Example sentences of "be [adv] a [noun] [unc] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Our favourite night clubs , The Albatross and Monaco 's , are literally a stone 's throw away and there 's a great selection of restaurants to choose from ! |
| 2 | Two Houseparties are just a stone 's throw ( if you 've got a powerful catapult ) from our windsurf centres at Nidri on Levkas , an Finikounda in the Peloponese . |
| 3 | which had been occupied by soldiers , this was our first hut , well by then I was working for the Corporation and of course by virtue of my job with the chief architect I got this house and we were offered this house about two years later for two thousand pounds and we said oh we would n't be staying here for more than ten years in any case and we would n't be bothered to buy it , but then my husband started in business you see soon after he came back and we eventually got the shop and , of course it 's very convenient because we 're only a stone 's throw from the shop you see , so we stayed here |
| 4 | ‘ We 're now a growers ' co-operative , ’ David Gardner explained . |
| 5 | Evocations of Dark Age kingdoms are often a Grimms ' fairy-tale picture of huge dark forests , dwarfing the puny efforts of humankind . |
| 6 | ‘ You are now a minister 's wife ’ , he enjoined her , ‘ and must now so far forget your father 's house as not to claim a precedence of any of your parishioners . ’ |
| 7 | Chesarynth tried to swamp the thought that the box might be only a therapist 's tool . |
| 8 | After this remarkable visit , the volcano continued to be active for a week or two , but the explosive activity died down somewhat , and it began to look as though the eruption was going to be just a nine-days ' wonder , and would soon fade away and be forgotten . |
| 9 | The rough guide is that there should be approximately a year 's progress-gap between each grade . |
| 10 | For example , a 30 second live report which is due to take place at the same time as Martina Navratilova is about to serve for the match can be both a reporter 's dream and a producer 's nightmare . |
| 11 | Skilful lobbying has meant that its place has been taken by wrestling on the curious promise that there will be both a men 's and women 's competition in 1994 even though women have never established a real presence in freestyle wrestling as they have in judo . |
| 12 | Probably against the advice of his commanders Henry decided to lead what remained of his army , decimated by illness contracted at the siege , to Calais , thought to be about a week 's march away . |
| 13 | The award of an honorary degree is the highest honour a University can bestow and may , in the case of Nottingham , be either a Master 's Degree ( Master of Arts , Master of Laws ) , or a Doctorate ( of Divinity , Laws , Letters , Music , Science or Medicine ) . |
| 14 | They were respectively a banker 's son , a Junker and a retired army major , and between them they represented the whole range of Junker-middle-class collusion and delusion . |
| 15 | but they were always a bit erm unhappy when they gave up so much time and er there was nobody there to listen to them when when they got there . |
| 16 | We think it would be a sad day if local plans and structure plans were purely a restatement er of P P G three . |
| 17 | He declared ( 25 February ) : ‘ I am neither a president à la française nor à l'americaine . |
| 18 | it 's only , it 's only a bulb int it that 's er |
| 19 | For example , his typical scientific ‘ problem ’ — how many icebergs would be needed to supply Los Angeles with water — is merely a schoolchild 's exercise in numerical estimation , without any research content . |
| 20 | Easily Accessible : The nearby village of Goathland ( an ancient settlement dating from the 12th century ) contains several waterfalls , countless footpaths , and is only a stone 's throw from the open moors . |
| 21 | I believe it is entirely a woman 's right to choose whether or not she has an abortion . |
| 22 | I hope it is , because the wealth of climbing routes is missing from the collomb guide and the 1977 Brailsford guide is apparently a collector 's item ! |
| 23 | Hastings Sea Life Centre is just a stone 's throw from the sea itself , at the far end of Rock-a-Nore Road . |
| 24 | The er , other recommendation really is just a member 's note the outcome of discussion so far , it has been to the erm , we did take the paper to the Hare Street , Little Parndon er , committee er , in this cycle and there were no comments that came er , from that committee . |
| 25 | There is already a People 's Party of Russia ( PPR ) , formed by Telman Gdlyan . |
| 26 | ‘ It 's just a farm-labourer 's cottage , ’ Miss Honey said . |
| 27 | And then Wendy came back on the Wednesday , the day after It 's just a meeting R |
| 28 | He 's just a baby int he ? |
| 29 | ‘ It 's just a typist 's job up there , ’ one old hand at Index says . |
| 30 | Yeah it 's just a woman 's name or |