Example sentences of "be [verb] [adv] a [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | One of devices recovered after the second tip-off had been hidden only a short distance from Shell offices at Hill of Rubislaw , sealed off after the morning bomb scare . |
| 2 | PA are building up a definitive database of companies and contacts interested in ESPRIT CIME . |
| 3 | If the need for more labour intensive economic activities is recognised , and if the full social costs of continuing rural decline and urban expansion are calculated then a strong case can be made for more determined political action and considerably increased government investment in many DRAs . |
| 4 | Once more , we are given only a masculine point of view . |
| 5 | The party had been roping down a hanging glacier . |
| 6 | Any daily spread , you 've been given here a two page per day dairy . |
| 7 | * South Korea and Russia are to carry out a joint survey to assess the damage caused by Soviet dumping of radioactive waste in the Sea of Japan . |
| 8 | BRITISH eye surgeons are to carry out a pioneering implant operation which could mean short-sighted people throwing away their glasses . |
| 9 | BRITISH eye surgeons are to carry out a pioneering implant operation which could mean short-sighted people throwing away their glasses . |
| 10 | The popular budget and mid-priced range from EB seems not to be with us any more , alas , but the importers are bringing in a good looking range from Gravity which they hope will take over from where EB left off — prices from about £45 to £55 . |
| 11 | ‘ It is difficult for me to find the limits of the car yet because I am given only a limited number of laps and I do n't know the circuit . ’ |
| 12 | IT 'S hard enough for a woman to discover her husband 's been knocking off a naive girl in the typing pool . |
| 13 | Managing Director Stuart Hyslop said the posters with slogans on issues including the poll tax , crime , health and employment are carried on a commercial cash basis and no other party has approached the company to book space . |
| 14 | They are spaced only a few metres apart , each wearing the garish colours of their clan , two on the kiteline , others as reel carriers , coaches or vociferous fans . |
| 15 | That stuff 's only been dropped here a few days . |
| 16 | A few minutes later you are walking up a short wooden ladder , round the corner and you find a 200ft waterfall — bridges cross the torrent twice before you reach the top and continue along the path . |
| 17 | Any previous encounters will have been picked over a dozen times , the characters of the boys analysed in tedious detail , and interesting future possibilities considered . |
| 18 | I am driving along a narrow main road , used by fast-moving traffic , with my children in the back seat . |
| 19 | The engineering unions have been seeking either a 35-hour week or a two-hour reduction . |
| 20 | There had been windows on the westerly side of the school , but they appeared to have been built up a long time , judging from the appearance of the workmanship on the outside . |
| 21 | The two ‘ half-pictures ’ are transmitted down a single cable TV channel with normal bandwidth . |
| 22 | Let us further assume that the charge distribution is uniform and denote the charge per unit length by pl ( we are defining thereby a linear charge density of dimension coulomb per metre ) . |
| 23 | A Liverpool City Council spokesman said : ‘ He has been granted both a disabled facilities grant and mandatory renovation grant . ’ |
| 24 | MOTORISTS in the North-East are snapping up a new device in the battle to beat car crime . |
| 25 | I am saving up a full account until our return , for it is impossible for me to give it in writing . |
| 26 | Garden Management Group are to set up a small IT panel to monitor horticultural computing . |
| 27 | I took , I took the cheque around on Monday , I had the , the last appointment on Friday and erm since I 've had the abscess , the tooth that 's got a crown on top , I think it 's been pushed up a little bit and my top teeth , the first two keeps catching was this |
| 28 | And you 've put a lot of flower pots up and down Magdalen Road , well apparently those flower pots and the changes you 've made there , some of them very ill-advised , are costing about a hundred thousand pounds . |
| 29 | And more recently there seems to be a tendency for people to say , ‘ he has been seen out a few times , he must be OK ’ , when the threat to my life is unchanged . ’ |
| 30 | The flush pipes from high-level cisterns need less room than the low-level types , and the extension pipe at the back of the loo told me it had been moved forward a few inches . |