Example sentences of "[adv] [adv] be [prep] a [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | I mean as I said when I was filling in the questionnaire I was thinking well this , really this is my preference and you know I 'd much rather be in a job that allowed me some flexibility . |
| 2 | Not least because of the assumption that the conditions were approximately the same — modernization and foreign domination — and that China might once again be in a position to affect the course of Vietnamese history . |
| 3 | They know how to set traps , they know how to ask you questions which will lead you into using emotive words , they will have you on tape , they will also possibly be in a position to edit that tape , and at the end of the day you can not say , ‘ I did n't say that , ’ because I have a piece of tape that says you actually did say it . |
| 4 | If so , it would surely only be after a period of mourning . |
| 5 | While the silence lengthened , he reflected upon the cruelty of Fate : had he but waited , had he refused to give in to Ann 's pleadings , he might even now be in a position to make Martha his own ; but as things had turned out he was saddled with a wife he did not love and would never love — however many sons she bore him . |
| 6 | Magyars , Roumanians , Serbs , Bulgars , Arnauts ( Albanians ) , Greeks and Turks will then finally be in a position to settle their own mutual disputes without the intervention of foreign powers , to settle among themselves the bounds of their individual national territories , to manage their internal affairs according to their own judgement . |
| 7 | One party or the other will almost always be in a position to complain that the judge has made a mistake , that the " right " was his , not his opponent 's . |
| 8 | Your tapwater will almost inevitably be at a pH on the hard side of 7 — but acceptable to most commonly sold tropicals . |
| 9 | This would almost certainly be at a loss . |
| 10 | This would almost certainly be at a loss . |
| 11 | This ideal management , however , can not be offered to most patients , who will either not be on a transplant programme or who may be too ill for such a radical procedure . |
| 12 | A person without the use of his sense of sight would certainly not be in a position to make the same use of colour words as the rest of us . |