Example sentences of "[be] [verb] [prep] [adv] a [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The snag to this is that although a pan-head can rotate through a full circle , your hips are limited to about a quarter of this movement . |
| 2 | Once a major effort has been completed against either a warren or a burrow system it can be expected that the area has been fairly well cleared . |
| 3 | I must have been walking for nearly an hour , he thought . |
| 4 | Ah , ‘ t is a sorry pass we are come to when a lady is robbed of the clothes on her back . ’ |
| 5 | While the latter seems the most likely cause in many blends where specific interactions have been identified , miscible blends can also be obtained when certain statistical copolymers are mixed with either a homopolymer , or another copolymer , in which no such interactions have been located . |
| 6 | Not everything was in ruins : rising through the rubble were banks of communications and control consoles , housed in cabinets with flowing , plastic lines that must have been designed at least a century previously . |
| 7 | New compact five-speed manual and four-speed automatic gearboxes are mated to either a 135bhp multivalve 2-litre engine or the smooth and powerful 170bhp 3-litre V6 unit . |
| 8 | Detective Chief Superintendent Alan Shannon , who is heading the investigation , said : ‘ We are looking for either a youth or a young man . |
| 9 | ‘ We have a standard spending assessment of £6.155m. which is in no way related to our spending needs , ’ he said , ‘ We are looking at about a £1.4m. reduction in spending . |
| 10 | The narrow gauge line 's diesel locomotive and two former man-rider carriages have been operating for almost a year at a small extra charge to visitors . |
| 11 | WRECS , which has been operating for almost a decade , now boasts a membership of more than 40 who attended the evening of festive fun at the Pavilion Club , Barlaston , complete with refreshments and cabaret . |
| 12 | The defendant 's fourth sub-head of complaint was that the judge did this when the jury had been deliberating for only an hour , citing Reg. v. McKenna [ 1960 ] 1 Q.B . |
| 13 | Joking apart Kevin has been training for nearly a year . |
| 14 | If the roundabout suggests that the road you 're on is a fairly wide road and the road you 're exiting on is a fairly narrow road it will normally indicate you 're going from probably a duel carriageway , which you know you 're on if you 're already on it , but the road you 're entering might not be . |
| 15 | Now only three or four years later I 'd say of yeah we 're go to somewhere a bit quieter , so that kids can go to bed of a night time , we could have a apartment . |
| 16 | All of those extra sums , if you total them up , we 're talking about quite a lot of money over the budget and that 's why I 'm getting concerned because there seems to be some between what the budget said we were going to do and what a chairman here and a chairman there has agreed , and I I 'd like to get it back onto position . |
| 17 | Bred in vast numbers in the Far East they are sold for under a £1 . |
| 18 | Look no further than the row of foundations — most of them have been used for about a week , which is as long as it takes to realise that they are wrong for your skin . |
| 19 | Well they were bubbling this morning , I think mainly because of Saturday , when it r we were reall the whole club was lifted through Saturday afternoon because something was shown that erm has n't been shown for quite a while here . |
| 20 | Well they were bubbling this morning , I think mainly because of Saturday , when it r we were reall the whole club was lifted through Saturday afternoon because something was shown that erm has n't been shown for quite a while here . |
| 21 | A woman has offered to spend a hundred thousand pounds of her own money to reopen a village school that 's been closed for over a year . |
| 22 | Kits are customised with either an EISA board , an AT board or software only . |
| 23 | A lone man at nearly midnight , wearing a thin jacket in a storm that had been blowing for over an hour … |
| 24 | The independent Spanish magazine Piragüismo de las Autonomías has been running for about a year now . |
| 25 | By the time of Fritz and Hitzig 's work it had been known for nearly a century that electrical stimulation of nervous tissue would produce movements . |
| 26 | THE action of alkali metals and their oxides as promoters for many catalytic reactions has been known for nearly a century . |
| 27 | ‘ I remember a border collie that had been stolen from outside a shop where he 'd been tied . |
| 28 | Civil Service manpower has been reduced by almost a quarter . |
| 29 | Cheshire is actually sold when it is one to two months old , but it can be matured for over a year . |
| 30 | As Ascension Day is always on a weekday , the passers-by on their way to work are able to enjoy the singing which , as the church itself is on very high ground , can be heard for quite a distance . |