Example sentences of "be [adj] [conj] a " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ Would n't it be awful if a cat scratched your heart . ’ |
| 2 | bound to be , bound to be awful when a woman ca n't talk it must be terrible |
| 3 | ‘ It can not be right that a tenant in Middlesbrough , where housing is cheap , pays more than a tenant in Camden , where costs are very much higher , where well-paid jobs are much easier to come by , and there is such a concentration of commercial facilities . ’ |
| 4 | It can not in our judgment be right that a judge can refuse to allow the prosecution to discontinue before their case is concluded if he believes the evidence already called raises a prima facie case . |
| 5 | 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 . |
| 6 | 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 " . |
| 7 | 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 . |
| 8 | This ceases to be possible where a document accepted as binding is bindingly interpreted by an external court . |
| 9 | However , this may not always be possible and a good list will be categorised in such a way that sections can be taken out and used as appropriate . |
| 10 | 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 . |
| 11 | The majority will be mobile but a few may require walking aids or wheelchairs . |
| 12 | 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 . |
| 13 | 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 . |
| 14 | There have been some impressive cases of increases in productivity , notably British Airways , British Leyland , and British Steel , which have shed workers , but it remains to be seen whether the improvement will be durable or a once-only case of firms shaking out the least efficient workers . |
| 15 | This might , for example , reveal that a child who appeared to be inattentive or a slow learner was in fact showing symptoms of specific learning difficulties ( e.g. dyslexia ) or a hearing impairment — possibly an intermittent one such as is associated with otitis media . |
| 16 | Though the existence of a variety of competing perspectives in sociology can sometimes be confusing and a little frustrating to the new student , he or she must recognise that there simply is no nice , neat package of ‘ sociology ’ which is universally accepted and which provides all the answers . |
| 17 | Yesterday 's statement said the funeral would be private and a memorial service would be held later . |
| 18 | Siemens Nixdorf 's biggest problem is that it is a combination of a company that was just about to go ex-growth with one that was already failing , so it very much needs any partner to be a firm seen to be strong and a winner : Hewlett-Packard and ICL presently best fit that profile . |
| 19 | The ultimate goal was the creation of an industry , originally funded by foreign investment , that would be self-sustaining and a major earner of foreign currency . |
| 20 | The fact that the parents are doing their very best will be immaterial if a reasonable parent might be expected to do more . |
| 21 | This is a time of tension when the stakes may be high and a future plan hangs by a thread . |
| 22 | 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 . |
| 23 | Sometimes the original number of volumes is found to be inconvenient and a work is compressed , and so that we can get ‘ four volumes in two ’ , ‘ eight volumes in four ’ , etc . |
| 24 | You want to be light and a good conductor of heat . |
| 25 | It would be different if a school was making parents feel morally obliged to find these extras for their children , but we do not . |
| 26 | The situation would of course be different if a method eventually became available whereby the sex of the offspring could be selected at conception . |
| 27 | The pursuit of the newsworthy , the move to more collective forms of journalism , and the ever-present desire to get copy into the papers , forces all journalists in one direction and towards that which will be interesting and a ‘ good read ’ . |
| 28 | It would also be interesting if a similar series of texts could be developed to provide chemists with more specialised or vocational understanding of other branches of chemistry , or even chemical economics or marketing . |
| 29 | Also [ WEA branch members ] have the reputation in official circles of being so ‘ dreadfully earnest ’ — more an indication of the frivolous attitude that all education must be made palatable to be consumable than a valid criticism of their activities . |
| 30 | The ideal would indeed be attainable if a self-contained system of imperatives could be re-established on foundations other than ‘ Be aware ’ . |