Example sentences of "a [noun] be [adv] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The event 's promoter will pay an agreed fee to the PRS for the works which are to be performed , and a payment is then made by the PRS to the writers and publishers for the works listed as being played . |
| 2 | ‘ A prince is only flesh and blood and skin and bone . ’ |
| 3 | In the aftermath of the Clapham disaster , I am sure that the House will agree that such a provision is both necessary and overdue . |
| 4 | My and colleagues ' data has shown that for uncomplicated acute pyelonephritis five days of treatment with either an aminoglycoside , a β lactam , or a quinolone is highly effective . |
| 5 | It took some puzzling to deduce that a caudate was actually a tail , rather less to see that Jenner had used cats in his experiments . |
| 6 | A trial is then simply marshalling the diversity of practice in a disciplined manner capable of resolving the issue when otherwise it would remain open . |
| 7 | But I suppose the loss of a sister is always sad , whatever the circumstances . ’ |
| 8 | Built around two , 200-metre-long concrete pontoons , it is linked at one end and has a floating gate at the other which closes when a submarine is inside . |
| 9 | A POTAGER was just a grand name for a plot , where vegetables were grown to make soup ( potage ) , but now it means an ornamental vegetable garden . |
| 10 | For instance , a hyponym is often cognitively equivalent to a paraphrase in which a superordinate is syntagmatically modified . |
| 11 | Not to do so is like asserting that the armour of a battle-cruiser is too heavy , or the range of her guns too great , without inquiring into the nature and effectiveness of the enemy 's armament . |
| 12 | Development of numerous little buttresses situated on the north east side of the Mosedale valley at 1900ft , which has been named Little Stand Crag ( ref 248033 ) , has been carried out by J. Daly and K. Daly ( future guidewriters should beware — a crag was also developed around here by A.T . |
| 13 | A cable was duly despatched . |
| 14 | The depths of a recession is hardly the best time to make such a move , but a substantial redundancy package has helped to cushion the risk and Mr Wise could not be certain the opportunity would come his way again . |
| 15 | A large borrowing requirement during a recession is perfectly natural , just like the paying back of the national debt during the mid 80s boom . |
| 16 | After a contentious and abortive attempt to set up a population register in 1753 , a Bill for a Census was finally passed without fuss in 1800 ( Glass 1973 ) . |
| 17 | A moral is sometimes drawn from this tale . |
| 18 | The hours that you put into a case are therefore of the utmost importance . |
| 19 | The contract in such a case is most certainly not frustrated or avoided . |
| 20 | The suspension in such a case is merely done by way of good administration . |
| 21 | The role of the lawyer when analysing a case is therefore to extract the principle(s) of law from the decision of the court . |
| 22 | A lot of it is quite funny , a bit is very funny , and some is slightly self-indulgent . |
| 23 | The controversy about which conduct of business rules apply to a branch is quite separate from the question of whether a firm needs to be authorised , or licensed , by the host member state in order to be able to establish a branch . |
| 24 | A referendum was also possible in Ireland . |
| 25 | Stressing the group 's opposition to water privatisation , he said its decision not to support a referendum was purely on grounds of tactics . |
| 26 | Domestic arts is housework , sex-care provider is a prostitute and a shoplifter is really a non-traditional shopper . |
| 27 | The victims of a burglary are often puzzled as to why the thief chose their home in preference to others . |
| 28 | There are no rules defining the distinction between runners and strips , but it is generally accepted that a runner is relatively large ( halfway or corridor size ) , whereas a strip is rarely more than . |
| 29 | Yet the resemblance of a modern stick insect to a stick is marvellously good , down to the last fine details of fake buds and leaf-scars . |
| 30 | Yet while it may not be possible , in a given case , to come to a clear decision one way or the other , it can not , I shall argue , be coherently assumed that a decision is logically impossible and at the same time insisted that the object in question exists in an ontological sense . |