Example sentences of "[adv] be [prep] a [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Slim women — or those who have successfully been on a diet — often feel deeply disheartened by the fact that diet and exercise alone do not seem to improve these problem areas . |
| 2 | He 's one of the strongest scrummagers in the game yet has rarely been inside a gym in his life , although a few of his international colleagues swear that he must be a closet trainer . |
| 3 | If guests have no credit cards they are usually asked to prepay for their stay at the hotel and all incidentals in bars and restaurants etc. are on a cash basis . |
| 4 | I 've only been to a couple of lodge meetings it I was invited to go to I always felt slightly ambiguous about that really you know . |
| 5 | She had consulted an astrologer once before , even if it had only been for a lark , so why not consult another one now ? |
| 6 | The interesting thing has been that each time we have revised the strategy we have been partially right , but it has only been as a result of a whole series of revisits , reorganizations and reassessments , as well as changing people , perspectives and systems , that we seem to have got enough right to be able to fight our corner . |
| 7 | Thach had long been in a minority within the party leadership because of his implacable opposition towards normalization of relations with China . |
| 8 | Last capped against Fiji in Suva more than four years ago , he has made only eight England appearances — and his four Five Nations games have all been as a replacement . |
| 9 | The wine we drank had a trace of resin , as if the vineyard had merely been beside a pine-forest , and was nothing like the harsh turpentine-tasting rotgut I sometimes drank in the village . |
| 10 | It was also announced that ambassadors ' postings would henceforth be for a maximum of five years , and that their appointments would be approved by the council of USSR and republican foreign ministers . |
| 11 | The plan is that if we have to leave , and we 're still not sure , it will only be for a while . |
| 12 | Oreste had been spared and it could only be for a purpose . |
| 13 | The words tumbled over each other in her eagerness. ‘ 'T WOULD only be for a day or so while I try to get a message to the Queen . |
| 14 | It would , after all , only be for a week or so , after that they were due back at Purley . |
| 15 | But it should only be for a matter of months . ’ |
| 16 | If it did it might only be for a moment , the briefest of seconds , and she wanted Creggan h be ready for it . |
| 17 | ‘ To be judged a success is business should only be as a result of consistent , sustained growth , ’ he said . |
| 18 | No , we have in fact done a great deal to conserve our resources here , er and as I say we have treated er something like 500 patients by the end of this year , addition to what we treated in er the previous year , and that can only be as a result of good management , both nursing and medical . |
| 19 | Aunt Lilian and Aunt Kit walked into the nearest shop whenever their clothes became too shabby and bought the first thing that fitted them ; if they debated , it would only be about a garment 's staying power . |
| 20 | The way forward could only be through a measure of government intervention and inevitably it provoked at the time and in its later consequences , or lack of them , sharp controversy which did much to form the particular arguments reformers used to articulate their basic ideological assumptions . |
| 21 | The light could only be from a torch — obviously — but there was something oddly fragmented about it . |
| 22 | A motor manufacturer will only be in a position to estimate revenue because they do not know how many cars they will sell . |
| 23 | Presumably we would only be in a position to be considering an investigator if both , we had a erm a greater number of complaints from around the Commission coming into York , and i and further members of staff were to leave . |
| 24 | If so , it would surely only be after a period of mourning . |
| 25 | You 're normally never alone in prison , especially being in a dorm with eight people , and if you 're not used to it , the constant noise of people around you all the time is awful . |
| 26 | One way in which gender , ethnicity and class have been seen to fit together is as a consequence of capitalist social relations : women are exploited in the workplace because of the benefit that employers derive from this , and in the home because employers need to have a new generation of workers produced as cheaply as possible . |
| 27 | The photography alone is worth a couple of hours viewing . |
| 28 | He obviously was of a mind with Churchill who later was to say : ‘ I never meant the Anglo-American Army to be stuck in North Africa . |
| 29 | Xenly was in a state of turmoil . |
| 30 | The first of two holidays they spent together was on a cruise ship , the SS Romantica which took them to the Greek Islands . |