Example sentences of "be [adv] [conj] a [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ Never have you been less than a living spirit . ’ |
| 2 | As numerous objectors pointed out , the amount spent annually by the government on research into renewable energy has been less than a tenth of the spending on nuclear research . |
| 3 | Now I want a top three medal , and I genuinely believe I can get one , ’ he said at the Luton social club where he runs one of the few silat classes in this country — there are less than a hundred active practitoners of the martial art in Britain . |
| 4 | The ‘ let it rip ’ days of Nicholas Ridley are over and a new package of environmentally-sensitive planning policies ( 2 ) has been put in its place , thanks to campaigning groups like CPRW . ’ |
| 5 | But the Foss men were famously militant , they had been ever since a young minister with lordly tastes and little scholarship had been foisted on them by the laird twelve years before and they had first boycotted him , then run him down the road on a cart . |
| 6 | IN HIS unorthodox pilgrimage there has been more than a normal share of ill-will , resentment and litigation . |
| 7 | It had been more than a long time , Erika reflected . |
| 8 | The smallest insect alive during the Age of Dinosaurs must have been more than a million times smaller than Brontosaurus . |
| 9 | In the previous half-century it could not have been more than a million and a half in all . |
| 10 | But much of Operation Gemini is about surveilance , observing known criminals and waiting for the right time to move in and make arrests , of which there have been more than a hundred and twenty since the operation started four weeks ago . |
| 11 | But that had been more than a dozen years ago , when Robbie 's family had been in better financial circumstances . |
| 12 | And when Kennedy was shot , the ‘ psycho ’ Hoover botched the FBI investigation personally , ignoring evidence that there might have been more than a single gunman involved , sending agents to question the background of the Warren Commission 's staff , punishing his own agents for failing to spot Oswald 's violent nature . |
| 13 | With a child 's resilience she had quickly adjusted to the loss of her mother , who had never been more than a glamorous appendage on the periphery of her world , and Sally had stepped in to fill the breach more than adequately . |
| 14 | Mary was holding a tiny fawn , and it could n't have been more than a few days old . |
| 15 | Sadleir arrived at Qatif on 21 June at a time when no European had been more than a few miles inland and no maps existed of the interior . |
| 16 | In modern Germany there are more than a hundred spas offering the ‘ cure ’ , and programmes of hydrotherapy are taken once or twice a year by millions of Germans . |
| 17 | Many are more than a hundred years old . |
| 18 | There are more than a hundred variables that go to make up this initial decision . |
| 19 | The carrot-shaped Attic peninsula dangles into the Aegean towards the Cyclades islands ; there are more than a hundred miles of hospitable Attic coastline , with plenty of good harbours from Skala Oropou in the north-east , past Laurion , just mentioned , round Sounion with its dockyards . |
| 20 | There are more than a hundred and fifty thousand heart attacks in your country every year . |
| 21 | , . There are more than a hundred thousand stroke victims in your country every year . |
| 22 | In fact , according to Austin there are more than a thousand of these acts which are performable in English , and unless the hearer or reader recognises which of these is being expressed by the utterances in question he or she has missed the point . |
| 23 | A world of gently impending walls and grades of French & Brigand d'Amour and Symphonie du Nouveau Monde are said by my partner Johny Adams to be excellent 7as , but there are more than a dozen others ( up to 8b ) to try . |
| 24 | Ca n't be more than a thousand miles . |
| 25 | The distance has been given as 4500 light-years , but may be as much as 7000 , in which case it must be more than a million times as luminous as the Sun . |
| 26 | Is it going to be more than a hundred ? |
| 27 | There had to be more than a dozen black bulges hiding under the foreskin . |
| 28 | There is no place , in which a man can move or sit , in which the outside of a book can be otherwise than an innocent and becoming spectacle . |
| 29 | And it may have been here that a Staufen protest to the pope was drawn up . |
| 30 | ‘ All happy families are alike but an unhappy family is unhappy after its own fashion , ’ observes Leo Tolstoy in the opening lines of Anna Karenina . |