Example sentences of "be [adv] [prep] a [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Comedians and sportsmen , who are mostly from a working-class backround , will be limited to the OBEs , MBEs and CBEs . |
| 2 | Bangladeshi infants are constantly in a busy social and tactile environment , whereas Welsh babies grow up in smaller households in which independence is encouraged . |
| 3 | In contemporary societies these are necessarily of a cultural or social nature ; nationality and territory being crude and highly approximate signifiers of shared ancestry . |
| 4 | However , a group of assessors under the President of Ukraine and President Kravchuk himself are obviously of a different opinion ; they are credited with the authorship of the agreement . |
| 5 | On the first issue , teachers are obviously in a crucial position to detect cases of abuse of children in their care . |
| 6 | Further , Curtis had informed Grant that the word on the streets was that the recent outbreak of violence and killing had been all about a territorial dispute between rival Triad and Mafia gangs . |
| 7 | It was n't enough ; it had n't been enough for a long time . |
| 8 | Earlier marriages with fewer children means that couples are together for a long time after their children have left home . |
| 9 | It is assumed that the fact that teachers and pupils are together in a special classroom implies the presence of an educational programme relevant to the development of children ; also that the presence of a teacher provides effective educational programmes … in practice none of these desiderata have been met . |
| 10 | It 's claimed that people feel uncomfortable if they 're plunged into a group of people who are perhaps from a different social class or background say . |
| 11 | This is what they teach fighters in Britain and that 's why most British fighters are only of a certain calibre . |
| 12 | In view of this , proposals for the northern part of the Section are only at a preliminary stage , and are therefore not included in this leaflet . |
| 13 | This to-one-side posture of novelist and novel explains how it is that Raskolnikov and Marmeladov are pointedly at a loose end while Crime and Punishment is anything but pointedly sociological . |
| 14 | And , as I say , we 've been together for a long time and the appointment , the changeover of the appointments |
| 15 | er just one after thought , Dennis mentioned teamwork , now we we 've been together for a few years basically , but you might say , we work as a team , everyone gets on , everyone helps each other out . |
| 16 | If they have been together for a whole day or days in conference or retreat then there is a dynamic already present . |
| 17 | The man talked a lot about karma and said that they had obviously been together in a previous incarnation , but now their birthdates were not synchronized . |
| 18 | She had told him once as they lay at peace in bed that the sleep after childbirth , an unconsciousness that might only last a split second , was the most complete sleep she had ever known and when you woke from it you felt you had been elsewhere for a hundred years . |
| 19 | A number of pupils and staff are away on a four-day school trip and efforts were being made today to contact them and break the dreadful news . |
| 20 | I am away on a short holiday in Scotland between August 14th-26th but would be pleased to discuss this over the telephone when I 'm back . |
| 21 | What is the best way to protect my plumbing system while I am away for a few days in cold weather ? |
| 22 | Chemical shifts are generally of a few eV or less , and overlap of lines due to different elements is unlikely , as each element contributes at most a few lines in the range 50–1200 eV , while the instrumental linewidth is of the order of 2 eV . |
| 23 | Member States are generally in a good position to protect their own interests through the organisation . |
| 24 | ‘ To take but one example , the right hand side of the Antrim Road at Fortwilliam travelling out of town is considered by the Planning Office as commercial , and the office buildings along that stretch of road are generally in a good state of repair , ’ he explained . |
| 25 | She had been away on a little holiday in Spain and knew nothing . |
| 26 | A teacher who has been away on a short course including elements of both these skills , and can therefore give useful general advice . |
| 27 | We 've been away for a long time . |
| 28 | ‘ After all , you 've been away for a long time , and you know the old saying — ’ |
| 29 | ‘ Because Shiva , his father , who 'd been away for a long time , found him in the wife 's bedroom on his return and assumed that he was her toyboy . |
| 30 | The spatial sensations evoked by Braque 's L'Estaque landscapes are already of a new order although his handling of space was to become increasingly original . |