Example sentences of "[adv] be [verb] a [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Two or three years later he might suddenly be appointed a full-time magistrate , even though by that time he had probably forgotten all of the law which he had learnt . |
| 2 | I have suggested that a meaningful way to set the limits as to what may rightly be called a Christian position , is that Christians are those who proclaim Jesus to have been unique . |
| 3 | In the 1950s he felt we could n't afford a new car , so be bought a prewar London taxi , and he and I built a Nissen hut as a garage . |
| 4 | For take-off the tail should only be raised a small amount . |
| 5 | With the current boom in interest in opera , though , this disc enters a very competitive field indeed and so , once again , can only be given a general recommendation . |
| 6 | It could only be given a new lease of life by grounding its themes in a transformed image of a much more efficient , modernised , client-centred public sector , to which Labour has not yet seriously directed itself . |
| 7 | Our limited ambition can , therefore , only be to sustain a reasonable quality of life for ourselves and for those animals that serve us . |
| 8 | Each of the five judgments rambles over the territory in what can only be called a head-scratching way , making it impossible for the consumer of the judgment to know at the end just what the law is held to be , except negatively , and then only negatively on a few points . |
| 9 | Modern refining techniques mean that for every barrel of crude oil refined , there will be a split between diesel and petrol fuels that can only be varied a small amount . |
| 10 | Although they are mainly what would be called consolidating enactments in British practice , one which may perhaps be considered a genuine code is the regulation bringing together all the various Community rules on customs matters , in effect a Community Customs Code , on which the Council adopted a common position on 14 May 1992 . |
| 11 | ACET will shortly be opening a new office in the east end of London to serve clients in North and East London . |
| 12 | President Sam Nujoma announced on Oct. 29 that Namibia would shortly be opening a Namibian interests office in South Africa . |
| 13 | Man City 0 , Spurs 1 PETER REID will soon be signing a new contract at Maine Road , But the City manager could do with signing a player as well , if all the words about challenging for the title are to mean anything . |
| 14 | The " plan of action " stated that " we could soon be witnessing a dramatic exodus exceeding even that of August-September 1990 " [ see p. 37697 ] . |
| 15 | The Company will soon be launching a new video collection — for further info call the GRH Education Press Office on |
| 16 | Instead of collecting these resources by disguised taxation , through inflation , they would then be collected by open taxation , and the public sector would no longer be exerting a substantial inflationary influence . |
| 17 | Although the landscape did not disappoint me nearly as severely as it did Johnson — subsequent farmers have grown many trees , and in the distance a great house still touches the sky — Monboddo may no longer be considered a classical Scottish fortified house . |
| 18 | Thus , neither Latin American political developments nor Latin American suspicions of the USSR — although either or both may lie behind isolated set-backs to Soviet policy — can any longer be considered a significant factor in the overall development of commercial relations . |
| 19 | Northfield homework , one suspects , may just be taking a temporary back seat . |
| 20 | ‘ They will just be having a normal family Christmas , all of them together . ’ |
| 21 | ( A note here to working mums : depriving your sons of a little mothering might just be doing a middle-aged woman a favour in years to come ! ) |
| 22 | A visitor observing the activity inside a Citizens Advice Bureau may well be surprised at the amount of physical movement within the office when advice giving would normally be considered a sedentary job . |
| 23 | These parents may not be providing a good quality of interaction with their child and so demand a much higher level of therapeutic input . |
| 24 | When converted into German marks , the workers would not be earning a great deal . |
| 25 | If the answer to the question is the latter , then the [ referee ] could not be exercising a judicial function or a quasi-judicial function , if there is any such distinction . |
| 26 | A dog that gains a third prize is a dog that lacks quality and is not perfect in construction , but one that still can not be called a poor specimen . |
| 27 | This lexicon should not be seen a static repository of data . |
| 28 | If dialogue is being taped in stereo , the signals from the individual speakers should not be given a pronounced left and right stereo bias as this would conflict with the performers ' relative positioning as seen in shot . |
| 29 | Yesterday , the Soviet Union blamed Britain for the cancellation of a visit by a human rights delegation , saying British officials insisted on sending Mr Michael Bourdeaux of Keston College — someone they knew would not be given a Soviet visa . |
| 30 | In other words , his argument might be seen as an attempt to confront the common sense with the disconcerting fact that references to what are assumed to be numerically identical spatio-temporal particulars inhabiting an objective world " out there " can not be given a satisfactory justification , and consequently that one can not claim with certainty that such particulars represent the basic material of which the world is made up . |