Example sentences of "[be] [adv] [adj] [prep] a " in BNC.
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| 1 | The fry are rather small for a mouthbrooder , but can take newly hatched brine shrimp . |
| 2 | Although only a handful of species in this large genus ( the biggest in the family with perhaps 110 species ) were examined , and only a single sample from each , while other nutrients such as minerals and vitamins were not assessed , the results are rather indicative of a pair of chemomorphological dispersal ‘ syndromes ’ within the genus . |
| 3 | Today synthetic diamonds are commercially available in a range of sizes up to the present maximum , the de Beers ‘ Synthetic Rotary Dresser ’ stones , which have a weight of 2 milligram , ( equivalent to a cubic diamond of 0.8 mm edge ) . |
| 4 | Electrode pullers may be either electromagnetically or gravity-operated and are commercially available from a number of suppliers , Minor modification may be necessary in order to fit tubing of 1.0 mm diameter because most pullers are designed to accommodate the slightly larger , standard microelectrode capillary tubing . |
| 5 | I am acutely aware of a further objection . |
| 6 | May I say how deeply honoured I am to be invited to chair N C V O. I am acutely conscious with a degree of trepidation and indeed humility , that I face a huge challenge in following in Alan 's footsteps . |
| 7 | Londoners have for long been perversely proud of a health service that does not serve them well . |
| 8 | Although these are mostly non-Anglican in a land where only 2.5% of Christians are Episcopalian , they are highly significant . |
| 9 | The waterways are incredibly peaceful with a wealth of wildlife and some incredibly beautiful scenery . |
| 10 | Which do you think would have been most helpful as a basis for an explanation ? |
| 11 | Her repertoire includes lieder and oratorios , though she has been most active as an opera singer . |
| 12 | It had been most enjoyable with a tremendous amount of flying : I had been in every part of the Command — Persia as it was in those days , down the Gulf and all the way round the Gulf to Bahrain , Salalah , I took part in the search for the Imperial Airways Argosy airliner City of Glasgow that landed on the beach and was literally lost for a couple of days before one of the Shaihah crews found it away down beyond Sulwah Wells . |
| 13 | For all its tension between unison and bedlam , its freedom to use any kind of gesture or step , you are rarely exhilarated by a sense of newly-discovered movement . |
| 14 | Unlike the natural sciences , which deal largely in results , the social sciences are rightly concerned for practice , perhaps because results are rarely possible in an exact mathematical sense . |
| 15 | First , they must face trial by jury in civil actions , which allows the plaintiff 's attorney to appeal to the jury 's emotions — and US juries are rarely sympathetic towards a large firm with seemingly endless insurance cover . |
| 16 | The food industry has been rather quiet for a couple of years but we have recently finished a Jaffa cake plant for McVities/United Biscuits in Manchester and a sugar refining job for Tate & Lyle . |
| 17 | I am wholly opposed to a transfer of competence to the European Community on matters of asylum and immigration . |
| 18 | Although in some branches of the law a defendant may be treated as intending the known inevitable or likely consequences of his act , that is not so here , for it would stretch the tort too far to impose liability where ‘ the reasons which actuate the defendant to use unlawful means are wholly independent of a wish to interfere with the plaintiff 's business , such interference being no more than an incidental consequence foreseen by and gratifying to the defendant . ’ |
| 19 | The research arms of Japan 's securities firms have been relentlessly bullish throughout a 48% decline in the value of the Tokyo stockmarket . |
| 20 | You need to consider what activities are most suitable for a particular time of day . |
| 21 | They are most grateful for a pump within yards of their homes , instead of having to walk a long way to a dirty water-hole . |
| 22 | The lines are most visible on a clear night , in excess of about 25 metres from a sodium light , and are seen to radiate in planes parallel to the main axis of the lamp fitting . |
| 23 | His diaries — particularly the manuscript originals , scattered with engraved prints ( the picture postcards of the day ) — do serve this function , but are most valuable as a record of individual sensibility . |
| 24 | Leek and potato soup ( £1.55 ) came with excellent bread but would have been less bland with a few spices thrown around ; conversely a fresh off the bone chicken curry ( £3.50 ) could have been enhanced by some fruit . |
| 25 | In addition to the factors already discussed , the main stimulus to employers ' organisation in a number of countries appears to have been less that of a counter to growing union power , or an attempt to achieve market or labour force regulation , and more a response to what was perceived as a threat to common employer interests arising from increasing state intervention . |
| 26 | Louisa was left feeling that she had been appointed audience to a play of the wife 's devising , one in which the heroine 's suffering was the principal theme and which might , indeed , have been moving had not the sense of theatre been so pronounced , and had the script been less expressive of a plaintive heart than of its tribulations . |
| 27 | To date the private sector has been less important as a source of provision . |
| 28 | Readings which are obviously aberrant on a graph are indicated in the table by ‘ ? ’ . |
| 29 | They do so because they and their chicks are much safer in a crowd . |
| 30 | Jobs , government officials say , are much less of a problem than is housing . |