Example sentences of "be [art] [adj] [conj] a " in BNC.
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1 | 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 . |
2 | The whole area of Clacton always seems to be a tidy and a very pleasant town to visit . |
3 | 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 . |
4 | 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 . |
5 | 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 . |
6 | 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 . |
7 | However , two of the First Class singles illustrated seem to be a late or a second printing . |
8 | Or is it OK by you to be a Nazi and a Madness fan ? |
9 | Should it be a historical or an anthropological science ? |
10 | It may be a direct or an indirect restraint or it may be contained in an agreement outside the primary contract between the parties . |
11 | ‘ Rather be a tart than a Gallegan . ’ |
12 | Oh , well , I say I 'm on early but I will be , I could be an early or a late . |
13 | 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 ’ . |
14 | 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 . |