Example sentences of "be [adj] [is] a " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ The idea that all people involved in espionage are rich is a myth . |
| 2 | Yeah here you are this is a good one , calcium carbine bomb . |
| 3 | No , you 're this is a new one . |
| 4 | the news you 're overdue Is a bolt |
| 5 | You should be feeling confident , bold and assertive now making this an ideal time for meeting your boss or bank manager and getting support for a new idea , concept or venture that you 're sure is a winner . |
| 6 | If it is true that Socrates ( during the relevant period of his life ) is bald , then to say that this could have been false is a contradiction in terms . |
| 7 | you see salesmanship is applying psychology , you know , and a lot of people , I mean , wha the reason why insurance companies are justified is a lot of people are protected by it , you know . |
| 8 | Making sure that the flying lines are equal is a good start to perfecting the symmetry of all your manoeuvres . |
| 9 | You 've made very powerfully erm and I 'm that 's a point that we 'll take on board . |
| 10 | Whether the law should be this is a moot point . |
| 11 | Such hotness will be almost imperceptible to those who eat chilli every day , and the notion that Thai food must sear the mouth to be authentic is a misunderstanding . |
| 12 | Whatever is felt to be abnormal is a source of anxiety . |
| 13 | I was German and that 's a crime , and to be Jewish is a terrible thing . |
| 14 | Another approach that may be useful is a hybrid method . |
| 15 | A meal when everybody can be present is a good time for such a family talk and get-together . |
| 16 | Detention of a person presumed to be innocent is a serious matter . |
| 17 | Why space-time should be four-dimensional is a question that is normally considered to be outside the realm of physics . |
| 18 | A capacity to adapt and be flexible is a definite asset . |
| 19 | To be beautiful is a responsibility . |
| 20 | For some people the ambition to be liked and to be successful is a contradictory objective . |
| 21 | This global negative self-statement brings emotional distress which is intensified and maintained by Automatic Thought 2 ‘ that to be distressed is a sign of weakness ’ . |
| 22 | ‘ To be psychic is a blessing ? |
| 23 | If you have HIV and are well , the only change which may be necessary is a regular visit to the clinic or hospital for a health check . |
| 24 | No they 're just two standard stores , one 's twenty five thousand square feet in Yeovil which as you will be aware is a market town with a fairly wide catchment area and in Cardiff which where we 're opposite Marks and Spencers on an out-of-town development so they 're just two stores virtually picked because they were ready to open |
| 25 | As Barro points out , the only quantity rule which does not carry with it the implication that at times buyers and sellers will , at the price set , trade a quantity of the good they consider in advance to be sub-optimal is a rule which sets output equal to the value it would take in the absence of any unanticipated disturbances ; that is , y n . |
| 26 | And if you go up from Bristol on from here you go up the motorway to Bristol and then you go along the M four to London well north of Bristol , up where the River Severn gets quite narrow and can be bridged is a city called Gloucester and Cheltenham is just inland from Gloucester . |
| 27 | The crux of the matter is that while one can accept the proposition that judicial labels often express a conclusion already reached , rather than dictate the result which should be arrived at , to infer that therefore the type of labels that we use are irrelevant is a non sequitur . |
| 28 | My reason for dwelling at some length on this matter of accuracy and acquisition is that the assumption that they are identical is a corner-stone to the whole edifice of a theory recently propounded which claims to provide a solution to the problems of language teaching which have plagued us for so long . |
| 29 | Being pregnant is a wonderful , life-shaping , sometimes terrifying experience — as you told us in How Does It Feel ? on page 10 . |
| 30 | This means that for certain prey being conspicuous is a constant risk and not one worth taking . |