Example sentences of "[adj] [be] [adv] a [noun sg] [verb] " in BNC.

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1 This is when a phrase finishes on the second ( or weak ) and not on the first or third beat of a final bar .
2 This is not a problem reserved for eventers or endurance horses , this can and does frequently occur in unfit animals used excessively in the summer .
3 This is not a problem confronting policemen .
4 This is not a call to glorify suffering for its own sake , but to realize that nothing can separate us from the love of Christ , whatever it may be .
5 This is not a technique restricted to India .
6 This is not a scholar emerging into the world .
7 This is not a reason to avoid them for drama more than any other activity in school can help children find a mature approach to such topics .
8 This is not a book written in a superior know-it-all way .
9 As this is not a book dedicated only to twentieth-century harmony , it is important not to get too involved in lengthy harmonic discussions .
10 Ah , are you suggesting that , that you have a system of requesting a yellow plastic wallet from , sorry this is not a suggestion to do with the procedures anyway .
11 This is not a diet to do in a hurry and it is certainly not a crash diet .
12 This is not a diet to launch into as soon as you have finished reading about it .
13 This is not a failure to understand resulting from the difficulty of the material , but from attention being on matters other than the content of the text .
14 This is not a party dominated by technocrats who have fearlessly built great industries , but ‘ Increasingly politicians without a great deal of first-hand experience of the world outside politics are running the country , including the economy , in conjunction with civil servants who similarly lack first-hand experience of the world outside politics , ’ Anthony King noted as long ago as 1981 .
15 As with other tax allowances , this is not a cash benefit that can be claimed at the post office .
16 This is not a definition coined by an educationalist .
17 Less than this is probably a self limiting viral throat .
18 Those ‘ nasty ’ questions concern sex or money and this is where a biographer treads on delicate ground .
19 If you think of a less developed country , you might find some big industry , this is just a way to divide the .
20 Also Tore-Andre Flo — the young brother of Jostein Flo is supposed to train for a week or two at Sheff Utd ; but this is just a training stay — nothing to do with Sheff Utd offering him a contract or so .
21 but that 's in Aran and this is just a double knit but
22 Instrumental theorists ultimately conclude that while the state may have a degree of political neutrality , this is just a sham to mask the dominance of the state by the interests of the dominant class .
23 This is n't a crisis caused by the fear of the French voting Non in next Sunday 's referendum .
24 This is also a belief held by my squad and so , neck-high in wallop , come three o'clock we were eleven hangovers in search of a kick around .
25 This is principally a path following a narrow undulating ledge which runs across the northern face of Pillar .
26 This is quite a lot to achieve with a single process .
27 The first half is a conventional ‘ this is how a computer works ’ book explaining concepts such as binary numbers and punched cards at a secondary school level .
28 I know climbers are not always the most considerate of folks , but this is definitely a place to adopt a ‘ softly softly ’ approach , even if you are finding your chosen route a little hard going .
29 The most common example of correction-praise going wrong is where a dog runs off and refuses to come back , either rabbiting or playing with other dogs .
30 Person 2 would certainly not pay the higher price necessary to induce a competitive supplier to expand production beyond the output Q. Person 2 is thus a free-rider enjoying person 1 's purchase Q. And the total quantity privately produced and consumed in a competitive market lies below the socially efficient quantity Q * ;
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