Example sentences of "be [adv] a [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Beliefs are not conjured up out of nothing but are rather a response to experience . |
| 2 | And there are rather a lot of photographs of one particular consultant obstetrician gynaecologist , Yehudi Gordon . |
| 3 | There are rather a lot you know |
| 4 | 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 . |
| 5 | Armed with your bridging loan , you are effectively a cash buyer , not caught up in a chain , and you can use this position to your advantage , demanding and getting a good discount . |
| 6 | 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 … |
| 7 | He had been dead a week before they realized he was n't breathing . |
| 8 | Even just now , when for a moment she had not been able to remember what day it was , and when Faith Lavender had already been dead a week . |
| 9 | ( I 'm pretty certain I never believed that one , I mean the guy had been dead a week , for Pete 's sake . |
| 10 | Possums are mostly an annoyance for co-workers , who learn not to rely on them . |
| 11 | Hotels , whatever people say , are rarely a problem . |
| 12 | Yet elections are rarely a verdict on a single issue , especially one concerned with foreign affairs . |
| 13 | This would avoid civil actions , which are often defeated because individual victims , even when they decide to act co-operatively , are rarely a match for corporations who decide it is better to be prudent than just . |
| 14 | ‘ There 's been rather a development , ’ said Emma . |
| 15 | Also , half a capful might have been rather a lot , weight for weight . |
| 16 | There had been rather a lot of funerals at Low Birk Hatt and they were n't inexpensive . |
| 17 | I 'm sure it must have been rather a strain to keep pretending an interest in a boring little milliner from Mannheim . ’ |
| 18 | This role may have been rather a disappointment to both sides , as General Gallagher said when he got back from Hanoi , although by opposing the clearance of wartime US mines that had been laid in Haiphong harbour , thus preventing an early return of French troopships , Gallagher seems to have come down rather heavily on the Vietminh side . |
| 19 | There had been rather a mystery as to why he should have died at that particular time . |
| 20 | Earlier in 1973 , the matches against the New Zealanders had been rather an anti-climax to their tour , with the second spoiled by rain , but no one doubted that they were now a permanent addition to the summer . |
| 21 | 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 ) . |
| 22 | Wars between nations , he suggests , are wholly a product of people 's territorial natures . |
| 23 | Marines are most a risk , as salt water conducts electricity more easily , but certain Discus breeders have also reported good results from earthing their water . |
| 24 | 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 . |
| 25 | 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 . |
| 26 | Complaints against police are obviously a problem for all of us , and we as managers throughout the rank structure are concerned about the complaints and it 's simply that , whilst I was in operational command , I had a direct influence in hopefully preventing complaints . |
| 27 | Warwick are obviously a firm who stand by their products and the people who use them . |
| 28 | ‘ We are obviously a step closer now . |
| 29 | 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 . |
| 30 | he says we could either put it forward because the windows are obviously a lot wider |