Example sentences of "be [adj] [prep] [adv] a [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Paula had been dry for almost a year before the taxi fracas . |
| 2 | They had been free for nearly a month . |
| 3 | The lucky ones have found jobs , of course , but many others have now been unemployed for over a year — or even two years in a significant number of cases . |
| 4 | The bungalow , in a pretty Worcestershire village , has been empty for nearly a year . |
| 5 | HaL Computer Systems Inc , Campbell , California , remains one of the most difficult companies to ferret information out of so we 're grateful for even a glimmer of intelligence . |
| 6 | ( Roza , in her more affluent days , had been accustomed to quite a bit of sophisticated luxury . ) |
| 7 | Wait until the baby has been well for about a week , and then reintroduce each food in turn , beginning with those least likely to cause trouble , and testing cow 's milk last . |
| 8 | Yes I suppose it 's true that for somebody like me I 've been involved in quite a lot of different groups over over the years and the quarry men 's support group is it 's difficult to put in words really er exactly how it 's erm you know I think it 's very easy f for groups to become sort of s set really and er well I 've always wanted it to involve everybody and I think it does that in a way it sort of er it 's quite special to all of us in in a funny sort of way it 's er you know we feel quite committed . |
| 9 | I therefore have a fair amount experience of this region and also erm I have been involved in quite a lot of erm estimates of housing provision over the years . |
| 10 | The Examination Council came into being some erm nine months ago and has already been involved in quite a lot of activity , I mean particularly the erm problem of sixteen-plus examining , whether we should move from a system of erm O-levels and C S E , or to a combined system , Sixteen-plus Examination it would probably be called . |
| 11 | They had been married for about a year . |
| 12 | ‘ I do not know why I even trust you , but I have no men trained to use their hearts in the way you are able to as a gift of Ptah . |
| 13 | The house was in need of total renovation and would not be habitable for nearly a year , but the Ashleys moved into a hotel in Le Touquet from where they hoped to oversee the extensive repairs to the exterior and interior . |
| 14 | A central gravity anomaly , which underlies part of the carbonate shelf and hence is shown as a pink area , could be due to either a granite or a sedimentary basin . |
| 15 | but that 's no problem for me , it used to be a problem but it is n't now because I 've worked on building up my confidence in other things so I 'm good at quite a lot of things and I always keep re-enforcing that that I 'm good at doing these things . |
| 16 | It can be very difficult to be sure of why a hoard of objects was buried in the ground . |
| 17 | Trade and Industry Secretary , Peter Lilley , announced that Britain will still be able to down a pint after 1992 , despite some attempts by Brussels to bring the UK into the metric system . |
| 18 | ‘ We 'd be happy with just a council flat but there are n't any going these days . |
| 19 | As the teachers ' notes had to be available at least a fortnight in advance of the visit , some lack of precision was inevitable . |
| 20 | To be one of only a handful of boys among hundreds of girls at a feis ( a competition ) was the surest way of pulling girls I ever saw . |
| 21 | It does n't take very long to master shaping methods and fairly soon the shaping can be hand-tooled with scarcely a check to the actual knitting while we attend to it . |
| 22 | Smoke alarms need to be close to where a fire is most likely to break out , but also in a position where an alarm can be heard throughout your home especially when you 're asleep . |
| 23 | " Then I shall have to be satisfied with once a week at the Prego Café . " |
| 24 | Pittsburgh , Pennsylvania-based Transarc Corp will begin shipping its Distributed Computing Environment and Encina transaction processing monitor for SunSoft Inc Solaris 2.1 and 2.2 from next month — the development kits for both the environments have been available for over a year . |
| 25 | Transarc Corp will begin shipping its Distributed Computing Environment and Encina on-line transaction processing monitor for SunSoft Inc Solaris 2.1 and 2.2 from next month — development kits for both environments have been available for over a year . |
| 26 | Demand for the new product , which has been available for around a year under MS-DOS , is apparently spiralling with orders received so far from British Telecommunications Plc , Sun Alliance , Citibank and retailer The Body Shop . |
| 27 | The first finger and thumb are capable of quite a lot of flexibility , which enables them to grasp like primates . |
| 28 | Meanwhile Dennis Peck , the erstwhile president of Interactive Systems Corp and the man who presided over the sale of half of it to SunSoft Inc , has joined Sequent Computer Systems Inc as senior vice president of marketing , a position that 's been open for over a year . |
| 29 | The early versions of this package were subject to quite a lot of criticism , mainly because the user interface of dBFast made little or no use of the fact that you were working in Windows . |
| 30 | They were two of only a handful of his employees allowed to enter this most private of havens . |