Example sentences of "[adj] [be] [adv] a [noun sg] [vb pp] " in BNC.
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| 1 | 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 . |
| 2 | This is not a technique restricted to India . |
| 3 | This is not a book written in a superior know-it-all way . |
| 4 | 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 . |
| 5 | This is n't a crisis caused by the fear of the French voting Non in next Sunday 's referendum . |
| 6 | 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 . |
| 7 | This was probably a man called Michael Sidnell , from Bristol , who had carved a memorial tablet in Alderly Church in 1732 , and had later gone on to make designs for the court-house at Westbury on Severn . |
| 8 | I can remember as a boy walking to Rochester via the ferry and Wouldham on many occasions but this was only a stroll compared with some of the older inhabitants efforts . |
| 9 | This was once a world reserved for specialists . |
| 10 | This was originally a flexiblestrip used by railwaymen to get smooth curves when laying railway lines . |
| 11 | Indeed , the national is often a concept used deliberately to conceal conflict over the issues , to force one kind of unity around an existing status quo ( and if the arguments do not achieve unity , troops can be used to enforce it on the recalcitrants ) . |
| 12 | No-one , for example , has ever seen a ‘ three ’ ; the symbol 3 is just a shorthand devised by man . |
| 13 | It is not impossible that S 985 is simply a forgery concocted by Eadui to protect his church from the demands of royal officials . |
| 14 | Am I being told that the law of England is so deficient that , if one assaults a person by driving a car at them to the danger of that person 's life or property — whether or not one damages either — that is not a crime known to the common law of England , and would it not attract the most condign penalties ? |
| 15 | But that is not a view held by those who lack the imagination to enter into the hearts and minds of others , and to do to them as they would be done by ; among them the then Home Secretary and the then Lord Chief Justice . |
| 16 | No , that 's just a thing attached |
| 17 | That 's just a label used by the Tories . ’ |
| 18 | Erm I think that 's possibly a term called allocation . |
| 19 | ‘ That was simply a letter delivered at the gate just before dusk . |
| 20 | I mean that was always a milkman used , there used to be er James was one of the milkmen down Palfrey , he used to come . |
| 21 | As for the argument that money would follow patients and so make it possible for hospitals to treat more of them , that was always a non-starter given that the total amount of cash available to purchasers was not going to be increased . |