Example sentences of "a [noun] be [adv] [conj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | For many people the biggest problem with using a computer is simply that you have to type something on the keyboard to achieve anything at all . |
| 2 | That means it was for use in climates and countries so benign that the natives require no shelter at all , and where a tent is more or less a decorative affectation . |
| 3 | A horse 's more or less inherited position in the herd can be altered by unusual conditions . |
| 4 | In this type of situation , once a study is underway and the initial reservations are overcome , staff tend to talk freely to the analysts and there is a high level of client participation in all stages of the exercise . |
| 5 | The leg of a litoptern is all but indistinguishable from the leg of a horse , yet the two animals are only distantly related . |
| 6 | In the words of the headmaster , this is a school which is ‘ more interested in a child 's today than his tomorrow — in where the child is now in relation to where he was , rather than in relation to our expectations of where he ought to be ’ . |
| 7 | Seemingly valid claims by the Los Angeles County that such a proposal was economically and politically unrealistic contributed to undermining the EPA 's demands for maintaining strict attainment deadlines . |
| 8 | But her desire to be a ballerina was more than just an adolescent fancy and she returned to New York to study at the American School of Ballet . |
| 9 | But crucially , although oppressive confessions may be ruled out , the Act goes on to provide that the fact ‘ that a confession is wholly or partly excluded … shall not affect the admissibility in evidence of any facts discovered as a result of the confession ’ . |
| 10 | A TEACHER was more than four times over the drink-drive limit after leaving her junior school 's afternoon carol concert , a court heard yesterday . |
| 11 | Perhaps a draw was more than Rangers deserved on the night . |
| 12 | 40% said the length of a meeting was more than 1 day |
| 13 | Conversely , Gloucester inherited the services of the Tunstalls of Thurland ( Lancs. ) from Warwick , although the first formal record of a fee is apparently that granted by Gloucester to Thomas Tunstall in autumn 1471 . |
| 14 | Conversely , Gloucester inherited the services of the Tunstalls of Thurland ( Lancs. ) from Warwick , although the first formal record of a fee is apparently that granted by Gloucester to Thomas Tunstall in autumn 1471 . |
| 15 | Crimes of violence , for example , are by and large one poor person hitting another poor person — and in almost half these instances it is a man hitting his wife or lover … the more vulnerable a person is economically and socially the more likely it is that both working class and white-collar crime will occur against them ( Matthews and Young , 1986 , p. 23 ) . |
| 16 | And even if the Host is still able to hope that the Monk will show another side to his character as a tale-teller , the Monk will not , and retreats into a sort of sulky silence after being interrupted and asked for something less serious : The Monk as a character is explicitly and repeatedly compared and contrasted with the teller who succeeds him , the Nun 's Priest . |
| 17 | How great a chance was there that an animal would be stolen ? |
| 18 | When assessing family connections , the anatomy of a larva is obviously as valid a piece of evidence as that of the adult . |
| 19 | The best known of such a transformation is probably that for turning Celsius temperature into Fahrenheit where F=32+9/70C , or , for another example , a conversion formula for turning imperial weights into metric ones . |
| 20 | Marx believed he could observe the process of polarization in nineteenth-century Britain when he wrote ‘ Society as a whole is more and more splitting into two great hostile camps … bourgeoisie and proletariat ’ . |
| 21 | It is clear in any case that the growing size of the middle class must change fundamentally the image of capitalist society as one in which class antagonisms are simplified , and ‘ society as a whole is more and more splitting up into two great hostile camps , into two great classes directly facing each other — bourgeoisie and proletariat ’ , which Marx and Engels depicted in the Communist Manifesto and which Marxists and other socialists generally accepted without much questioning until the early years of the twentieth century . |
| 22 | Sitting in the cinema one evening a woman was more than a little surprised to see a man walk in just before the film began with his pet crocodile at his side . |
| 23 | No point having a gate is there if you do n't close it ? |
| 24 | Mm , I can never remember the formulas , like your dad said formula for such and such a thing is so and so and that , but I could never remember them so I was no good then , because I could n't remember it |
| 25 | Gemma is staying at a children 's home but Ms Raisey would not comment on whether Gemma would be told that her mother had returned . |
| 26 | This decision is to be left to the governors of the school , but the Department of Education and Science is recommending as wide a definition as possible , to include legal guardians , foster parents and the head of a children 's home when the child is in care . |
| 27 | ‘ My husband lived practically next door to a children 's home when he was young and had quite a few friends in there , ’ said Jackie . |
| 28 | An institution was any establishment provided by the Council for reception and maintenance of the poor other than a hospital , a children 's home or a separate casual ward . |
| 29 | A sorcerer was abroad and no-one could stand against him . |
| 30 | All there was as a certainty was here and now . |