Example sentences of "[adv] [pers pn] be [adv] [adv] a " in BNC.
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| 1 | Perhaps she was n't really a dragon … but then again , dragons were often in disguise , were n't they ? |
| 2 | So you 're not just a closed box of educationists . |
| 3 | Every second it was growing louder , and suddenly it was no longer a small wind , it was a fearsome swooshing whooshing whiffling snorting noise that sounded as though some gigantic creature was breathing heavily through its nose as it galloped towards him . |
| 4 | If you 're looking to explain the televisualisation of Tinseltown , then perhaps it 's not just a coincidence that Marshall started out in TV : acting in , then directing Laverne And Shirley , a spin-off from the Fifties nostalgia sitcom Happy Days . |
| 5 | Most importantly perhaps it is quite clearly a nonsense to suggest that this scheme could be introduced retrospectively for council tenants . |
| 6 | I went along with this , I even called him a wild buffalo of the American prairie ; but perhaps he was really just a parrot . |
| 7 | And so he 's there quite a lot . |
| 8 | So it is n't just a feminine response to the problem . |
| 9 | for people , kids being off , so it 's obvious the rest of the country 's off that week , and so it 's probably only a few limited schools |
| 10 | So it 's rather like a sandwich . |
| 11 | I think you have to remember that the next line begins , If , so it 's not just a pro it is , it is a nationalistic song , but it 's not just a proclamation that they will be , erm , |
| 12 | Well I mean , the , the the irony is , if you look in the Brigade 's statistics chart , the one that 's attached to that one , the aeroplane crash would come under special service calls other so it 's a miscellaneous column , so it 's not even a road accident , it 's some other . |
| 13 | So it 's not exactly a compliment to be likened to a sheep ! |
| 14 | So it 's not actually a next paragraph , it 's one sentence . |
| 15 | So it 's not actually a solid ring , it 's n nylon thing which sits in . |
| 16 | So it 's not only a duty that , that 's laid on the police . |
| 17 | So it was n't quite a fairy-tale ending , but we did all live more or less happily ever after . |
| 18 | So it was still just a shilling , shilling pocket money ? |
| 19 | Well I would say physically it 's roughly about a quarter of the size of Woollaton Hall . |
| 20 | And erm with a dog that moves that quickly he 's not just a chaser he 's a catcher as well |
| 21 | If it 's too close together it 's like it 's not really a concession . |
| 22 | But it it was like it was n't like a tap was n't . |
| 23 | Their views trickled down through the student nurses ' years and were apt to be accepted as gospel , since that saved the students the bother of forming opinions for themselves , and also it was not often a student in her first couple of years , if not longer , had the opportunity to form any opinion on our men . |
| 24 | And honestly it was n't like a baby at all , a new baby , it was huge . |
| 25 | By now I was n't simply a researcher , tied to the studio . |
| 26 | Now they 're roughly once a month — they used to be every day . |
| 27 | Now they were once more a conspiracy of two . |
| 28 | well it 's er , it 's a funny thing that is because they all gone , now they were supposedly around a hundred thousand look , when they took it on and they 've all gone , there ai n't any there new ones |
| 29 | Now here of course , and , and by now we 've reached the closing pages of the book , though it 's actually quite a short book , erm , it does n't take very long to read . |
| 30 | mhm And I suppose in the old days if you actually wanted to know which books were popular and which books were not used at all you had to send a librarian to painstakingly look through the shelves , perhaps , and look at the date stamps or something like that , whereas now it 's presumably just a question of pressing a few buttons and the information comes . |