Example sentences of "[adv] be [verb] a [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Tokens are listed under the phonetic variant which they realize , and additionally are assigned a label which describes the following environment ; these labels are explained as follows : |
| 2 | Sagarmatha National Park was born in 1976 and has since been declared a World Heritage Site by UNESCO . |
| 3 | I have since been offered a write-up in one of the car hi-fi magazines about the work on my car and others we have worked on . |
| 4 | ‘ 'Course I 'ave n't , you 've only been gone a minute . ’ |
| 5 | ‘ I 've only been given a year 's contract , so the main priority will be to win all the matches , using essentially the same side that played in the World Cup . |
| 6 | The planet had only been recontacted a century earlier . |
| 7 | There 's been no problem matching clients to carers because I 've had a biggish pool to choose from — there 's been about 30 people on the register at any one time — and I 've only been using a maximum of ten at a time . ’ |
| 8 | This may be an odd thing to say when you 've only been married a month , but it 's true . |
| 9 | Lamb 's QC had told the appeal he felt harshly treated when Surrey , whose bowlers had actually been caught ball-tampering three times , had only been handed a £1,000 suspended fine . |
| 10 | He had only been commissioned a week . |
| 11 | Yeah , she 's only been driving a year , two years . |
| 12 | Instead , having been assured that Rick no longer had any violent feelings towards her , she earnestly pleaded that she had long been awaiting an opportunity to return it in person and apologise for causing so much distress . |
| 13 | In 1861 : ‘ I 've long been meditating a novel on insanity , or rather on how one becomes insane . ’ |
| 14 | While classics , for example , are considered essentially upper- or upper-middle-class disciplines , engineering ( in this country at any rate ) has long been considered a subject suitable for aspirant working-class men . |
| 15 | The right to demonstrate against unpopular causes has long been considered a bulwark of liberty in any civilised society , enabling groups within that society to attempt to influence public opinion , to express their solidarity , to pressurise government and publicise their cause . |
| 16 | A year later and they had all been given a rise of one penny a day . |
| 17 | Do I think that we 're setting , we are setting , us personally are setting an example for all the little people ? |
| 18 | And he and his wife together are saying a women deserves to be raped . |
| 19 | ‘ We 'd better be getting a move on . |
| 20 | ‘ I better be making a start . |
| 21 | ‘ Ee — well , it 's getting near my time for going home , I think I 'd better be making a move … ’ |
| 22 | That term was automatically held to be satisfied when the effects on the interests of the individual were felt to be serious enough to warrant procedural protection , and this was so whether the context was deprivation of an office , expulsion from a trade association , the destruction of one 's property , or the loss of something which would juridically be called a privilege . |
| 23 | In a medical textbook , the choice between clavicle and collar-bone can justly be called a matter of stylistic variation . |
| 24 | the purpose will not only be to form an impression of methods and levels of language teaching but also to observe how teachers and pupils talk to each other in the UK . |
| 25 | The matter could conceivably be overlooked : either if ( instead of from your last employer ) , you are due to get a pension from an earlier employer ; or if you will only be receiving a State pension — and not a company pension in addition . |
| 26 | would be slightly different because they , we 'd only be collecting a part of the premium we would n't be collecting their investment part if that 's in arrears . |
| 27 | It 's just that I 've just got too many at , it can only be done a week before |
| 28 | Elsewhere the band choose what can only be called a hardcore bubblegum sound and by the time you get to the final furlong , this regularity means the fizz is starting to fade and you dearly want the guitars to twist and shout and sing . |
| 29 | MYSELF and Marco Polo is a working model of a novel , a clever toy , a verbal tournament , a facetious blueprint for a possible future seriousness : it could only be called a success if its author 's aim was merely to intrigue , and I do not feel that Paul Griffiths can be that crude . |
| 30 | In the North , the bishops pursued the Irish catholic community 's interests in what could only be called a spirit of ‘ pillarization ’ . |