Example sentences of "[adv] a [noun sg] be " in BNC.
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| 1 | The language has an insistent rhythm , but the better a rapper is the more they break away from it , tease it , play with it . |
| 2 | But that day his mother had suddenly flown a warning flight , while his father rose into the air and swooped into the valley and back beneath the cliff edge , and suddenly a man was there with something green in his hand which rose into the sky above him and came down towards him . |
| 3 | Suddenly a mechanism was provided by which the brain ( which may or may not be considered in some way related to the mind ) could intrude on the elementary processes of message reception and transmission . |
| 4 | Suddenly a searchlight was blazing in their eyes . |
| 5 | Part of the fever of the times ; if the Black Panther Huey Newton , posing with rifle and spear , could be written up as a theoretical genius , and his partner , Bobby Seale , interpreted as a tactical wizard , then how much a symbol was Ali — the first to tap and manifest glinting black pride , to dispute with vigour erosive self-laceration . |
| 6 | If a seller knows how much a buyer is willing to pay , then his power position is improved . |
| 7 | Not So Much a Programme was to be broadcast on Friday , Saturday and Sunday nights . |
| 8 | In hot weather you may not be aware of how much a horse is sweating because it evaporates so quickly . |
| 9 | By " aptitude " Carroll meant " the amount of time needed to learn a task under optimal instructional conditions ' and not its more usual connotation of how much a student is capable of learning . |
| 10 | To check how much a paragraph is inset move the cursor into that paragraph and look at the ruler line . |
| 11 | Apparently a nova is a close binary system , made up of a cool , normal star and a White Dwarf . |
| 12 | Sometimes it is difficult to separate the two , but basically a hand-out is a prepared statement complete in itself , whereas , a worksheet requires student effort to complete and should stimulate further work . |
| 13 | Basically a product is equivalent to an and . |
| 14 | The law relating to covenants is quite complex but basically a covenant is a legally-binding document by which you transfer some of your income to a charity for a stated period . |
| 15 | As you might imagine my monthly food bill has gone up quite appreciably , far more than the five pounds a month just before the programme Too Long a Winter was made . |
| 16 | I was n't sure how long a day was on Fraxilly — and I did n't want to be wandering Rat City after dark . |
| 17 | And also of course , a , a , a problem that you ca n't solve is , you never know in advance how long a conversation 's going to be . |
| 18 | A railway company came to Wall 's aid and before long a trial was held under floodlit conditions . |
| 19 | Lord Pearce said , ‘ The only reasonable inference from the regular course of dealing over so long a period is that the buyers were evincing an acceptance of , and a readiness to be bound by , the printed conditions of whose existence they were well aware although they had not troubled to read them . ’ |
| 20 | At the same time as this was happening teachers demanded to be treated ‘ as professionals ’ , scornfully ignoring the view , repeatedly expressed , that the disruption of children 's education for so long a period was hardly the behaviour that one might expect from members of a ‘ profession ’ . |
| 21 | And when you finished your training erm that was , how long a training was it in fact ? |
| 22 | At one o'clock a hymn was sung to enable those wishing to leave to do so whilst newcomers entered . |
| 23 | The pretence that his , Surkov 's , opening had been merely a dream was a pathetic cliché . |
| 24 | It is merely a cat being a cat . |
| 25 | Perhaps a couple are looking at one another in a different light — it is to be remembered that one in three marriages now ends in divorce . |
| 26 | But we may well have seen them without registering that fact ; perhaps a film is set in a particular location and we are so involved in the plot that the background scenery enters only our subconscious mind . |
| 27 | Perhaps a landscape is too remote or unsettled weather makes a long painting session impossible . |
| 28 | The company says that it has received inquiries from about 470 companies , of which perhaps a quarter are potential customers . |
| 29 | Perhaps a draw was more than Rangers deserved on the night . |
| 30 | Yes , I can en envisage that somewhere , perhaps a visitor 's a first step towards clarifying what may be a runner would be taken by Sarah at the moment , but er , which we would put an investigator straight from future , for example . |