Example sentences of "be [adv] [adv] a " in BNC.
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1 | The solid , silvery bubbles are most probably a species of algae called Sailor 's Eyeballs ( lovely name ! ) , which live in small , harmless colonies . |
2 | This is demonstrated most clearly in the lengths to which the courts have been excluded from the process , even though they have been only rarely a threat to the Thatcher Government . |
3 | But also at every age , we can do things which are perhaps just a little beyond our reach . |
4 | Such opinions have commendable moral tone but they are perhaps not a recipe for electoral success . |
5 | To confront the anger of God in the way the ancient Israelites dared to do , to face it as directed against ourselves and the society of which we are so much a part , is to escape the romantic pretence , the unrelieved jollity , or the easy , unthinking speech of so much that passes for Christian belief and worship . |
6 | Any would be magnificent and there is time to knit several of them for ‘ specials ’ but I have n't said anything yet about small ‘ fun ’ presents and decorations which are so much a part of Christmas . |
7 | In the work of Bottomley and Coleman ( 1981 ) criminal statistics are so much a function of highly variable administrative practices that they seem almost incapable of telling us anything about anything . |
8 | Once more , such a situation is not necessarily incestuous but since love and sexual partnership are so often a matter of emotional dependence it is often hard to differentiate it from a quasi-marital partnership . |
9 | There are only about a hundred made |
10 | ‘ Mick and Carla have been together quite a lot . |
11 | The baby is well and so am I. You have always been so much a mother that I am not surprised that you feel like a grandmother , even without ‘ legal sanction ’ . |
12 | He did not enjoy it as he had the fishing that had been so much a part of his life on La Blanquilla . |
13 | ‘ The Nightingale ’ provides a record of one of the evening walks shared by Coleridge and the Wordsworths which had been so much a part of their lives together . |
14 | Even as Acheson pondered the problem Smith argues that the US was already moving toward support of the French although it might not have been so much a matter of whose hand was on the tiller as how the compass was being set . |
15 | She had been so much a part of his plans for the future that he was now thinking of countries where they could farm together . |
16 | Seb thought she looked thinner and seemed to have lost much of the air of confidence that had always been so much a part of her . |
17 | Furthermore , there are literally only a handful of really big-time string manufacturers in the world , and a short burst of brain-power will lead you to the correct conclusion that there are a lot of companies buying strings in bulk from the big makers and putting their names on them . |
18 | I had just taken up my position behind the till of the kitchen gadget department and the store had been open only a matter of minutes when my first customer literally ran into view . |
19 | He looked round them all as though none of them afforded him any surprise , though two of them did not belong here , and to his certain knowledge had been elsewhere only a short time ago . |
20 | But it had been just just a wee little village then . |
21 | I tell you something I was amazed at erm the reading book he appeared with , Fluff and Nip and goodness knows what that went out with the ark when I came out of college , I do n't know whether they 're all reading that or whether it 's just sort of found them and must of been just perhaps a one off or something , but , I was amazed |
22 | Her throaty-cum-husky voice and staccato , often peaky and explosive delivery and songs ( four out of seven are hers on this album ) with a funky electronic feel are nevertheless altogether a very singular and instantly recognisable package . |
23 | He had been away nearly a year , had lost his mother , and was glad to leave Paris ( ‘ which I loathe ’ ) . |
24 | She told TODAY : ‘ I am just not a good traveller . ’ |
25 | The good news is that we are already over a quarter of the way towards our target , having raised the sum of £34,055 in the six weeks since the trial . |
26 | There are already about a dozen people with presidential ambitions . |
27 | There are just over a million one-parent families , including those of single mothers , single fathers and widowed or separated mothers . |
28 | There are just over a million one-parent families — one in seven of all families with dependent children . |
29 | Found only in China , there are just over a thousand left living in the wild . |
30 | You are just about a match for anyone , are n't you ? ’ |