Example sentences of "[noun sg] be [adv] clearly a " in BNC.

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1 But there is usually an effective distinction from the institutions of simple commodity production even where the cultural work is quite clearly a commodity it is almost always , and often justly , also described in very different terms — and from the institutions or power and administration , in which purposes and objectives are inherent .
2 She started to say that to her this sounded more like Khrushchev , and she stopped herself again ; the line was so clearly a proffering of comfort .
3 The to used before the infinitive was very clearly a preposition when first employed in this function ; in fact , it governed the dative case of the infinitive .
4 The large brown sheet was quite clearly a large brown sheet , and the thing at the back was none other than my bicycle light .
5 Whereas his beard was so clearly a compensation , a making up for unachieved virility , Gyggle 's beard was positively rampant , priapic .
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