Example sentences of "[conj] be [adv] a [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | It is interesting to speculate whether the boys ' attitudes are a result of their own experiences or are simply a reflection of the attitudes of the adults in their household . |
| 2 | Realistically the scope for change in 1992 – 93 was low but it will be interesting to see whether the present flurries of consultation bear fruit in future or are simply a public relations exercise . |
| 3 | On lesser occasions the reply will appear as an answer to a ‘ planted ’ parliamentary question or be simply a letter to the chairman of a committee . |
| 4 | It is a convention in Elizabethan drama that slander is always believed , which can be explained perhaps from the necessities of the limited time available , or is perhaps a truth about life ( how many of us instantly disbelieve bad report ? ) . |
| 5 | Other rates may apply where the development is acquired second hand , or is merely a refurbishment of an existing industrial building . |
| 6 | How could we decide whether it had free will or was just a robot , programmed to respond as if it were like us ? |
| 7 | I do n't believe that this city of ours was preordained , or was entirely a function of the recent past . |
| 8 | Did you do it in the cabin or was there a bed made up in the back ? |
| 9 | Did Could everybody afford to have their own horse and gig or or was there a bus that came in or ? |
| 10 | But now take a closer look and with a pencil tick the qualities that are already a part of you and you will be pleasantly surprised . |
| 11 | I think that if you concentrate on really short term goals and practise things that are maybe a week away instead of a month away then you 'll gradually , slowly but surely , definitely improve . |
| 12 | The rise of science coincided with the spread of new values which emphasized independence of individual thought in ways that were essentially a challenge to the power of the churches , their priests and ministers . |
| 13 | Tonight , two acres of land that were once an orchard but have now been transformed into a series of separate cottage gardens . |
| 14 | Maybe she was quite intelligent ; but she was no more so than were quite a number of the poor she already knew . |
| 15 | By combining these activities , you 'll spend more of your life being a person than being merely a linguist , physicist or economist . |
| 16 | However , the same sources profess to being amazed at his move to a position ‘ that is clearly a demotion ’ and to a company owned by P&G 's rival Unilever , which is equally formulaic . |
| 17 | He , too , is presented with a description of his appearance , dress , behaviour and character that is clearly an exercise similar to the drawing of Alison , and which encourages the comparison of the figures thus drawn . |
| 18 | If in doubt , it might be as well to look at a pattern for fabric or to measure the amount of depth on a hemline that is already a favourite . |
| 19 | But is n't it er true according the reports in the financial times , that the government at this moment is planning to withdraw Britain from the I L O. Precisely because the I L O has censured Britain a censure that is normally a sanction that is normally applied to countries like Haiti and North Korea . |
| 20 | Barring coups , the four Southern Cone presidents will all still be in office in 1994 , and have set themselves a target that is also a spur . |
| 21 | To provide a dramatic contrast that is also a unity , the sun must be truly dominant and its satellites must be a family that shares a common property of shape and size : just like an atom or a solar system . |
| 22 | A holiday brochure that is also a history lesson in itself is a good briefing for a unique range of military tours that takes in some of the world 's legendary battlefields . |
| 23 | Another new feature will be its ability to connect with Unix Network File System servers through a LANtastic server that is also a Unix client . |
| 24 | Does not the transparency , the reproducibility of the grid , contradict the modernist ‘ insistence on the opacity of the pictorial field an insistence that is also a claim for its singularity and uniqueness ? |
| 25 | She is alive and just as attractive as ever , so please do n't lose touch with this thing of beauty that is certainly a joy forever . |
| 26 | It was black , the sort of black that is less a colour than a graveyard of colours , and there was a highly-ornate runic inscription up the blade . |
| 27 | It 's a production that is inescapably an extension of your personality — like dress or décor . |
| 28 | So when they see an apparent egg that is really a stone , the fact of its being a stone ( not that they have found a stone on the beach , say , which happens to look just like an egg ) swamps their judgement ; similarly when they see a white card changing colour — the blueness is salient not the fact that it started white . |
| 29 | It is a backhanded note of dismissal , an explanation that is really an excuse . |
| 30 | The very act of sharing this experience with men and women of every background and colour of skin , heightens that sense of being part of something that is truly a part of history . |