Example sentences of "[be] [adv] a [noun sg] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Beliefs are not conjured up out of nothing but are rather a response to experience . |
| 2 | And there are rather a lot of photographs of one particular consultant obstetrician gynaecologist , Yehudi Gordon . |
| 3 | Oh , we 're talking about sixth forms , Bill , and we 're talking about all schools which have sixth forms and you 're conscious that there are rather a lot of schools with sixth forms in the county and who will feel that it is a significant change . |
| 4 | Darren had been dead a couple of months ; I had fallen out with my father and I 'd been in London for most of the summer , staying with Aunt Ilsa and her long-term companion , whose only name appeared to be Mr Gibbon , which I thought made him sound like a cat for some reason … |
| 5 | Yet elections are rarely a verdict on a single issue , especially one concerned with foreign affairs . |
| 6 | This would avoid civil actions , which are often defeated because individual victims , even when they decide to act co-operatively , are rarely a match for corporations who decide it is better to be prudent than just . |
| 7 | There had been rather a lot of funerals at Low Birk Hatt and they were n't inexpensive . |
| 8 | This role may have been rather a disappointment to both sides , as General Gallagher said when he got back from Hanoi , although by opposing the clearance of wartime US mines that had been laid in Haiphong harbour , thus preventing an early return of French troopships , Gallagher seems to have come down rather heavily on the Vietminh side . |
| 9 | Furthermore , the convertibility crisis appears now to have been predominantly a problem of financial adjustment rather than one stemming from a crisis in world trade ( see Chapter 6 ) . |
| 10 | Wars between nations , he suggests , are wholly a product of people 's territorial natures . |
| 11 | There is undeniably some truth in that but , when you look in any detail at Montgomerie 's so-called failures since he won the Scandinavian Masters in 1991 , it has more often than not been less a question of his losing the tournament than of someone else winning it . |
| 12 | For the elderly , the history of welfare provision seems to have been less a story of steady progress over the centuries than an oscillation between phases of relative generosity and meanness . |
| 13 | Complaints against police are obviously a problem for all of us , and we as managers throughout the rank structure are concerned about the complaints and it 's simply that , whilst I was in operational command , I had a direct influence in hopefully preventing complaints . |
| 14 | Individual differences are obviously a consequence of the particular past experience of each person who has thereby acquired a unique set of skills based on a natural endowment which was also unique . |
| 15 | Yes , I mean , I feel very strongly in terms of women 's rights , but I think there are obviously a lot of differences between women and you ca n't generalize women , the same as you ca n't generalize individual personalities traits on for men . |
| 16 | Bradford was ‘ not troubled with them ’ [ fascists ] , ‘ The Movement does not receive much support ’ in Dewsbury , and there appear to have been only a couple of modest meetings in Huddersfield . |
| 17 | She 'd given him no encouragement — their encounters had been on a light , friendly basis only — but she knew that he 'd long since stopped seeing Louise , and there 'd been only a couple of short-term girlfriends since . |
| 18 | From there it had been only a matter of time until he was given his own prison . |
| 19 | At that time she had known few people in the district , for they were among the first of the incomers , and Camille had been only a baby with the consequent ailments , accidents and dissatisfactions . |
| 20 | It had vanished as silently as if it had been only a figment of her imagination . |
| 21 | OK , he said all clothes are basically a way of attracting the opposite sex . |
| 22 | All three types of pattern , ( written , diagrammatical and digital or Form ) , are based on a tension , or gauge , swatch ; without this , the pattern would not exist at all in any form , because all knitting patterns are basically a notation of how to knit a shape with a given yarn and stitch type , mathematically calculated from the original swatch . |
| 23 | Apples are basically a mixture of water , sugar , dietary fibre and little else . |
| 24 | Patterns for these are readily available and are basically a petal of one double crochet , one half treble , and a few trebles , one half treble and one double crochet all into a chain loop behind the previous row of petals . |
| 25 | The witches are apparently a representation of the triple goddess : one looks old like the crone , another is the mother and the third is supposedly the Virgin because she carries her rag doll around with her . |
| 26 | I am only a man like any other , and you are a very pretty girl . |
| 27 | ‘ I am only a secretary at the château . |
| 28 | I must try to remember , Celia said to herself , that I am only a statistic to Dr Shalcross , possibly a case history she might wish to quote , anonymously , because I do n't happen to run true to form . |
| 29 | First of all it had been merely a sense of unease , an occasional visitor . |
| 30 | At first it had been merely a matter of borrowing her mother 's scarves and veils , draping these around herself or twisting them into turbans and sashes . |