Example sentences of "be [adv] [verb] a " in BNC.
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| 1 | Since then the search has been on to acquire a Lockheed Constellation for the collection . |
| 2 | Local authorities are nervously anticipating a flood of judicial review challenges over community care . |
| 3 | Whereas Mancini 's version assumes a council increasingly split by faction , as the Woodvilles manipulated it against Hastings and other supporters of Gloucester , the council seems in fact to have been successfully holding a balance between the various elements in government . |
| 4 | Whereas Mancini 's version assumes a council increasingly split by faction , as the Woodvilles manipulated it against Hastings and other supporters of Gloucester , the council seems in fact to have been successfully holding a balance between the various elements in government . |
| 5 | They are mostly using a mixture of APL and assessment on demand to gain the award . |
| 6 | ‘ These panes of glass are bullet proof and will not shatter , but if they are badly weakened a large , frightened animal like a bear may be able to force its way through and the consequences would be very severe ’ . |
| 7 | Now four English teenagers are dead following a canoeing accident off the Dorset coast , intensifying the concerns of parents all over Britain as they watch their children set off with their mates , while wondering what the chances are that something might go horribly wrong . |
| 8 | 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 . |
| 9 | I am slowly becoming a travelling salesman called Pete . |
| 10 | If you go to those lengths , you are obviously taking a big financial risk . |
| 11 | If the program is used in a field study in biology , for example the recording of all mini beasts in a defined grid square , a combination of information handling and subject skills are obviously developed a the same time . |
| 12 | If you are overweight , but are happy with the exercises you do at least three times per week , then far be it from us to interfere — continue , you are obviously doing a good job ! |
| 13 | The Cairngorm chairlift people are obviously making a great effort to try and limit the damage caused by erosion , by constantly replanting the worn areas with grass seed . |
| 14 | 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 . |
| 15 | 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 . |
| 16 | are all doing a futile side-stroke . |
| 17 | ‘ It 's like a holiday camp sometimes and we are all having a good time . |
| 18 | Certainly within universities the more senior the the member of staff the more likely they are apparently to use a desk as a barrier erm so that they sort of er y'know you see them from behind a desk , when you 're at the front of the desk and they 're behind the desk . |
| 19 | Blackwell indicates Win/U has attracted the passive interest of hardware vendors such as HP , IBM and Sun who are apparently adopting a ‘ wait-and-see ’ attitude . |
| 20 | THOSE two holy sinners , Jim Bakaar and Jimmy Swaggart , are apparently running a magazine from their prison cells . |
| 21 | When Terry was ready , and everyone had been in to have a look , exclaim , and , in the case of Terry 's mother , cry , she ushered them all downstairs to wait for the cars . |
| 22 | My dear , you are on the young side — I am only stating a fact , the kind of fact the world sees — to be living in a kind of bachelor 's establishment , so naturally one asks oneself where is that mysterious lady , her mother ? |
| 23 | I am constantly called a fool , because I have not that literary indigestion which throws up what it feeds on , every week or so . ’ |
| 24 | As regards myself I rarely ever tire or find the day too long though I am constantly walking a circumstance which being considered much to my health being better able to bear fatigue than when last I walked over the hills with you and I found your advice not to take spirits very very judicious . |
| 25 | This does not mean that I am necessarily accepting a " gentle rain from heaven " interpretation for the Wenlock Limestone and its equivalents . |
| 26 | This is a response from workers who are perhaps seeking a respite from a tedious job , or who wish to defy what they regard as an oppressive management . |
| 27 | They are perhaps playing a more prominent part than they have done for a long time . |
| 28 | Even if you are only seeing a few people there should be someone to greet them on arrival and make them feel they have come to the right place on the right day . |
| 29 | If we are only monitoring a process of purification , it may not be necessary to identify impurities , but unless we do , we can not be sure how sensitive the check on purity is . |
| 30 | 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 . |