Example sentences of "[noun] be [adv] [adj] [adv] a " in BNC.
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| 1 | In any case , my wig is more that just a wig . |
| 2 | ‘ The All Blacks are inevitably nervous about a first Test at Christchurch , ’ added Fox . |
| 3 | When IBM 's AT ( the 286 based computer ) was launched in late 1984 , it ran at 8MHz , but it was n't long before faster and faster oscillator speeds were used — a 25MHz 286 based machine was quite common only a couple of years ago . |
| 4 | So you 're working out what your fractions are so forty over a hundred is four times ten lots of four over ten lots of ten . |
| 5 | Well three percent 's just three over a hundred . |
| 6 | Head of Department : ‘ Homework is now set once a week . |
| 7 | In each tribe , as we have seen , there were a number of coastal , a number of inland and a number of city demes , about sixteen councillors from each type going to make up a trittys ( only in the tribe to which Acharnai belonged was this system modified , because twenty-two out of fifty councillors is already well over a third ) . |
| 8 | The Education Reform Act 1988 has produced a degree of prescription and central control to which the government was apparently resistant only a couple of years before its enactment . |
| 9 | The Central Market clinic was only open twice a week and , in common with the entire public health service , medicines were almost non-existent . |
| 10 | Beep in the ear is so important just a second ago , because if we had this on , busy on the phone , and the next caller comes through , because it was my phone , those calls would go through to Hilary , so I would n't get a beep in the ear would I ? |
| 11 | If the input information is slightly ambiguous then a feature analyser would be confused and unable to deal with it , a pure feature analysis . |