Example sentences of "be [adj] [be] [adv] a [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Whether you prefer to eat soft cheeses when they begin to be runny or at a slightly earlier stage when they are chalkier is simply a matter of personal taste . |
| 2 | If you do notice something unusual which you are sure is not a software problem , then you should take a careful look for the cause or things will just get worse , possibly with more serious consequences . |
| 3 | Now , though , I am saying that being reasonable is partly a matter of falling in with the conventions — in time and place — of an intellectual form of life or culture ; and this surely raises the spectre of relativism . |
| 4 | All eyes of course will be on Cheltenham where John Taylor will be trying to prove that being black is not a bar to becoming a Conservative Member of Parliament . |
| 5 | Being Black was n't a problem . |
| 6 | Being married is probably a hindrance . ’ |
| 7 | Being Fat is not a Sin , by Shelley Bovey ( Pandora 1988 ) talks about the prejudice and oppression suffered by fat people , particularly women , and about ways to feel good about yourself which do n't involve losing weight . |
| 8 | The injury w£flared up again at the end of the year , but at least gave him a brief respite to demonstrate that being 40 was not a barrier likely to hold him back . |
| 9 | But being nice is hardly a virtue , you know . |
| 10 | The conclusion that could be drawn from this argument is that is not a phoneme of English , but is an allophone of several different vowel phonemes when those phonemes occur in an unstressed syllable . |
| 11 | That is that is always a danger . |
| 12 | Yeah , I mean that 's that 's not a problem any more . |
| 13 | So that 's that 's quite a lot , if it 's an investigator , which of course it may not be . |
| 14 | No this this is this is just a maths paper . |
| 15 | The thing is this is n't a credit card is it ? |
| 16 | Let's let's get rid of this is this is where a lot of the confusion is |
| 17 | However , if good and this property are simply the same thing , then the judgement that what has this property is good is just a tautology , and can not serve as the kind of important value judgement it is meant to be . |
| 18 | I repeat that what is important is how a school deploys its teaching staff , not the number of people it happens to have on its books . |
| 19 | The headroom that is available is partly a feature of the number of layers , but also a feature of the tolerance and openness of the environment in which we operate , an element which we seek to encourage . |
| 20 | We are doubtful that the benefits of the inner distribution onto other roads and into particular the B six one six two which is the only access onto the western relief road as currently proposed between the A fifty nine and sixty one would generate further problems , onto a road which is only a two lane B road compared to an A l A road Sorry and A three lane road , that the environmental damage far outweighs in fact the so called benefits that are being claimed which nobody 's disputed is only a vehicle every four point eight seconds instead of every three point five seconds . |
| 21 | Yeah , I think that we need to look into more depth the issue of the County Farms estate , we agreed from the start it was something that could not be rushed , and we had to , the principle question that needed to be answered was that was there a viability for County Farms or role for County Farms in the nineteen nineties . |
| 22 | No , the Labour Party as far as I was concerned was just a meeting , a monthly meeting , in above the Co-op in Grove . |