Example sentences of "be [adv] [vb pp] a [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | 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 . |
| 2 | 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 . |
| 3 | 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 . |
| 4 | I am constantly called a fool , because I have not that literary indigestion which throws up what it feeds on , every week or so . ’ |
| 5 | 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 . |
| 6 | 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 . |
| 7 | It is most widely used in Pakistan , and all but the poorest quality Mori Bokharas are normally given a lustre wash . |
| 8 | You are scarcely accounted a Christian in Chile until you have got up in the street and given testimony to Jesus . |
| 9 | In winter good light is vital and they 're best kept a bit warmer than other types . |
| 10 | — But we 're just married a couple of months . |
| 11 | One woman activist summed up the mood : ‘ We get crumbs from the table but we 're never allowed a seat . ’ |
| 12 | They 're actually paid a training allowance , which is related to income support . |
| 13 | Endoscopic relief was difficult and because malignancy had not been totally excluded a laparotomy was performed . |
| 14 | Pregnant women over the age of about 35 , those who have a close relative who has Down 's , or those who 've already given birth to a baby with Down 's , are usually offered a test to see if their foetus is affected . |
| 15 | As a young adult , mate-hunting with the pack , you are regarded with tolerant amusement ; elderly and/or widowed , you are usually afforded a kind of uncommitted sympathy and concern . |
| 16 | St Giles 's cathedral nearby is more properly known as the High Kirk , having been formally designated a cathedral for only a brief period during the reign of Charles I. It was here that Charles attempted to impose a High Anglican liturgy , virtually a Mass , upon a Presbyterian society which responded with brawls in the church and outside , still remembered as the Jenny Geddes Riots after a vegetable seller from the market who was reported to have thrown her stool at the Dean 's head . |
| 17 | Prices are also made a lot more volatile right simply because the world market becomes a residual market , instead of everybody buying and selling through the world market right , if virtually everybody becomes self sufficient , the world market becomes a bit of a misnomer right , there is n't such a thing as a world market in that in that particular case it it may just be a few very small countries trade on the world market , it becomes very small market and therefore prone to supply erm fluctuations in any one country and as we know , supply fluctuations on inelastic demand causes price volatility . |
| 18 | However , about a quarter are also fed a brand of dried cat foods , like , , etc. , and ( under the umbrella name of OMEGA ) is the market leader of this type of food . |
| 19 | They might also point out that these skills , rightly or wrongly , are demanded by examination boards , and are often considered a sign of acceptable language behaviour by the world at large . |
| 20 | The Dark Ages are often considered a time of retrogression , but it was not until the period drew to its close that the cattle of Britain began to deteriorate quite seriously . |
| 21 | He did not think that a state in which a rich majority governed could be properly called a democracy : " suppose a total of one thousand three hundred ; one thousand of these are rich , they give no share in government to the three hundred poor , who also are free men and in other respects like them ; no one would say that these thirteen hundred lived under a democracy . " |
| 22 | For some while , the trip has had uncomfortable similarities to the Soviet leader 's visit to China last May , when the presence of the man who incarnates reform in the Communist world served as a combustible in the ‘ Peking Spring ’ that was to be forcibly suppressed a fortnight later . |
| 23 | There are people now in the Wag Club whose musical digestive systems would probably collapse if they were to be inadvertently fed a powerchord . |
| 24 | YET ANY SCIENTIST WOULD BE RIGHTLY DUBBED A FOOL IF HE PUBLISHED A PROFESSIONAL PAPER ON ‘ THE SKIN COLOUR OF NEANDERTHAL DEDUCED FROM GENERAL EVOLUTIONARY PRINCIPLES ’ . |
| 25 | Moreover , to be gravitationally bound a cloud must be dense as well as massive or it will not be able to withstand the strong galactic tidal field near the centre . |
| 26 | It falls foul of one of the cardinal principles of the law of trusts : the principle of benefit , which states that a person can be validly appointed a trustee only so far as he has received benefits intended by the settlor under the settlor 's will . |
| 27 | If preferred the lemon treacle tart can be completely cooked a day ahead and reheated gently just before serving . |
| 28 | For example , it can be argued the expansion into amalgamated police units has enlarged the organization to a point where it is no longer accessible to the man in the street ; alternatively , it may be that the use of a centralized computer and complex technical aids has alienated the public even at the same time they are increasingly fed a diet of violent news snippets which reinforce a fear of crime and generate another ‘ folk devil ’ of criminal menace , which demands the impossible : a policeman on every corner . |
| 29 | The wires are then moved a fraction of a centimetre each day to encourage the bone to stretch in the desired direction . |
| 30 | The wires are then moved a fraction of a centimetre each day to encourage the bone to stretch in the desired direction . |