Example sentences of "[adv] [be] [adv] a [noun sg] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ Oh , we 've only been here a couple of days . |
| 2 | ‘ She 's only been here a couple of times , when I needed to work on some papers very urgently . ’ |
| 3 | I 've only been here a matter of hours , but I feel as though it 's been more like a week ! ’ |
| 4 | ‘ It is , ’ I told him , ‘ It 's only been there a couple of years . |
| 5 | ‘ The band had only been together a couple of months before we started recording that album , so we did n't have time to think about it too much — we just went in and did it . |
| 6 | You 'll only be there a couple of days at the most . |
| 7 | What began as a means of seeing how things might be done better is now a philosophy of ensuring that things go on being done better towards a goal which will be forever just over the horizon . |
| 8 | And I were to guess that learning together is also a model of rich and diverse possibilities . |
| 9 | Going it alone is often a matter of pride and does no one a service . |
| 10 | But it is governed in some detail by statutory requirements , and so is undeniably a system of statutory regulation . |
| 11 | They may realise also that to do so is perhaps a reflection of their own inability to create the excellent plot structure , characterisation and atmosphere of this successful series . |
| 12 | However , not merely was there a conflict of medical evidence , but even Dr. D. , upon whose opinion Thorpe J. eventually based his decision , described W. as having ‘ a mild case of anorexia nervosa ’ and that although he ( Dr. D. ) had eventually come round to the view that W. should be treated at the specialist London unit , the decision was quite finely balanced . |
| 13 | There is undeniably some truth in that but , when you look in any detail at Montgomerie 's so-called failures since he won the Scandinavian Masters in 1991 , it has more often than not been less a question of his losing the tournament than of someone else winning it . |
| 14 | Unfortunately , it might not be just a matter of rescheduling ‘ waking time ’ and ‘ mealtimes ’ along the lines we have suggested above , since the body does not adjust immediately to the new routine . |
| 15 | Whether your baby grows up to be right or left-handed may not be just a matter of chance or heredity . |
| 16 | It will not be just a matter of turning up to beat Grimsby and Wolves . |
| 17 | Assessing the performance of this kind of institution can not be solely a matter of adding up figures on a balance sheet , whether they are the finance officer 's financial data or the registrar 's data on student performance . |
| 18 | As we have already pointed out a number of times , the predicative position is the surface structure which marks assignment of the property of the adjective to the entity of the subject ; but it goes without saying that the subject of a sentence can not be merely a relation between two parts of itself ; therefore an adjective which is specialized to qualify the relation between entity and description is automatically excluded from predicative position for that reason . |
| 19 | If the ‘ closed ’ style of management described above is already a problem in many schools , then there are a great many more where such a style might permeate the existing decision-making process once delegated budgets are in place . |
| 20 | Nowadays the holding of dances , raffles , and pub talks along with the fixture has pushed up the sums enormously , although if inflation and house prices are taken into account even £50,000 or over is hardly a fortune for a man who has to find a job and keep a family . |
| 21 | Boiling over is now a thing of the past , dye bath levels are constantly monitored and an alarm is activated if any problems arise . |
| 22 | ‘ between 1 January 1985 and 29 April 1991 in the City of London and elsewhere was knowingly a party to the carrying on of the business of a company called Wallace Smith Trust Co . |
| 23 | ‘ Tony 's always been just a friend to me , ’ she said , smiling . |
| 24 | The single , simple action was all it took to move what had once been just a concept into the final stage of action . |
| 25 | By contrast , the pursuit of grievances through the legal route had traditionally been almost a way of life in RENFE . |
| 26 | There might also be quite a number of very much smaller black holes scattered around the universe , formed not by the collapse of stars but by the collapse of highly compressed regions in the hot , dense medium that is believed to have existed shortly after the big bang in which the universe originated . |
| 27 | It 's unlikely she 'd be suitable as a donor , she could probably be only a half-match at best . |
| 28 | The frantic search for trainers past is simply a reaction against the shit trainers syndrome ! |
| 29 | Investing a fortune and then upping sticks a couple of years later is generally a recipe for being out of pocket . |
| 30 | The only other dissenter is Mary Midgley who , with good sense , questions the pride of place given to an unambiguous vegetarianism ( 1983 : 25–7 ) : ‘ What the animals need most urgently is probably a campaign for treating them better before they are eaten ’ , and she augments this by advocating a gradual move towards the consumption of less meat ( 27 ) . |