Example sentences of "[adv] [adj] be [adv] a [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Perhaps that was just a case where , in the early stages of the life-cycle , corporate managers acted more like private consumers than industrial purchasers of large-scale equipment . |
| 2 | erm On the question of the river samples and pool samples , yes , I think one of the city pools , one of the school pools we had a bit of a problem , so that took much of concentrated attention of it for a period of two or three weeks , so that 's probably a reflection , I do n't think much of it relates to the river sample . |
| 3 | Er so that 's over a year now . |
| 4 | Erm , so that 's just a question to ask when you next come to erm this passage . |
| 5 | Basically this is simply a reversal of black figure . |
| 6 | Perhaps this was merely a ruse to trick them into a crossing at Forteviot . |
| 7 | So this was quite a mission which I believe has not been adequately covered in the history and was a forerunner of things to come and like I say we got through that mission without any damage , our gunners got to shoot at the first German fighters and we were an experienced crew with one mission under our belt . |
| 8 | THE Uranus-Neptune effect is aimed most of all at your one-to-one relationships , so 1993 is potentially a time of both great breakthroughs and disappointing setbacks . |
| 9 | So far it may have appeared that the condition in section 12 will be broken only if the seller turns out not to be the owner , anything less serious being merely a breach of one of the warranties . |
| 10 | Of the seven wars with France that can be counted between 1690 and 1815 , only one was indisputably a war about colonies , but of course all of them affected the colonies and their inhabitants . |
| 11 | Within this apologetic ( ironic ? ) defence then , sexual difference is sustained by the very inversion which divine law forbids , and the fact that it can be so sustained is simultaneously a repudiation of the claim that sexual difference is itself dictated by divine or natural law . |
| 12 | The mere fact that he was still alive was surely a sign that he was destined to succeed was n't it ? |
| 13 | Pretending to be deeply interested was rather a strain . |
| 14 | The immediate cause might be a new lover , or the pursuit of her career , but usually this is just a trigger ; the eruptive force is far stronger than that . |
| 15 | Your reputation for being totally clean is practically a legend . |
| 16 | The most useful is probably a choice of law clause ( see cl 15 of Precedent 1 , and cl 1.4 of Precedent 2 ) . |
| 17 | I would like if possible not to do that any more , cos clearly that is just a duplication of material already elsewhere available . |
| 18 | Sometimes you have the same person and you have lots of different scores for them and you see whether they 're correlated but most o more often than not what we 're talking about is a number of people and to see whether the pairs of scores in some way are related Now this is probably a bit more important . |
| 19 | Now this is really a road mark in my opinion |
| 20 | Well now this was quite a while . |
| 21 | Originally this was merely a method of putting pressure upon the tenant , but the distrainer has had , since the end of the seventeenth century , a power to sell the goods and so pay himself , the surplus ( if any ) going to the owner . |
| 22 | Now dat is just a problem . |
| 23 | Well that is just a crap jobby anyway ! |
| 24 | Well that is actually a problem from you know |
| 25 | one of my sections in the subdivision is thinking of declaring UDI [ unilateral declaration of independence ] from the Divisional Headquarters … as for Headquarters and the Force organizational structure , well that 's just a joke as far as these men are concerned . |
| 26 | Oh well that 's once a month . |
| 27 | Mm ah well that 's quite a thought in n it ? |
| 28 | pence well that 's quite a bit . |
| 29 | Yeah , well that 's quite a point in n it ? |
| 30 | Well that 's quite a point actually . |