Example sentences of "[adv] [verb] be a [adj] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ To say that I have been badly treated is a gross understatement . |
| 2 | From these principles he argues that the only form of the state which can be morally justified is a minimal state which is limited to the protection of citizens against force , theft , and fraud and to the enforcement of contracts . |
| 3 | It had long stopped being a remote dream to Rose . |
| 4 | When we faint we return to normal breathing and so fainting is a fail-safe mechanism for hyperventilation control . |
| 5 | As this met the requirements of the hotel , serving customers would merely have been a needless waste of effort and resources which could be profitably siphoned off elsewhere . |
| 6 | But even at this date the alteration in emphasis can only have been a conscious attempt to attune to the wider audience , if still at that time mainly within Bavaria , which was beginning to show interest in Hitler in 1923 , and an awareness that anti-Marxism had a wider potential appeal than the mere repetition of anti-Jewish paroxysms of hate . |
| 7 | Alec had been an F in first year , an F in second year and he was worried — no , perhaps terrified is a better word — that he would end up an F even in his third year . |
| 8 | The public bar was a large L shaped room , one half of the L obviously having been a separate snug before the modernisation . |
| 9 | But if it did , it was apparently to have been a big affair — no mere helicopter-borne ‘ surgical strike ’ — in which sheer weight of numbers and firepower could have been expected to guarantee ultimate success . |
| 10 | So defeat was a bitter blow to Dowding . |
| 11 | She was shivering , but it was not with the cold , nor even reaction to what apparently had been a near escape . |
| 12 | The apartment she had been in had been a single room — like his own , spartanly furnished — and she had had to share washing and night-soil facilities . |
| 13 | At this point Joan got a surprise visitor ; Vera Long had been a technical instructor in Occupational Therapy in York area hospitals , and enthused about Joan 's marvellous dogs . |
| 14 | Like most families then Jill did n't have a fridge so shopping was a daily event though she had a ventilated larder to store some perishables . |
| 15 | We will say that exactly what did not exist was a causal link between the operation of the mechanism , or anything else whatever , and the bar 's coming out . |
| 16 | And the Cid assembled his chief captains and knights and people , and said unto them , Kinsmen and friends and vassals , hear me : to-day has been a good day , and to-morrow shall be a better day . |
| 17 | Our ideas about faith were taken from my readings of Unamuno , and in this poem from one of the essays , ‘ Faith , Hope and Charity ’ , from The Tragic Sense of Life : ‘ A faith that does not doubt is a dead faith . ’ |
| 18 | The text handling is relatively slow and any major keying-in is best done is a suitable application and them imported . |
| 19 | It was a very gentle push , which Yanto did not believe was a serious attempt to stop him , so , as he swayed back against her , he tugged them down another inch . |
| 20 | The fact that this approach to cultural differences is now largely discounted is a powerful aid to the acceptance of deaf people . |
| 21 | She was quite perfect and that those eyes could not see was a great tragedy , one that Maggie felt deeply at that moment . |
| 22 | But it was thirty-one years later and recent scholarship has questioned whether the anecdote might not have been a retrospective invention . |
| 23 | Certainly it would not have been a respectable person , such as Hilbert 's gardener or cleaner , but most likely some unemployed derelict Adam had met in a pub . |
| 24 | Here , this view becomes converted into the argument that the refusal of treatment may not have been a rational decision or may not appear to others to have been so . |
| 25 | Certainly it would not have been a viable proposition if it had run into serious trouble within a year or so of its launch . |
| 26 | But although ‘ Tuxy ’ Girdle may not have been a youthful Hooligan , it did emerge that he had been running whores and he received a substantial sentence of penal servitude for the assault on the man whom the gang had suspected of being a police spy . |
| 27 | ‘ From a planning point of view it would not have been a major worry , although only the force staging the original tie could police the second replay because all the liaison work for the first match would have been done . |
| 28 | There is the possibility of some influence from craftsmen working to the south , around Water Newton , who specialised in the manufacture of geometric designs , but their work was based largely upon lozenge configurations and can not have been a major source of inspiration . |
| 29 | These grand buildings , both seminary and church , set in one of the most important squares in the city , could not have been a clearer statement from the victors of the Battle of the White Mountain . |
| 30 | But I do not mean to suggest either , he wrote , that it was all waiting and no doing , all sitting and no action , for though it was impossible to tell when the beginning would come , indeed , he wrote , there could not have been a real beginning if it had been possible to tell , for if it had been possible to tell that would have meant that there had already been a beginning , no , wrote Harsnet ( typed Goldberg ) , occasionally things were done , work was begun , though it was soon abandoned , it added up to nothing , it only showed me that I had been mistaken in thinking that I had indeed started . |