Example sentences of "[be] [adj] [adv] in a " in BNC.
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| 1 | If pig butchers kept piggy banks , his must have been empty once in a while during this period … |
| 2 | Series producer Madeline Wilstshire explains : ‘ We have more drama in this series but the reporters are not actors , they 're just ordinary teenagers who are interested enough in a subject to want to make a television programme about it . ’ |
| 3 | I do n't think I 'd have been warm enough in a shellsuit . |
| 4 | L. John Chapman ( 1987 , p.9 ) says rather primary ‘ there are many that are proficient only in a non-standard version of English ’ . |
| 5 | And , yes , there are a couple of lines around the eyes , and a grey hair or twenty ( at least they 're all together in a neat bunch , not lurking about all over the place ) and the neck does n't look too good in some , particularly unflattering , lights , but then I do n't suppose yours would , either . |
| 6 | ‘ We 're all together in a gigantic conspiracy to dominate the world ! ’ |
| 7 | Chocolate and chips are fine once in a while , but every day it 's a disaster , says Derek Cooper |
| 8 | These arise because the symmetry of the free molecule is reduced to that of the environment , which must be very low in the case of a random glassy solid , and may be low even in a crystalline sample . |
| 9 | It would , as Mr. Lloyd conceded , be exercisable also in a case where no misrepresentation inducing the transaction could be pointed to but where a registered proprietor had entered into a transaction under a misapprehension for which the other party to the transaction was not responsible , a misapprehension as to the value of the property , for example . |
| 10 | I might conceivably be interested merely in a hypothetical situation , trying to decide , say , what consequences would follow if p were true , without wishing to commit myself one way or the other ( although , as will be shown later on , one can not coherently posit the possibility of p being true except with regard to possible truth claims that might be made in respect of it ) . |
| 11 | This may not be obvious clinically in a sedated poorly perfused patient with a complicated infarction . |
| 12 | In this as in so many fields of social service the voluntary contribution can be great both in a pioneering sense and in the steady provision of research , public education and good facilities . |
| 13 | There was some scepticism as to whether performance would be good enough in a system built from the bottom up in objects . |
| 14 | In order to protect the privacy of those whose lives are recorded , the material may be kept confidential for some years , or may be available only in a form where individuals can not be identified . |
| 15 | The inherently authoritarian structure of the prison , deriving from its main functions of control and security , relies upon explicit threats of force which would be unacceptable elsewhere in a liberal democratic state . |
| 16 | You will have seen , with as much surprise as pleasure , a child of nine play the harpsichord like the great masters ; & what will have astonished you even more was to hear from trustworthy persons that he already played it in a superior manner three years ago ; to know that almost everything he plays is of his own composition ; to have found in all his pieces , and even in his improvisations , that character of force which is the stamp of genius , that variety which proclaims the fire of imagination & that charm which proves an assured taste ; and lastly , to have seen him perform the most difficult pieces with an ease and a facility that would be surprising even in a musician of thirty … . |
| 17 | The waves there are small even in a storm . |
| 18 | Moreover , many mosaics in the west are among the most impressive in Britain — the Woodchester Orpheus mosaic , the Stonesfield Bacchus mosaic , and the Chedworth Seasons mosaic are notable even in a continental context — whereas those from Yorkshire and the banks of the Number are more limited ( if often ambitious ) designs . |
| 19 | Soviet leaders were interested only in a kind of ‘ non-alignment ’ for Afghanistan comparable with that of the radical pro-Soviet members of the Non-Aligned Movement ; they did not hanker for Afghan neutralism of the pre-1973 variant . |
| 20 | The evening arrived ; the soup was served , and the bowls were empty again in a few seconds . |
| 21 | More areas are included in the map where the user is willing to be wrong 10 times out of 100 , but far fewer in that which they are willing to run the risk of being wrong once in a hundred times ; a comparison of the 90 and 99 per cent maps will make this clear ( figs 6.5a and f ) . |
| 22 | During the expedition which was undertaken in the depth of winter he passed 5 weeks in the bush without seeing a civilised being sleeping occasionally in a Tent , sometimes under a cart but more frequently on the bare ground wrapped in a Kangaroo skin rug still he had not had a cold or the slightest disorder … ’ |
| 23 | When at last we were all safely in a carriage , he would saunter off to buy a paper , and other people were coming in . |
| 24 | It might be thought that such tenets were unambiguous enough in a democracy to be assured the most rigorous defence . |
| 25 | Our friend Pétur Björnsson ( Pétur , son of Björn ) has a lovely blonde daughter Marta , who speaks no English and talked to me all night when we were last there in a glorious mixture of Icelandic and sign language . |
| 26 | Some of the species involved are rare both in a national and local context which , of necessity , limits the possibilities for discussion here . |
| 27 | ( When notes are close together in a low register they sound crude and clumsy , and fail to give a good bass to the harmony . |
| 28 | The second phrase comprises only eight different notes , but this is because the parts are close together in a small area , and some notes are used by two different instruments . |
| 29 | ‘ People in government should feel the way social processes are moving early , ’ he says , ‘ and that is possible only in a metropolis . |
| 30 | In that case it is no obstacle to freedom that actions are predictable ; indeed , free and rational action is possible only in a predictable world . |