Example sentences of "the [adj] be [adv] a " in BNC.
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| 1 | Of the English pictures of note , the finest is undoubtedly a watercolour by Turner , ‘ The sea ! |
| 2 | I often wonder what I would be able to achieve if , one year , I did train especially for the indoor meetings , but it would be an error to try that because the indoor is just a side-show to the main events , which are the big outdoor meetings in the summer . |
| 3 | Yeah , last year we got so much equipment ah the that 's just a there , but |
| 4 | ‘ In fact , I think my whole career at the end of the 60s was probably a guilt trip of some sort . |
| 5 | This last description is often misunderstood : the point is that the economic is never a simple causal function that operates alone : |
| 6 | The rich were not a hereditary class , for most wealthy men were self-made . |
| 7 | The British were clearly a much happier group than the previous year , not least because Annewanter has a great deal of experience with smaller teams . |
| 8 | More than most Europeans , the British were still a lively , distinctive people at the end of the twentieth century — and not only for geographical reasons . |
| 9 | The 1890s were also a period in which deaf art flourished . |
| 10 | The second is not a serious problem , but one that foreign learners should be aware of . |
| 11 | The second was essentially a matter of timing . |
| 12 | Which of the following is not a mouthbrooder : Shark Catfish , Severum , Egyptian Mouthbrooder ? |
| 13 | Which of the following is not a subjective statement : |
| 14 | I ca n't remember I think it was Louise who br I went up to talk to her , and the question was , which of follow which of the following is not a swimming stroke and you have butterfly , breast stroke , bird crawl . |
| 15 | This , see I just thought it was just cos , you know , and he kept stressing it , which of the following is not a swimming stroke , breast stroke , butterfly or bird crawl . |
| 16 | The following is essentially a list of categorized items to ask for , so that you can get quickly into segmental phonology . |
| 17 | The following are just a few examples from around the world of ICIs activities in reducing its wastes : |
| 18 | In an authoritative report prepared in 1985 for Greenpeace , Simon Northridge of the Marine Resources Assessment Group of Imperial College , London , and Professor Georg Pilleri , a respected dolphin expert , identified a lengthy list of incidental catches of dolphins and porpoises in gill-nets , of which the following are only a selection . |
| 19 | The seventies were certainly a period of great change in attitudes within the Customs & Excise in general , and on the cutters in particular we saw great improvements in many ways with the acquisition of better technical equipment such as highly sophisticated radio communication , and the development of international relations . |
| 20 | Erm , I think Yeltsin 's threat as it were to the Ukrainian is actually a diplomatic move , he wants Ukraine to remain within the Soviet Union , er and if it does so he 's not going to make an issue of the border , but , er , if it does break away completely I think what he 's saying is well there 's a frontier that we 're going to have to reconsider because large Eastern areas of Ukraine including huge industrial towns are predominantly populated by Russians . |
| 21 | SUNKEN TREASURE Rickenbacker 650A Atlantis While it would be unfair to call this guitar a compromise on the part of Rickenbacker , the 650 is nevertheless a departure . |
| 22 | The diagnostic is simply a warning . |
| 23 | Indeed , the national is often a concept used deliberately to conceal conflict over the issues , to force one kind of unity around an existing status quo ( and if the arguments do not achieve unity , troops can be used to enforce it on the recalcitrants ) . |
| 24 | It was found that the swelling was not a tumour but an aneurysma large swelling of a blood vessel . |
| 25 | Painfully — for no work cost him more or perhaps as much as this one — Dostoevsky came to see that The Possessed was n't a sideshow . |
| 26 | In comparison to this , ‘ The Disappearance ’ which is set in the 1970's is altogether a different type of community . |
| 27 | Certainly , the idea that when I look at my spectacles and think ‘ So that 's where I put them ’ I am having thousands of other little thoughts at the same time is a silly idea , and some would say that the doctrine of the holism of the mental is just a silly idea . |
| 28 | On a portable , the justification for this is that it reduces the weight , but the BJ-200 is n't a portable . |
| 29 | In short , I think we are in the realm of ideology here , and the rise of the ‘ small schools movement ’ during the 1970s is probably a reflection of the general resurgence of pastoralism ln popular thought over the past decade . |
| 30 | Thus the considerable increase in recorded burglary during the 1970s was largely a recording phenomenon . |