Example sentences of "[be] a [adv] [adj] [noun] in " in BNC.
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| 1 | While I am a very experienced walker in the rest of the UK , I have little experience of Scotland . |
| 2 | It has been a rather nail-biting time in Bedford Square . |
| 3 | It seemed that recently there had been a rather upsetting event in this heavenly vale . |
| 4 | Literature — above all fiction — has never been a notably gentlemanly profession in Britain , as Dickens and H. G. Wells illustrate ; and the Bloomsbury group had been upper middle-class rather than aristocratic . |
| 5 | There has been a particularly sharp increase in long-distance commuting . |
| 6 | The growth of out-of-town retailing has been a particularly contentious issue in the past ten years , not only for its potentially adverse effects on urban shopping centres but also because of the resulting development pressures on fringe and green field sites . |
| 7 | Mr Owen-Jones said it had been a particularly difficult year in Britain where sales had fallen 12 p.c. compared with a worldwide increase of 10 p.c . |
| 8 | Talking about it as a revolution in the wider world , and how it impacts on classrooms , there has , of course , been a tremendously increased interest in using micros in schools in the last three years . |
| 9 | That has been a keenly disputed question in Britain for more than a hundred years . |
| 10 | Lack of promotional opportunities in all Banks has been a most serious development in recent times for those who work in the Industry . |
| 11 | Mr. Fairfax would have been a most difficult customer in all senses of the word . |
| 12 | What could have been a really Gothic moment in the novel , and quite deliberately is n't , it seems to me , is Jane 's confrontation of Bertha . |
| 13 | There has consequently been a much greater emphasis in their work on the study of animals in the wild , on the differences between species , and on the adaptive significance of behaviour . |
| 14 | It has been a less serious factor in the French-speaking countries where European traders and shopkeepers continue to operate small businesses , although these could be periodically subject to local political pressures including arbitrary taxation . |
| 15 | According to this survey pancreatitis has been a comparatively common disease in Finland , the mean annual incidence of acute pancreatitis discharges being about 50/100000 , and in men in 1989 even 90/100000 . |
| 16 | Ultimately there are more things in life than canoeing ; unfortunately we had allowed things to become part of what should have been a purely personal outing in a boat ; in doing this we had ensured that our attempt did not go ahead . |
| 17 | There had been a phenomenally heavy snowstorm in Baldersdale , and especially on the loftier peaks . |
| 18 | But if we had not been advancing properly — being there just ahead of the main party to iron out any difficulties — the result could have been a very serious error in terms of local coverage , with potentially unhappy consequences . |
| 19 | This is a particularly good performance , specially in the U S A where there 's been a very serious downturn in natural gas . |
| 20 | ‘ The council has always been a very moderate spender in the past and we should be able to undertake new initiatives this year . |
| 21 | Following what Gilkes admits has been a very poor year in the VME marketplace , that part of its enterprise will contribute a declining proportion of the company 's revenue as sales of the Sparcbook rise . |
| 22 | ‘ Quite apart from the party in the wine bar this evening , it 's been a very hectic day in the office . |
| 23 | I 'm a widow of 70 and for the past eight years there 's been a very persistent man in my life . |
| 24 | The mountain rescue organisation is getting bigger and it needs to be sustained — there has been a very dramatic escalation in the number of incidents on the hill in the last ten years . |
| 25 | But he added : ‘ However , there has been a heavy price to pay and the continual publicity has been particularly hard on my wife Pam , whose fierce and unswerving support has been a very significant factor in the outcome . |
| 26 | ‘ This could well turn out to have been a very significant moment in the history of England ’ , wrote Tom McGrath in Peace News . |
| 27 | In this way , Barth distanced himself from what had been a very common tendency in much previous theology to separate off very sharply from each other ( a ) the being of God , ( b ) the triunity of God , and ( c ) the incarnation . |
| 28 | The reduction in costs which this has achieved has enabled the business to perform most satisfactorily in what has been a very difficult year in all its major markets . |
| 29 | For me this has been a very exciting year in which to take on a directorship of the department . |
| 30 | I should make it absolutely clear that since deregulation there has been a very considerable increase in mileage served by buses both north and south of the border . |