Example sentences of "[noun sg] be [adv] a [det] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Little & Large , Bobby Davro and all of The Copycats gang are just a few top comedians to start this way . |
| 2 | Timetables , transportation , advertising , publicity , staffing and administration of the exhibition , travel and accommodation of yourself and staff and perhaps the client , as well as printing and production of suitable literature are just a few of the many items comprising your work when you recommend an exhibition be undertaken . |
| 3 | They are quite useful accessories but wonderful knitwear can be made without either , there are many other ways of introducing colour into garments ; stripes , tuck , intarsia using hold position and Swiss darning are just a few . |
| 4 | Swimming , tennis , horse riding , golf and fishing are just a few of the other activities available in these delightful villages and for those who like to be adventurous while on holiday , white water rafting can be arranged in the River Saalach , not far from Saalbach and Hinterglemm . |
| 5 | ‘ Do n't you realise that the enemy are only a few yards from these positions ? |
| 6 | Evidence of this can be seen in the surprising number of items surviving from the late 19th and early 20th centuries , which one could be forgiven for thinking were only a few decades old . |
| 7 | All the assassin had to do was take the piece of thread as I did , pull it very slowly , which hardly makes a sound , and murder is only a few seconds away . |
| 8 | Because the sandwich is only a few angstroms thick it transmits visible light — but it reflects longer wavelength heat radiation . |
| 9 | Morton 's controversial final chapter is only a few thousand words long and attempts to sum up the marriage now but TODAY has discovered new revelations showing how close Diana came to walking out — and still might . |
| 10 | Carpenter/mortician is also a former Baptist minister who claims : ‘ Building your own casket is therapeutic . ’ |
| 11 | The whole complex is only a few hundred years old . |
| 12 | When nest building , he will return to his nest with bits of weed to cement it into place , even when the diver is only a few inches away . |
| 13 | The end of the bedstead was only a few inches away from the drawers , but in her new tiny condition it appeared to be miles . |
| 14 | In the first draft of this book , I left out any description of the young women speaking , and the introduction to each chapter was only a few lines . |
| 15 | He stuck one thumb out when the car was still a few hundred yards away . |
| 16 | However , the altitude range is only a few kilometres , and therefore with a few exceptions the major condensate on view may be ammonia in all regions . |
| 17 | Its print run is not a few thousand — but 54,000 ! |
| 18 | The aerobic content may help you lose some weight but exercise is not a cure-all . |
| 19 | It seemed as if the Führer was right yet again , and that the end of the Russian campaign was only a few weeks away . |
| 20 | Selling the piano was only a few months into the marriage . |
| 21 | The cart was only a few feet away but he shrugged his shoulders and headed towards it . |
| 22 | But the meeting was only a few hours old when the news broke that Winnie Mandela would face serious charges arising out of the murder in January 1989 of 14 year old activist , Stompie Moeketsi Seipei . |
| 23 | In some places the peat was only a few feet deep whereas in others it went down several yards . |
| 24 | The cage was now a few fe et off the ground and the noise , which sounded like metal being torn apart , was almost deafening . |
| 25 | Every time he went into one of those phone-booths , he had a mental image of something going wrong , of a faster-than-usual trace , of a plain-clothes policeman being only a few yards away , taking the alarm on his personal radio and walking up to the phone-booth . |
| 26 | The opening to the organ is only a few millimetres in diameter , and so it acts rather like a pin-hole camera , but one that focuses infra-red heat radiation instead of light . |
| 27 | The cuckoo is always a few steps in the lead , because of its extraordinary survival factors . |
| 28 | ‘ The police station is only a few minutes walk away . ’ |
| 29 | The mercantile community itself has different , indeed competing interests : manufacturer v. dealer , seller v. buyer , banker v. customer , local merchant v. foreign merchant are just a few examples . |
| 30 | Peppered beef , vegetable lattice bake and herring in tomato sauce are just a few that have been requested lately . |