Example sentences of "[adv] be [vb pp] a " in BNC.
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| 1 | Tokens are listed under the phonetic variant which they realize , and additionally are assigned a label which describes the following environment ; these labels are explained as follows : |
| 2 | The unfriendly comment of Edgar Wind in Art and Anarchy was : ‘ What has optimistically been called a ‘ museum without walls ' ’ is in fact a museum on paper — a paper-world of art in which the epic oratory of Malraux proclaims , with the voice of a crier in the market place , that all art is composed in a single key , that huge monuments and small coins have the same plastic eloquence if transferred to the scale of the printed page , that a gouache can equal a fresco . ’ |
| 3 | Sagarmatha National Park was born in 1976 and has since been declared a World Heritage Site by UNESCO . |
| 4 | I have since been offered a write-up in one of the car hi-fi magazines about the work on my car and others we have worked on . |
| 5 | Ecology , for example , had hitherto been granted a rather lowly status by professional scientists on account of its association with the kind of amateur botanical pursuits beloved of Victorian country vicars . |
| 6 | Cow 's milk allergy has hitherto been considered a temporary condition that improves or disappears with age . |
| 7 | ‘ 'Course I 'ave n't , you 've only been gone a minute . ’ |
| 8 | ‘ I 've only been given a year 's contract , so the main priority will be to win all the matches , using essentially the same side that played in the World Cup . |
| 9 | She assured us they had only been worn a few times . |
| 10 | The planet had only been recontacted a century earlier . |
| 11 | This may be an odd thing to say when you 've only been married a month , but it 's true . |
| 12 | Lamb 's QC had told the appeal he felt harshly treated when Surrey , whose bowlers had actually been caught ball-tampering three times , had only been handed a £1,000 suspended fine . |
| 13 | He had only been commissioned a week . |
| 14 | I 've only been divorced a few months . ’ |
| 15 | Although the cusp has long been considered a well defined spatial structure maintained by continuous reconnection , it has recently been suggested r4–6 that reconnection instead may take place in a series of discontinuous events ; this is the ‘ pulsating cusp model ’ . |
| 16 | The right to demonstrate against unpopular causes has long been considered a bulwark of liberty in any civilised society , enabling groups within that society to attempt to influence public opinion , to express their solidarity , to pressurise government and publicise their cause . |
| 17 | While classics , for example , are considered essentially upper- or upper-middle-class disciplines , engineering ( in this country at any rate ) has long been considered a subject suitable for aspirant working-class men . |
| 18 | Histamine has long been considered a putative mediator of the gastric acid secretory response to ethanol . |
| 19 | A year later and they had all been given a rise of one penny a day . |
| 20 | This whole question is of importance not only because it was so central to Engels 's book but also because The Origin has rightly been considered a major contribution to the feminist tradition . |
| 21 | Two or three years later he might suddenly be appointed a full-time magistrate , even though by that time he had probably forgotten all of the law which he had learnt . |
| 22 | That term was automatically held to be satisfied when the effects on the interests of the individual were felt to be serious enough to warrant procedural protection , and this was so whether the context was deprivation of an office , expulsion from a trade association , the destruction of one 's property , or the loss of something which would juridically be called a privilege . |
| 23 | I have suggested that a meaningful way to set the limits as to what may rightly be called a Christian position , is that Christians are those who proclaim Jesus to have been unique . |
| 24 | In the 1950s he felt we could n't afford a new car , so be bought a prewar London taxi , and he and I built a Nissen hut as a garage . |
| 25 | In a medical textbook , the choice between clavicle and collar-bone can justly be called a matter of stylistic variation . |
| 26 | For take-off the tail should only be raised a small amount . |
| 27 | With the current boom in interest in opera , though , this disc enters a very competitive field indeed and so , once again , can only be given a general recommendation . |
| 28 | It could only be given a new lease of life by grounding its themes in a transformed image of a much more efficient , modernised , client-centred public sector , to which Labour has not yet seriously directed itself . |
| 29 | It 's just that I 've just got too many at , it can only be done a week before |
| 30 | Most potholes can only be seen a few yards ahead , and cars swerving without warning hardly contribute to road safety . |