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 | 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 . |
| 6 | When we faint we return to normal breathing and so fainting is a fail-safe mechanism for hyperventilation control . |
| 7 | 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 . |
| 8 | 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 . |
| 9 | 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 . |
| 10 | 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 . |
| 11 | 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 . |
| 12 | 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 . |
| 13 | The public bar was a large L shaped room , one half of the L obviously having been a separate snug before the modernisation . |
| 14 | 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 . |
| 15 | So defeat was a bitter blow to Dowding . |
| 16 | She was shivering , but it was not with the cold , nor even reaction to what apparently had been a near escape . |
| 17 | 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 . |
| 18 | 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 . |
| 19 | 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 . |
| 20 | 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 . |
| 21 | The text handling is relatively slow and any major keying-in is best done is a suitable application and them imported . |
| 22 | The fact that this approach to cultural differences is now largely discounted is a powerful aid to the acceptance of deaf people . |
| 23 | Driving through London in a strange car , even on a Sunday evening , would normally have been a terrifying prospect . |
| 24 | Their progress was hampered by the vast crowds and the cars that thronged what would normally have been a clear area but people soon scattered from their path as with lights flashing and sirens wailing they forged ahead . |
| 25 | One of the best known is a marine snail , Aplysia , whose study was pioneered by the American physiologist E. R. Kandel . |
| 26 | Since a great proportion of them were engaged in growing corn and other basic needs of life , there must already have been a considerable proportion of the European population who needed to be fed by the labour of others . |
| 27 | A dumb Brummie , a tough-nut Geordie , a light-fingered Scouser , a cheeky Cockernee — it could so easily have been a clichéd mess . |
| 28 | These young people were not only happy they were roaring drunk and there could easily have been a double inquest with that other young man . |
| 29 | It could just as easily have been a refused request to come home late or stay the night at a friend 's house . |
| 30 | And it could so easily have been a suicidal career move . |