Example sentences of "[ex0] be [adv] a [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ There are probably a great many parks and recreation grounds that were given to local authorities by local benefactors or acquired by public subscription where the wording in the deeds implies that there is a charitable trust . |
| 2 | For the reader , however , an art defined as national , made as cohesive and marketable as possible , may be less than convincing as an entity ; it may be that within a survey or an anthology there are just a limited number of interesting and attractive works . |
| 3 | There are also a vast number of chemicals in food which have been recently introduced , the effects of which are unknown . |
| 4 | In addition to the branches under the control of these three deputy secretaries , there are also a legal branch , a finance branch , an organisation branch ( dealing with staffing and accommodation within the DES ) and a library . |
| 5 | I should add that there are also a great many flowers that seem to have rather negative meanings , such as the lovely little lawn daisy , which apparently means ‘ delay ’ , or ‘ return after a few days when I may give you an answer ’ — not necessarily the most suitable text to put on a bookmark . |
| 6 | In addition to the morning papers , there are also a substantial number of evening newspapers . |
| 7 | There are also a wide variety of more drastic therapies ranging from laser beam therapy to selective lipectomy which is the insertion of a hypotonic solution into the problem areas and suction of lipolysed fat . |
| 8 | There are also a wide range of training schemes , run both by employers , often involving day-release schemes , and by the Manpower Services Commission . |
| 9 | There are also a good many ‘ users ’ of the service who are treated involuntarily , where a family member , friend or professional has determined that he or she shall receive treatment and care whether it is wanted or not , because it is judged to be in the best interests of the individual 's health or safety . |
| 10 | There are also a disconcerting number of rustlings and clickings , perhaps because the recording is so close you can almost hear the stardust settling . |
| 11 | There are also a large number of tactical decisions to be made as you sail upwind . |
| 12 | There are also a large number of agencies and bodies which are not actually part of central government departments but which are funded by central government and staffed by civil servants and which perform public functions : examples include the Equal Opportunities Commission , the Police Complaints Authority , the Monopolies and Mergers Commission and prison authorities . |
| 13 | There are also a large number of adherents er to my knowledge in Edinburgh , people who have moved from the highlands for work . |
| 14 | There are also a large number of bodies ' accounts which C. and A.G. audits by agreement with the body and the government department concerned . |
| 15 | There are a very large number of cows munching in the green pastures of my constituency , but there are also a large number of people who are employed by the Milk Marketing Board . |
| 16 | There are thus a considerable number who appear in the autobiographies as simple vignettes . |
| 17 | And there are already a wide range of applications under way in the US where the system been available since October . |
| 18 | There are already a large number of troops in the Ulster Defence Regiment . |
| 19 | There are clearly a large number of factors which could account for this difference . |
| 20 | I think it 's easy to be glib about this , there are clearly an awful lot of landlords and landladies around who provide an excellent service and merely want a reasonable rent in return for offering a decent service . |
| 21 | For the widest selection , it is better to apply to a specialist herb nursery , of which there are now a good many . |
| 22 | To give more power to the carver 's elbow there are now a wide range of electric carving systems , and here we test a selection of machines and tools that may offer more than a saving in time |
| 23 | There are now a wide range of postgraduate degrees in diplomas with an EFL orientation . |
| 24 | This is an area which has expanded enormously in the last twenty years , and there are now a large number of independent schools ( of varying degrees of professionalism and quality ) , as well as state sector Colleges of F.E. and H.E . |
| 25 | That there are now a large number of techs in the country with no young people waiting , modern apprenticeships are going to help that process even further and why are n't modern apprenticeships being welcomed ? |
| 26 | There are still a great many old-stagers who still insist on keeping up the old style — 13th January . |
| 27 | Although there are many boreholes and seismic records , there are still a great many more unsurveyed islands . |
| 28 | More so if your hard disk is yesterday 's technology ( there are still a good number of 65 millisecond access Seagates and Miniscribes in use ) , as the difference between memory and disk read rates is astonishing . |
| 29 | Although the entry in the general dictionary understandably includes a variety of collocations that are representative of other domains ( e.g. ’ vote ’ , ’ politic ’ , ’ conservative ’ , ’ society ’ , and ’ public ’ , all of which suggest an origin in parliamentary proceedings ) , there are still a large number of words common to both entries . |
| 30 | Our reason for doing that is stated in the amendment : there are still a large number of unanswered questions . |