Example sentences of "be [adv] [conj] a [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | and er , I get on the courses is the fact that that is very good attendance sort of thing for you to see T N T Express has been rather than a depot . |
| 2 | As she passed through the channel there had been less than a foot clearance between the ship 's sides and the concrete wharf . |
| 3 | the motive was to steal scrap metal from the company the amount of metal would have been less than a couple of hundred pounds so quite a minor incident in itself . |
| 4 | After two hours , I reached firmer ground but became concerned that I could not see a four hundred foot escarpment which , according to the map , should have been less than a mile ahead . |
| 5 | I realise that I had been less than a block away , watching the drugstore explode . |
| 6 | Had it really been less than a month ago ? |
| 7 | I asked him what the problem was and he told us that when people are together and a lot of energy is being created through tension , it can manifest itself in equipment failures . ’ |
| 8 | The basic requirements of the rule of law , therefore , are merely that a system of law , understood as lex , exists as a result of the establishment of legislative , executive and judicial offices . |
| 9 | In the UK , the institutional mechanics are broadly that a government 's intended expenditure plans for the coming four years are drawn up in the autumn of each year , with the upcoming year being the dominant period for consideration . |
| 10 | You 're constantly and a motorway going through your house so they give you less than the pro than the market value |
| 11 | He could see the image clearly enough in his mind 's eye ( since that night no two rememberings had been more than a minute apart ) but even the most basic sketch eluded his hand . |
| 12 | It 's been more than a year since a report was published on their position . |
| 13 | Hardly any part of it stood more than waist high now , much was covered in grass or blackthorn bushes , and it could never have been more than a chapel anyway . |
| 14 | Yet he felt convinced it had been more than a dream . |
| 15 | The ‘ new ’ systems being used in the Gulf have all been more than a decade in development . |
| 16 | Nevertheless it is my belief that without us , feminism would never have been more than a caucus of the broad left . |
| 17 | I 've never been more than a dabbler but I 've always had an eye for a painter and I saw at once that he was one . |
| 18 | Since the press seem to take any and every chance they can to doubt his ability to play , this article , and indeed all your support over the last few months , has been more than a pleasure to read . |
| 19 | We do not know how they were elected ; but in practice it can hardly have been more than a co-optation . |
| 20 | The loser then was Ray Laccohee who might well have been more than a match for Dale overall had he played more competition golf . |
| 21 | An officer for nearly 40 years , he should have been more than a match for a 24-year-old civilian but the first brush between the two sides , though neither commander was present in person , suggested otherwise . |
| 22 | Send one of them to talk to this chap Jordan — Fowler will do it very well ; he 'd have been more than a match for the Ancient Mariner . |
| 23 | Mar was initially joined by eighteen lords , bringing with them some 5,000 men , which should have been more than a match for the 1,500 regular troops stationed in Scotland . |
| 24 | By 1953 , the refusal that such dressiness displayed had spread to a hitherto unexpected and unexplained location : the working-class boys and girls who , congregating around various London centres , had assumed what had been up until a couple of years previously a homosexual style , the Edwardian Look . |
| 25 | Research Projects : A number of studies have already been completed , others are underway and a number are in preparatory phases . |
| 26 | I mention these matters because they show that to accept the Woolwich principle in one or other of its forms would appear to involve a choice of what the law should be rather than a decision as to what it is . |
| 27 | It might not be so if a licence agreement includes terms to the effect that the licensor will himself make a further copy available to the licensee in the event of failure of the original copy . |
| 28 | This could hardly be so if a conception of such connections was no part of neuroscience . |
| 29 | It seemed as if it would not be long before a treatment was found for every disease . |
| 30 | With the housing market still struggling to recover , the Bonners may not be moving in the very near future — but it 's rare for follies to come on the market , especially ones you can live in — so it may not be long before a buyer comes along keen to take up residence in Enoch 's Tower . |