Example sentences of "[verb] [be] [adv] a " in BNC.
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| 1 | Police think it could 've been just a dirty night out . |
| 2 | Er you saw the er saw him five years ago in the navy , now it could 've been just a regular check which every seaman gets or it could be , it could 've been something of a serious nature . |
| 3 | The big push would be diplomatic propaganda screwing the pound sterling on the money markets … mugging the Mother of Parliaments would 've been quite a job . ’ |
| 4 | ‘ That would 've been quite a drive for you all the way to London . |
| 5 | Most young people who try sniffing ( and remember , those who try sniffing are only a small minority ) will only do it a few times and stop without any help from adults . |
| 6 | No , not pins , erm veers and veers are n't a problem . |
| 7 | The measurements I have given are only a rough guide , so feel free to experiment until you find a setting that suits your sound and playing style . |
| 8 | Our fund-raising has been just a little slower during the current year after the bumper total achieved in 1985 , but nevertheless it has been most gratifying that we continue to receive contributions from so many classes over a very wide area . |
| 9 | Similarly , the evidence of the London Clearing Banks to the same committee stated : ‘ There is certainly no evidence to suggest that the availability of bank finance has been even a remotely significant factor holding investment back . ’ |
| 10 | ‘ She has been here a long time and will be here for even longer , ’ Felipe answered smoothly . |
| 11 | This siter has been here a long time and is part of the area . |
| 12 | Traditionally , he has been rather a mysterious figure with most of the audience seeing only his back . |
| 13 | The upshot of the erm the year of course has been rather a healthy lot of financial ratios . |
| 14 | Thatcherism has been both a matter of style — combining impatience with much of the status quo and a relentless promotion of new attitudes — and policies . |
| 15 | Firstly , I hope to clarify what spiritual direction is — and what it is not — for it represents a tremendously rich tradition in the church 's history which , by its very nature , has been both a hidden and profound influence in the lives of many . |
| 16 | Arlington Mill , in this picturesque Cotswold village astride the River Coln , has been both a corn and fulling mill in its time . |
| 17 | Decentralisation has been both a means of controlling public sector growth and a way to make public services more politically attractive , responsive and effective . |
| 18 | The ‘ displacement ’ has been both a demographic and a cognitive recentring , a ‘ displacement from cause to effect ’ ( 117/119,118/120,172/174 ) . |
| 19 | Previously the finance function within the FPCs has been largely a ‘ pay and rations ’ operation of paying to the doctors , dentists , pharmacists and opticians the allowances to which they are entitled in the ‘ Red Book ’ ( DHSS , 1989 ) . |
| 20 | For him this convenience has been largely a negative factor for he thought of America as offering no other comparable diversion ; there were ‘ no beer gardens — no public concerts ’ and the question he asked was ‘ Who wants to sit at home and play bridge every night ? ’ |
| 21 | In most other matters , since 1945 , Britain has been effectively a dependent state , whether in peace or in war , and the dominance of British fiction across the world is unmatched by almost everything else , though some might hopefully seek exceptions in education , broadcasting and financial services like marine insurance . |
| 22 | Because the common holly , Ilex aquifolium , has been around a long time and produced many ornamental varieties , you will find quite a few with fancy botanical names . |
| 23 | But as I 've already mentioned distributed database theory has been around a long time . |
| 24 | The shift of Amis 's mind , thoughtful and unphilosophical as it is , has been broadly a pattern to others of his age . |
| 25 | This has been partially a result of literate Europe 's historical-mindedness ; one of its first manifestations was the rapid appearance of a number of new historical journals at the end of the nineteenth century . |
| 26 | After an early phase of rapid growth initiated by enterprising , indigenous farmers and leading to an increasingly capitalist social structure , by 1939 the Ghanaian cocoa industry had entered what has been generally a long decline accompanied by reduced employment of wage-labour . |
| 27 | As far as I am concerned , Bergman has been officially a man since the end of the Upper Removes . |
| 28 | Wales was once known as a fly-half factory , but since Jonathan Davies went North there has been not a single successor of world class selected for the national team and at the moment the signs are not good that one is about to come off the production like . |
| 29 | A demand for dolphin meat for human consumption has been only a recent trend , but high transport costs from the remote Iki Island made the export of edible dolphin meat uneconomic . |
| 30 | In the past , and sometimes even in the present , bad environmental management of rivers has been only a part and a symptom of bad man-management . |