Example sentences of "[adv] [verb] [be] a [adj] [conj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | It is important to remember , though , that the production need not have been a full-time or permanent occupation , nor necessarily an urban-based activity , as the much wider pattern of small- and large-scale production demonstrates . |
| 2 | What I 've just described is a full and complete contract . |
| 3 | Professor Fox has recently emphasised the importance of an early development for the later history of British trade unionism : " The artisan-craft tradition by which the British trade union movement more than any other was deeply marked is a pre-industrial and pre-capitalist tradition . " |
| 4 | The Water of Leith must once have been a clear and sparkling river . |
| 5 | This sort of transient simulation , which up to now has been a difficult and expensive exercise , brings an improved understanding of the behaviour of multiphase flow lines . |
| 6 | Now suffering is a vast and many-sided fact of Crime and Punishment , as of all mature Dostoevsky — larger than the ‘ loose end ’ idea of The Drunks which produced Marmeladov the marmeladey wallower in abasement and humiliation , the man who seeks suffering and finds it ( and so finds satisfaction too ) at the bottom of his vodka jug , who screams ‘ I 'm loving this ! ’ when his wife pulls him across the room by his hair ; and larger than the ‘ out of the practical swim ’ idea of ‘ A Confession ’ from which emerges the murderer , the man with something to confess , who does n't seek suffering but learns , though only in the Epilogue , to accept it . |
| 7 | This tendency has steadily increased , and alongside it there has been a different but related tendency , as combine and corporate ownership have become much more common in book publishing . |
| 8 | In order to understand what they had found they needed to classify the fossil organisms into particular kinds , more or less similar , to impose an order on what would otherwise have been a vast and chaotic mass of different and apparently unrelated relics . |
| 9 | His thick-set holler lifts what might otherwise have been a cool but minor diversion into a work of real significance . |
| 10 | If the Man of Law had a prose tale it should certainly have been a serious and learned tale like Melibee , the Parson 's Tale , or Chaucer 's translations of Boethius ' De consolatione philosophiae or Pope Innocent III 's De miseria condicionis humane , and thus a tale of the kind that found a place in fragment VII . |