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 Chocolate and chips are fine once in a while , but every day it 's a disaster , says Derek Cooper
6 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 .
7 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 .
8 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 ) .
9 This may not be obvious clinically in a sedated poorly perfused patient with a complicated infarction .
10 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 .
11 There was some scepticism as to whether performance would be good enough in a system built from the bottom up in objects .
12 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 .
13 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 .
14 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 … .
15 The waves there are small even in a storm .
16 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 .
17 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 .
18 The evening arrived ; the soup was served , and the bowls were empty again in a few seconds .
19 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 ) .
20 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 … ’
21 It might be thought that such tenets were unambiguous enough in a democracy to be assured the most rigorous defence .
22 Some of the species involved are rare both in a national and local context which , of necessity , limits the possibilities for discussion here .
23 ( When notes are close together in a low register they sound crude and clumsy , and fail to give a good bass to the harmony .
24 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 .
25 ‘ People in government should feel the way social processes are moving early , ’ he says , ‘ and that is possible only in a metropolis .
26 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 .
27 Looking , for instance , at grammatically equivalent substitutions , main is possible only in a , ajar only in b , disappear only in c , and hit only in d .
28 This implies that , if one is interested only in a limited number of eigenvalues , the power method is the obvious choice .
29 I have heard reports that it can be glimpsed in binoculars , but even with my × 20 I have been unable to find it — though it is clear enough in a 15-cm reflecting telescope , and I can just make it out with my 7.6-cm refractor .
30 Alum Pot is straight ahead in a plantation of trees and is reached on foot in a few minutes , arriving there simultaneously with Alum Pot Beck which enters the plantation and disappears into the depths .
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