Example sentences of "[adv] be [verb] a [adj] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | He had perhaps been expecting a tougher comment and he hunched his shoulders , muttering suspiciously , ‘ I have n't got no religion . ’ |
| 2 | Cow 's milk allergy has hitherto been considered a temporary condition that improves or disappears with age . |
| 3 | Following the October general election , John Malecela , a former high commissioner to the United Kingdom , was appointed Prime Minister on Nov. 8 , replacing Joseph Warioba , who had hitherto been considered an eventual successor to President Ali Hassan Mwinyi . |
| 4 | The Russian panslavist press had long been advocating a Franco-Russian alliance and in November 1887 Bismarck had forbidden the Reichsbank to float a Russian loan . |
| 5 | The divine has long been made an intimate participant in male experiences of violence , in war and in political martyrdom . |
| 6 | Histamine has long been considered a putative mediator of the gastric acid secretory response to ethanol . |
| 7 | Since Dysart too had been to Oxford , it was possible that by taking Morpurgo on at Tyler 's Hard he had merely been doing an old chum a favour . |
| 8 | Them alone are werf a small fortune . |
| 9 | This whole question is of importance not only because it was so central to Engels 's book but also because The Origin has rightly been considered a major contribution to the feminist tradition . |
| 10 | Two or three years later he might suddenly be appointed a full-time magistrate , even though by that time he had probably forgotten all of the law which he had learnt . |
| 11 | Certain ones of them , for instance the Brazilians may not be taking an awful lot of notice , or may not apparently be taking an awful lot of notice at the moment , but I think the pressure is on , and that things are changing , and more and more countries are going towards policies that will in fact support , sustained yield production and timber from the forests , and the reservation of the forests for that purpose , erm I mean in many countries have a policy where they just let tribal institutes use the raw material , and the forest is not reserved , and it 's not looked after . |
| 12 | I have suggested that a meaningful way to set the limits as to what may rightly be called a Christian position , is that Christians are those who proclaim Jesus to have been unique . |
| 13 | For take-off the tail should only be raised a small amount . |
| 14 | With the current boom in interest in opera , though , this disc enters a very competitive field indeed and so , once again , can only be given a general recommendation . |
| 15 | It could only be given a new lease of life by grounding its themes in a transformed image of a much more efficient , modernised , client-centred public sector , to which Labour has not yet seriously directed itself . |
| 16 | Our limited ambition can , therefore , only be to sustain a reasonable quality of life for ourselves and for those animals that serve us . |
| 17 | Each of the five judgments rambles over the territory in what can only be called a head-scratching way , making it impossible for the consumer of the judgment to know at the end just what the law is held to be , except negatively , and then only negatively on a few points . |
| 18 | Modern refining techniques mean that for every barrel of crude oil refined , there will be a split between diesel and petrol fuels that can only be varied a small amount . |
| 19 | Although they are mainly what would be called consolidating enactments in British practice , one which may perhaps be considered a genuine code is the regulation bringing together all the various Community rules on customs matters , in effect a Community Customs Code , on which the Council adopted a common position on 14 May 1992 . |
| 20 | This meant that people were no longer willing to put up with unsatisfactory Church officials ; laymen especially were developing a personal spirituality which gave them a new confidence and commitment to their faith and which also enabled them to form an independent view of theology and Church organisation ; they no longer had to rely on the educated establishment . |
| 21 | 6 The shape below is called a triangular prism . |
| 22 | For George Eliot , as for Dickens in the case of Chesney Wold , to stand outside and look in is to perceive a perfect picture ; to stand within and look out is to experience a moral chill . |
| 23 | What would be helpful perhaps is to have a close relationship with a mother-type figure who is not your mother . |
| 24 | So is having a good time . |
| 25 | Not only is starting a new career in accounting , but he is also a lead singer in a group called ‘ Cellardwellers ’ and will be starting a tour of 30 dates this summer , including Hamburg and America . |
| 26 | For since , just as in any conventionally organised manufacturing enterprise , capital employed labour , its first priority naturally and necessarily was to secure a sufficient return for the investors on their investment . |
| 27 | In many ways this was a sensible policy since even if Danzig had not been made a Free City and had remained within the long arm of Prussia , the local economy was too poor to maintain it for long ; a German Danzig would still have been forced to rely upon a distant Vistula hinterland . |
| 28 | Perhaps if he had not been created a cardinal deacon he would have stayed in Bologna longer . |
| 29 | Unmet need was said to exist where there was a care option which had not been given a recent trial and had not been recently refused by the client . |
| 30 | Broadly , the survey confirmed that parents of children with special needs had not been given a real choice of placement , and that they had to fight hard for mainstream provision if this was their choice . |