Example sentences of "[verb] [adv] be a [adj] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ Ian , ’ she added suddenly , ‘ I 'm not going to go on being a poor typist to people I dislike and am frightened of . |
| 2 | Once again , the alteration which he and Ferguson made together was a long way from a major structural change . |
| 3 | I mean all the Scottish and the Welsh , I always remember when when erm when the first houses , when we lived , when I lived with me mother , and in that house we lived in was a big estate erm near us and erm ever such a lot of Welsh people lived there and , I do n't know who it was , somebody wanted a place , could n't get anywhere and my mother went up there with you let all the Welsh people come here he s she said they run us down and that was years and years ago she said , nearly everybody on that estate 's Welsh ourselves . |
| 4 | Erm yes , I mean if er er if er I mean obviously being a chartered accountant you 'll , you 'll know where to invest it but I mean wh wh what sort of return would you expect er her to get on say a , a three hundred thousand investment ? |
| 5 | Without doubt the water the brood fish are placed in is a vital factor in obtaining a spawning . |
| 6 | Research has shown that having someone to talk to and confide in is an important factor in preventing depression . |
| 7 | Drugs and hypnosis were all very well as tools for coping with the hormonal storms caused by the superhuman organs his body housed ; but what he must attain swiftly was a superhuman mind which could command the body to fight on irrespective of injury . |
| 8 | Now opera has rarely been a naturalistic medium , and never an understated one . |
| 9 | There has rarely been a clearer example of the extent to which a Conservative leader sets the keynote for the party the extent to which it is moulded round its leader . |
| 10 | The last two summers have been very hot and dry , although this summer has luckily been a great deal better . |
| 11 | The citadel is not open to visitors , but the hill it stands on is a good spot to zigzag your way up to , to look out over the town , the river and its basin , and the valleys that go off from it north , south , east and west . |
| 12 | There has obviously been a conscious decision and determination on his part to make his life a fulfilment of prophetic utterance . |
| 13 | Beyond this , however , its origin has hitherto been an insoluble problem : the explicit evidence of the ancients is notoriously inadequate and various different theories have been constructed from it . |
| 14 | The Treaty brings about the formal transformation of what has hitherto been an Economic Community into a Union which is mandated to act in many areas on behalf of its own citizens , and to claim their allegiance . |
| 15 | It has all been a fantastic myth exploded by grim reality . |
| 16 | Kate Greenaway has long been a firm favourite among collectors who will pay £2,000-£3,000 for a collection of her Almanacks and £30-£50 for most single specimens . |
| 17 | The numbers of acute beds that a service needs has long been a contentious issue . |
| 18 | The examination system has long been a serious bone of contention in this country . |
| 19 | Transport of raw materials for energy use has long been a major sector in marine commerce but coal in particular has been the dominant single energy cargo . |
| 20 | ICI has long been a major supplier of surfactants , which are the active ingredient in detergents . |
| 21 | However , the escape from spontaneity has long been a philosophical ideal , at its most intransigent in Sartre 's Being and nothingness , which treats even emotion as a matter of choice , to the point of denying the distinction between genuine and willed feeling . |
| 22 | ( The Thatcher mug has long been a best seller . ) |
| 23 | D Goldstein of Staravia Ltd , Ascot , who has long been a good friend of the aircraft preservation movement , offered a range of instruments . |
| 24 | Whereas Mr Orlando has long been a troublesome hero for his party , Mr Segni does not look like a troublemaker . |
| 25 | This , too , is unlikely , for Mr Morita has long been a noisy critic of America and was saying nothing new . |
| 26 | While DEC Europe has long been a strong advocate for X.desktop , DEC US originally opted for the rival Visix Looking Glass product ( UX No 306 ) , and more recently began evaluating HP 's Visual User Environment ( UX No 377 ) . |
| 27 | There has long been a hidden agenda in foreign language teaching which included the notion that the ultimate aim was to create bilinguals in the foreign and mother tongues . |
| 28 | The mere business of shifting passengers has long been a dreary distraction . |
| 29 | The University has long been a leading centre for research in this field , and just over a year ago Edinburgh Parallel Computing Centre ( EPCC ) was established to focus further on these issues . |
| 30 | Non-evaluative criticism , as propounded by the successive Merton professors , Gardner and Carey , has long been a popular ideal at Oxford . |