Example sentences of "be [adv] [adj] [conj] [adv] a " in BNC.
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| 1 | Some fluxes , especially ‘ self-cleaning ’ ones , are highly corrosive and even a small amount left inside the pipe can cause corrosion problems — particularly in central heating systems . |
| 2 | It would be foolish , however , to argue that the problems created by the increasing urban demand for recreation in the countryside are entirely illusory or simply a matter of arbitrary taste : they clearly are not . |
| 3 | His publishers had been smoothly charming and undoubtedly a little surprised to find their backwoods author a careful , quite business-like man in a town suit , who would not sign anything until he had read the small print several times and understood it thoroughly . |
| 4 | It was ludicrous to be so young and yet a has-been . |
| 5 | This is necessary because the psychological action on many bodily processes can be so great that even a sugar pill can have striking therapeutic effects if the person believes it will . |
| 6 | But Caterham 's independence does enable it to be more adventurous than perhaps a large parent would allow . |
| 7 | We recognised that training for this role needed to be more structured and now a formal training programme to supplement and extend my training has been set up with the cooperation of senior medical staff . |
| 8 | Experienced credit managers will be well aware that once a pattern of payment is established , it is difficult to coax customers out of that pattern . |
| 9 | The identification and correction of coding errors may be virtually impossible unless either a cost centre is obviously incorrect or a fairly detailed manual backup , such as is outlined in ( b ) above , is utilised . |
| 10 | I 'm very pleased that not a single motorist follows his advice , since if they did the old Hebridean tradition of driving on to the moors would spread to the mainland . |
| 11 | Such criticism of American policy would be counter-productive ; the claims on the United States for economic and military assistance were so great that only a limited amount could be given to Korea . |
| 12 | The men who led the Cracow revolutionary movement ( the Polish insurrection of 1830 ) were deeply convinced that only a democratic Poland could be independent , and a democratic Poland was impossible without the abolition of feudal rights , without the agrarian movement which would transform the tied peasants into free proprietors . |
| 13 | Being reasonably wealthy and not a total antidote to the opposite sex , ’ he said with a wry grin , ‘ I knew there were plenty of women to make me forget . |
| 14 | Dungannon 's Clarke , now attached to the host K Club , has improved his score each day — 75 on Thursday , 73 on Friday and a splendid 70 yesterday — but it is most unlikely that even a golfer of his calibre could make up seven shots in one round . |
| 15 | ‘ I was thinking more of Pretty In Pink , but I really like the idea of music in films , where the song 's less incidental but more a part of the film . |
| 16 | Normally , the energy of the particle is still positive , but the gravitational field inside a black hole is so strong that even a real particle can have negative energy there . |
| 17 | But the judge said : ‘ This offence is so serious that only a custodial sentence can be justified . |
| 18 | In 1936 he wrote " Nowadays the trouble and expense involved in keeping a stud of hawks is so great that only a fortunate few are able to do so . " |
| 19 | She suspects that Charles suspects that she had once had an affair with Ivan , but of course she had not , though she concedes that Ivan is so unpleasant that only a degree of past sexual intimacy could plausibly explain the kind of relationship that he and Liz have over the years established . |
| 20 | The cost of freehold land is so high that only a wealthy man who farms intensively can hope to make a living on his own small farm . |
| 21 | Currency markets , however , take the view that the deficit is so large that only a lower exchange rate will help to speed up the adjustment . |
| 22 | Erm I think that Vince has raised of very personal questions that we have ask about this erm the question of local accountability of the health authority board that will be created by this the to service this new joint health authority , would in fact , be the size of the existing one for West Essex and we would ha , have only a third of the representation that we currently have the whole of West Essex we 'll only have two non- executive members on the health authority board and I do n't think that that is terribly accountable but certainly a considerable reduction on what we 've got at the moment . |
| 23 | Significantly , given this generally positive response to the Oxfordshire scheme , it is perhaps surprising that only a fifth judge that it was very useful in producing proposals for improvements in educational practice : one of its prime purposes . |
| 24 | For the mayor of that city it is less terrible but still a serious problem . |
| 25 | Finally , the particle hmm is not dismissable as just a " performance error " or a " filled pause " ; it has specific interactional functions , best explicated in terms of the system for taking turns at speaking in conversation , where it can be seen to be ( amongst other things ) a turn-holding device ( see Chapter 6 ) . |
| 26 | However , it is not true that only a superficial representation determines the interpretation of a surface anaphor , or that the final interpretation is always the one that the superficial representation licenses . |
| 27 | Sometimes the plug is easily visible but normally a probe is used to detect its presence in the vagina . |
| 28 | Waller believes it is more complex than just a huge shift of opinion on the day . |
| 29 | So it was ten amps with just the one , just the fifty ohm and now it , I mean this is n't right but just a , let's say that with both we 're going to get about eleven amps . |
| 30 | He has argued that such a thing is indeed possible and often a potential solution to the legitimation crisis ' . |