
| 10 | Taplow was supposed to be a Lutheran but the prisoner said he believed in Purgatory . |
| 11 | Or is it OK by you to be a Nazi and a Madness fan ? |
| 12 | Should it be a historical or an anthropological science ? |
| 13 | It may be a direct or an indirect restraint or it may be contained in an agreement outside the primary contract between the parties . |
| 14 | ‘ Rather be a tart than a Gallegan . ’ |
| 15 | The letter may well be a fake but the worrying fact is that it proves there is a dirty tricks campaign designed to blacken the name of the Princess . |
| 16 | After two or three hours , Harry say a sign indicating that Hamburg was 300 kilometres away , and he took this road as he knew Lubeck might be an alternative if no vessels for Sweden were berthed in the larger port . |
| 17 | Oh , well , I say I 'm on early but I will be , I could be an early or a late . |
| 18 | But a librarian , more likely to be an Adonis-type than a Boar or a Goddess , might be tempted to catalogue this book under ‘ Hughes ’ rather than under ‘ Shakespeare ’ . |
| 19 | The figure of 2 km assumed here for the area of interest further north is therefore more likely to be an over than an underestimate . |
| 20 | The publishing history of Mills and Boon emulates precisely that of the developments in mass market publishing in Europe and America ; it may be an extreme but the dating of shifts in their ownership and distribution structure conforms to the major historical changes in the publishing industry . |