Example sentences of "[coord] [be] [adv] [adv] a [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | or was more accurately a fire officer for a part of an office that I was n't aware of , so I mean I think . |
| 2 | Was his grandmother really ill , or was this only a ploy ? |
| 3 | ‘ Or was that just a ploy to … ? ’ |
| 4 | Was it vision-ghosts or was there really a cascade of glass-clear strands around his head , rooted in a graceful sapphire stem ? |
| 5 | Nor was this simply a matter of formal relations at a state-to-state level . |
| 6 | We have to conclude , I think , that there is a very wide range of meanings which the progressive can be associated with but that these are determined by the particular choice of lexis and are not independently a property of the grammatical category of aspect . |
| 7 | The complaints , cautions and convictions for offences relating to animals in the UK are horrifying , and are as much a reflection of the relative toughness of our laws as the number of predominantly domestic pets kept per capita . |
| 8 | HSMorris Bristol PS I did find the article amusing and am no less a woman because I did . |
| 9 | The other major feature of the north Norfolk coast is Blakeney Point ( Fig. 8.23 ) , which differs from those already described in being tied to the coast at its eastern end near Sheringham , and is thus really a spit and not an offshore bar . |
| 10 | is regarded as the most expensive grain in the world , and is n't really a rice at all but a type of grass . |
| 11 | He states , for example , that Freudian psychology leads inevitably to the conclusion that love is a force immanent in the world , and is not just a product of the human psyche ; and he states that ‘ It is a condition of there being a world that it be lovable by beings like us . ’ |
| 12 | This confession must he treated with scepticism , although it possibly has some factual substratum and is not merely a figment of Walsingham 's imagination . |
| 13 | Once the question for the court becomes one of making its own assessment of the evidence , making findings of fact on all the relevant evidence placed before it and drawing the appropriate legal conclusion , and is no longer a question of simply reflecting government policy , letters from the Foreign and Commonwealth Office become merely part of the evidence in the case . |
| 14 | You will understand , I 'm sure , when I say that I hope Jessie has found peace by now , and is no longer a drain on you . |
| 15 | The single most important difference between written and spoken language is that spoken language contains many incomplete sentences , and is often simply a sequence of phrases or clauses . |
| 16 | Nonetheless it is able to call upon independent experts and is often therefore a source of technical expertise , and has occasionally , as in the Beretta Report on the social aspects of the SEM , made a significant contribution . |
| 17 | It has no substantial legislative powers and is as much a debating chamber as anything . |
| 18 | Enjoy a tour of the Evening Telegraph which brings news to the county and beyond and is very much a part of the way of life in the area . |
| 19 | Her warlike appearance dates only from the next century and is very much a creation of the Restoration court , where she was developed as a symbol of the victory of the British in the Dutch Wars . |
| 20 | The method is , however , very dependent upon carefully prepared specimens and is very much a laboratory tool . |
| 21 | It had nothing to do with Goths and Vandals , and was not exclusively a church architecture , nor was it ‘ the badge of some particular ecclesiastical party ’ . |
| 22 | She commanded huge respect from everyone she worked with and was not only a singer 's singer but also a musician 's musician . |
| 23 | Also if the destructiveness of warfare was declining , militarism was increasing , and was indeed largely a creation of this period . |
| 24 | It was constructed by Telford ( q.v. ) in 1796 to carry the Shrewsbury Canal over the River Tern , and was very much a piece of engineering experiment at the time , to be carried to glorious triumph in the simultaneous building of the great aqueduct at Pont Cysyllte ( q.v . ) . |
| 25 | Strong and brave — his 110 against Lillee and Thomson on an uneven Brisbane pitch in 1974–5 was an innings of real courage — he loved to drive off the front foot , could hit the ball vast distances and was very much a crowd-pleaser . |
| 26 | They were in what had been a walled garden and was now just a mass of rubble . |
| 27 | Somehow , step by precarious step , I had been drawn over the invisible divide and was now truly a part of the family hareem . |
| 28 | Now , it was renamed Deseret , and was only technically a part of the United States of America . |
| 29 | Raglan Castle belongs mainly to the 15th century and was as much a product of social grandeur , as it was military necessity . |
| 30 | " At least , " he finished quietly , " if you simply have a woman 's soul , but are not potentially a priest , you can still find a place of peace and acceptance amongst us , away from the community . " |