Example sentences of "[noun] [adv] [be] a [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Ideological change apparently is a further element in explaining why it is more common to find people living with relatives in particular historical periods than in others . |
| 2 | ‘ What with health budgets being pruned and cut back I 'm asking the health board if staff shortages perhaps were a contributory factor here . ’ |
| 3 | Sitting in a traffic jam with such a car alongside is a contemporary purgatory that produces reactions in me that bode no good for the future of the human race and make me a menace on the roads for minutes afterwards . |
| 4 | Of these , Pompeii especially was a provincial town , but the chief difference between it and Rome would be in the materials and embellishments used rather than in the basic design . |
| 5 | The correlation coefficient between velocity component u i at one point and component u j at a point r away is a second-order tensor R ij ( r ) . |
| 6 | The terrace outside is a popular spot for watching the activity in the harbour below . |
| 7 | ACTOR Denholm Elliott who died from AIDS yesterday was a secret gay , it was revealed last night . |
| 8 | So therefore the Ordo Hydra genuinely was a caring organization . |
| 9 | Due mid-September also is a double album of ‘ Haçienda Classics ’ , from New Order to Marshall Jefferson , and it 's all topped off with a party at the club itself on Sept 14 . |
| 10 | His relationship with David also was a good one , in which he benefited from the older man 's advice and experience . |
| 11 | But sooner or later writers ask whether geography really is a human study at all , possibly because some writers on human geography appear to have studied almost everything except the people . |
| 12 | All of these , plus a busy sporting calendar and excellent modern leisure centres and facilities ensure that Nottinghamshire really is a sporting county . |
| 13 | Watford though were a tough bunch … they were n't going to lie down and die and sure enough they were back with an equaliser from Ken Charlery … |
| 14 | Watford though were a tough bunch … they were n't going to lie down and die and sure enough they were back with an equaliser from Ken Charlery … |
| 15 | That said , the prime cut here is a thirteen minute version of ‘ Bad Love ’ , written with Mick Jones , which is almost justification enough on its own for buying this album . |
| 16 | On the plus side here is a superb neck joint , well finished frets and an unmistakably ebony fingerboard . |
| 17 | ‘ Bringing Eleanor here was a good idea , ’ he murmured . |
| 18 | The first is that stopping popular schools from expanding because spaces are available at other less-popular schools nearby is a fundamental contradiction of the Government 's education policy . |
| 19 | Sometimes competitors in the show ring find that their normally sensible horse has become anxious and irrational ; the reason often being because a horse nearby is a flashy appaloosa or tobiano ! |
| 20 | Accounts of the 1960s from those who were teenagers then are a vital source of data on youth cultures , as will be the accounts of 1980s teenagers to the students of 2010 . |
| 21 | G-ARJU has an equipped empty weight of 2564 lbs and if you subtract that from the maximum weight of 3800 lbs there is a useful load of 1236 lbs . |
| 22 | The Olympics then were a far cry from the slick , superbly marketed spectacle of today . |
| 23 | Lloyds too is a substantial merchant acquirer and was the first to offer the convenience of processing both Visa and Mastercard vouchers . |
| 24 | Combined train/bus stations with one or two levels of car park above are a possible solution at many large stations . |
| 25 | The speaker who told the story above is a twelve year-old white girl , born in London to white British-born parents . |
| 26 | The corridor inside was a grey conduit for numerous pipes and fittings , lit by plain white bulbs . |
| 27 | Milk cartons inside are a natural brown . |
| 28 | The plateau above was a hollow basin , ringed with bold peaks and holding several large meadows where millions of mini-daffodils overhung the rushing stream which head east as the Oued Nfis . |
| 29 | Embedded in the sand outside is a broken microscope . |
| 30 | She is a fine singer in her usual idioms , but her inclusion here was a bold experiment which did not come off . |