Example sentences of "a [adj] be [adv] " in BNC.
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| 1 | There was just a trembling being as vulnerable as any other woman , a being who had craved much , much more . |
| 2 | A corrosive is simply a powerful acid that eats through steel . |
| 3 | Consultation takes time : policy-writing by a few is more speedy , but also less effective in the long term for reasons which are suggested later . |
| 4 | They are not funded by the government or local authorities , and most charge fees ( see Chapter 11 ) ; a few are wholly charitable institutions . |
| 5 | Many have talked about stimulating research ; a few are already promoting it . |
| 6 | John Claudius Loudon wrote of statues in his great Encyclopedia of Gardening ( 1822 ) : ‘ They excite interest , often produce character … when a few are judiciously introduced ; but profusely scattered about , they distract attention . ’ |
| 7 | A range of profiles is available from the various manufacturers , and while most come in white only , a few are also made in cream , green and brown . |
| 8 | A few are just plain awkward and play the game of holding you to ransom . |
| 9 | A number of salts are found in the soils of arid regions but only a few are generally quantitatively significant — , , , , , and KCI . |
| 10 | First , there is the question of condition : with a few exceptions the books listed have their entire life in front of them , certainly hundreds of years , and only a few are even what the booksellers would call ‘ reading copies ’ . |
| 11 | Within any affected group , differing degrees of clinical severity are usually apparent ; typically a few animals are mildly affected , most are moderately affected and a few are severely affected . |
| 12 | I find that about 5 per cent of the students I teach are never able to overcome this difficulty ( even though they may have perfect hearing and in some cases a high level of linguistic and musical ability ) ; of the remainder , a few are especially gifted and can not understand how anyone could find the task difficult , and most others eventually learn after five or ten hours of practical classes . |
| 13 | As far as output is concerned , some do particularly badly — producing outputs completely in the wrong ballpark ; some , however , are rather better and a few are really quite good . |
| 14 | Among 105 species of maritime and continental antarctic mosses ( Smith 1984 ) only a few are currently regarded as endemic , and the number declines as ‘ antarctic ’ species are discovered in South America and elsewhere . |
| 15 | Of the large number of individual faults ( Figure 3.27 just shows some of the major ones ) only a few are currently regarded as being active , although others have been active in the recent past . |
| 16 | Seeds are projected from the tree and only a few are actually germinated to continue that species . |
| 17 | It is interesting to note that quite a few are now teaching in the secondary school sector without DES QTS . |
| 18 | Although most shrub roses make strong self-supporting growth , a few are so lax and flexible that mature specimens have far greater width than height . |
| 19 | We 've got some beiges as well that a few are quite sort of close to white . |
| 20 | Most were delegated by their Churches , a few were especially invited — ‘ as motley a group of ‘ non-Catholics ’ as ever had been assembled' , as Dr Albert Outler , one of their number , described them in ‘ Strangers within the Gates ’ ( see Outler , 1986 , p. 173 ) . |
| 21 | Its teeth were said to be venomous , its flesh poisonous , its hair lethal ( causing suffocation if a few were accidentally swallowed ) , and its breath infectious , destroying human lungs and causing consumption . |
| 22 | Quite a few were still fairly young and felt that the pension would be better cashed and put into the farm if they eventually became full-time farmers . |
| 23 | A few were deliberately encouraged , but only where they could further the Institution 's watchdog' function . |
| 24 | Quite a few were very upset , they 'd only twelve months to go — it was just like turning them out on the street . |
| 25 | A few were merely giant heads ; for fashions changed . |
| 26 | All the same , a few were quite alarmed by the clowns , shrieking in fright and clinging to their mothers ! |
| 27 | The device in this case a Copper-7 is gently inserted into the womb through a narrow tube or ‘ introducer ’ . |
| 28 | Single mothers tend to be younger than other lone parents — one half are under 25 — and widowed mothers tend to be older — more than a half are over 45 . |
| 29 | What would a half be again ? |
| 30 | He seemed a different being altogether from the man she had served . |