Example sentences of "[adv] [verb] [be] a [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ To say that I have been badly treated is a gross understatement . |
| 2 | So Frye is a one-time KGB mole who 's slept with drab Duckham 's ex-wife à la Bill Haydon and George Smiley . |
| 3 | From these principles he argues that the only form of the state which can be morally justified is a minimal state which is limited to the protection of citizens against force , theft , and fraud and to the enforcement of contracts . |
| 4 | It had long stopped being a remote dream to Rose . |
| 5 | So listening is an important communication tool . |
| 6 | The sudden impact of being in a situation of which you have long dreamed is a temporary high , soon destroyed by the dread possibility of them all going away again . |
| 7 | When we faint we return to normal breathing and so fainting is a fail-safe mechanism for hyperventilation control . |
| 8 | There is also a small late building on a totally different alignment ( almost east-west ) which could perhaps have been a small Christian shrine , erected to counteract pagan influence . |
| 9 | As this met the requirements of the hotel , serving customers would merely have been a needless waste of effort and resources which could be profitably siphoned off elsewhere . |
| 10 | Maybe I was worried that someone else would read my diary , but if so this worry could only have been a slight one : I was much too careful to afford anyone the opportunity to snoop . |
| 11 | Such an equilibrium could only have been a temporary one , being based upon the fear of a common enemy , rather than on a positive material joint interest . |
| 12 | Zen 's barking background could only have been a big plus the day he found a newborn baby whose entire experience of life was going to be lying abandoned for a few hours by a creek near Plymouth . |
| 13 | For these , it seems obvious , Hitler 's public association with the radical ‘ solution of the Jewish Question ’ and the linking of the Führer to the widespread knowledge and rumours of the extermination of the Jews in the east , can only have been a further negative feature of his image . |
| 14 | But even at this date the alteration in emphasis can only have been a conscious attempt to attune to the wider audience , if still at that time mainly within Bavaria , which was beginning to show interest in Hitler in 1923 , and an awareness that anti-Marxism had a wider potential appeal than the mere repetition of anti-Jewish paroxysms of hate . |
| 15 | Alec had been an F in first year , an F in second year and he was worried — no , perhaps terrified is a better word — that he would end up an F even in his third year . |
| 16 | The public bar was a large L shaped room , one half of the L obviously having been a separate snug before the modernisation . |
| 17 | But if it did , it was apparently to have been a big affair — no mere helicopter-borne ‘ surgical strike ’ — in which sheer weight of numbers and firepower could have been expected to guarantee ultimate success . |
| 18 | So defeat was a bitter blow to Dowding . |
| 19 | So did is an anaphoric verb phrase ; that is to say , its referential properties operate not directly , but indirectly , through a previously mentioned verb phrase , in this case expired last Thursday , which must be re-applied , this time with John as subject . |
| 20 | She was shivering , but it was not with the cold , nor even reaction to what apparently had been a near escape . |
| 21 | The apartment she had been in had been a single room — like his own , spartanly furnished — and she had had to share washing and night-soil facilities . |
| 22 | At this point Joan got a surprise visitor ; Vera Long had been a technical instructor in Occupational Therapy in York area hospitals , and enthused about Joan 's marvellous dogs . |
| 23 | Or if you 're going to do it the same as we 've done these it should be S A Y E D so said is a funny one . |
| 24 | Like most families then Jill did n't have a fridge so shopping was a daily event though she had a ventilated larder to store some perishables . |
| 25 | We will say that exactly what did not exist was a causal link between the operation of the mechanism , or anything else whatever , and the bar 's coming out . |
| 26 | The most significant feature not explained is a tiny ( 43 arcsec ) component in the precession of the perihelion of the orbit of Mercury ( 532 arcsec per century ) . |
| 27 | Thus forecasting is an essential element in environmental analysis , and it is concerned with developing plausible projections of the direction , scope , speed , and intensity of environmental change . |
| 28 | And the Cid assembled his chief captains and knights and people , and said unto them , Kinsmen and friends and vassals , hear me : to-day has been a good day , and to-morrow shall be a better day . |
| 29 | Our ideas about faith were taken from my readings of Unamuno , and in this poem from one of the essays , ‘ Faith , Hope and Charity ’ , from The Tragic Sense of Life : ‘ A faith that does not doubt is a dead faith . ’ |
| 30 | The text handling is relatively slow and any major keying-in is best done is a suitable application and them imported . |