Example sentences of "[be] [prep] [adv] an [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | And I go in there and I have lov , I can be in there an hour ! |
| 2 | Elsewhere , Duncan and I have made an attempt to overcome these problems by putting forward a conceptual view of local politics which stresses the social relations involved , which highlights the importance of the locality , and which is based on the notion that local state institutions can be at once an agent of , and an obstacle to , central demands ( Duncan and Goodwin , 1988 ) . |
| 3 | Charity supposed that there could be at least an element of truth in that , though she did not feel comforted . |
| 4 | This should be at least an AA , if not an SSG . |
| 5 | Fearful anticipation had proved somewhat worse than the event , and most Viennese were coming round to the opinion that , whatever the failings of Napoleon 's men , they were at least an improvement upon the Hapsburgs ' Russian allies , whom everyone loathed . |
| 6 | Analyte affinity constants of antibodies are at least an order of magnitude greater than those of enzymes , so much higher sensitivity is possible , but it is difficult to extract a detectable signal from the binding event . |
| 7 | The sand and gravel there are at least an inch thick . |
| 8 | The strong , active , lithe bodies of her women are at least an improvement on the passive and fragile looking beauties of the Pre-Raphaelites . |
| 9 | It 's been at least an hour . |
| 10 | There 's at least an hour or so of sunshine left . |
| 11 | The metaphysical construction of subjectivity is at once an admission and production of its disruptive potential , a disruption in and of the very terms of its construction . |
| 12 | It is at once an anthology of selected short stories and extracts of narratives often Afro-American women writers over 100 years ; a scholarly treatise and critique of their work ; and a highly politicized and womanist questioning of the reasons for their relative obscurity up until the recent ’ renaissance ’ in Black women 's writing . |
| 13 | My recollection was that it was £250 for a great deal of work and endless consultations with courteous BBC representatives who were terrified by my refusal to produce a total text ( since I can only give plausibility to anything I say when there is at least an element extemporised ) and refused to accept my positive assurances that I was as unlikely to dry up as the Thames . |
| 14 | The final , Jericho-like sound may be frightening , but is at least an escape from |
| 15 | Not many couples will enter into a marital or quasi-marital Partnership with specific reservations as to its duration but for most there is at least an awareness of the Possibility of its breakdown . |
| 16 | All one can say at present is that though the process is difficult , time-consuming , and at times very unsatisfying , it is at least an improvement over those processes we have followed in the past . |
| 17 | One important direction of expansion was southward into the Altai-Sayan mountain region on the border of Mongolia , where the Russian town of Kuznetsk was for long an outpost threatened from west , south and east by the ‘ White Kalmyksn ( Teleuts and other Altaian tribes ) , the Oirats or western Mongols , and the Chinese . |
| 18 | Terry Castle suggests that for these poets the mirror was at once an emblem of the psyche and the symbol of an alternative world : ‘ … the mirror image both distilled a longing for purity and expressed a desire for escape … ’ |
| 19 | Born , apparently , in 1890 in Nghe An province of central Vietnam , Ho 's father was at least an acquaintance if not friend of the veteran nationalist Phan Boi Chau . |
| 20 | John was by then an adult , of course , aged about thirty , and also a married man . |
| 21 | In the interval much had happened to Marx and he was by then an exile in London in a place and a situation where inevitably he was more remote from the centres of political action . |