Example sentences of "[conj] be [prep] a [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | When goods are carried in different vehicles or are of a different kind or are divided into different lots , the sender of the carrier is entitled to require a separate consignment note for each vehicle or each kind or lot of goods . |
| 2 | Changes are usually evident in both , although in sheep which have just undergone " self cure " ( see below ) or are in a terminal stage of the disease , the bulk of the worm burden may have been lost from the abomasum . |
| 3 | Even in the daytime , the majority of you feel worried if you walk through a subway or are in a multi-storey car park . |
| 4 | Gardeners and allotment holders may not keep animals or be near a convenient source of sewage sludge or other animal waste . |
| 5 | In simple language , it is normally sufficient for the occupier to make reasonable endeavours to keep out or chase off the potential or actual intruder who is likely to be or is in a dangerous situation . |
| 6 | She pointed out how to deal with a child , for example , who has run away near a busy road : ‘ You should explain to a child that it is creating danger , or is in a dangerous situation . |
| 7 | Also , there could be problems if your house is listed as being of historic or architectural interest , or is in a Conservation Area . |
| 8 | For an account of the recent reforms to the finance of health care in different parts of the world see special issues of two journals that are worth a regular perusal : . |
| 9 | Their significance is not only in terms of the group experience but also in terms of the wider society , for it is these ideas born out of the street-corner groups , doing nothing , that are to a large extent the ‘ juvenile delinquency ’ of the police and criminologists . |
| 10 | Picture cards These might be classified and sorted according to those that look alike , those that are of a particular colour or design , etc . |
| 11 | Try to include some elements that are of a geometric type , such as a circle , diamond and so on . |
| 12 | This allows a comparison to be made between markets in countries that are at a different stage in their development , but it is assumed that their development will follow a similar pattern . |
| 13 | These are tenancies that are for a fixed period of one to five years , after which the landlord has a guaranteed right to repossess the property . |
| 14 | Bearing in mind that the elderly often most enjoy visits that are on a one-to-one basis , during which they can ventilate their anxieties and have the undivided attention of a sympathetic listener , it is not always a good idea to arrive with several young children in tow , if they can be happily parked elsewhere . |
| 15 | That is , syntactic and semantic influences are only considered between words that are within a local neighbourhood of each other . |
| 16 | It should be possible to see now that the tone-unit has a place in a range of phonological units that are in a hierarchical relationship : speech consists of a number of utterances ( the largest unit that we shall consider ) ; each utterance consists of one or more tone-units ; each tone-unit consists of one or more feet ; each foot consists of one or more syllables ; each syllable consists of one or more phonemes . |
| 17 | They may need to reorganize because of demography — that 's the number of pupils that are in a particular area , where you 've got too many schools , or it may be that they want to change the type of offer , such as some of us want to do in the City of Oxford . |
| 18 | Commonly , too , human activity creates habitats that are in a constant state of flux , which may open the way for pioneer species ( such as ragwort and dock — the kind commonly regarded as ‘ weeds ’ ) but also produces rapid successions of species . |
| 19 | That author presumably thinks that being in a human body is not essential to . |
| 20 | After four weeks there were significant improvements in symptoms as well as sigmoidoscopic and histological grades that were of a similar degree in both groups . |
| 21 | If a company called Joe Bloggs and Company that were from a back street … came with a similar proposal and they obviously had n't got two ha'pennies to rub together and certainly were n't gon na employ a chemist or anything like that , then … you would view that as a completely different proposition . |
| 22 | He also had drains that were in a terrible state and therefore wanted one of his sons to become a plumber . |
| 23 | There 's nothing worse than being in a foul temper and knowing that it 's only you , you 've got to blame for it . |
| 24 | Also in Via Filodrammatici , at No. 1 , is a door that is worth a quick look . |
| 25 | The hypothetical numbers attached to short-run curves indicate that the point on a short-run Phillips curve that is on a long-run Phillips curve is where expected and actual inflation rate coincide . |
| 26 | The line of thought initiated by William Hamilton in his interpretation of the evolution of altruism ( see p. 42 ) and developed by Robert Trivers 's theory of reciprocation ( see p. 43 ) provides a tight biological model for social change that is to a considerable degree applicable to man . |
| 27 | A woman that is like a German clock , |
| 28 | Mrs Wright lifted a vase of flowers that was on a small table by the door so that she could see how much water was in . |
| 29 | I stopped for a bite at an eating-place that was in a huge hove-bubble , drifting slowly about the roof-tops along one of the main spiral streets intersecting the city centre . |
| 30 | Mrs O'Neill had startled red hair and a face that was like a dried-up river bed . |