Example sentences of "[be] [adv] [prep] a " in BNC.
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| 1 | Most are rather like a sandwich with the steel springs embedded in a honeycomb of foam . |
| 2 | These are rather like a water heater and storage cylinder in one . |
| 3 | When male students are numerically in a minority , do they form a ‘ minority group ’ ? |
| 4 | The remaining songs are mostly of a more cheerful nature , sometimes with an occasional function . |
| 5 | Comedians and sportsmen , who are mostly from a working-class backround , will be limited to the OBEs , MBEs and CBEs . |
| 6 | Perhaps we think our friends see us as calm and capable while we know that we are secretly in a state of panic . |
| 7 | What better way to prove that you have been somewhere in a consumer culture , than to buy something made locally whilst you are there . |
| 8 | ‘ I doubt it may have been somewhere in a circle of exiles , plucking that familiar of yours . ’ |
| 9 | Yugoslavia had been effectively without a President or a commander of the armed forces ( a role held by the Collective Presidency ) for several days as the term of his predecessor , Borisav Jovic ( a Serb ) , had expired on May 15 . |
| 10 | The Dawson International Executive Share Option Scheme 1993 ( ‘ the Executive Scheme ’ ) provides for share options to be granted to those senior employees who are most in a position to affect the fortunes of the Company . |
| 11 | Bangladeshi infants are constantly in a busy social and tactile environment , whereas Welsh babies grow up in smaller households in which independence is encouraged . |
| 12 | We are necessarily at a distance from them , detached . |
| 13 | In contemporary societies these are necessarily of a cultural or social nature ; nationality and territory being crude and highly approximate signifiers of shared ancestry . |
| 14 | As dawn appears in the sky our progress quickens ; after crossing a few fields and climbing several hedgerows we are suddenly on a road with farm buildings a short distance away . |
| 15 | However , a group of assessors under the President of Ukraine and President Kravchuk himself are obviously of a different opinion ; they are credited with the authorship of the agreement . |
| 16 | Burrowing species are obviously at a disadvantage in such situations , although some species are able to escape by swimming . |
| 17 | On the first issue , teachers are obviously in a crucial position to detect cases of abuse of children in their care . |
| 18 | It was very handy , being so close to town , and as the Lock family are much of an age with our boys we had a very jolly time together . |
| 19 | Starting and finishing at the Hill Inn , the walk passes through a district liberally pockmarked with caves and potholes of which Bruntscar and Gatekirk Cave are especially worth a halt to inspect the outsides . |
| 20 | Starting and finishing at the Hill Inn , the walk passes through a district liberally pockmarked with caves and potholes of which Bruntscar and Gatekirk Cave are especially worth a halt to inspect the outsides . |
| 21 | Further , Curtis had informed Grant that the word on the streets was that the recent outbreak of violence and killing had been all about a territorial dispute between rival Triad and Mafia gangs . |
| 22 | It was worse , in fact , than if she had been obviously of a more humble station , for a gentlewoman in her circumstances was instantly under suspicion of a fall from respectability . |
| 23 | It was n't enough ; it had n't been enough for a long time . |
| 24 | Two to three tablespoons of tinned tomatoes are enough for a sauce made from 2 lb. of the fresh fruit or for 3 pints of stock . |
| 25 | Tonight they are together at a banquet aboard the Royal Yacht Britannia to mark the EC summit . |
| 26 | Earlier marriages with fewer children means that couples are together for a long time after their children have left home . |
| 27 | It is assumed that the fact that teachers and pupils are together in a special classroom implies the presence of an educational programme relevant to the development of children ; also that the presence of a teacher provides effective educational programmes … in practice none of these desiderata have been met . |
| 28 | ‘ I am constantly in a state of surprise that I have survived this long as an actor . |
| 29 | For a discipline which has made a speciality of the modern world we are somewhat at a disadvantage compared to journalists . |
| 30 | The Sandinistas in government are somewhat at a loss for their own charismatic figure , but continue to draw amply on the ( revised ) ideology and mythology of Sandino himself and of the martyred heroes of the revolution . |