Example sentences of "be [vb pp] [adv] a [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | PLAYER : Between " just deserts " and " tragic irony " we are given quite a lot of scope for our particular talent . |
| 2 | If the district registry had appreciated the urgency and the short period of the order without doubt they would have sought directions and the result would certainly have been that the appeal would have been set down at some other convenient centre or , as happened , in London at or before the beginning of this term and would have been heard within a few days , that is , the appeal would have been heard approximately a month ago . |
| 3 | By the way , this was the period when I could to a milk shop for a hape'orth of milk , but it 's not the halfpenny that people think now , cos the currency 's been altered quite a lot , it was very trifling , but it 's true . |
| 4 | Er this has been altered quite a lot since then , but you can still see the er gate that was er to the yard of the station . |
| 5 | The latter had been given only a month previously to John lord Dudley , and its transfer suggests that Gloucester 's role in Wales was still evolving . |
| 6 | The latter had been given only a month previously to John lord Dudley , and its transfer suggests that Gloucester 's role in Wales was still evolving . |
| 7 | The two staircases that are situated just a couple of yards from each other are another curious remnant from the past . |
| 8 | I have been confined almost a year by the dislocation of one of the ankle-bones of my leg , so have not been able to get as far as the Society House , but have enclosed the shilling you was so kind as to pay for a letter from Monsieur du Hamel . |
| 9 | ‘ Some people are booked quite a way in advance and others we do n't get a lot of notice of at all … |
| 10 | Time to slow down — I 'd been booked here a couple of years earlier . |
| 11 | A few weeks later , the exportation of Jews from Minden in Westphalia provoked reported mixed reactions from the local population , ranging from sympathy for the Jews to outrightly nazified comments thanking the Führer for freeing the people of the plague of Jewish blood , claiming that had it been done half a century earlier the First World War would not have been necessary , and including rumours that the Führer wanted to hear by 15 January 1942 that there were no more Jews in Germany . |
| 12 | Thomas had been granted only a weekend pass . |
| 13 | Perhaps the producer thought the gentleman had had enough media exposure for a while , as I was given to understand that he had been granted quite a bit of air time one way and another in the recent past . |
| 14 | Robert Hooke urges in his Micrographia that ‘ the science of nature has already too long been made only a work of the brain and fancy : It is now high time that it should return to the plainness and soundness of observations on material and obvious things . ’ |
| 15 | My cataract operation has been moved forward a fortnight for the rather odd reason that the hospital is ‘ having to cancel all non-urgent operations in October ’ . |
| 16 | Visits to local chateaux and places of interest ( Saumur and Fontevraud ) are organized twice a week as part of the summer group vacation course , and a party and a disco evening are held during the course . |
| 17 | Unscheduled Okay , this is er , it 's , it 's a diagnostic sheet if you find that you 're interrupted quite a lot over time , for you know , at a particular time , and you want to find out why you 're becoming less effective , you use this to log interruptions . |
| 18 | ‘ But , Joe , I 've been apprenticed nearly a year now , and I 've never thanked her ! ’ |
| 19 | As a police officer , any woman who do decide to report a crime to us they are offered quite a lot of advise |
| 20 | These are offered once a month on Saturdays , from 9.30am . |
| 21 | But after the Salzburg concert I had been offered only a kind of ‘ trial ’ , just one performance of someone else 's production . |
| 22 | What purported to be a parliament , called in the name of the Prince of Wales as keeper of the realm , and presided over by Isabella and Mortimer on the prince 's behalf , met in January 1327 , having been postponed nearly a month while some doubts and difficulties were resolved . |
| 23 | Bank statements are supplied once a quarter for both accounts . |
| 24 | Both zither and dance music are played once a week . |
| 25 | Right some of our speakers are retires I I 've been retired quite a number of years , as you 'll have noticed I give the talk on income tax and I 'm a retired tax inspector . |
| 26 | The event has been brought forward a year from 1991 and moved also from France to West Germany . |
| 27 | THE tremendous response to news of the video ‘ Soccer 's Hard Men ’ means the release date has been brought forward a week to October 12 . |
| 28 | Already next season 's Ulster Senior Challenge Cup final has been brought forward a week to April 23 in order to accommodate the Lions party who will take in the game as part of their celebrations . |
| 29 | As the April meeting would coincide with election day it has been brought forward a week to April 2 when Richard Wood of Durham Wildlife Trust will be the speaker . |
| 30 | For some reason I 'd thought I 'd be given just a sample in a small box — like those used to send out wedding cake . |