Example sentences of "[be] [adj] [adv] a [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Coral polyps are each only a few millimetres across but working together in colonies , they have produced the greatest animal constructions the world had seen before man began his labours . |
| 2 | mean you 're all quite an observant bunch here |
| 3 | Emily drank the tea , suddenly aware of the incongruity of the situation : here she was , sitting in the kitchen like one of the servants , something that would have been unthinkable just a few weeks ago . |
| 4 | But while Kaohsiung 's attention to quality is not unique to Yamaha ( and we should n't forget that lower rejection rates also benefit the manufacturer , translating into lower cost per unit ) , their pioneering attitude , honouring quality above all else , has helped raise the standard of Far Eastern guitars to levels which would have been unthinkable only a few years ago . |
| 5 | A hybrid form of non-contingent cost based fee arrangement is to quote on a time basis for all work on the basis that the fee is payable whether or not the transaction completes in addition to arranging for a ‘ success fee ’ to be payable eg. a fixed amount on any completion and/or a sliding scale based on some monitor of performance . |
| 6 | Olive trees can grow to be well over a thousand years old . ’ |
| 7 | Will you kiss me , or will you be unkind just a little while ? |
| 8 | Such obtuseness would have been common enough a few years ago . |
| 9 | Marion Howells and her daughter Kayleigh were asleep just a few feet from a window which was shattered by the blasts . |
| 10 | Ironically perhaps , supplies of some semiconductors which were popular only a few years ago seem to have completely dried up , whereas most valves of around 50 years ago are still available . |
| 11 | Or were these just a few isolated sadists ? |
| 12 | The way it was done , with absolutely no warning , was traumatic for the staff and startling for its subscribers , of whom there were well over a million . |
| 13 | And as I recall as a child there were well over a hundred ponies down Pit at that time , because during the nineteen twenty one strike they brought them all up to the surface and put them in the fields and I used to go with my father to sort of look after them . |
| 14 | Is that also a different derivation of the inductance ? |
| 15 | Is that normally a legitimate part of |
| 16 | ‘ Or is that rather a naïve question ? ’ |
| 17 | Is that actually a forty five there ? that was that was a forty five , near enough , now , how did you work that out ? |
| 18 | Is that still a viable method of energy production ? |
| 19 | Is that quite a high score there ? |
| 20 | Fifty pence out of one pound fifty is that about a tenth or about a hundredth or about half or what , what sort of fraction ? |
| 21 | Is this just a malign coincidence ? |
| 22 | Is this just an ordinary camera you 've used ? |
| 23 | Or is this just an elaborate distraction created by her mind to avoid facing her infertility ? |
| 24 | So is this really a new panacea or a just a passing craze for crazies . |
| 25 | But is this really a fair comparison ? |
| 26 | But is this really an unlikely choice ? |
| 27 | Yet the question has to be asked : how much is this really an artificial crisis which will subside as quickly as it has arisen ? |
| 28 | Now this is this quite a common thing after the flu to get a problem . |
| 29 | On the other hand , if the grass material is dark then a longer exposure is desirable . |
| 30 | Nor have there been any informal jolly gatherings when the daily toil of pressing the flesh is over : Mr Kinnock wandering back among the press party , glass of whisky in hand , letting his ( metaphorical ) hair down a little , tipping us just the hint of a wink that this is all just a great game . |