Example sentences of "be [adv] [adj] a [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Now if that is correct perhaps a minister could say so and clear in explicit terms er because it is very , very important because increasingly er a number of firms act in er in er in in both capacities and indeed for the large firms I think many of us are aware of the difficulty that 's now arising and there are only half a dozen very large accountancy firms that are capable of providing accounting and auditing services in this country and indeed most of them are beneficiaries of this government 's largesse in awarding public service contracts er to a surprising degree and so the government will be well aware of the problem . |
| 2 | Never before had there been so savage a fiscal squeeze ; not since the thirties had there been a comparable increase in unemployment , now approaching 3 million . |
| 3 | The map gives some prominence to Lincoln and also names Lindsey ( meaning either the later Lindsey or possibly the county of Lincoln ) , and the map 's patron must have been just such a well-educated man with Lincolnshire connections as Richard de Bello , who was an MA . |
| 4 | I know I am not such a blameless one as should be saying it , but try and find it in your heart to be good to her , for she is lovely . ’ |
| 5 | And then : perhaps after all I am not such a deformed thing , he thought , and a sweet heady joy began to pulse through him . |
| 6 | It also shows that , if classed in groups natural to them , rather than in groups based on their remote descendants , the Burgess arthropods are not such a disparate lot . |
| 7 | There ca n't have been above half a dozen universities teaching drama and Bristol was the only one that was really reputed then . |
| 8 | Erm and so now rich peasants are actually actively seeking to join er associations but finding it difficult , I mean they have to be er pay an additional admission fee may be ten yuan or , or whatever , you know , usually far higher than the normal peasant or erm they have to get someone to actually put their name forward to say that you know they 're not such a bad bloke . |
| 9 | All I do know is that we 're very conscious a great deal of money 's been spent by the Council and by the Trust to try and make the place outside more inviting those tubs been put there er they been planted etc there 's a lot of litter there we 've put litter bins there there 's taxi rank there there 's lot 's of things been put there I think the problem is it is n't the people who do that I mean it 's the people who actually do the litter and it 's quite clear that we do go out we do tidy up but it happens and it 's a case of balance of what we can do and what you ca n't do but we do work at it I can assure you . |
| 10 | I am under such a constant mental and emotional strain . |
| 11 | The odds against your doing so are still half a trillion to one . |
| 12 | If the original figures totalled 120,000 men of military age , together with 100 professional soldiers , the entire population would have been nearly half a million , which again tallies well with other indications in the text . |
| 13 | We asked for their advice ( not all of them , there are nearly half a million users ! ) and the question that we asked was … |
| 14 | ‘ There have been about half a dozen desperate letters over the years . |
| 15 | Since then , there have been about half a dozen glitzy launches — featuring among others , the Home Secretary grinning into the television cameras , telling us that something was going to be done some time . |
| 16 | you know when Les , oh she says there 's been about half a dozen people at that paint shop , sends chops and changes she said she said , she said I have n't lived there for three and a half years |
| 17 | Firstly , let me say that you 're not alone — there are about half a million people in this country with a stammer severe enough to need help . |
| 18 | There are about half a dozen who regularly do and |
| 19 | During his time in the Army he had been exemplary as far as conduct in battle and general discipline were concerned , but he would not have been as traditional a British soldier as he was if he had n't stretched a principle or two during life in barracks . |
| 20 | The open arable fields of the village had been enclosed by the agreement of the twenty-three owners of the strips in 1696 , but 7,740 acres of common pastures and rough moorland wastes remained undivided until the enclosure award of 1816 created the rectangular fields and straight lanes that are now such a prominent feature of the landscape . |
| 21 | ‘ I 'm hopeless with the till — I ring up the same price for everything and I 'm always worried a keen-eyed viewer will spot it ! ’ |
| 22 | No , it , it 's , it , it , it 's coloured like a fire , fire , fire engine red and all the other things , but it , it 's a commercial vehicle a roll-on roll-off type of vehicle , which you can buy commercially and , and adapt for Fire Service use , and there 's erm I should think there must be about half a dozen pods now , erm at High Wootton , in fact police services are using it , Thames Valley Police I remember coming up here to , to take the idea back , erm I saw yesterday at Hungerford , er the police there going with their pods to , |
| 23 | Jacqueline Pardoe ( Mrs Mitton ) writes : ‘ I have been determined … to be as good a traditional mother as I can while at the same time demonstrating to my daughters that it is possible to combine a family with an independent and complementary ‘ other life ’ . |
| 24 | Plainly Henry Ward Beecher , the great New York preacher of puritanism , should either have avoided having tumultuous extra-marital love-affairs or chosen a career which did not require him to be quite such a prominent advocate of sexual restraint ; though one can not entirely fail to sympathise with the bad luck which linked him in the mid-1870s with the beautiful feminist and advocate of free love , Victoria Woodhull , a lady whose convictions made privacy difficult . |
| 25 | To avoid losing what could be over half a million lost business opportunities each year telephone training consultants , Teleconomy , were engaged to help us provide a more effective service . |
| 26 | NEXT week 's vote on the ordination of women priests could be very close a new poll shows . |
| 27 | The Town Council were so stupid there , we they 're , the Magistrate threw it out , said , no , you ca n't have a licence , because it 'd be too big a public nuisance , they decided to appeal . |
| 28 | ‘ Black people , although they 've been here such a long time , have n't assimilated into the business community , or education , as they have in America . |
| 29 | ( Modern LP styli are around half a thousandth of an inch ) . |
| 30 | Even during our period a great part of agriculture was conducted in ways which would have been quite familiar a hundred , even two hundred years earlier , which was natural since striking results could still be achieved by generalising the best methods known to pre-industrial farming . |