Example sentences of "[noun] [be] [vb pp] [prep] a [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ The secrets are placed in a despatch bag and sealed with the chancery seal . |
| 2 | Six small rod-like capsules are inserted into a woman 's arm under local anaesthetic . |
| 3 | To the uninitiated it might seem that the shunters are engaged in a game of hide-and-seek with the trucks ; they appear to scatter them all over the yard , as if their object were to separate many of them as completely as possible . |
| 4 | Be-bop , sometimes called straight-ahead jazz , is written with eighth notes , but at particular tempos the eighth notes are felt with a lilt or bounce to them . |
| 5 | As their name suggests , utopian ideologies are based on a vision of an ideal society , a perfect social system . |
| 6 | When terrestrial objects are viewed through a telescope , it is possible to separate the viewed object from aberrations contributed by the telescope because of the observer 's familiarity with what a tower , a ship , etc. looks like . |
| 7 | Propositions , therefore , in which objects are referred to a class , because they possess the attributes constituting the class , are so far from asserting nothing but resemblance at all … |
| 8 | Bien 's ‘ Hotel Polen ’ is the most emotive : images based on old photographs and possessions are placed in a menu stand from the Hotel Polen in Amsterdam , itself destroyed by fire in 1977 . |
| 9 | Two prisoners are accused of a crime . |
| 10 | The final accounts are prepared by a firm of local accountants , who also do the annual stock-taking . |
| 11 | The principal pension scheme 's accounts are audited by a firm other than Touche Ross , which acts for Dixons Group plc . |
| 12 | For example , in the Amerindian language Cubeo , the main protagonists and their actions in a story are tagged by a particle in such a systematic way that a concise and accurate precis is obtained if just those sentences containing the particle are extracted ( see Longacre , 1976a for many such cases in this and other Amerindian languages ; and Anderson & Keenan , in press , re the so-called fourth person category in Algonquian languages , really a discourse-deictic category ) . |
| 13 | Standing on a small peninsula surrounded by the beautiful Belle Mare beach , the buildings of the luxurious Saint Geran are grouped around a lagoon . |
| 14 | Generic technologies are characterised by a breadth of long term potential applications and impacts which require that they be recognised as fundamental elements in thinking about and planning the long term socioeconomic future . |
| 15 | These pleats give the lava a ropy appearance , and the flows are called by a name given to them by the Polynesian islanders — pahoehoe flows . |
| 16 | On the lower part of the northern Hebrides Slope and in the basin plain of the northern Rockall Trough the debris flows are buried beneath a cover of mud that was derived from the glacier front , together with drop-stones that melted out of icebergs drifting in the area . |
| 17 | These skills are applied in a dissertation which provides an opportunity to undertake original research . |
| 18 | In collective entrepreneurship , individual skills are integrated into a group ; this collective capacity to innovate becomes something greater than the sum of its parts . |
| 19 | So , what special skills are required of a theatre reviewer ? |
| 20 | Skills are acquired by a process of trial and error but the trials are not entirely random as is assumed in classical trial and error learning ( Thorndike , 191 1 ) . |
| 21 | His investigations are accompanied by a search for an india-rubber , about which he remembers only that it contained the two letters ‘ di ’ in the middle of its trade name ( hence ‘ Oe di pe ’ ) . |
| 22 | Most improtant is that homeworkers are easily disposed of ‘ Outworkers are used as a buffer against market fluctuations , particularly in the manufacturing sectors ’ said the Employment Gazette blandly . |
| 23 | Pluralists actually define British politics as public policy-making , and so they see politics as somehow " explained " once they tell us how those policies are made as a result of the activities of the various interested groups . |
| 24 | Locally , they maintain , state intervention is directed towards consumption processes , and policies are developed through a plurality of political struggles . |
| 25 | Elsewhere I argue that transactions among the Buid are dominated by a principle not recognized by Polanyi , and that Sahlins ' reduction of Polanyi 's three categories to a single continuum is even more misleading . |
| 26 | Minor concentrations of copper , molybdenum , tin , tungsten and uranium are associated with a number of mineralised Caledonian calc-alkaline porphyritic granites in Scotland , Northern England and Wales . |
| 27 | Restart facilities for off-line processes should be such that no more than four hours of normally processed text are lost as a result of a malfunction of equipment or software . |
| 28 | The reason many copies of any one fragment of text are found on a disc is that if , like all my chapters , the text has been edited and re-edited many dozens of times , each edit will result in a new saving to the disc of ( almost ) the same text . |
| 29 | Some plants , however , are known to be efficiently dispersed by two quite distinct types of agent , e.g. the fruits of Faramea occidentalis ( Rubiaceae ) on Barro Colorado Island are eaten by a range of mammals and birds , but dispersal is said to be principally effected by howler and white-faced monkeys and by crested guans . |
| 30 | Our brewing operations are supported by a variety of business links , from joint ventures in Japan and Malaysia , through licensing agreements with Carlsberg and Budweiser , to marketing companies in the USA , Hong Kong and the Caribbean . |