Example sentences of "[adj] [adv] [be] a [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | This apparently was a common female ploy , the swag being hidden by the voluminous skirts of the period . |
| 2 | It seems that it is of continuing importance for women to be able to call upon relatives to assist them with child care , and that this still is a key element in women 's organization of their daily lives , as it has been in the past ( see for example Roberts , 1984 ) . |
| 3 | This always was a good fire . |
| 4 | This also is a square matrix of unit rank , and z12 evidently has the properties unc In fact , the above equations , and the properties of the matrices unc discussed in 1.18 , are all contained in the general result unc on evaluation of the inner products . |
| 5 | This really is a well-deserved modern development in kite flying ! |
| 6 | The swimming pool and sunbathing area are a focal point of the hotel — so pack plenty of sun lotion , as this really is a great suntrap ! |
| 7 | We should check that this really is a metric . |
| 8 | ‘ This really is a bad side to your character ! |
| 9 | ( Aug 24-Sep 23 ) This really is a peculiar time for finances . |
| 10 | By the time she decided that this really was a stupid idea the taxi driver had disappeared into the network of streets , and she had no choice but to gloomily knock on the front door and pray that it did n't mysteriously open of its own accord . |
| 11 | After the storms of bitterness , this really was a tremendous volte-face , but no more than a barometer of the changes within Nancy herself . |
| 12 | On the other hand , disappointment did not drive Nithard to defection : Charles had nicely calculated , just as Lothar had done — and this surely was a prime requirement of successful kingship — whom he could , and could not , afford to disappoint . |
| 13 | There is no doubt in Sir Adrian 's mind that it is more demanding today being a top executive than it used to be . |
| 14 | This then is a second dimension of fragmentation — of an apparently chaotic jumble of conflicting policy traditions — placed on top of the jumble of separate nations . |
| 15 | This then is a convenient place to turn to consider the wider role of the police in relation to protest . |
| 16 | This then is a brief résuméof the problems which must be recognized by any indexer and for which the index must allow . |
| 17 | In 1983–4 there was a sudden upsurge in legal calls , mainly centring around ‘ pretty police ’ activity in the London area and a spate of cottaging entrapments . |
| 18 | From 1876–1885 there was a three-year course . |
| 19 | After a lull around the time of Ter-Petrosyan 's negotiations in Moscow , on Aug. 19-22 there was a sudden escalation of armed clashes along the Armenia-Azerbaijan border , with regular Soviet troops fighting Armenian guerrillas who attacked villages inside Azerbaijan . |
| 20 | In the fifteenth century it had been a practical way of making agriculture more profitable , in the sixteenth it was more likely to create a vagrancy problem as men were dispossessed from the land , and this indeed was a social issue which came to the forefront of public attention in the Tudor period . |
| 21 | This however is a serious misuse of the principle of military effectiveness , which is especially horrifying in the context of discussion of the use of nuclear weapons . |
| 22 | This again is a symptomatic consequence of suffering from anorexia nervosa . |
| 23 | This certainly is a beautiful place . |
| 24 | This too is a strange idea . |
| 25 | This too is a long sequence of fences at each of which interested but busy teachers will be ‘ lost ’ . |
| 26 | This too is a useful design tool : a dazzling , disquieting pair , or duality , can be resolved by discharging them into a line . |
| 27 | This too is a serious error , because dh is not a letter sequence in English . |
| 28 | This too is a real 3D object with moving limbs and a mind of its own . |
| 29 | Now that Philip van Wilder 's collected works have at last appeared in print , it is clear that this too is a distinctive body of music that Byrd absorbed without actually committing plagiarism ; only play van Wilder 's ‘ O dulks regard ’ beside Byrd 's ‘ Ne irascaris ’ and you will hear what I mean . |
| 30 | The role of music , song , and poetry have been important to the YCCC as well , and this too is a central theme of Highlander . |