Example sentences of "[noun] be [prep] [adv] a [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ Georgina 's in quite a state , underneath the armour-plated shell . |
| 2 | The march might be a girdle of lawless palatines , only elusively within reach of the King 's justice , but the shadow of royal displeasure was at least a curb there ; but Gwynedd , though it formerly owned Henry as suzerain , was a free principality , and could harbour runaways and make short work of captured felons with impunity . |
| 3 | One important direction of expansion was southward into the Altai-Sayan mountain region on the border of Mongolia , where the Russian town of Kuznetsk was for long an outpost threatened from west , south and east by the ‘ White Kalmyksn ( Teleuts and other Altaian tribes ) , the Oirats or western Mongols , and the Chinese . |
| 4 | Analyte affinity constants of antibodies are at least an order of magnitude greater than those of enzymes , so much higher sensitivity is possible , but it is difficult to extract a detectable signal from the binding event . |
| 5 | Although 20 per cent go out into the country once a week , the study showed that less than half of the population are monthly visitors and 80 per cent of visits are for only a day or less . |
| 6 | Place it right on the edge so that the next step below the bottom is at least a couple of stories down , because even moderately sloping sections of a mountain goat cliff may have forbidding dropoffs at the base . |
| 7 | Bernard Ellis and his wife Megan are among only a handful of people in the world capable of making the reproductions . |
| 8 | ‘ Joan , ’ he said , ‘ this meeting is at once a joy and a sorrow . ’ |
| 9 | Treleaven was until recently a pipe fitter . |
| 10 | In this case he clearly decided that the sampo was at once a thing and an allegory , like the Silmarils : a jewel , bright , hypnotic , intrinsically valuable , but also the quintessence of the creative powers , provoking both good and evil , the maker 's personality itself . |
| 11 | Readers will note that the rest of this book will sometimes raise more questions than it answers , but they will , I hope , agree that raising questions is at least a step towards providing answers and solving problems . |
| 12 | Such a photon is in rather a quandary . |
| 13 | Their philosophical idealism was at once a retreat from the material world of unruly mobs and declining privilege and a programme for maintaining their position while accommodating some change : ‘ Socratic political thought was an intellectually sophisticated and ingenious justification for counter-revolution in democracy and the maintenance of the status quo in oligarchy ’ ( ibid. p. 4 ) . |
| 14 | There was not far to walk , the formal procession to the gallows being by then a thing of the past . |
| 15 | At the moment nuclear power stations ca n't be turned up and down to meet fluctuations and demand , and the fluctuation from the morning and afternoon peak demand to the middle of the night trough in demand is at least a factor of two to one , but nuclear power stations can not be turned up and down to match that . |
| 16 | Born , apparently , in 1890 in Nghe An province of central Vietnam , Ho 's father was at least an acquaintance if not friend of the veteran nationalist Phan Boi Chau . |
| 17 | Eliot instances the activities of Dyak headhunters the production of whose carvings is at once a task utilitarian and sacred . |
| 18 | He took her arm firmly and Jenna was in quite a dilemma . |
| 19 | Terry Castle suggests that for these poets the mirror was at once an emblem of the psyche and the symbol of an alternative world : ‘ … the mirror image both distilled a longing for purity and expressed a desire for escape … ’ |
| 20 | Most courses are at least a smile long , so your horse should be fit — he should be able to complete a five minute strong canter without showing signs of distress . |
| 21 | It is that Science is for ever a Search , never really a finding , it is a journey , never really an arrival . |
| 22 | Homoeopathy is about why a remedy is given , not what is given . |
| 23 | ‘ My guess is at least a couple of thousand . ’ |
| 24 | The strong , active , lithe bodies of her women are at least an improvement on the passive and fragile looking beauties of the Pre-Raphaelites . |
| 25 | For instance , in the very first passage it gives a much better explanation of what all the excitement is about when a messenger arrives hotfoot telling of the habitual ‘ skirmish of wit ’ between Beatrice and Benedict provides the comedy with its starting-point , as in the play itself . |
| 26 | He remains a major shareholder , but his shares are worth only a fraction of their '84 value . |
| 27 | The metaphysical construction of subjectivity is at once an admission and production of its disruptive potential , a disruption in and of the very terms of its construction . |
| 28 | In Amalgamemnon story-telling in the future tense is at once a reassertion of individual creativity and a counter-attack on the discourses of the media which ignore the fictionality of the material they present and the conventions which are at its source . |
| 29 | John was by then an adult , of course , aged about thirty , and also a married man . |
| 30 | Jacqui was in quite a state . |