Example sentences of "be [adv] [vb pp] a [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Fielding , Amis once remarked , showed that fiction can uphold a moral seriousness ‘ without evangelical puffing and blowing ’ ; his Take a Girl Like You ( 1960 ) has been aptly called a modernised replay of Richardson 's Pamela ; and when asked by a journalist which of the great novelists of the past he felt the closest affinity with , he replied reverently : ‘ With Fielding , though it seems a gross impertinence … ’ . |
| 2 | ( ii ) Contents , in the case of sensation , lack such a connection , but are in a special way qualitative and are somehow assigned a bodily location . |
| 3 | The space where the flowers had been soon became a thriving mass of weeds . |
| 4 | The teachers are all on strike , hardly surprising when they 're only paid a hundred dollars a month , so all Alejandro 's kids are at home getting under their mother 's feet . ’ |
| 5 | What I 've you know when you 're like given a plain axis and I have to decide what to put on the sides I I 'm sometimes a bit |
| 6 | As the Lord President will be aware , visitors to Wales are always given a warm welcome and a nice cup of tea , but coachloads of my constituents visiting the Houses of Parliament are cold-shouldered and can not obtain refreshments anywhere . |
| 7 | Smith , 29 , who has a year to run on his present deal , has had preliminary discussions with Mr Graham but Ken Friar , Arsenal 's managing director , said yesterday that he had not yet been formally offered a fresh contract . |
| 8 | Members are traditionally allowed a free vote and can not be instructed by their party to follow a line . |
| 9 | Students are also given a substantial introduction to a range of practical skills which assist them in applying their academic understanding of the problems of peace and conflict more effectively in their future careers . |
| 10 | Lay magistrates are also given a certain amount of training , in which sentencing matters feature fairly prominently , and are assisted in the exercise of their powers by a legally qualified clerk . |
| 11 | Benjamin died there in Gower Street on 10 October 1879 , death from cancer and exhaustion being certified as the cause by J. M. Briggs , M.R.C.S. Consistently inconsistent to the end , he is given as a ‘ Silversmith ’ on the will , but as a ‘ Writing Clerk ’ on the death certificate ; just for good measure we are also given a final address for him to add to our collection : 355 Edgware Road . |
| 12 | Health education is a very important element in the programme schedule , and community news and issues are also given a large percentage of air time . |
| 13 | Guests are also offered a welcome drink in the Tyrol 's cellar bar , and may use all the facilities of the main hotel which include an open-air heated pool and garden . |
| 14 | Guests are served a complimentary afternoon tea and are entitled to 2 hours per week of tennis , ladies are also offered a complimentary facial . |
| 15 | These tactics are also used a great deal to achieve the user 's disguised objective . |
| 16 | When pupils complain that they ‘ do n't see the point of doing all these ’ , they are often given a remote justification — ‘ you 'll need it when you buy a carpet ’ . |
| 17 | Those who have cottoned on to the streak of genius in Brittain 's seemingly eccentric modus operandi have struck a rich vein of gold as the stable 's horses are often priced a good deal longer than they should be . |
| 18 | For instance , a workman may be injured by a chip of metal flying off a hammer which had been negligently manufactured a long time before . |
| 19 | When you realise that 90 are now considered a reasonable number , it is clear that at least one thing has not changed for the better . |
| 20 | ‘ We seem to be automatically tagged a physical side . |
| 21 | It is difficult to see how it could be otherwise given a political system dominated by appointment prerogatives and Moscow connections , rather than accountability to social forces with a direct stake in policy issues . |
| 22 | Scarborough seaman John Normandale has been posthumously awarded a Russian Convoy Medal in recognition of his bravery during the Second World War . |
| 23 | The stores are then allocated a minimum number of each title , according to their size and market , with the larger stores taking an amount over and above that , to be decided by the Penguin representatives and the stores ' buyers . |
| 24 | Naturally there were protests from some ILEA teachers of languages , history , geography , home economics and physical education that their subjects were not to be made compulsory in the fourth and fifth years : such subjects , it was held , were thereby accorded a lower status . |
| 25 | Other reasons given for not doing courses were varied and were only cited a small number of times . |
| 26 | Under the captaincy of McBride and the coaching skills of his Ballymena colleague Syd Millar , the Lions , with nine Irishmen in tow , won 21 of their 22 games , and were only denied a clean sweep when flanker Fergus Slattery was robbed of a try in the dying minutes of the Fourth and Final Test which ended in a 13–13 draw . |
| 27 | Whereas , however , Walton 's brilliant , if imaginative , Life of Herbert was published not long after the poet 's death , the manuscript of the somewhat pedestrian Life of Ferrar by his brother John was lost ; transcripts of parts of it which survived were only published a 150 years after his death ; Nicholas Ferrar 's wide popularity is quite recent . |
| 28 | Ardiles said he began to mistrust Swindon Town 's former chairman Brian Hillier , who 's on trial with Macari , and former club accountant Vince Farrar.Ardiles said in 1990 he stopped offering the cash bonuses , and players were soon paid a monthly salary direct into their bank accounts.Macari , Hillier , and Farrar deny the charges , and the case continues . |
| 29 | Twelve subjects were individually given a four-consonant sequence and an arbitrary number to count backwards from in threes as fast as they could before they were given the signal . |
| 30 | Whereas all the other farmsteads had either lusty young sons to work the land and tend the animals to improve their living standards , or were able to afford to hire in permanent labour , the Hauxwells were supporting four elderly relatives at one stage , had no sons ( Hannah was an only child ) and were finally dealt a cruel blow when Hannah 's father became mortally ill . |