Example sentences of "be [adv] a [noun sg] of " in BNC.
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| 1 | And there are rather a lot of photographs of one particular consultant obstetrician gynaecologist , Yehudi Gordon . |
| 2 | Oh , we 're talking about sixth forms , Bill , and we 're talking about all schools which have sixth forms and you 're conscious that there are rather a lot of schools with sixth forms in the county and who will feel that it is a significant change . |
| 3 | Darren had been dead a couple of months ; I had fallen out with my father and I 'd been in London for most of the summer , staying with Aunt Ilsa and her long-term companion , whose only name appeared to be Mr Gibbon , which I thought made him sound like a cat for some reason … |
| 4 | There had been rather a lot of funerals at Low Birk Hatt and they were n't inexpensive . |
| 5 | Furthermore , the convertibility crisis appears now to have been predominantly a problem of financial adjustment rather than one stemming from a crisis in world trade ( see Chapter 6 ) . |
| 6 | Wars between nations , he suggests , are wholly a product of people 's territorial natures . |
| 7 | There is undeniably some truth in that but , when you look in any detail at Montgomerie 's so-called failures since he won the Scandinavian Masters in 1991 , it has more often than not been less a question of his losing the tournament than of someone else winning it . |
| 8 | For the elderly , the history of welfare provision seems to have been less a story of steady progress over the centuries than an oscillation between phases of relative generosity and meanness . |
| 9 | Individual differences are obviously a consequence of the particular past experience of each person who has thereby acquired a unique set of skills based on a natural endowment which was also unique . |
| 10 | Yes , I mean , I feel very strongly in terms of women 's rights , but I think there are obviously a lot of differences between women and you ca n't generalize women , the same as you ca n't generalize individual personalities traits on for men . |
| 11 | Bradford was ‘ not troubled with them ’ [ fascists ] , ‘ The Movement does not receive much support ’ in Dewsbury , and there appear to have been only a couple of modest meetings in Huddersfield . |
| 12 | She 'd given him no encouragement — their encounters had been on a light , friendly basis only — but she knew that he 'd long since stopped seeing Louise , and there 'd been only a couple of short-term girlfriends since . |
| 13 | From there it had been only a matter of time until he was given his own prison . |
| 14 | It had vanished as silently as if it had been only a figment of her imagination . |
| 15 | OK , he said all clothes are basically a way of attracting the opposite sex . |
| 16 | All three types of pattern , ( written , diagrammatical and digital or Form ) , are based on a tension , or gauge , swatch ; without this , the pattern would not exist at all in any form , because all knitting patterns are basically a notation of how to knit a shape with a given yarn and stitch type , mathematically calculated from the original swatch . |
| 17 | Apples are basically a mixture of water , sugar , dietary fibre and little else . |
| 18 | Patterns for these are readily available and are basically a petal of one double crochet , one half treble , and a few trebles , one half treble and one double crochet all into a chain loop behind the previous row of petals . |
| 19 | The witches are apparently a representation of the triple goddess : one looks old like the crone , another is the mother and the third is supposedly the Virgin because she carries her rag doll around with her . |
| 20 | First of all it had been merely a sense of unease , an occasional visitor . |
| 21 | At first it had been merely a matter of borrowing her mother 's scarves and veils , draping these around herself or twisting them into turbans and sashes . |
| 22 | Any tenderness between the two of them would be a sham as far as he was concerned , merely serving to emphasise the absence of love , and perhaps like her he felt that a relationship characterised by so much other feeling ought to be loving as well , that the depth of desire he felt for her should have been merely a facet of love instead of the whole . |
| 23 | Or had her initial fears been merely a result of the disorder of mind induced by her very apparent hunger ? |
| 24 | Such combinations are perhaps a sub-type of the ‘ academic ’ degree course . |
| 25 | In all this , there are perhaps a couple of things which look plausible when we compare the philosopher 's child with our mental picture ; Aristotle 's observation that children are immature and Mill 's suggestion that they might need protection . |
| 26 | In addition to the physical attributes to look for there are naturally a host of technical features to check . |
| 27 | It is well known that the Albanians , who predominate in Kosovo and in parts of western Macedonia , tend to have very large families , Such rapid rates of growth of population in areas of poverty and high unemployment are naturally a matter of great concern to the authorities . |
| 28 | The well-worn cliché that the police are only a reflection of the society they serve , can be seen in a different light . |
| 29 | It has also shown that they are only a part of the explanation of Africa 's problems ; a difficult agricultural base , the inequalities of the world trading system , the sometimes exploitative role of multinational companies have also had a major part to play . |
| 30 | The words we use are only a part of how we communicate . |