Example sentences of "[conj] [adv] [be] a [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The child will discover from experience whether the sword glows in the presence of evil , does extra damage to the undead , or perhaps is a cursed sword that makes it easier for monsters to find and wound Samson . ) |
| 2 | From that moment on , everything that happened to Pamella for the next month or so is a closely-guarded secret . |
| 3 | The crisis itself is not predictable but that one will arise sooner or later is a good reason for introducing a " crisis-sharing " scheme . |
| 4 | After all , rhyme and metre are forms of equivalence which distinguish a very great deal of poetry , yet nowadays few would maintain that the presence of either or both is a necessary and sufficient condition for defining a text as poetic . |
| 5 | The fact that Best was a 9 stone waif , and Eddie a chunky lad probably contributed to Best 's turn of pace . |
| 6 | If you drive along the A338 at night and come to the hamlet of Shefford Woodlands , look for a wide track that once was a Roman road , that crosses the main road at right angles , near the picturesquely thatched pub , the Pheasant . |
| 7 | But , bearing all this in mind , I would say that now is a good a time as any to whisper the eternal words — and say them as though you mean them . |
| 8 | ‘ I was just thinking that now 's a good time . |
| 9 | And that really is a topping dress — ’ |
| 10 | Three thousand million light years — that really is a huge distance . |
| 11 | You would only have to spend £1,400 more than the price of the Metro to acquire a 16 valve Renault Clio and that really is a different class of car altogether . |
| 12 | It takes on more of the form of a consultation , aimed at course development , rather than simply being a judgemental exercise . |
| 13 | erm in a very interested book called Darwin on Man recently by a psychologist called Gruber , Gruber has argued that Darwin had a conviction which could be expressed by saying that things which are natural are necessarily gradual , and things which are sudden are miraculous and not natural , that he had this equation in his mind erm long before he erm became and evolutionist , long before he abandoned his belief in religion which he largely did later , and Gruber traces it back , interestingly enough , to the arguments of a theologian , Sumner , who later became an Archbishop , who Darwin took notes on his ideas when he was a student at Cambridge erm which are still extent , and what Sumner had argued , among other things , was that a good argument for believing in the divinity of Christ , that Christ was divine rather than simply being a gifted teacher , was the suddenness with which the beliefs of the ancient world were transformed by Christ 's teaching . |
| 14 | As a romantic you will be glad to hear that today is a great time for making moves in this area . |
| 15 | As a romantic you will be glad to hear that today is a great time for making moves in this area . |
| 16 | As a romantic you will be glad to hear that today is a great time for making moves in this area . |
| 17 | ‘ You mean how did they know that today was a big one ? ’ |
| 18 | When at last they sat down to eat , a small crowd of children had gathered in the doorway , drawn from their own homes by the smell of puris frying , knowing from this that today was a special occasion . |
| 19 | It takes little imagination to see that here is a huge resource for the study of consumer and retailing habits , but if we follow the practice suggested recently by some archivists and take the network with its constituent data flows and data tables , software resources and analytical outputs as a whole , as the document itself , this is a major site for examining the cultural effect of these systems . |
| 20 | As I became professionally involved in trying to understand what , if anything , was happening I realised that here was a rare opportunity for the public to experience science in action , feel the excitement that drives inquisitive minds , and see how discoveries are made , tested , replicated , proven and developed into a new technology . |
| 21 | It had not taken her long to realise that here was a vindictive old villain , bent on making her life as miserable as he possibly could . |
| 22 | He spoke of a well-off socialist he knew at college ; what irked him was not the socialist views , some of which he agreed with , but the fact that here was a wealthy socialist telling working people what they should think . |
| 23 | I was up ‘ til midnight making the gekhakte chicken liver and roasting the turkey for the sandwiches and doing the potato salad , so you 'd better not give me any nonsense about your latest low-fat diet , Rebecca , or you either , Rainbow , though a little slimming routine might not be such a bad thing for you , except today 's a special occasion , so just tuck in . |
| 24 | Looking back on it , Roddick believes that too was a good training ground for future developments . |
| 25 | and since are a big potential one one ninety four I 've got down here . |
| 26 | On the contrary , it can be seen that the standard of generalist work is raised through the training , enthusiasm and knowledge of the specialists and so is a cost-effective method of raising standards within the CAB . |
| 27 | As all cause standardised mortality ratio is highly correlated with , and so is a good proxy for , chronic sickness it is not clear how much extra information the new census question will provide for mapping the distribution of health care need useful for resource allocation . |
| 28 | But now the Florida Disney is 20 years old , and so are a good many of its guests . |
| 29 | For a later period , the coins demonstrate that many of the same men were moneyers before and after the Norman conquest of England in 1066 , and so are a vivid sign of administrative continuity between late Anglo-Saxon and early Norman England . |
| 30 | The implication of the term is not only that it is a privileged group but that , as a result , its members will not desire change and so be a conservative force in society . |