Example sentences of "[adv] [prep] [be] an [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | These do not seem like promising beginnings : English was merely to be an extra accomplishment for young middle-class women — a ‘ convenient sort of non-subject to palm off on the ladies ’ as Eagleton puts it ; and a substitute for a classical education for the discontented working classes . |
| 2 | It should be small enough to be an effective policy , or decision-making group , but large enough to function effectively as a forum where the views and objectives of significant participants can be acknowledged . |
| 3 | Cook 's pioneering excursionists to Scotland were greeted with crowd-lined streets , brass bands and cannon fire because the tourist was still unusual enough to be an entertaining curiosity . |
| 4 | ‘ Our task over the next few years is not just to be an effective Parliamentary opposition but to lead great national debates about the future direction of our country and to forge a new national consensus across a range of issues . ’ |
| 5 | The map is drawn to help the traveller , not to be an accurate reflection of reality . |
| 6 | But the Chief Warden had had instructions this was not to be an easy summer . |
| 7 | The removal of Saddam Hussein was frequently stated not to be an explicit allied war aim , but allied leaders nevertheless referred on a number of occasions to the desirability of such an outcome , notably on Feb. 15 when US President George Bush urged the Iraqi people to overthrow what he described as the brutal dictatorship . |
| 8 | Death has been held not to be an associated operation ( Bambridge v IRC ( 1955 ) 36 TC 313 ) . |
| 9 | I looked up the authentic sources ; the Comte de Horne turned out not to be an illegitimate son of Louis XV ; the marriage had been consummated and he had died of indigestion . |
| 10 | If this possibility of fraud is not to be an insurmountable barrier to recognizing such unions as marriages , what is the solution ? |
| 11 | In this process , battles did little to help either side achieve its military aim , and were not to be an important part of the strategies pursued by the two main protagonists in the Hundred Years War . |
| 12 | The Mayor of Bedford for the time being was always to be an additional director and at the time of the meeting the Mayor was John Wing , who had been sworn in on 29th September 1793 , and served for one year , after which he remained as one of the aldermen . |
| 13 | In fact any subject matter can be examined and taught with a significant resource-based component , although as in our examples above there is likely always to be an important place for the directed expository lesson , whether " lead " or otherwise . |
| 14 | Clearly , there is more to being an informed citizen than an understanding of fixed shared values . |
| 15 | she did n't say well er my husband brought me here because it was a decision that she had parted , it was a choice she had made as well and so she , she excepts her responsibility , she excepts her blame and she goes to return so there was , there was this sense of confession and , and confession can be costly when we 've got to admit that I was wrong , I did wrong , I was mistaken , I went the wrong way that could be a costly mistake and , and , and er costly experience for us to go through , but surely the , the true sign of repent is that we do acknowledge our sin , we acknowledge our failure , that we acknowledge what it means to god , we ca n't shift that blame onto somebody else then also consider not just the cost that Naomi had to pay in going back , but also there was a cost for Auper and for Ruth as well as Moabias there would be little joy for them in Israel , they were foreigners , they were strangers , there would n't be much hope for happiness for them , there would be very little likeliness for them ever getting married in or remarrying er in , in Israel , they would n't be able to worship there own god , they 'd be taken from one culture to another , there 'd be taken from one language to another , what was it gon na be like for them , alright , perhaps whilst they were living with Naomi perhaps she could pull a few strings for them , but what happens when she goes and they are left by themselves and yet it would appear that with Naomi making her decision to return that they too these two daughters in law they decided to go to Bethlehem with her and it tells us that they set out together but perhaps they had n't thought it really through because their not totally committed to us and as they come towards the frontier and their gon na pass into in , back into Judah with their few miserable possessions that they 've gathered together , Naomi again considers the consequences facing these two young women , Auper and Ruth , they continued with her , as she pleads with them to go back home , Judah is no place for a foreigner , Judah is no place for somebody to come unless they are part of gods people , and I 'm reminded of again of what it tells me in , in the book of acts , that in the early church , that people were actually frightened , frightened to join with the disciples , they were frightened to join the church , there was no room for , for stragglers , there was no room for hangers on , there was no room for those who went just because they thought it was gon na be the next , the in thing to do , but folk were actually frightened of joining because they knew they had to put their lives right , they knew they had to live holy lives , they knew that god had to be lord and master in their lives and unless they were willing to do that and be committed to him they were actually frightened of joining and one of the great weaknesses of the church today is that it becomes and it can becoming our thinking and nothing more than just something we join , something we belong to , something we go along to er as like a club , like an association , but that 's not the picture we see it in the New Testament , it is a very exclusive body , it is a very exclusive grouping , a grouping of those who have committed themselves to Jesus Christ and that 's why not every body is a member of the local church , not every body who goes to church on a Sunday is a member of a church to Jesus Christ now they know if they are , but other people may not know , they know and the lord knows , I know if I belong to him and he knows if I belong to him other people may not , I can put on the act , I can look as though I 'm playing the part , I can go through the routine , I can , I can , I can fool every body , but he knows and I know , and he knows and you know and so Jesus said not every body who says lord , lord on that day will I acknowledge and recognize and so for Ruth and Nao er yes Ruth and Auper it was gon na be different of course for them as foreigners in Judah especially when Naomi goes and she pleads with them go back home , Judah is not place for Moabias , she knew what it had been like to be a foreigner , she knew what it had been like to be an alien land in an alien culture in a different religion with a different language she had known the bitterness of it all , she pleads with them go back home she prayers for them the lord bless you , the lord you know be gracious to you and so on , but they refused and again Naomi puts it to them , to please go back and Auper reconsiders and she takes the counsel and advice of her mother in law but no so Ruth and Naomi turns and says look your sister in law 's gone back , she 's gone home , you go as well , you ca n't do it , its a too greater price for you to pay , its a choice you must n't make , a decision you must n't make , your gon na have poverty , your gon na have loneliness , your gon na have hardship . |
| 16 | He proved also to be an able writer , many of his descriptive passages , pleasing readers such as Wordsworth and Coleridge , were echoed in their own writing . |
| 17 | I do n't think we will get anywhere by regarding children 's books as some kind of charitable cause with a long term and uncertain pay-off when the children eventually grows up to be an obedient adult book buyer . |
| 18 | It 's shaping up to be an exciting climax to the group and I know Billy Bingham wants to end his managerial career on a high note . ’ |
| 19 | ‘ You 'll grow up to be an ugly wizened little monster with short arms and a big head . |
| 20 | There are times when attacks on the lesbian and gay communities seem very clearly to be an attempted stirring-up of popular hatred as a diversion of attention from society 's real problems , and times when the readiness of the government to pander to that hatred looks even more sinister . |
| 21 | In the small park near by was an open-air theatre , closed , the deck chairs lined up , each bucketing its share of rain . |
| 22 | Teresa may benefit most from being an only child . |
| 23 | It came as a surprise to some of us to discover that , far from being an ancient , traditional system of land tenure , crofting is quite a recent phenomenon . |
| 24 | So far from being an additional and unnecessary mystery , an accidental tom-tit in an otherwise rational theory of contract , consideration in its essential nature is an aspect merely of the fundamental notion of bargain , other aspects of which , no less but no more important , are offer and acceptance . |
| 25 | Far from being an enriching process in which students can more easily grasp the basics of science , they are left the poorer because their understanding is in fact limited , in the sense of being bounded , by the very standardisation that was meant to free them . |
| 26 | A contributor to the Bulletin , Dr Heather Ashton , said : ‘ It is clear that nicotine , far from being an innocent passenger on the tobacco leaf , is an important contributor to many tobacco-related health risks … about seven per cent of ex-smokers become dependent on the gum . |
| 27 | Such developments , to which can be added improvements in the quality of steel used in the making of armour ; the ability , as a consequence , to abandon the use of the shield , thereby freeing the left arm ; and the development of special rests which permitted the use of a much heavier lance , meant that the cavalryman , far from being an outmoded liability on the field , remained an indispensable element of the army , one whose value was , as we have seen , enhanced by training and by association with men using other weapons . |
| 28 | We shall see that , far from being an abstract feature of composition , Campra 's key plans add another dimension to the ‘ theatricality ’ of his cantatas . |
| 29 | Far from being an interesting but irrelevant aspect of collective labor relations , such violence and bloodshed continue to the present day . |
| 30 | And far from being an American law enforcer … in reality he runs a car cleaning firm . |