Example sentences of "[adv] be a [noun] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Whilst numbers of full-time farmers had fallen by 28% in the past ten years there had only been an 8% reduction in the number of part-time farmers . |
| 2 | There 'd apparently been a Friday night meeting though the chairman had gone to New Zealand the day before at which new directors had been appointed . |
| 3 | This region has long been a spawning ground for Croat hotheads who dream of annexing this area to Croatia . |
| 4 | Marrakesh has long been a winter watering hole for the rich , the chic and the famous and the Shah had arrived at the height of the tourist season . |
| 5 | Gregory Butler has long been a field leader in this domain . |
| 6 | Banbury had long been a market town of importance , and acquired a modest industrial capacity in the nineteenth century . |
| 7 | The lands below are a patchwork quilt across which armies of ants march and countermarch . |
| 8 | After the shop girl stopped giggling at my enquiry , she explained , handkerchief on mouth , that Brack Loaves with rings inside are a Halloween tradition . |
| 9 | Thus , whereas a horseman 's work formerly revolved almost entirely around his horses , his modern counterpart must not only be a tractor driver but a ‘ general farm worker ’ — a mechanic , a labourer and perhaps even a part-time stockman , too . |
| 10 | ‘ It will only be a village school . |
| 11 | And now there was the loud crashing retort of what could only be a pistol shot , joined immediately by the rattling , roaring sound of thunder in the sky . |
| 12 | David Clark thought there might be some need for review while Adrian Bird felt that a blanket prohibition should only be a starting point which should be used in conjunction with local knowledge . |
| 13 | At work , he could only be a trade unionist . |
| 14 | The equipment need only be a sponge filter , air pump and heaterstat . |
| 15 | a client , who may not necessarily be a KPMG audit client . |
| 16 | Assessment in individual areas through SATs will necessarily be a sampling process . |
| 17 | What the legitimate ambit of a certain power actually is will necessarily be a value judgment . |
| 18 | The court must bear contemporary social standards in mind in making what will in some cases necessarily be a value judgment . |
| 19 | Opposite is a bank barn with ramp approach and a fine canopy and threshold . |
| 20 | They 're done because the old-fashioned way of doing a , putting something together is a paste-up job , you 've got all these stories filed about all sorts of things , and then some editorial chap or chapess sits down with sort of paste and scissors and cuts the things off , and they tend to cut things off the bottom to make it all fit until it feels about right . |
| 21 | Featured below is a sample selection of the range of hotels available , to give you an overall impression of the high standards offered in The Hague area . |
| 22 | The white air cushion 200ft below is a postage stamp . |
| 23 | The input file in the example below is a text file produced by a word-processor . |
| 24 | Below is a tutwork wage account which was paid in October 1884 . |
| 25 | The example below is a program segment that " packs " an integer number between 0 and 65535 ( & ffff ) into 2 bytes , least significant byte first . |
| 26 | The example below is an error handling routine designed to cope only with the |
| 27 | Below is an application form for the Dinner Dance tickets . |
| 28 | When a production manager for example , meets a customer to discuss a quality problem or a minor design change , he is fulfilling a marketing role ; and so is a personnel manager when he negotiates an agreement with union representatives that a particular customer 's goods may be moved from the premises during a strike . |
| 29 | In the current context any advertisement inviting the reader to buy or sell a future ( or refrain from doing so ) or which contains information calculated to lead to him doing so is an investment advertisement . |
| 30 | Not only is a citation order necessary for individual numbers , but a filing order for arranging numbers for different subjects with respect to one another must be determined . |