Example sentences of "[prep] a [be] " in BNC.
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| 1 | A SCHOOLGIRL was subjected to a terrifying three-hour sex ordeal after a being kidnapped in broad daylight at gunpoint , police said yesterday . |
| 2 | France , the United Kingdom and the USA on Feb. 13 rejected Libya 's response to the unanimous UN Security Council Resolution 731 of Jan. 21 urging it to co-operate in the investigation of the December 1988 bombing of a Pan-Am airliner over Lockerbie , Scotland , and the 1989 bombing of a French airliner over Niger [ see p. 38743 ] . |
| 3 | It 's sort of a is it a sort of bluey green ? |
| 4 | The first of these was the existence of an IS syllabus in the first year , in which pupils were required to seek out material on a range of topics amongst which the civilisation of antiquity appears to have featured heavily . |
| 5 | There 's not much of an is it Italian ? |
| 6 | it looks rather like a is what we use ? |
| 7 | Everyone was walking , you just holding on your like a were n't you ? |
| 8 | Well that 's that 's that 's good for a is n't it ? |
| 9 | Patterson spells many a words with e , and some of these ( such as rether ‘ rather ’ ) are plainly sporadic residues of rural Scots ( which has [ Ε , e ] in , for example , father , rather , gather and in other pre-dental/ alveolar positions ) ; before nasals , however , e for a is more evident in Patterson . |
| 10 | These we shall read as a is ( is not ) congruent to b modulo [ more briefly , mod ] n . |
| 11 | But whereas the male version of Surrealism presents an image of woman as a being controlled by her childlike vision and magical powers , a priestess who is a powerless conduit between the known and unknown , in the work of woman Surrealists the female is in tune with , and at the helm of her powers . |
| 12 | Each of the four rounds was played as a pro-am four-ball , with a professional , a celebrity who was usually from show business and two amateurs , who paid handsomely for the privilege . |
| 13 | He nodded , the merest inclination of the head , to say , well , he did n't necessarily commit himself to agreeing but that he was n't ruling it out as a might-have-been either . |
| 14 | That 's a about a in n it bloody hell ! |
| 15 | That the first issue erm were the defendants in breach of contract in failing to , as is admitted , a unitary stat unitary authority and County Hall is made in a unitary stat unitary authority and County Hall is made into a be put to be theirs . |
| 16 | Given any node a in G , the nodes of G– above a are reduced walks in G from r to a : ( r s t … u a ) |
| 17 | He was sitting still looking at the book with an Art-Is Wonderful air about him ( for my benefit , not because he believes it , of course ) . |
| 18 | Do people obvi obviously there are virtually everyone at the flats , was in a is in a poor situation |
| 19 | The optimality theory states that an increase in a is good , as the subjects can always ignore the increased probability of lower prices ( as they should not be selling at those low prices anyhow ) and can profit from the increased probability of higher prices . |
| 20 | This we think we can discount for a number of reasons : first , the magnitude of the risk aversion would need to be rather large for the result ( that an increase in a is good ) to be reversed ( particularly when the reservation value is generally above the mean price ) ; second , subjects were paid proportionately to their total profits over 16 decision periods ( 32 decisions ) so that any risk aversion would already have been significantly averaged out ; third , the subjects appeared to be trying to make as much money out of the experiment as possible ( implying that they were behaving in a risk-neutral fashion ) ; fourth , the majority of the responses to two questions on the questionnaire indicated risk-neutrality . |
| 21 | The subject in a , b is nominative , the object in a is accusative . |
| 22 | Mr Sangster , who tees off first at 8am today in a pro-am golf tournmament in Jersey , is hoping to arrive at Newbury about half-an-hour before the Fred Darling Stakes . |
| 23 | Though Mark James is not your obvious candidate to flourish in a pro-am format , with rounds taking 5½ hours , yesterday 's sunshine stretched his tolerance level . |
| 24 | The top 40 professionals will play in a pro-am on Friday . |
| 25 | The section shown in a was examined with a MRC-600 laser-scanning confocal imaging system in conjunction with a Nikon Optophot microscope . |
| 26 | But here again one could argue that things go hand-in-hand : subjects perceived that an increase in a was equivalent to a decrease in k , and having argued the case for σ , the case for k followed automatically . |
| 27 | At that time it was a kind of derelict brick structure , part of which er over there , the bit that 's at right angles to where we are now , was in a was a plumber 's showroom or had been and this part was actually derelict and had a demolition order on it . |
| 28 | Outline the sequence of events during direct retrieval of a record from an IS file . |
| 29 | It seems to me to a be a great joke — do they call it the knobs and knockers committee ? |
| 30 | Yeah , they 're not on a are they ? |