Example sentences of "[verb] be [adv] [vb pp] a [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Scarborough seaman John Normandale has been posthumously awarded a Russian Convoy Medal in recognition of his bravery during the Second World War . |
| 2 | Fielding , Amis once remarked , showed that fiction can uphold a moral seriousness ‘ without evangelical puffing and blowing ’ ; his Take a Girl Like You ( 1960 ) has been aptly called a modernised replay of Richardson 's Pamela ; and when asked by a journalist which of the great novelists of the past he felt the closest affinity with , he replied reverently : ‘ With Fielding , though it seems a gross impertinence … ’ . |
| 3 | St Catherine 's Dock was busy as a Hogarth etching and smelt as if something should have been quietly buried a long time ago . |
| 4 | Whereas , however , Walton 's brilliant , if imaginative , Life of Herbert was published not long after the poet 's death , the manuscript of the somewhat pedestrian Life of Ferrar by his brother John was lost ; transcripts of parts of it which survived were only published a 150 years after his death ; Nicholas Ferrar 's wide popularity is quite recent . |
| 5 | A MAN who refused to speak for several days after being arrested was yesterday given a 12-month conditional discharge . |
| 6 | The items taken were later given a conservative value of £1,420 by an auctioneer . |
| 7 | The space where the flowers had been soon became a thriving mass of weeds . |
| 8 | For instance , a workman may be injured by a chip of metal flying off a hammer which had been negligently manufactured a long time before . |
| 9 | The extent and variety of these activities are astonishing , but while almost everyone is aware of them , and although the majority of us fiddle in one way or another , fiddling is generally considered a trivial activity without serious implications . |