Example sentences of "be [adj] [subord] a " in BNC.
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| 1 | Cases of underlexicalisation are clear when a non-specific noun ( such as log ) is used to refer to something for which a specific word exists in English . |
| 2 | My letter to your Honour of the fifth January last being writ before the great events that are upon us now , would lead your judgement astray as to our progress in these fair Isles , for mighty Saturn threw his sinister shadow heavy upon me at that juncture and many untoward and grievous events had combined to cloud my spirits that now are light as a summer breeze again . |
| 3 | However , as Morison makes clear , their relevance to the British economy has always been doubtful because a large proportion of industrial imports enter free of duty , and membership of the European Community has limited their scope . |
| 4 | And here you are free as a bird , for once , provided you come back to your cage in time . |
| 5 | Assessments are straightforward when a child is subject to a care order and the local authority has sole responsibility for that child 's welfare . |
| 6 | The wave velocity so determined is related to the relevant elastic modulus by equations which are simple if a symmetry axis coincides with the direction of wave propagation , but more complex otherwise . |
| 7 | ‘ Rubbish , you 're strong as a harse , I tell you ! ’ |
| 8 | The only other time they 're paid compensation for loss of earnings , is when they 're sick as a result of an injury received on duty , you know Fire Brigade duty . |
| 9 | Swindon Town say they 're disappointed after a Football League Tribunal valued their former player manager Glen Hoddle at only seventy five thousand pounds , when they 'd hoped for a million . |
| 10 | Crocker expresses ‘ confusion ’ at the Thai conclusion that their positive samples could have been natural since a wide swath of the district was reported to have been sprayed with yellow rain . |
| 11 | Transfers are inevitable when a lawyer leaves the firm . |
| 12 | The questions are hard because a recombinational event may have no effect on the fitness of the individual in which it occurs , but only on what other genes a particular gene will associate with in future generations . |
| 13 | You are pretty as a picture and we would not want you drawing attention to yourself , would we ! ’ |
| 14 | the American stuff but when you 're arrested you are always arrested on suspicion because in this country you are innocent until a cou a court proves you 're i er guilty , yeah ? |
| 15 | They are present before a living organism takes up its physical form and suggest a potential state of the developing system . |
| 16 | ( I am blind as a bat without and contact lenses are too expensive and who do you think you are , you should be studying . ) |
| 17 | We can legitimately ask to what extent such personal qualities are important as a source of power within the public sector . |
| 18 | These figures are important because a central feature of the argument over local government reform was the size of authority required to carry out particular functions . |
| 19 | ‘ Would n't it be awful if a cat scratched your heart . ’ |
| 20 | bound to be , bound to be awful when a woman ca n't talk it must be terrible |
| 21 | A court that tries to decide as Parliament would have wished is more likely to be right than a court that follows the words believing it was not what Parliament intended . |
| 22 | Go on , Hepzibah , I 'm strong as a horse now and I could do with some air . ’ |
| 23 | Atkin LJ criticised the idea in Phillips v Britannia : " it would be strange if a less important duty which is owed to a section of the public may be enforced by an action , while a more important duty which is owed to the public at large can not be so enforced " . |
| 24 | In the story of Aladdin , his beloved is told that the wonderful palace he has got the genie of the lamp to build for her will only be complete if a roc 's egg is suspended from the dome , DC 3 . |
| 25 | This ceases to be possible where a document accepted as binding is bindingly interpreted by an external court . |
| 26 | In Derry , newly-elected SDLP councillor Jim Clifford said today his daughter was lucky to be alive after a brick was thrown through the front window of the family home . |
| 27 | It would be odd if a transaction were outside the section in all circumstances solely because it was governed by a foreign law even though , for instance , all the parties were in this country at all times . |
| 28 | Would n't it be refreshing if a new course were opened which simply claimed to be a lovely place for club players to play but that it would n't really test the pros . |
| 29 | The fact that the parents are doing their very best will be immaterial if a reasonable parent might be expected to do more . |
| 30 | It would seem to be doubtful whether a fall of this magnitude was commensurate with the effort put in by those who called for a boycott , that is , Provisional Sinn Fein , I RSP , Unity and Fathers Faul and Murray . |