Example sentences of "[adj] [be] [adv] a [noun sg] [verb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Less than this is probably a self limiting viral throat . |
| 2 | If you think of a less developed country , you might find some big industry , this is just a way to divide the . |
| 3 | 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 . |
| 4 | but that 's in Aran and this is just a double knit but |
| 5 | 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 . |
| 6 | This is just an actor playing a part . |
| 7 | 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 . |
| 8 | A more aggressive attitude , of course , might counsel strategic acquisition and this is clearly an approach favoured by such major European publishers as the Maxwell Communications Corporation , Bertlesmann , Hachette and others . |
| 9 | This is principally a path following a narrow undulating ledge which runs across the northern face of Pillar . |
| 10 | This is quite a lot to achieve with a single process . |
| 11 | 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 . |
| 12 | 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 * ; |
| 13 | The Young King had been pressing for permission to go on a pilgrimage to Compostella but Henry II , believing that this was just an excuse to get away from his watchful eye , had instead ordered him to help suppress the rebellion in Aquitaine . |
| 14 | 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 . |
| 15 | Some of the crowd attempted to strike up with ‘ We shall overcome ’ but they were interrupted by a police loudspeaker announcement , which was shouted down ; this was probably an order to disperse but very few could have heard it . |
| 16 | This was primarily an attempt to deal with synonyms which can not be conflated by a rule-based stemming procedure . |
| 17 | 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 . |
| 18 | This was usually a person undergoing great emotional strain , such as a girl experiencing a particularly traumatic puberty . |
| 19 | On the western side this was always an area characterised by a militancy which is presumably going out of fashion now too . |
| 20 | This was once a world reserved for specialists . |
| 21 | This was originally a flexiblestrip used by railwaymen to get smooth curves when laying railway lines . |
| 22 | Perhaps this was merely a ruse to trick them into a crossing at Forteviot . |
| 23 | In effect , this was merely an attempt to generalise the agreement reached in Bedfordshire in 1930 , although the criterion adopted then was not based on population size of centres but on local government boundaries , a much more advantageous position for the District , than the 1938 proposal . |
| 24 | 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 ) . |
| 25 | These was also an attempt to devise joint one-term units , e.g. where a philosopher and a sociologist would run the course between them . |
| 26 | No-one , for example , has ever seen a ‘ three ’ ; the symbol 3 is just a shorthand devised by man . |
| 27 | It is not impossible that S 985 is simply a forgery concocted by Eadui to protect his church from the demands of royal officials . |
| 28 | For example , a few of the sub-divisions of -07 are Thus a publication dealing with experimental research in foundation engineering would be classified 624.150724 if the librarian felt that such a fine classification was necessary . |
| 29 | For instance , sometimes the Profitboss will disagree with a decision made by his boss ; but that 's rarely a reason to resign . |
| 30 | Erm , so that 's just a question to ask when you next come to erm this passage . |