Example sentences of "[adv] [verb] [be] a [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Voters tell pollsters that the electoral outcome they most favour is a coalition of Socialists and the United Left . |
| 2 | It was obviously made to stand up with its foot on something which at first I could not make out for all the dust and dirt but eventually realised was a skull . |
| 3 | Every game between the teams since has been a struggle for superiority and status with Dundee in the role of the local aristocrat and St Johnstone the perennial grousebeater . |
| 4 | How the heavy seeds of goat 's rue become so widely dispersed is a mystery ; nor is there a satisfactory explanation for the very large numbers of Michaelmas daisies . |
| 5 | Remember that suicide only stopped being a crime in 1956 and until then people were imprisoned if they were found to have attempted suicide . |
| 6 | This label was further obscured by the fact that the person so designated was a support teacher for one year group and was then timetabled as a subject teacher for another year group . |
| 7 | What I 'd suddenly recalled was a picture hanging over the altar in the caravan ; this in turn had reminded me of one of the statues over the south porch of the Cathedral . |
| 8 | The beach at Barra ( population 1500 ) was a different story from the day before — blue sky and lesser wind , so landing was a routine non-event . |
| 9 | The almost universal impression that the Government , until recently , thought making things no longer greatly mattered is a misunderstanding , he says . |
| 10 | Highly Recommended is a course for young trainees in the hotel and catering industry . |
| 11 | For twelve years I had greatly enjoyed being a guest of some of the members of the Honourable Company of Edinburgh Golfers on their championship links of Muirfield on the coast of East Lothian , where once or twice as a boy I had played with my grandfather . |
| 12 | In an attempt to compensate for this and to represent what I can only assume is a minority interest for your readership , my entry consists of a substantial majority of jazzers . |
| 13 | Mr Murdoch bought the firm for $25m in 1989 and convinced Mr Honey that what he had inadvertently built was a publishing company , not a maker of high-tech electronics . |
| 14 | And so it was that she died alone in a mental hospital — as Eliot told Violet Schiff , one of the few who had known them both from their earliest days together , death could only have been a deliverance for her . |
| 15 | Now , I do n't think we know what was the exact Sterling equivalent of the fall in our reserves during the last financial year , but it can only have been a minority of that total of £1and1/2 ; billion of public expenditure which was met neither by the product of taxation nor by borrowing from the public . |
| 16 | Our respective manners proved so widely different , that it would have been quite presumptuous in me to do anything but separate from an undertaking upon which I could only have been a clog . ’ |
| 17 | Rune muttered what could only have been a string of invective in his own language as he released his hold on her . |
| 18 | The French had obviously suffered a debâcle but , in itself , the opening up of the frontier with China might only have been a prelude to Chinese invasion and ensuing catastrophe . |
| 19 | At the doctor 's I generally last four minutes before collapsing whilst trying to describe the muscle pain which he knows is a muscle pain but which I know he 's only saying is a muscle pain to disguise the seriousness of his true diagnosis . |
| 20 | ‘ Obviously having been a player here I desperately hope the club can pull out of trouble . ’ |
| 21 | Because of this view I have , I believe Alfieri need not necessarily have been a lawyer as almost any other outsider would have done the job just as well . |
| 22 | All that is necessarily involved is a sense of belonging that excludes indifference to the group as well as alienation from it . |
| 23 | ‘ She was n't clean enough to have been a harem girl . |
| 24 | She is a founder member of the Medau Society , qualifying as a Medau teacher in 1958 and taught for ILEA for 20 years and now greatly enjoys being a class member . |
| 25 | Her life hitherto had been a preparation — she recognized that now . |
| 26 | So does being a salmon . |
| 27 | The quality buildings will be let — Broadgate is now 95 per cent leased — but slowly developers will realise they have to convert the bad space which I can only say is a lot of classified DIY . ’ |
| 28 | The statement that we have just heard is a statement from a double opt-out Government who have isolated Britain — |
| 29 | You see the piece I just read is a monologue and if I 'd known there was a competition for it I 'd have sent it there rather than |
| 30 | What he had first taken for height he soon realized was a product of high — very high — heels , and he guessed that without the lifts she would be around five foot , pleasantly featured , with a round face and perfectly round brown eyes that looked almost serene until he realized how hard they were . |