Example sentences of "[adv] be a [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 31 | Well then while I was serving as a detective , you can just imagine I made plenty of arrests , and I got along reasonably well with most people , but there was one man I hated yes I hated him , I , I 'd only been a detective I should think for a period of about , oh five or six months , and a man , he called on the Reverend who was the , the vicar of St. Mary where |
| 32 | He told me later that he had only been a guard for fifteen months , also that the normal takings on this section of the line were approximately £10 , so he was only too pleased to work out a 26% discount for a group booking that realised BR £77.35 from our party . |
| 33 | But Conservative Coun. Peter Jones said the bill would have only been a fraction of that if the controlling Labour group had taken action when defects in the building were detailed in reports in 1985 and 1986 . |
| 34 | He realised it had only been a bait for which he had fallen . |
| 35 | It had worked with Billy , truck driver and reluctant witness — but Billy had only been a rehearsal for this , the main event . |
| 36 | Since he has only been a director since last May , Wanless is untainted by the strategic mistakes of the past regime . |
| 37 | You 've only been a reader for 32 years . |
| 38 | It had only been a glimpse , but it had been enough . |
| 39 | It had only been a shot in the dark ; playing a hunch really , but Johnny 's face reddened and he looked momentarily discomfited . |
| 40 | It has not only been a victory for Mr Major : it has also put an end to the leadership crisis Mr Heseltine created in 1988 . |
| 41 | In 1855 , when the first railway line was opened from Howrah , there had only been a collection of huts and sheds on the site . |
| 42 | I have seen Colonel Steiner 's medical record and note that it 's only been a matter of weeks since he was gravely wounded . |
| 43 | One of the boys said later there had only been a tin of cat food and a bus pass and an old purse with a pound and a key in it anyway , and that they would n't have had to hit her if she had n't clung so hard to her handbag . |
| 44 | It 's only been a week since I was here , and she was in perfectly good health then . ’ |
| 45 | Because the memories plaguing her were sending her quietly crazy , and it had only been a week since she had been out of his company . |
| 46 | ‘ Of course , you 've only been a frog for a while . |
| 47 | I believe the Kuwaiti people naturally are a peace loving people and we will never forget that erm good nature of us and we will try to capitalise on that and maintain peace and Kuwait become again a country which has to have peaceful causes everybody . |
| 48 | She 's a singer who has apparently been a star back home in Zimbabwe for some time , but there is little that 's African about her delightful state-of-the-art LP of uplifting piano-driven pop-house . |
| 49 | That argument would I think be very persuasive if I were able to be confident that the levels of conversion is one which would be an adequate and proper one , it is relatively new , there is nothing wrong with that , it is not apparently been a conversion which has been put into practice , except in the last year because have only started conversion when the Nissan Serena was brought out . |
| 50 | Getting industry to adopt new technologies has long been a problem . |
| 51 | Having decided that the rude manners and customs of an outback community ‘ are rather produced by their situation than derived from their ancestors ’ , he examines first how they regulated themselves traditionally ; then , the introduction and enforcement of the country 's general body of legislation — for instance , theft of cattle from drovers had long been a problem in the Highlands ; now their passage was growing safer . |
| 52 | The ‘ special relationship ’ has long been a myth , one which the UK has more of an interest in perpetuating than the US , where the reality is that Britain is regarded as a second-rank nation . |
| 53 | His mother the Lady Morathi had long been a devotee of the cult . |
| 54 | For example , in the teaching of English it was observed that ‘ inadequate assessment procedures have long been a weakness in schools reflecting uncertainties about aims , objectives and what constitutes progress ’ . |
| 55 | There has long been a consensus that this is true of the Lands Tribunal . |
| 56 | I had long been a believer in voluntary euthanasia , and my mother 's experience strengthened it ; for to me what matters most is not the length of a person 's life but its quality , and that death , when it comes , should have dignity . |
| 57 | Thus , for example , Edessa , now Urfa in Turkey , had long been a centre of the twin cult , worshipping the pair under the names of Momim and Aziz . |
| 58 | More importantly , the city has long been a centre of manufacturing excellence ; why then should it still arouse such hostility ; is there something deeper to the disapproval of Birmingham than the quality of its goods . |
| 59 | Although party politics , particularly in urban areas , has long been a feature of local government , its extension after 1974 — mainly a product of the larger authority areas created by reorganization — has helped to transform the operating style of many authorities . |
| 60 | It has long been a nightmare in Moscow that the region could be highly vulnerable to Islamic militants from the indigenous population 's ethnic and religious brothers across the borders in Afghanistan and Iran . |