Example sentences of "[adj] [be] [adv] a [noun sg] [vb pp] " in BNC.
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1 | 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 . |
2 | 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 . |
3 | 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 . |
4 | This was once a world reserved for specialists . |
5 | This was originally a flexiblestrip used by railwaymen to get smooth curves when laying railway lines . |
6 | 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 ) . |
7 | No-one , for example , has ever seen a ‘ three ’ ; the symbol 3 is just a shorthand devised by man . |
8 | It is not impossible that S 985 is simply a forgery concocted by Eadui to protect his church from the demands of royal officials . |
9 | No , that 's just a thing attached |
10 | That 's just a label used by the Tories . ’ |
11 | Erm I think that 's possibly a term called allocation . |
12 | ‘ That was simply a letter delivered at the gate just before dusk . |
13 | 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 . |
14 | 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 . |