Example sentences of "be [adv] [verb] a [noun sg] " in BNC.
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1 | Local authorities are nervously anticipating a flood of judicial review challenges over community care . |
2 | Whereas Mancini 's version assumes a council increasingly split by faction , as the Woodvilles manipulated it against Hastings and other supporters of Gloucester , the council seems in fact to have been successfully holding a balance between the various elements in government . |
3 | Whereas Mancini 's version assumes a council increasingly split by faction , as the Woodvilles manipulated it against Hastings and other supporters of Gloucester , the council seems in fact to have been successfully holding a balance between the various elements in government . |
4 | They are mostly using a mixture of APL and assessment on demand to gain the award . |
5 | Now four English teenagers are dead following a canoeing accident off the Dorset coast , intensifying the concerns of parents all over Britain as they watch their children set off with their mates , while wondering what the chances are that something might go horribly wrong . |
6 | His ankle bone had been badly grazed a week before by a metal panel that he had been working on which had slipped from his grasp . |
7 | I am slowly becoming a travelling salesman called Pete . |
8 | It would have been better placed a couple of weeks later ; at least the readers would have been familiar with the mood and pace of the album . |
9 | So that 's that 's really what happened , and it was n't until eighteen sixty , or eighteen fifty eight , fifty nine in time , that the Railway directors agreed to reopen this branch line , as they 'd been basically promised a lot more traffic . |
10 | Certainly within universities the more senior the the member of staff the more likely they are apparently to use a desk as a barrier erm so that they sort of er y'know you see them from behind a desk , when you 're at the front of the desk and they 're behind the desk . |
11 | THOSE two holy sinners , Jim Bakaar and Jimmy Swaggart , are apparently running a magazine from their prison cells . |
12 | My dear , you are on the young side — I am only stating a fact , the kind of fact the world sees — to be living in a kind of bachelor 's establishment , so naturally one asks oneself where is that mysterious lady , her mother ? |
13 | I am constantly called a fool , because I have not that literary indigestion which throws up what it feeds on , every week or so . ’ |
14 | As regards myself I rarely ever tire or find the day too long though I am constantly walking a circumstance which being considered much to my health being better able to bear fatigue than when last I walked over the hills with you and I found your advice not to take spirits very very judicious . |
15 | This is a response from workers who are perhaps seeking a respite from a tedious job , or who wish to defy what they regard as an oppressive management . |
16 | If we are only monitoring a process of purification , it may not be necessary to identify impurities , but unless we do , we can not be sure how sensitive the check on purity is . |
17 | New technology and more international competition will eventually create more jobs than they destroy , as they have for the past two centuries , if they are only given a chance to work . |
18 | These capital schemes , though extremely welcome , are only going a part of the way towards the complete overhaul of the majority of the fixed plant which is required within Wimpey Minerals . |
19 | This is really rather unfair because the only time we can really define correctly is in hindsight — when we have already found the solution and are merely inventing a definition that would have led us there ! |
20 | If two people are merely sharing a house or flat , e.g. two friends , unless the underwriters have been asked specifically to cover both persons ' property , there would only be cover for the property of the Policyholder . |
21 | This is another skewed reality , of course , for in their pursuit of the ‘ prig ’ they are merely following a version of justice which depends on blind acquiescence to establishment values of honesty . |
22 | What right have I to criticise so strongly ivory traders in China who are merely making a living , while I am sitting here killing unsuspecting animals for no reason at all ? |
23 | If you have existing furniture and are merely re-doing a room , you will almost certainly know what you want to keep and what to replace — or re-upholster , re-cover , re-finish or re-paint . |
24 | He 'd had to walk on for quite a bit after that and it was quite late in the day when it occurred to him that the villagers had probably been just having a joke with him and that they would no doubt be feeling anxious by then and starting to worry . |
25 | Apollinaire has been aptly called a company promoter of the avant-garde , responsible , as it were , for the successful flotations in Paris of Cubism and futurism . |
26 | It is most widely used in Pakistan , and all but the poorest quality Mori Bokharas are normally given a lustre wash . |
27 | In the past , WWF has been largely fulfilling a fire brigade role . |
28 | Some are uncertainly eating a sandwich or a slice of toast . |
29 | I no longer believe that I am just writing a treatment of her life . |
30 | Some JAA countries are already considering a ticket tax . |