Example sentences of "a [noun sg] [adv] be " in BNC.
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| 1 | the test of whether a plaintiff had acted reasonably in bringing a case late was an objective one not subjective . |
| 2 | But that was a bit later was n't it ? |
| 3 | There are , look at that , it 's a hospital Polo there 's a bit already been taken out of it |
| 4 | Well Lamarckism is named after er , Jean Baptiste Antoine de Monet , better known to us as Lamarck , and the , the prime notion of Lamarckism , according in Darwin , let's try and get that over there a bit more is evolution by will . |
| 5 | I mean I , I was quite fascinated having lunch one day with a journ a Melbourne journalist erm and this was about six months after Murdoch had taken over the Melbourne Sun all this and we were chatting away and I actually threw in the stuff which were saying about how papers are there to make profits these days so that 's what drives them and that journalists journalists on newspapers such as Murdoch 's papers , write what they 're supposed to write and she and I got quite out of with one another and and the bottom liner was that she , she absolutely totally and utterly denied what we were saying and I said to her okay if you were given a story to write you know and it was opposite to how you would view it , what would you do and she said oh well I , I would have to write it and the issue with the Murdoch papers and it 's quite interesting because I mean I 'm sure you can with other newspapers but I , I 've just got a bit more is that Murdoch never ever writes a minute or a memo to his editor or staff saying this is what the line is ever . |
| 6 | You do n't want a bit of sedimentation and then a gap when nothing was being laid down and then a bit more being sedimented , because , you know , you do n't know then whether the jumps you see in the record are simply there because there was a gap in deposition , or whether they really reflect the sudden change in the population . |
| 7 | Quite a bit more was n't it ? |
| 8 | It 's going off a bit now is n't it ? |
| 9 | But that 's still sort of limiting a bit though is n't it ? |
| 10 | Also the project that has hit the news quite a bit recently is the talking newspaper for the blind . |
| 11 | Right now things are getting a bit better are n't they ? |
| 12 | At the entrance to the station a big Mercedes with two men in Luftwaffe uniform and a driver inside was waiting for us . |
| 13 | Stressing important words in a sentence again is an aid to understanding . |
| 14 | It could be argued , however , that if a PhD really is expected to be in part a contribution to knowledge , then this factor should be built into the system , so that the information gathered in such a costly fashion should be published in some form before completion , as is expected in some other European countries , such as Germany and the Netherlands . |
| 15 | A trick here is to bunch the braid . |
| 16 | As Truth and ahi sā are closely intertwined like two sides of a coin so are ahi sā and satyāgraha interrelated . |
| 17 | These are the items which move through a lifecycle ie. are acted upon by a process model . |
| 18 | A sepoy here was trying to remove a silver fork from one of his lungs , another had received a piece of lightning-conductor in his kidneys . |
| 19 | There is a story currently being developed by the Press Association that David Batty has agreed to go to Blackburn ! ! ! ! |
| 20 | Your life expectancy as a male today is seventy four years , and for the females of the species , and we love them , your life expectancy is eighty years . |
| 21 | It is possible that the subjective sensation experienced by a female bat when she perceives a male really is , " say , bright red : the same sensation as I experience when I see a flamingo . |
| 22 | Though I do believe a cow once was maimed . |
| 23 | Fanny Burney said to Johnson that Shakespeare ‘ could never have seen a Caliban ’ , and Johnson told her that having seen a man Shakespeare knew how to vary one ; ‘ A man who would draw a monstrous cow , must first know what a cow commonly is ; or how can he tell that to give her an ass 's head or an elephant 's tusk will make her monstrous ? ’ |
| 24 | a change then was that it ? |
| 25 | Sometimes competitors in the show ring find that their normally sensible horse has become anxious and irrational ; the reason often being because a horse nearby is a flashy appaloosa or tobiano ! |
| 26 | As a result both were prone to a disastrous application of metaphysical cultural values to political analysis — in the case of Chesterton and his role as a drama critic and provincial journalist in the 1920s , to a vision of cultural despair based on a parallel theory of criticism to that of his friend the Shakespearian scholar , G. Wilson Knight . |
| 27 | In a niche above was a depiction of God the Father toward which Christ below turns with angels on either side . |
| 28 | A Buick just is n't us , Harvey . ’ |
| 29 | The prospect of inquiring into a murder single-handed was not one that she relished . |
| 30 | But a cut away is essential then , since the actor can not enter the bath any further ( the next stage of passing through depends on lighting and a duplicate set built as a mirror image to the first ) . |