Example sentences of "[be] [adj] [adv] a [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ I 've been asleep almost an hour . |
| 2 | You must have been rich then a couple of years ago ? |
| 3 | Even so , I suspect that the visit of Pope next month would n't have been possible even a couple of decades ago . |
| 4 | If the CRCs are different then an error message is output . |
| 5 | ‘ You 're good enough an actress to be invited to our Fenice theatre . ’ |
| 6 | As far as much of the rest of the world is concerned , we 're all just a bunch of queers . |
| 7 | ‘ We 're all just a bunch of crazies , ’ being one of them . |
| 8 | Film actors are not the only ones getting vastly rich : some pop stars command sums that would have been unthinkable only a decade ago . |
| 9 | She 's enjoying herself , we met her at John 's house I felt nervous this morning for sleeping home late although in fact I have been awake quite a lot in between , but |
| 10 | In Chapter 1 we argued that conscious awareness , the images and representations that people use to communicate with each other and the various forms of deliberate planning and foresight which they use are all partly a result of the myriad social relationships in which they are caught up , and partly a product of deep-rooted instincts and emotions . |
| 11 | ‘ You are all up a bit before your time . |
| 12 | The shops , Marina and Conference Centre are all just a stroll away . |
| 13 | I mean I walk around the town and I see a factory or a shop or a house , it only got to be empty about a week and all the windows are smashed . |
| 14 | The tenancy is to be monthly at a nominal rent of £2 per month payable in advance , ( I would suggest that this should be payable once a year and would be grateful for your agreement to this ) . |
| 15 | The strategy 's objective is to achieve a patient record that will be accessible wherever a patient is treated and to build on that record an entire clinical information system , so its success depends on the support of doctors . |
| 16 | To be effective therefore a framework must be set up which will allow expense to be apportioned and identified and variations detected . |
| 17 | If the leadership of educational institutions is to be effective then a number of fundamental changes are needed . |
| 18 | coming back would be one-many not a function . |
| 19 | A three-hour three-course lunch saturated with gin and tonic , Chablis and Rémy-Martin might be enjoyable once a month , but more frequently becomes a dangerous chore . |
| 20 | Many situations where the glider is very low and flying slowly are insoluble quite a time before the accident actually happens . |
| 21 | Imagine the physical feeling we would experience if we were high up a ladder and began to feel it slipping , or if we had a ‘ near miss ’ in a car . |
| 22 | LEFT Home computers were unheard-of only a couple of decades ago ; now they have become routine magic' . |
| 23 | However , an advance payment , called ACT , is due whenever a company pays dividends to its shareholders . |
| 24 | she is deaf twice a day |
| 25 | is that an Orkney way of doing it or is that just a sort of male thing ? |
| 26 | ‘ Or is that just an Eldar wearing a human mask ? ’ she asked . |
| 27 | The implication of this though is that where a member of staff makes a suggestion about the way the department should be run , where the divisional quality manager thinks that suggestion should not be taken aboard er , feedback has to be given and , and some reason why . |
| 28 | The second point is that I 've , the Americans I , I , it 's one of the promises about street life in second from the bottom , two weeks in the winter , four weeks in the summer , well I know to my cost erm through my ear being blasted which is why you 're a County Councillor anyway , that it 's been six weeks at the present time , we 've had a lot of lights going down , okay we 're trying to improve it , we had people walking into cars , er , er a few burglaries which I 'm pleased to say the police have helped out in , but if we 're going to change and get it down from a level of six weeks to two weeks as it is in the area I represent , is that not a question of putting extra resources in it and there 's no good putting promises unless we can deliver . |
| 29 | Is that not a co-operative ? |
| 30 | Does your husband accept that perhaps he ought to be looking after the baby alternate weeks , or is that not a solution to the problem ? |