Example sentences of "[vb past] [adv] [be] a [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Once again , the alteration which he and Ferguson made together was a long way from a major structural change . |
| 2 | The beginning of life was an ‘ event ’ which produced a living cell and every change involving that cell that occurred thereafter was a further ‘ event ’ in the evolutionary process . |
| 3 | The methodology used here is a three-stage operation ; first , the binary raster files or single variable files ( SVFs ) are expanded into character form , compressed ( Held 1983 ) , and a row number added ; second , the files area is sorted by the row number so that all records with the same row number are contiguous in the file ; third , a count is made of all the rasters in each row which are simulated to be inside the required areas . |
| 4 | The instrument used initially was a wide band receiver in the 25–80kHz range , adapted from a ‘ bat detector ’ . |
| 5 | I think you 'd better be a financial adviser — one of the bank 's backroom boys . |
| 6 | One , what is it , it 'd better be a good one |
| 7 | If they 'd only been a few inches longer ; or perhaps if his upper body was n't so big then his legs would n't be so noticeable . |
| 8 | He 'd always been a superb judge of character , but now he doubted himself . |
| 9 | Okay how about if we added here 's a tricky one see if you can work out how we 're going to do it . |
| 10 | She 'd never been a raving beauty , it was true , but at the moment she looked a wreck . |
| 11 | She 'd never been a proper mother and I hated the way she was acting with that man . |
| 12 | The smooth descent was bliss followed immediately be a left turn onto Lowna Road and a lung-crushing climb up to Hutton-le-Hole . |
| 13 | All that programme needed now was a suitable label , and Johnson found it : he would create a " Great Society " . |
| 14 | When , therefore , I say ‘ The colour I saw yesterday was a white colour , , or ‘ The sensation I feel is one of tightness ’ , in both cases the attribute I affirm of the colour or of the other sensation is mere resemblance — simple likeness to sensations I have had before , and which have had those names bestowed upon them . |
| 15 | She had spent two years solidly on the programme and felt now was a good time for a change . |
| 16 | The lamb he was after he saw now was a black and white one that had been sickly and Jack had kept in the lambing-shed a long time . |
| 17 | The model presented below is a simplified version of that contained in Carlin and Soskice ( 1990 ) . |
| 18 | However , by adept diplomacy , he was able to impose a form of pax Britannica on what had hitherto been a turbulent part of Africa and thereby maintain the conditions best suited for fostering trade . |
| 19 | There was further a need to replace what had hitherto been a haphazard method of payment by a more formalised scheme involving the payment of a specified sum on the completion of each flat . |
| 20 | What had hitherto been a sporadic , locally-based protest movement directed against specific wars thus acquired an international dimension of steadily increasing significance and coalesced around these two much broader issues which are of considerably more lasting and widespread concern . |
| 21 | He had rendered her almost mindless there and it had all been a cheap trick , not even part of his wish to get her to accept her father . |
| 22 | Now she finally had to admit that it had all been a total failure . |
| 23 | It had all been a far cry from the excitement of her engagement to the handsome young houseman when the Stevenses had celebrated with a party in the garden of their home . |
| 24 | Perhaps it really had all been a terrible misunderstanding . |
| 25 | And as if it had all been a bad dream , Tara wakes up soon after . |
| 26 | He had given up trying to explain to Willi that Therese was no longer a star , had not been a star for eighteen years , and even then had only been a small rising star . |
| 27 | In the Titan he had only been a partial paladin — merely part of a vaster amplified body which also comprised Tundrish and Valence and Zed Juron and , oh yes , Akbar too . |
| 28 | There had only been a few sharp yelps of pain . |
| 29 | But Derek Law , deputy director of the SSD , said there had only been a few teething problems . |
| 30 | Even in the early 1960s there had only been a few brave individuals . |