Example sentences of "[conj] [prep] a [noun] [be] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | In AD 685 St Cuthbert perambulated ‘ illis murum civitatis ’ and also saw a fountain working , implying that there was still a functioning aqueduct ; whether he was looking at the walls of a genuine town or of a fort is arguable . |
| 2 | In any field of employment a successful application depends to some degree on the applicant 's being seen to say and do what is expected during the selection process , and to this extent conventional selection methods can always be faulted for the way they may presume that words uttered on a form or in an interview are reliable indicators of future performance . |
| 3 | She had the same manner as George , a sad kind of demeanour that on a woman was attractive while on a man like George it was annoying . |
| 4 | Now the consequences of seeing prayer as a hallway and as a telephone are momentous . |
| 5 | But in fact none of that is happening : they 're going straight to the latest technology , and as a result are able to roll things out very quickly . ’ |
| 6 | Some managers acquire authority through their personal charisma , and as a consequence are capable of influencing the behaviour of others . |
| 7 | Some countries lack a suitable economic infrastructure — roads , railways , docks , etc — and as a consequence are unable to exploit their natural resources . |
| 8 | Looking back to the latter half of our time in Scotland , I seem to have been engaged in a variety of activities : was twice part of a consortium to bid ( unsuccessfully ) for the franchise for Scottish Television ; was appointed chairman of the board of Edinburgh 's Royal Lyceum Theatre Company , a post I held for seven years ; was persuaded to stand as a candidate for Lord Rector of Edinburgh University and ( mercifully ) was defeated by its former Roman Catholic chaplain ; gave poetry recitals with Moira at Edinburgh Festivals and elsewhere ; attacked in a lecture to the Royal Society of Arts the moronic language of disc jockeys whom I referred to as ‘ the Anyway Boys ’ ( the word ‘ anyway ’ being their standard linking passage ) — but singled out for praise a comparative unknown by the name of Terry Wogan ; rejoined the Liberal Party ; took part in a shoot where in the gloaming I brought down what I thought was a woodcock but turned out to be a parrot , escaped recently from its cage a mile away ; fished for salmon in Spain where my guide was called Jesus ( and enjoyed bawling for him down the river bank ) and on the way home visited the marvellous cave paintings of Altamira and Lascaux ; proposed ite health of Prince Philip at a Variety Club luncheon and of London 's Lord Mayor at his midsummer banquet ( he was also chairman of the London Rubber Company to which I made some fruity references ) ; and for a year was resident British columnist of the American weekly magazine , Newsweek International . |
| 9 | The skulls of an elephant and of a man are different shapes , but this is not because the molecules which fit together to make an elephant 's skull are a different shape from those that make a human skull . |
| 10 | Rather as with other areas fundamental to the operation of the unconscious , artefacts may resist conscious articulation and in a sense be embarrassed by language . |
| 11 | Cleaner shrimps can harass small timid fish species such as scooter blennies ( Petroscrites temminicki ) and mandarins ( Synchiropus sp ) but as a generalisation are good aquarium subjects and get along well with their own kind . |