Example sentences of "[be] another " in BNC.

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1 Would he , in fact , have turned in earlier , or would it have been another near miss or accident in the making ?
2 Harlequin , in his earlier embodiment as Hermes , was the god of animals and this idea has been another valuable source of choreographic material .
3 It had been another perfect morning .
4 It was a song or a poem — I do n't know which but to my knowledge it has never been published — which was called ‘ Beautiful Angie ’ , and I clicked immediately and realised there had been another woman about the house .
5 Clarissa 's flat was on the eighth floor and its acquisition had been another good thing that summer .
6 Dimly , in what seemed at that moment to have been another existence altogether , she remembered Jurgen and Horst arguing that there was actually something dynamic and hopeful about the forces of good and innocence being so demonstrably at risk from the satanic .
7 It was to have been another Scarborough , a resort for the wealthy of Middlesbrough .
8 There has , however , been another tradition of thought associated neither with the ‘ rationalism ’ of Locke nor the ‘ fideism ’ of Wesley .
9 Even if there had been another big story , it would have to be very big indeed to be bigger than this one ! ’
10 There were times when Blackadder allowed himself to see clearly that he would end his working life , that was to say his conscious thinking life , in this task , that all his thoughts would have been another man 's thoughts , all his work another man 's work .
11 ‘ If there had been another — any other — I would have backed him , not you . ’
12 Call Me Old Fashioned , I thought was a good title , and A Licence to Print Money would have been another good title for a bestseller , but it had rather a rapacious sound do n't you think ?
13 Krankoor must almost certainly have been another such .
14 The white hat , I wondered , had that just been another trick of my imagination ?
15 The running of multiple sessions has been another means of saving which , though not always a problem , has led to truncated teaching sessions , late-coming and absenteeism on the part of teachers and pupils .
16 Creating a teaching force which is adequate to the rapidly growing system has been another problem .
17 No , there has not been another report saying how well she did in the South Atlantic , the European parliament has not ‘ liberated ’ Britain 's £500 million rebate from the European Community , nor has the opposition to the new nuclear power station at Sizewell withdrawn from the public inquiry The news that the Prime Minister has awaited with bated breath ever since she visited CERN last year comes from Switzerland , and it has nothing to do with Zurich , or gnomes .
18 There could have been another contributory factor having a bearing on the origin of man 's appreciation of beauty .
19 The Battle of Falkirk had been another Jacobite victory , Prince Charles having lost 50 dead and 80 wounded , while Hawley 's casualties , suffered in a mere 20 minutes , amounted to 350 killed and another 300 taken prisoner .
20 In those days too , there 'd been another festival a month or so later , called ban chho āi , the leaving of the forest .
21 Then there had been another science during which she took periodical gulps of her tea and the sleeping baby stirred and gave small pig-like grunts .
22 He might just have been another guitar player who ended up playing back-up for a lot of people , which was what he was doing in America . ’
23 ‘ If you had n't bumped that sodding Angel there 'd have been another murder this afternoon , ’ said Perdita sulkily .
24 Previously they 'd just been another name in the Gig Guide or sharing the billing on a Cud poster .
25 There 'd been another quake at 4am , a 6.5 shock .
26 ‘ I have thought about whether I could have been another of his victims .
27 If the cartel mentality has been one striking component of ICI 's culture , commitment to research and development , and the fostering of individual scientific brilliance , has undoubtedly been another .
28 ‘ You will be Church of England , ’ said Willie Hamilton , as though Paul had been another species .
29 That summer — there had never been another like it , before or since .
30 There had never been another summer like that one .
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