Example sentences of "[adv] [verb] [be] a [adj] " in BNC.
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1 | ‘ To say that I have been badly treated is a gross understatement . |
2 | So Frye is a one-time KGB mole who 's slept with drab Duckham 's ex-wife à la Bill Haydon and George Smiley . |
3 | From these principles he argues that the only form of the state which can be morally justified is a minimal state which is limited to the protection of citizens against force , theft , and fraud and to the enforcement of contracts . |
4 | It had long stopped being a remote dream to Rose . |
5 | So listening is an important communication tool . |
6 | The sudden impact of being in a situation of which you have long dreamed is a temporary high , soon destroyed by the dread possibility of them all going away again . |
7 | When we faint we return to normal breathing and so fainting is a fail-safe mechanism for hyperventilation control . |
8 | There is also a small late building on a totally different alignment ( almost east-west ) which could perhaps have been a small Christian shrine , erected to counteract pagan influence . |
9 | As this met the requirements of the hotel , serving customers would merely have been a needless waste of effort and resources which could be profitably siphoned off elsewhere . |
10 | Maybe I was worried that someone else would read my diary , but if so this worry could only have been a slight one : I was much too careful to afford anyone the opportunity to snoop . |
11 | Such an equilibrium could only have been a temporary one , being based upon the fear of a common enemy , rather than on a positive material joint interest . |
12 | Zen 's barking background could only have been a big plus the day he found a newborn baby whose entire experience of life was going to be lying abandoned for a few hours by a creek near Plymouth . |
13 | For these , it seems obvious , Hitler 's public association with the radical ‘ solution of the Jewish Question ’ and the linking of the Führer to the widespread knowledge and rumours of the extermination of the Jews in the east , can only have been a further negative feature of his image . |
14 | But even at this date the alteration in emphasis can only have been a conscious attempt to attune to the wider audience , if still at that time mainly within Bavaria , which was beginning to show interest in Hitler in 1923 , and an awareness that anti-Marxism had a wider potential appeal than the mere repetition of anti-Jewish paroxysms of hate . |
15 | Alec had been an F in first year , an F in second year and he was worried — no , perhaps terrified is a better word — that he would end up an F even in his third year . |
16 | The public bar was a large L shaped room , one half of the L obviously having been a separate snug before the modernisation . |
17 | But if it did , it was apparently to have been a big affair — no mere helicopter-borne ‘ surgical strike ’ — in which sheer weight of numbers and firepower could have been expected to guarantee ultimate success . |
18 | So defeat was a bitter blow to Dowding . |
19 | So did is an anaphoric verb phrase ; that is to say , its referential properties operate not directly , but indirectly , through a previously mentioned verb phrase , in this case expired last Thursday , which must be re-applied , this time with John as subject . |
20 | She was shivering , but it was not with the cold , nor even reaction to what apparently had been a near escape . |
21 | At this point Joan got a surprise visitor ; Vera Long had been a technical instructor in Occupational Therapy in York area hospitals , and enthused about Joan 's marvellous dogs . |
22 | Or if you 're going to do it the same as we 've done these it should be S A Y E D so said is a funny one . |
23 | Like most families then Jill did n't have a fridge so shopping was a daily event though she had a ventilated larder to store some perishables . |
24 | Thus forecasting is an essential element in environmental analysis , and it is concerned with developing plausible projections of the direction , scope , speed , and intensity of environmental change . |
25 | And the Cid assembled his chief captains and knights and people , and said unto them , Kinsmen and friends and vassals , hear me : to-day has been a good day , and to-morrow shall be a better day . |
26 | The text handling is relatively slow and any major keying-in is best done is a suitable application and them imported . |
27 | Real ‘ hands-on ’ training in online searching is an important element in the education of end-users in computerized information retrieval . |
28 | The fact that this approach to cultural differences is now largely discounted is a powerful aid to the acceptance of deaf people . |
29 | The high degree of CEO involvement already noted is an integrating factor and another is the strong orientation of FRG industry to a standards and systems approach . |
30 | Driving through London in a strange car , even on a Sunday evening , would normally have been a terrifying prospect . |