Example sentences of "be [conj] a [adv] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The consequence of these household arrangements today are that a very high proportion of older people live alone . |
| 2 | ( Labov 1981 : 30 ) Plainly , considerable ingenuity is needed to design rapid and anonymous survey questions which will reliably elicit the target feature , and the main advantages of the method are that a very clear view of the distribution of a single variant , geographically and sometimes socially , can be obtained extremely quickly . |
| 3 | So successful have these videos been that a partially self-supporting unit , NACAB Vision , has been formed which produces further training videos on a wider range of topics . |
| 4 | Additionally , with the exception of silver nitrate , the remedies tested in these latter experiments were different from those tested by Jones and Jenkins , and it may be that a less appropriate selection was made . |
| 5 | There can be a vital need for the encouragement of this type of activity , but it may be that a more conscious and directed effort by Dupont would have led to an earlier breakthrough and increased profitability from the work . |
| 6 | Where the issue is one that requires a consensus decision it may be that a more participative style is required . |
| 7 | The major reason for this is that a rather small proportion of the population makes a will-only about 20 per cent on the most authoritative figures available ( Todd and Jones , 1972 ; Manners and Rauta , 1979 ) . |
| 8 | One is that a comparatively nearby star in our Galaxy exploded as a supernova , shining millions of times more brightly than usual . |
| 9 | But the more immediate problem in this context is that a totally flexible approach would prevent comparison of the reports of different organizations and the reports of the same organization over time . |
| 10 | One possible disadvantage of the hardware.based system is that a relatively large number of signal lines are needed to interface the control circuits to the microprocessor , particularly for the parallel loading of the counter , e.g. for a maximum travel of 128 steps ( 2 steps ) , seven signal lines are used to load the Counter . |
| 11 | The reward for the hard work is that a much better system of advanced courses is now in place , giving better service to employers and providing candidates with many more opportunities , with greater flexibility and with greatly improved progression routes from National Certificate Modules all the way through to degrees . |
| 12 | The neo-classical view is that a perfectly competitive economy always tends towards its full employment equilibrium position . |
| 13 | But if your complaint is that a less tangible term of your employment has been broken , as when you have suffered harassment from your superiors or your status has been eroded , it may be difficult to establish a viable claim for compensation if you do not quit . |
| 14 | The clear implication of this is that a fully autonomous civilian economy may not exist . |
| 15 | The problem with such a system is that a more detailed breakdown of costs into trades , elements or work sections would be difficult to achieve on a manual basis . |
| 16 | The Society 's view is that a more positive solution is needed : to amend the Financial Services Act 1986 so as to make it clear precisely how far rules made under the Act displace the general law . |
| 17 | Whether such substantial damage resulted from surgery or the disease itself is not known : what is certain is that a very restrictive policy regarding the insertion of grommets is necessary . |
| 18 | A consequence of seeing rules in this way is that a very high degree of consensus concerning the rule is to be expected among members cf the group or sub-culture in which the rule applies . |
| 19 | The result over all wavelengths is that a fairly large view angle 65° ( measured from the vertical ) gives the best discrimination . |
| 20 | What all this shows is that a distinctively structuralist kind of criticism is possible , and moreover , that it is more than the simple application and refinement of the tools of poetics . |
| 21 | The reason why a rational person would draw this inference is that an unexpectedly high price can be due to a positive aggregate demand shock or a positive relative demand shock , and it can of course arise from a combination of the two . |
| 22 | General opinion in the markets now is that an unexpectedly high number of prime cattle could come through after it starts on 1 April . |
| 23 | The central claim in this phase of the argument , then , is that an ostensibly relational statement depends for its meaningfulness and truth upon the meaningfulness and truth of certain " non-relational " subject/predicate statements , but that the opposite is not necessarily the case . |
| 24 | ‘ He is but a little younger than you and is tall for his age , it is said . ’ |
| 25 | The area of special needs in further education/training has had to contend with the fact that it is but a very small part of a very much larger whole , and that the FE college and the training schemes are subject to the vagaries and constraints of the external environment . |
| 26 | This is because a very common thing among people with mental illness , which is not properly understood , is the way they feel that other people can read their mind . |
| 27 | What actually happened was that a less doctrinaire magistracy put local taxes up in order to provide bread for poor families . |
| 28 | Each day the fear was that a perfectly normal fault might develop in one of the trunk circuits that would require physical inspection by an East German repairman who might notice the MI6 taps . |
| 29 | So it was that an otherwise desultory exchange , from opposite ends of the universe , was suddenly enlivened by the discovery of common ground when Grundy observed , ‘ You 're more drunk than I am . ’ |
| 30 | ‘ Admit the lady , ’ he said , and sat down again in his chair of state ; though it was but a rather uncomfortable chair , not raised by a brace of steps like the abbot 's own judgment seat . |