Example sentences of "[adv] [pron] be [prep] a [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Suddenly I 'm in a five-floor boarding-house , turbid with cabbage and gymshoes , sharing an attic with Rolf and Reinhard and Rudiger and Rudolph , and living a nightmare , an Alpdruek , of towel-fights and text-books and jokes about courtship and corpses . |
| 2 | So I was in a great state of elation . |
| 3 | So I was in a safe and so was the man . |
| 4 | So you 're in a marvellous position . |
| 5 | So once you 're inside you 're in a medieval environment . |
| 6 | Directions for the great north-south coastal highway came up and suddenly we were on a dual carriageway that cut through the remains of a giant sand slide . |
| 7 | Suddenly they were in a huge , enchanting sitting-room , with the sun pouring in through the open French windows that gave a magnificent view out over the bay . |
| 8 | So metropolitan councils , and here 's where the confusions begin to creep in metropolitan councils and some non-metropolitan councils , I E district councils so they 're in a separate ca separate category with this electoral sequence . |
| 9 | So they 're in a high place . |
| 10 | So basically it 's like a little computer there and it reads your handwriting basically on your little electropad there . |
| 11 | They 'd danced to Michael 's band and her glossy pink trousers flashed and moved in the dimmed lights , and he had felt elated and mildly drunk , and had lost most of the inhibitions he 'd had about dancing , until it became clear to his confused brain that the drummer , who had soft dark hair and was probably a potential Celtic supporter , was getting on so well with Amanda that perhaps they should move on elsewhere , and he swayed out of the room , pushing her in front of him , and bumped into someone at the door , and had realised it was the man in the raincoat , only he was in a dark suit and a tie with geometric designs . |
| 12 | So it is with a young horse : they have to ‘ translate ’ the aids because they do not yet think in the same language as the rider . |
| 13 | So it is with a good few of the faithful with whom I trod the boards in my schooldays . |
| 14 | So it is with a creeping dismay that reports have been greeted about the inevitable changes in his way of life . |
| 15 | So it 's minus a million squared . |
| 16 | But basically a gilt has got a fixed rate of , of value at the end and the beginning , so it 's worth a hundred pounds day one , a hundred pounds day you know whatever , h how many days it 's in force , if it 's a five year gilt , it 's worth a hundred , a hundred pounds then . |
| 17 | Yeah erm so er yeah right that 's er because I mean what 's nice to see in these things is if you 're able to tell some sort of coherent little story from er y'know kind of these er people 's ideas , themes , speculations , evidence from previous studies and all that kind of thing and this is this is the data that we 've got that tells us something about those and says how misconceived they all are or how it may confirm them or whatever and then y'know a couple of bits sort of so it 's like a nice narrative but sort of fairly y'know sort of continuous argument going through which is nice to see and so er yeah . |
| 18 | So it 's like a national branch , forget it . |
| 19 | But you got a chaplain , the erm the chaplaincy of Keele , so it 's like a united one , they have their own choir , but the kee , the catholic one also have theirs . |
| 20 | So it 's in a three stage payment in effect . |
| 21 | So it was with a confident heart that your reporter negotiated the challenges of the M25 and M4 en route to Sonning for the 10.30am rendezvous with fellow support crew member , Liz Roberts and of course our fearless cyclists . |
| 22 | The overall results at Thunder Bay again favoured Scotland and so it was with a comfortable lead that we left for our final destination . |
| 23 | Oh so it was like a free party type |
| 24 | So it was like a large tub ? |
| 25 | He replied : ‘ I do n't agree with it , I did n't agree with it in the '80s , I was a minority view in the '80s , I am not a minority view now — and anyway I am in a better position to expound my views . ’ |
| 26 | There 's something about a pot that fires the imagination : normally they are on a human manageable scale , are often made to be handled , and have attractive and eye-catching decoration . |
| 27 | Staff there have seen over 1,000 jobs dissapear during the last 3 years , but with millions of pounds worth of orders coming their way , tonight they 're in a celebratory mood . |
| 28 | Their ability to communicate , to think , to show emotion and make judgements , whether or not they are of a different quality to the rest of creation , makes them more interesting . |
| 29 | Nevertheless he was in a festering condition , and the murder did induce a crisis . |
| 30 | Nevertheless it was with a great sense of relief that she found the patio deserted save for a handful of hotel guests drinking beer and enjoying the late afternoon sunshine . |