Example sentences of "it be [prep] [adv] a [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | That means it 's at least a year old |
| 2 | Like this it is at once a moment of knowledge ( " to understand reality is to see and understand things in their connectedness and their interpretation , one to the other " ) and moment of praxis ( synthesis ) whose material embodiment is the process of modelling ( forming : here both in terms of cognitive modelling , including the modeling of meaning and the extension of this modelling , with all its reciprocal interactions ) . |
| 3 | It is at once an anthology of selected short stories and extracts of narratives often Afro-American women writers over 100 years ; a scholarly treatise and critique of their work ; and a highly politicized and womanist questioning of the reasons for their relative obscurity up until the recent ’ renaissance ’ in Black women 's writing . |
| 4 | Cole had written ‘ … it is at least a half-truth that the measure of control he ( the worker ) will have will vary inversely to the total number of votes , so in the workshop the control of the individual will be real in most cases only if the workshop is small , unless , as in the coal mine , only the simplest and most uniform questions have , as a rule , to be decided ’ ( Cole , 1917 , p. 233 ) . |
| 5 | If that is so , it is at least a hell of their own making , in which they can be gloriously themselves . |
| 6 | All one can say at present is that though the process is difficult , time-consuming , and at times very unsatisfying , it is at least an improvement over those processes we have followed in the past . |
| 7 | ‘ I found out the following day how much it was worth when a dealer offered me £40,000 . ’ |
| 8 | Lloyds was advertising its services as a small business adviser at the time , but the bank still lent them the money without any business plan and despite a survey report saying it was worth quite a lot less than the loan . |
| 9 | Eventually , when he was persuaded to pose with some part of the violinist 's equipment , it was with just a bow . |
| 10 | It was at least a quarter of a minute before anyone looked up , and there is little doubt that the word " elephant " appeared on the pages of these so-called notes . |
| 11 | Yet perhaps it was at least a contingency worth testing . |
| 12 | This was to achieve little save loss , but it was at least a factor in bringing the German attack at Verdun to an end . |
| 13 | It was little enough to go on , but it was at least a beginning . |
| 14 | The whole inlet could n't have been more than fifty yards across , but to Maha it was at least a mile wide , as deep as the ocean , wet and cold . |
| 15 | On the other hand , it was at least a change . |
| 16 | Oh it was on quite a lot . |
| 17 | He held her in his arms , still and warm , and after a while in that darkness he felt as though he held nothing at all ; it was like when a limb , having been left in the same position for too long a time , somehow loses all reference to the body , and for those instants before some willed movement the very location and attitude of that arm or leg is quite unknown . |