Example sentences of "[noun sg] be [prep] [adv] a [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The march might be a girdle of lawless palatines , only elusively within reach of the King 's justice , but the shadow of royal displeasure was at least a curb there ; but Gwynedd , though it formerly owned Henry as suzerain , was a free principality , and could harbour runaways and make short work of captured felons with impunity . |
| 2 | Place it right on the edge so that the next step below the bottom is at least a couple of stories down , because even moderately sloping sections of a mountain goat cliff may have forbidding dropoffs at the base . |
| 3 | ‘ Joan , ’ he said , ‘ this meeting is at once a joy and a sorrow . ’ |
| 4 | Treleaven was until recently a pipe fitter . |
| 5 | In this case he clearly decided that the sampo was at once a thing and an allegory , like the Silmarils : a jewel , bright , hypnotic , intrinsically valuable , but also the quintessence of the creative powers , provoking both good and evil , the maker 's personality itself . |
| 6 | Such a photon is in rather a quandary . |
| 7 | Their philosophical idealism was at once a retreat from the material world of unruly mobs and declining privilege and a programme for maintaining their position while accommodating some change : ‘ Socratic political thought was an intellectually sophisticated and ingenious justification for counter-revolution in democracy and the maintenance of the status quo in oligarchy ’ ( ibid. p. 4 ) . |
| 8 | At the moment nuclear power stations ca n't be turned up and down to meet fluctuations and demand , and the fluctuation from the morning and afternoon peak demand to the middle of the night trough in demand is at least a factor of two to one , but nuclear power stations can not be turned up and down to match that . |
| 9 | Born , apparently , in 1890 in Nghe An province of central Vietnam , Ho 's father was at least an acquaintance if not friend of the veteran nationalist Phan Boi Chau . |
| 10 | Terry Castle suggests that for these poets the mirror was at once an emblem of the psyche and the symbol of an alternative world : ‘ … the mirror image both distilled a longing for purity and expressed a desire for escape … ’ |
| 11 | It is that Science is for ever a Search , never really a finding , it is a journey , never really an arrival . |
| 12 | Homoeopathy is about why a remedy is given , not what is given . |
| 13 | ‘ My guess is at least a couple of thousand . ’ |
| 14 | For instance , in the very first passage it gives a much better explanation of what all the excitement is about when a messenger arrives hotfoot telling of the habitual ‘ skirmish of wit ’ between Beatrice and Benedict provides the comedy with its starting-point , as in the play itself . |
| 15 | The metaphysical construction of subjectivity is at once an admission and production of its disruptive potential , a disruption in and of the very terms of its construction . |
| 16 | In Amalgamemnon story-telling in the future tense is at once a reassertion of individual creativity and a counter-attack on the discourses of the media which ignore the fictionality of the material they present and the conventions which are at its source . |