Example sentences of "[adv] [be] [prep] a [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | When the amount of pausing drops below what it would naturally be for a given speaker in a particular situation , the number of errors which the speaker makes increases . |
| 2 | Er sometimes that has been known and it would be right to , for a youngster to sort of through their mother and father to take it back and say well look er can we have another one , but that would only be on a rare occasion , but if we 're given an assignment in the congregation then , especially in a |
| 3 | In the Daily Mail , Pamella 's story became the tale of a ‘ sickeningly self-obsessed , utterly immoral and unashamedly amoral … call-girl ’ , ‘ an avaricious , manipulative woman with a beautiful face … a pathetic figure whose life can now only be on a downward slope . ’ |
| 4 | It would only be for a few days , of course . |
| 5 | To the people from the people who 've gone home ob we hope this 'll only be for a few days and some have gone er to other homes just for the time being . |
| 6 | Because it would only be for a short time , Lucien 's parents had decided it would not be a religious transgression for his aunt Pershti , his mother 's lover , to look after him . |
| 7 | Maria objected strongly but Noreen had said it would only be for a little while until she went back to school in New York , now that Noreen had money enough to get them their own place . |
| 8 | and I mean I 've got s it 's not as bad going back from here cos it 'll only be about a six hour then . |
| 9 | If the Christians obtained their enlarged Lebanon , they would only be in a small majority over the Sunni and Shia Muslims . |
| 10 | As I investigated further , it seemed to become clear that if this question could be answered it could only be in a complex way . |
| 11 | If he does run again this year , it will only be in a little race . ’ |
| 12 | If the Ruritanian tributary was to flow into the country of junior fiction , it could only be in a narrower channel . |
| 13 | The fact that he forbade an official biography — as early as 1925 , he had decided that he did not want one — has suggested to many people that such a biography would necessarily be of a scandalous nature . |
| 14 | The social struggle is also part of the feminist struggle — at least in our country 's context — because the restructuring of the social system will help overcome these obstacles , although the pace of change will not necessarily be in a strict mathematical equation . |
| 15 | The country will soon be without a viable coal industry , he said , and will have to rely increasingly on imported energy supplies . |
| 16 | The choice will soon be between a total nuclear weapons ban , and a wildfire spread of nuclear technology . |
| 17 | Take advantage of this brand new collecting opportunity and you could soon be aboard a British Airways scheduled flight to any one of 140 international destinations . |
| 18 | If ‘ appears ’ is the logical complement of ‘ thinks ’ , so that ‘ X appears φ to Y ’ means ‘ Y thinks X is φ ’ , then the thinking involved must somehow be on a different level , or something , to what we ordinarily understand by thinking . |
| 19 | I said , above , that if ‘ appears ’ is the logical complement of ‘ thinks ’ then ‘ the thinking involved must somehow be on a different level , or something , to what we ordinarily understand by thinking ’ . |
| 20 | It may just be with a weekly magazine and a cream cake , but you are giving yourself a pat on the back . |
| 21 | Market reports suggest that the sale will not be to a local business . |
| 22 | As with the railroading story , I could find no confirmation , but the story of privatized prisons floundering without control or direction across San Francisco Bay , landing close to where Sir Francis Drake 's memorial plaque was later found , may not be without a criminological moral . |
| 23 | This country had better not be under a Labour Government . |
| 24 | As the polymer sample should not be under a tensile stress , the suspension wire supporting the disc is passed over a pulley and the weight of the disc and sample are counterbalanced by loading the end . |
| 25 | But the memory of Bregawn should not be of a recalcitrant mule goaded into action as the rest of the field leaves him way behind , but of a good Cheltenham Gold Cup winner storming up the hill to head the procession of Dickinson horses which was the most remarkable training feat of modern times . |
| 26 | The length of service is on record at Walworth Road and it would not be of a great cost if you look at retaining membership who are real stalwarts of the Party . |
| 27 | A real rate of interest , which would be calculated as an annual rate per cent , takes into account the following facts : — the period of the loan may not be for a full year : interest is only charged on the actual amount borrowed ( eg not including any deposit paid ) ; — if regular repayments are being made , the full amount of the loan is not outstanding over the full year . |
| 28 | It is worth noting that an offer need not be for a listed company for the Panel to be interested in it . |
| 29 | But , in terms of sport , might they not be on a healthier track than is New Zealand at the moment ? |
| 30 | Literature should not be on a self-service display . |