Example sentences of "the [adj] be [adv] a [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Of the English pictures of note , the finest is undoubtedly a watercolour by Turner , ‘ The sea ! |
| 2 | I often wonder what I would be able to achieve if , one year , I did train especially for the indoor meetings , but it would be an error to try that because the indoor is just a side-show to the main events , which are the big outdoor meetings in the summer . |
| 3 | ‘ In fact , I think my whole career at the end of the 60s was probably a guilt trip of some sort . |
| 4 | The 1890s were also a period in which deaf art flourished . |
| 5 | The second was essentially a matter of timing . |
| 6 | I ca n't remember I think it was Louise who br I went up to talk to her , and the question was , which of follow which of the following is not a swimming stroke and you have butterfly , breast stroke , bird crawl . |
| 7 | This , see I just thought it was just cos , you know , and he kept stressing it , which of the following is not a swimming stroke , breast stroke , butterfly or bird crawl . |
| 8 | Which of the following is not a mouthbrooder : Shark Catfish , Severum , Egyptian Mouthbrooder ? |
| 9 | The following is essentially a list of categorized items to ask for , so that you can get quickly into segmental phonology . |
| 10 | In an authoritative report prepared in 1985 for Greenpeace , Simon Northridge of the Marine Resources Assessment Group of Imperial College , London , and Professor Georg Pilleri , a respected dolphin expert , identified a lengthy list of incidental catches of dolphins and porpoises in gill-nets , of which the following are only a selection . |
| 11 | The seventies were certainly a period of great change in attitudes within the Customs & Excise in general , and on the cutters in particular we saw great improvements in many ways with the acquisition of better technical equipment such as highly sophisticated radio communication , and the development of international relations . |
| 12 | SUNKEN TREASURE Rickenbacker 650A Atlantis While it would be unfair to call this guitar a compromise on the part of Rickenbacker , the 650 is nevertheless a departure . |
| 13 | The diagnostic is simply a warning . |
| 14 | Indeed , the national is often a concept used deliberately to conceal conflict over the issues , to force one kind of unity around an existing status quo ( and if the arguments do not achieve unity , troops can be used to enforce it on the recalcitrants ) . |
| 15 | It was found that the swelling was not a tumour but an aneurysma large swelling of a blood vessel . |
| 16 | Painfully — for no work cost him more or perhaps as much as this one — Dostoevsky came to see that The Possessed was n't a sideshow . |
| 17 | On a portable , the justification for this is that it reduces the weight , but the BJ-200 is n't a portable . |
| 18 | In short , I think we are in the realm of ideology here , and the rise of the ‘ small schools movement ’ during the 1970s is probably a reflection of the general resurgence of pastoralism ln popular thought over the past decade . |
| 19 | Thus the considerable increase in recorded burglary during the 1970s was largely a recording phenomenon . |
| 20 | The former is basically a source of revenue , while the latter is overwhelmingly a source of expenditure . |
| 21 | The latter was not a goal which Laura espoused , nor was she comfortable working in such a formal setting . |
| 22 | The latter was probably a garden escape , and is not found wild in V.C. 110 today . |
| 23 | The latter was everywhere a cause of severe poverty . |
| 24 | Although her views are still regarded as highly eccentric outside reactionary conservative and fascist circles , it is interesting to note that some historians now argue that secret societies like the IRA and the Mafia have indeed played a significant role in world events , and that the Illuminati conspiracy in the 1780s was truly a model for future revolutionary organization . |
| 25 | The scriptible is not a thing but a process , and is therefore not assimilable to the structures of poetics . |
| 26 | It has to be remembered that Britain of the 1920s was not a land of milk and honey . |
| 27 | The first is not a lot of use in an indirect system , since once the mains stopcock has been turned off , most of the water left in the rising main can be drained out from the kitchen tap . |
| 28 | The first is simply a recapitulation of what we have already discussed . |
| 29 | The first is where a broker sells to a customer off its own book . |
| 30 | The first was simply a codeword one of his paid agents had stumbled upon : a single Mandarin character , the indentation of which had been left on a notepad Jan Mach had discarded . |