Example sentences of "[adv] [be] [prep] a " in BNC.
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| 1 | Slim women — or those who have successfully been on a diet — often feel deeply disheartened by the fact that diet and exercise alone do not seem to improve these problem areas . |
| 2 | He 's one of the strongest scrummagers in the game yet has rarely been inside a gym in his life , although a few of his international colleagues swear that he must be a closet trainer . |
| 3 | If guests have no credit cards they are usually asked to prepay for their stay at the hotel and all incidentals in bars and restaurants etc. are on a cash basis . |
| 4 | To open up a situation , to broaden thinking which has hitherto been from a limited viewpoint . |
| 5 | I 've only been to a couple of lodge meetings it I was invited to go to I always felt slightly ambiguous about that really you know . |
| 6 | She had consulted an astrologer once before , even if it had only been for a lark , so why not consult another one now ? |
| 7 | Our work so far has obviously only been of a preliminary nature , but even so it is clear that there are many strands in the concept of participation and public involvement in decision-making related to novel energy systems . |
| 8 | Once seated , Denice tells us she 's only been on a blind date once before , and that was years ago . |
| 9 | SINBAD has been cleaning the windows in Channel 4 's Brookside since 1984 , although he has only been on a regular contract for the last two years . |
| 10 | The interesting thing has been that each time we have revised the strategy we have been partially right , but it has only been as a result of a whole series of revisits , reorganizations and reassessments , as well as changing people , perspectives and systems , that we seem to have got enough right to be able to fight our corner . |
| 11 | ‘ He had long been in a bad state of health , which he took no care to repair but on the contrary lived in such a manner as greatly promoted the disorders he had had long upon him , this brought on the Flux which put a period to his life ’ ( Cook ) . |
| 12 | Thach had long been in a minority within the party leadership because of his implacable opposition towards normalization of relations with China . |
| 13 | He said he had thought they had all been fighting on the German side because they had all been under a German commander when surrendering . |
| 14 | Governments , military strategists , thousands of scientists , millions of dollars of time and research budgets have all been on a wild goose chase . |
| 15 | The coeliac patients were originally diagnosed according to the procedure recommended by the European Society for Paediatric Gastroenterology and Nutrition and had all been on a complete gluten free diet for at least five years and did not present symptoms indicative of active disease . |
| 16 | Last capped against Fiji in Suva more than four years ago , he has made only eight England appearances — and his four Five Nations games have all been as a replacement . |
| 17 | She 's obviously been under a tremendous strain over the last few months and she needs my help . ’ |
| 18 | They have obviously been through a very bad time over the last few days and it is n't going to get any better over the next few weeks . ’ |
| 19 | The wine we drank had a trace of resin , as if the vineyard had merely been beside a pine-forest , and was nothing like the harsh turpentine-tasting rotgut I sometimes drank in the village . |
| 20 | When the amount of pausing drops below what it would naturally be for a given speaker in a particular situation , the number of errors which the speaker makes increases . |
| 21 | It was also announced that ambassadors ' postings would henceforth be for a maximum of five years , and that their appointments would be approved by the council of USSR and republican foreign ministers . |
| 22 | In the Daily Mail , Pamella 's story became the tale of a ‘ sickeningly self-obsessed , utterly immoral and unashamedly amoral … call-girl ’ , ‘ an avaricious , manipulative woman with a beautiful face … a pathetic figure whose life can now only be on a downward slope . ’ |
| 23 | Er sometimes that has been known and it would be right to , for a youngster to sort of through their mother and father to take it back and say well look er can we have another one , but that would only be on a rare occasion , but if we 're given an assignment in the congregation then , especially in a |
| 24 | Oreste had been spared and it could only be for a purpose . |
| 25 | But it should only be for a matter of months . ’ |
| 26 | Maria objected strongly but Noreen had said it would only be for a little while until she went back to school in New York , now that Noreen had money enough to get them their own place . |
| 27 | The plan is that if we have to leave , and we 're still not sure , it will only be for a while . |
| 28 | If it did it might only be for a moment , the briefest of seconds , and she wanted Creggan h be ready for it . |
| 29 | When she saw the post of maid in general to Esther Ward advertised , she used all her powers of persuasion to convince Tilly that it would only be for a very short time : ‘ Just so I know how he is … how my daughter Beth is faring . ’ |
| 30 | Because it would only be for a short time , Lucien 's parents had decided it would not be a religious transgression for his aunt Pershti , his mother 's lover , to look after him . |