Example sentences of "[adv] be [prep] a [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | To open up a situation , to broaden thinking which has hitherto been from a limited viewpoint . |
| 2 | Our work so far has obviously only been of a preliminary nature , but even so it is clear that there are many strands in the concept of participation and public involvement in decision-making related to novel energy systems . |
| 3 | SINBAD has been cleaning the windows in Channel 4 's Brookside since 1984 , although he has only been on a regular contract for the last two years . |
| 4 | Once seated , Denice tells us she 's only been on a blind date once before , and that was years ago . |
| 5 | ‘ He had long been in a bad state of health , which he took no care to repair but on the contrary lived in such a manner as greatly promoted the disorders he had had long upon him , this brought on the Flux which put a period to his life ’ ( Cook ) . |
| 6 | He said he had thought they had all been fighting on the German side because they had all been under a German commander when surrendering . |
| 7 | The coeliac patients were originally diagnosed according to the procedure recommended by the European Society for Paediatric Gastroenterology and Nutrition and had all been on a complete gluten free diet for at least five years and did not present symptoms indicative of active disease . |
| 8 | Governments , military strategists , thousands of scientists , millions of dollars of time and research budgets have all been on a wild goose chase . |
| 9 | She 's obviously been under a tremendous strain over the last few months and she needs my help . ’ |
| 10 | When the amount of pausing drops below what it would naturally be for a given speaker in a particular situation , the number of errors which the speaker makes increases . |
| 11 | Er sometimes that has been known and it would be right to , for a youngster to sort of through their mother and father to take it back and say well look er can we have another one , but that would only be on a rare occasion , but if we 're given an assignment in the congregation then , especially in a |
| 12 | In the Daily Mail , Pamella 's story became the tale of a ‘ sickeningly self-obsessed , utterly immoral and unashamedly amoral … call-girl ’ , ‘ an avaricious , manipulative woman with a beautiful face … a pathetic figure whose life can now only be on a downward slope . ’ |
| 13 | Because it would only be for a short time , Lucien 's parents had decided it would not be a religious transgression for his aunt Pershti , his mother 's lover , to look after him . |
| 14 | Maria objected strongly but Noreen had said it would only be for a little while until she went back to school in New York , now that Noreen had money enough to get them their own place . |
| 15 | If the Christians obtained their enlarged Lebanon , they would only be in a small majority over the Sunni and Shia Muslims . |
| 16 | As I investigated further , it seemed to become clear that if this question could be answered it could only be in a complex way . |
| 17 | If he does run again this year , it will only be in a little race . ’ |
| 18 | The fact that he forbade an official biography — as early as 1925 , he had decided that he did not want one — has suggested to many people that such a biography would necessarily be of a scandalous nature . |
| 19 | Rank 's ambitions in the US were dependent on the company 's films all being of a certain quality , but there was an insufficient understanding of what made a production unit like Ealing work , and the model was not copied elsewhere . |
| 20 | The exterior walls are bare brick , the ground-floor windows are barred , and the only way in is through a heavy iron gate . |
| 21 | The research company Mintel estimates that the business-to-business incentives and promotions market alone is worth a staggering £1.32 billion , while the Institute of Sales Promotion values overall expenditure at over £7 billion . |
| 22 | The man who brought us hits Like Ferry Cross the Mersey and You 'll Never Walk Alone is on a nationwide tour , but stopped off just long enough to talk to Mike Rowbottom . |
| 23 | In the float it raised £50m cash , so is in a strong position to make its move . |
| 24 | This would have effectively made Toraja religion illegal had it not been for a young Toraja " slave " who had studied law while attending to the needs of his lord at university . |
| 25 | Cantona tried hard to get involved , and within five minutes might have stolen the show , had it not been for a fine interception by Keith Curle following a fine run and cross down the left by Lee Sharpe . |
| 26 | The acting was almost a by-product of that and had it not been for a fortuitous advertisement in Cardiff 's Western Mail , it might have remained just that . |
| 27 | The increase has not been at a constant rate . |
| 28 | Saunders , who has scored 11 goals in 35 international appearances , has not been on a losing side since August 23 . |
| 29 | The intense moments of pain and fear that gripped me were too remote to be understood by anyone who has not been through a similar experience . |
| 30 | The extreme range seems to be from 5 to 6.4 or so , but generally it remains between 4.6 and 5.2 ; it has not been through a major minimum since 1949 . |