Example sentences of "be a [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The Messiah of Aaron , descended from Israel 's first high priest in the Old Testament , would be a priestly figure , an ‘ Interpreter of the Law ’ who would preside over the people 's spiritual life . |
| 2 | It would be a sensuous pleasure as great as landing a pike . |
| 3 | Did n't you ever think it might be a shabby move lifting it off the album — a lot of people have mentioned this to me . |
| 4 | Financial pressure plus isolation can be a deadly cocktail for a sector of society which has by the nature of its calling ready access to the means of self-destruction . |
| 5 | Financial pressure plus isolation can be a deadly cocktail for a sector of society which has by the nature of its calling ready access to the means of self-destruction . |
| 6 | It 's supposed to be a deadly secret . ’ |
| 7 | He can be a deadly enemy ; keep him there in imagination . |
| 8 | Ecclesiastical wealth could be a sore temptation , and in his youth Æthelred misappropriated ( in their view ) the lands of several churches . |
| 9 | It was getting to be a sore point . |
| 10 | 4 There is to be a twenty-year ban on novels set in Oxford or Cambridge , and a ten-year ban on other university fiction . |
| 11 | 10 There shall be a twenty-year ban on God ; or rather , on the allegorical , metaphorical , allusive , offstage , imprecise and ambiguous uses of God . |
| 12 | Strange he thought , there seems to be a current fad around about dinosaurs , there was one on top of a bottle of bath oil one of his grandsons had given to him for Christmas and another was perched on the handle of a nail brush in the bathroom . |
| 13 | This need not be a current date and therefore future changes can be made in advance . |
| 14 | Distributed at present in Kenya , Uganda and Zimbabwe , it aims to be a pan-African magazine , appealing to a general readership . |
| 15 | It was not simply a matter of switching the definitions of crime from what the working class do to what the capitalist class do ( that would merely be a transitional strategy ) ; in the socialist society both upper- and lower-class crime would disappear since there would be ‘ a set of social arrangements in which there would be no politically , economically and socially-induced need to criminalise deviance ’ ( Taylor , Walton and Young , 1973 , p. 270 ) . |
| 16 | But then this feels as if it may be a transitional volume , presaging the larger-scale fiction in which Tolstaya should surely be spreading her brilliant wings . |
| 17 | There will be a transitional period , details of which have yet to be released , during which the amount of the repayment within an accounting period will be reduced . |
| 18 | The guidelines took effect on 1 August , but there will be a transitional period for the sake of students and members who began their pre- or post-qualification training before that date . |
| 19 | He said that the Scottish transport scheme should be wound up and that there should be a transitional period to ensure continuity of pension provision and that employees are to be allowed to remain in TOPS for a limited period . |
| 20 | Under the Aug. 3 agreement , there would be a transitional period extending to 1995 , during which the Black Sea Fleet would be removed from Commonwealth of Independent States ( CIS ) joint armed forces and " placed under the direct jurisdiction of the Russian Federation and of Ukraine " . |
| 21 | Their enthusiasm for the gangster film was in part a hope that it would be a transitional form and not an atrophied and unchanging product . |
| 22 | Not that I mean it to be a breathless race , but rather that I somehow do n't see life in an ordinary manner , not even this sere and monotonous existence in Africa ; granted , it browns me off sometimes , but I do pretty well on the whole ; and if I can still enjoy this incredibly austere and disciplined life , how much more shall we not enjoy life together ? |
| 23 | But many workers found their enslavement to be a virtual death sentence . |
| 24 | Iwerks Entertainment Inc , a Burbank , California company that includes Sun Microsystems Inc among its backers , says it plans to open movie park entertainment centres that will combine large-screen formats , simulation and virtual reality technologies to create a futuristic cinematic city : it plans to open the first Cinetropolis in August at the Foxwoods Casino in Ledyard , Connecticut , and has also signed an agreement with the Japanese trading firm Itochu Corp to launch a network of Cinetropolises throughout the Far East and Asia ; Cinetropolis will be a virtual city of cinemas featuring five separate sites : an Iwerks Video 360 circular theatre an Iwerks 870 giant screen theatre , an Iwerks Virtual Reality simulation theatre , and a live performance theatre , all built around a street scene featuring bars , restaurants , retail stores and promotional marketing space . |
| 25 | Bill Clinton 's advisors gathered at the White House to face yet another foreign policy challenge , proposing the use of U S naval power to enforce sanctions against Haiti and at the United Nations , U S diplomats were pressing for what would be a virtual blockade of the island . |
| 26 | With and Malcolm not really firing for Derbyshire , I should n't think Lawrence would be a virtual certainty for the winter team . |
| 27 | Similarly , there is nothing intrinsically right about Farmer and Parker 's typology of children affected ; it merely seems to be a revealing distinction . |
| 28 | The analysis has also shown that the level of formality used by a character in conversation with other characters may be a revealing area of study in determining a character 's sense of his or her own power and confidence in a given conversational situation . |
| 29 | He had turned out to be a lame duck and limped out of her life . |
| 30 | ‘ Do n't be a stupid girl , Katherine . |