Example sentences of "[prep] [be] [adv] a [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | But this night , after being ashore an hour or so , the raiders waded back out to the boat arm-pit deep in the rising tide . |
| 2 | Nursing has a well-developed managerial hierarchy , unlike medicine , and nursing audit has usually been introduced and run by nurse managers instead of being simply a peer group exercise . |
| 3 | The 1633 ‘ Uyttenbogaert ’ fits that bill with the additional advantages of being both a representation of an important figure in Dutch religious history ( although the Rijksmuseum already has a portrait of him by Rembrandt 's contemporary Jacob Backer ) and universally accepted as authentic by the members of the Rembrandt Research Project , some of whom are Rijksmuseum curators . |
| 4 | In the final article in this section , Rosemary Clarke compares the activities of teaching and Gestalt therapy , drawing parallels and pointing up interesting distinctions , as well as offering some of what she has learned in the course of being both a teacher and , subsequently , a therapist . |
| 5 | ‘ Amaranth Wilikins , 26 , is tired of being just a housewife , ’ read the caption . |
| 6 | In 1923 Singapore was connected to the state of Johore in Malaya by a causeway and Singapore station , instead of being merely an entrance to a small island system , became a portal to Malaya and ultimately Thailand . |
| 7 | You two should get along like a house on fire as he 's by way of being quite an authority on horses these days . |
| 8 | I said that the payroll levy that the Labour party would introduce would have the effect of being a tax on jobs , in precisely the way that the selective employment tax had the effect of being directly a tax on jobs . |
| 9 | Despite being only a facelift of the current range , the new Polo manages to lose its tired old image — and it comes not a moment too soon , says Andrew Frankel |
| 10 | He , like Handel , ended his days in London ; where his father 's instruments were disposed of is also a mystery . |
| 11 | S I mean t y you see , what you could work more towards is almost a sort of an agreement wi with individuals is n't it ? |
| 12 | He apologised to readers and to Philips Dictation Systems : ‘ Could of was simply a typesetting error that slipped passed the keenest eyes ’ , he wrote . |
| 13 | If all your essay consisted of was just a series of assertions , there would be little connection or development between the parts : there would be no argument . |
| 14 | But what it correlates with is not a gender role but more specifically a child-rearing role . |
| 15 | The particular area I am concerned with is where a contract in two parts has been duly signed by the respective parties and is awaiting exchange . |
| 16 | All this shows that Attica was far from being just a city with territory round it , but was a compromise between a centralized state and a federal one . |
| 17 | As Tracey and Morrison point out , however , CUTV were soon criticised for their negative stance and consequently metamorphosed from being merely a protest group into a campaigning organisation with more reformist goals . |
| 18 | Hence subject to the constraint that where Ro is some pre-assigned value of R. The integration can be extended over the whole 3N-dimensional configuration space by setting whenever the inequality ( 6.10 ) is satisfied and otherwise , and writing Mark off showed that , far from being only a device to select the correct region of configuration space led to a new interpretation of the probability density function |
| 19 | Today , being an active member of a political party seems to be neither a qualification nor a disqualification for appointment . |
| 20 | This gene seems to be neither an oncogene nor tumour supressor gene , but could be responsible for an increase in genetic instability by way of multiple replication errors within the genome . |
| 21 | Johnny 's double standards , and his entrenched belief in the superiority of the male , had led her into an angry tirade of defence designed only to prove that she was exactly the cheap little tart that he so obviously thought her.Their relationship seemed to be increasingly an exercise in one-upmanship : my time 's better than yours ; so there ! |
| 22 | But if you have the luck to come of country stock then you should never sever your roots , no matter how great the temptation to ‘ improve ’ yourself , or to inhabit more glorious scenery , or to be nearer a railway station . |
| 23 | Gandhi claims to be simply a seeker after Truth , ceaselessly searching for it , occasionally having glimpses of it , yet not finding it . |
| 24 | However , there is a tendency for the content of the packages to be simply a transfer of printed teaching matter to the computer medium , without capitalizing on the extra advantages of the medium , for example , making full use of its interactive teaching possibilities . |
| 25 | As de Lattre presented his case , his plan to construct 1200 bunkers of the Siegfried Line-type ( one wonders why its French counterpart was not mentioned instead ) was to provide against future Chinese attacks but , on the assumption that the Chinese might be deterred , French success seemed to be simply a matter of US munitions and confidence and , although it might have been misleading as a performance indicator , at the end of his visit to the Pentagon de Lattre was rewarded with Defense Secretary Lovett 's assertion that General de Lattre was regarded as a comrade in arms and that the US would do everything they could for him that was within their capabilities . |
| 26 | If you believe yourself to be simply an animal without an immortal soul but you also believe that you are capable of making moral judgements , you will need to ask yourself whether cats and mice and birds and insects are also capable of making moral judgements . |
| 27 | But if this new development were to be simply an aid to better assignments and projects then it would not be remarkable , because library instruction which is project-related and project-inspired , is not unusual , though it is less common than the separate library lesson . |
| 28 | My argument for functionalism is therefore critically dependent on whether or not I can convince you that progress in one of these areas — cognitive neuropsychology — is unlikely to be simply an illusion . |
| 29 | In other words , the focus of Gironella 's attention is neither historically nor iconographically arbitrary , although in some ways his reworkings of the paintings of others could be seen to be simply an extension of a fairly conventional activity . |
| 30 | Well if that were so my Lord then there would never be any any solicitor 's negligence claims , in which any expert was ever called to give evidence because it 's always going to be eventually a matter of law as to what the defendant 's duty is but what the er what the plaintiff had not said at any stage is that a matter of law is ever going to be admissible and in fact the is Justice our in the course of er er a case in which he , despite expressing reservations about the admissibility of the evidence , plainly admitted it because he was within the course of his judgement . |