Example sentences of "be [adv] [prep] a [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ To be cultured ’ , it is imagined , is to be rather like a pearl , understated , refined and in the best possible taste . |
| 2 | What this means is that Christian Maronite domination of the Lebanese body politic appears to be effectively at an end . |
| 3 | The shops which they visit most frequently are likely to be within about a mile of their home . |
| 4 | And this awareness should not be merely as a result of receiving more ideas from others ( although that is important ) ; teachers should not , any more than students , be the objects of a pure " banking " education . |
| 5 | ‘ Yon lawn in t'front must be all on a couple o' acres , ’ stated Jonadab . |
| 6 | £82 may not be much to a Cabinet Minister , but it is a fortune to many of our clients . |
| 7 | Mr Ramsay added ‘ This year it looks as though cereal prices will be much on a par with last year and on top of that farmers will receive the area compensatory payments . |
| 8 | I mean you would n't wan na pay no be only worth a fiver to cut it , to them it 's not worth |
| 9 | But it would be only for a time and she had been thinking of asking the queen-dowager for permission to leave sanctuary and visit her mother . |
| 10 | But this access would be only to an interpretation translation at the lower level ( one in which there remains a one — many mapping of commands ) but not to an ( inscrutable ) compilation translation . |
| 11 | The proviso , which provides that the grant or provisional grant of a new licence shall be only by a majority vote is difficult to reconcile with s. 17 , which provides that applications for new grants shall be refused if certain grounds are established . |
| 12 | He waited to be instructed what else a Rifleman could do to be less like a fish out of water in a battalion of Grenadiers . |
| 13 | The place would be less like a fridge by now if you had . ’ |
| 14 | If you know thre 's somewhere you can stay , that you can be together as a family , it 's the most important thing . |
| 15 | When the coach started to roll I said , " Well , I guess we 'll be together for a while . " |
| 16 | To buy a brand new PA system costs a lot of money for a single person , and as a group it is a huge risk as we are still at school ( lower 6th ) and do not wish to spend that sort of money when we can not guarantee we will still be together in a week , let alone a year 's time . |
| 17 | A sketch with a few rough dimensions may be enough for a man to trim some timber into a frame for a house . |
| 18 | Even such richness may not be enough for a theoretician . |
| 19 | Two ties may be enough for a 3ft ( 0.9m ) stem , a 4 or 5ft ( 1.2 or 1.5m ) stem will require three , and maybe even a fourth if you also need to pull in a bent stem so that it can be held straight to grow out of its misshapen state gradually . |
| 20 | It may be enough for an investment trust to tempt investors by describing the opportunity area in broad terms , and inasmuch as this temptation continues to work then the early investors can sell out at a profit to the later ones . |
| 21 | Moreover , it may not be enough for an employer to say " I 'm a wine merchant and my ex-employee is now working as a wine merchant and so I am entitled to enforce an express restriction " . |
| 22 | The poor coverage shown by the Walker investigation must be largely as a result of the high proportion of proper nouns found in newswire text . |
| 23 | She wondered then , since Ven was proving so elusive , whether she should take the opportunity on what she estimated would be just under a hundred-mile drive to Prague to get in there with some of Cara 's questions . |
| 24 | But , if so , it will be just as a matter of fact . |
| 25 | But it could be just on a Saturday and Sun |
| 26 | This will often be just after a meal , when they are feeling drowsy . |
| 27 | he said ( keeping his voice down ; there were people nearby ) , " but I do n't want to be just like a brother to you . " |
| 28 | ‘ In any case , were n't you going to be away on a course or something ? ’ |
| 29 | She 'll be away at a family wedding or funeral for a few days . |
| 30 | She 'd seen him with another woman when he was supposed to be away at a conference . |