Example sentences of "[conj] [be] [verb] a [adj] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Thus , while the professional group was almost four times as likely to own or be buying a house as the unskilled group , it was almost nine times as likely to own or be buying a detached house as the unskilled group in 1971 . |
| 2 | UK Transport Minister John MacGregor yesterday published a paper proposal to introduce road pricing to ease congestion in London : under his plan , every car would have to be fitted with an electronic identifier , and its movements within the capital would be monitored by 4,000 roadside beacons : drivers would either establish credit with the system operator or be sent a quarterly bill , the Evening Standard reports ; the paper says that MacGregor has been trying to think up a snappy name for the thing , but reckless of the manner in which the Community Charge degenerated into the much-excoriated Poll Tax , he has settled on Congestion Charge . |
| 3 | they can help to liven up a salad or be used a nutritious snack , combined with an apple or another fruit . |
| 4 | Yeah I mean the part about the er about the savings erm if you 'd 've done or were doing a complete fact find that , that would come up anyway would n't it ? |
| 5 | Impetus given from or with any part of the body must coincide with the musical phrasing fur it indicates the performer is to make or is making an important statement . |
| 6 | She often made me feel vaguely guilty , as if I 'd forgotten to clean my teeth or was wearing a grubby shirt . |
| 7 | It is just the latest of many ignorant assaults that are damaging a national asset envied around the world . |
| 8 | States that are exploring a tough policy which borders upon coercion like Kenya will either find that open political protest will challenge the power of the state , or that like family planning in India , an onslaught upon the least economically and politically powerful is only temporarily feasible . |
| 9 | This will try to find markets for products and services coming from Montpellier and the other three European facilities in Havant , Valencia , Jrflla that are undergoing a similar process . |
| 10 | So it is possible to kill large numbers of rabbits that are doing a massive amount of crop damage by this method and by no other . |
| 11 | The central party leadership , in fact , went so far as to issue a formal statement on the Baltic situation in late August 1989 , warning against the activities of ‘ extremist ’ and ‘ anti-socialist ’ forces that were pursuing a separatist line with ‘ growing persistence and aggressiveness ’ . |
| 12 | Some conversions that were done a long time ago would not pass today 's stringent building regulations . |
| 13 | It may be that there is now enough information available to answer questions that were asked a long time ago but never answered . |
| 14 | More specifically it was in southern California , Reagan 's home territory , that political issues began to surface that were to play a major part in national politics in the years that followed . |
| 15 | I saw some of the places that were to play an important part in the later dramas of my life : the great Clerecia church where I was to be sitting one momentous morning , and beside it the lovely Casa de las Conchas , its walls decorated with rows of carved scallop shells — seven rows adorn the upper storeys . |
| 16 | This , he said , helped to evoke and release suppressed memories and emotions that were having a detrimental effect on the health of these people . |
| 17 | And thoughts that were thought a long time ago are as dead as old Squeez-Ee detergent bottles , and as slow to biodegrade . |
| 18 | Nadine Meisner visits a Royal Ballet project that is encouraging a different sort of child to put on pointed shoes |
| 19 | Nobody wants to close any bed that is offering a good quality service , that is wanted and being used . |
| 20 | Licensing is another alternative open to a firm that is contemplating an indirect venture into overseas markets . |
| 21 | The other word , kairos , is a word that is used a great deal to describe God 's breaking into our time and history to bring his salvation . |
| 22 | IT 'S the tape that 's caused a new storm for the Royals , still reeling from the scandal of Fergie 's holiday snaps . |
| 23 | The prison that 's providing a real pick-me-up . |
| 24 | Because somebody 's asked me to collect people 's conversations because it 's to , to do with a firm that 's making a new dictionary . |
| 25 | The Spanish custom that 's becoming a British habit . |
| 26 | So it 's all over bar the play offs … a season that 's brought a rollar coaster of success and survival for our local sides . |
| 27 | What was new after 1933 in respect of these films was that they were being made for a nation that was experiencing a new politicization and by a Hollywood that was equally trying to redefine its role within the culture . |
| 28 | Another design that was to remain a firm favourite was the waterproof snow boot — fur-lined , with suede on the outside and fastened at the front or side with a zip . |
| 29 | The decision set in motion a chain reaction that was to become an international phenomenon — hundreds of shops , all a mirror image of her original concept no matter where in the world they are located . |
| 30 | Yet not in Owen 's view , not the change that was to establish an industrial democracy , not the revolution that this least violent , this most sweetly reasonable of men now sought to bring about . |