Example sentences of "[be] [adv] an " in BNC.
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| 1 | But , put in a few pages at the end of chapters , they are rather an ‘ add-on ’ . |
| 2 | We are rather an old congregation , there 's no doubt about it , apart from the here . |
| 3 | Possums are mostly an annoyance for co-workers , who learn not to rely on them . |
| 4 | Earlier in 1973 , the matches against the New Zealanders had been rather an anti-climax to their tour , with the second spoiled by rain , but no one doubted that they were now a permanent addition to the summer . |
| 5 | It had been rather an expensive one as he had gone for a fleecy-lined designer number with flashes of blue , to match his eyes , on the shoulders and down the legs . |
| 6 | However , the American evidence suggests that this growing familiarity with APRs has been rather an abstract affair . |
| 7 | PEUGEOT cordless drills are obviously an attractive prize as our wordsearch competition ( WW/Nov.91/p.1143 ) brought a pile of correct answers into the Woodworker office . |
| 8 | The policy has been only an equivocal success . |
| 9 | She had thought herself in love , but it had been only an infatuation , the awakening response of a young , impressionable girl . |
| 10 | The initial punishment for the four securities houses had been only an instruction to refrain from certain securities transactions for four days . |
| 11 | Firstly TBDFs are basically an extension across borders of a phenomenon which in the 1980S expanded dramatically at national level . |
| 12 | It also follows from Parsons 's argument that there is a general belief that stratification systems are just , right and proper , since they are basically an expression of shared values . |
| 13 | They police waterways , clean coastlines , help ships in trouble , and are basically an integral part of international co-operation and patrol . |
| 14 | I am only an interpreter of what 's going down with my generation . ’ |
| 15 | When I want to find myself in the dream of the New Look , I have to reconstruct the picture , look down at my sandals and the hem of my dress , for in the dream itself I am only an eye , watching . |
| 16 | This motivated dealers more than a previously introduced incentive to sell PEPS which had been merely an increase in dealers ' OTC takeback allowance . |
| 17 | The current serious cut-backs in adult education and the social services due to economic difficulties are perhaps an indication that the Church should step in to make available its local resources in building plant and volunteer personnel . |
| 18 | I am merely an ordinary man . |
| 19 | For example , it is possible that clinical cases are only an extreme form of a normal reaction to the short winter days . |
| 20 | The times are only an indication of when results are due . |
| 21 | Numbers are very small , and of course tabular data are only an extremely crude summary of a very complex range of feelings ; however ( excluding those whose attitudes were not known or impossible to summarise ) , it appears that three carers in the action samples felt the strain had lightened , four that it had remained the same and five that it had worsened . |
| 22 | In fact , its sense organs and body are only an outward expression of this inward patterning , which we call instinct . |
| 23 | When wet nights are only an occasional problem try and see whether there is any pattern . |
| 24 | But even if you do have to pretend , just this once , that you are only an ordinary tourist , that trip will live in your memory , even if it is n't entered in your log-book . |
| 25 | ‘ They are only an average valleys side who change in the pub , ’ he chuckles . |
| 26 | The insects are only an annoyance on the rare days when there is n't a breeze blowing , and are more than compensated for by the wealth of bird life in the area And it is not only birds . |
| 27 | To the West are the rugged moors of Brontë Country , and the magnificent Dales and Peaks are only an hour 's drive away . |
| 28 | While the negotiability of international bills of exchange was recognized as early as 1603 , and of domestic bills less than a hundred years later , Chief Justice Holt refused to extend the principle to promissory notes , which ‘ are only an invention of the goldsmiths in Lombard Street , who had a mind to make a law to bind all those that did deal with them ’ . |
| 29 | Even the National Front are only an extension of a marked allegiance to patriotism , authority and the Government . |
| 30 | Wedding bells are merely an incidental punctuation in a life which will already be committed to career , aerobic class and the occasional night with the lasses . |