Example sentences of "[be] [verb] [prep] a [noun sg] [art] " in BNC.

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1 By the time I 'd recovered I was skinnier than ever , having been rationed to an orange a day .
2 When certain preparations of liquids containing small particles are examined under a microscope the particles are found to joggle around in what appears to be a random fashion .
3 Where value has at any time been given for a bill the holder is deemed to be a holder for value as regards the acceptor and all parties to the bill who became parties prior to such time .
4 But perhaps Governor Clinton 's most remarkable achievement will have been bringing to an end the Reagan-Bush years .
5 She had been referred to a physician the year after surgery with chest and epigastric pain .
6 Of course the Government are not satisfied with that , but at least it is clear that our efforts are having an impact and are bringing to an end the unsatisfactory increase in the number of homeless in bed-and-breakfast accommodation — which is falling in London , and is virtually stable across the rest of the country .
7 She has been walking for an hour a day for more than a year , but very slowly .
8 Sobbing with pain and rage , he was carted off to hospital by an ashen Claudia and the family doctor , who 'd been presented with a horse every time he delivered a Mendoza baby .
9 When two solutions of different concentrations are separated by a membrane the tendency is for movement through the membrane to occur so that eventually both solutions are exactly the same strength on both sides of the membrane .
10 In Jervis on Coroners , 10th ed. ( 1986 ) , p. 196 under the title ‘ Self-neglect or lack of care ’ there are collected in a footnote a number of modern cases in which verdicts ‘ aggravated by lack of care ’ have been returned .
11 The file structures are reorganized into a form the ARC i/o routines can deal with .
12 Once facilities are transferred to a Trust the ability of local communities to influence decision making virtually disappears .
13 If the firm 's … are connected to a computer the of stock levels is adjusted automatically .
14 The more greenskins there are crowded around a shaman the more easily he can cast spells .
15 Institutions often have their own expectations , and provided all are agreed within an institution the teacher may draw on them .
16 I did n't feel pain from the burns any more , but that had been replaced by a pain a thousand times worse .
17 If doctors are employed in a unit the amount of time they spend with a patient may be as little as fifteen minutes twice a week for a short-term attender and an astonishingly low four or five minutes per week for a long-term attender .
18 Today the papers , here and in South Africa , are hailing as a breakthrough the talks of Mr. Vorster and President Tolbert in Liberia .
19 Indeed by the time a modern 486 machine or an SE or LC Macintosh had been linked into a network the distinction was almost meaningless .
20 ( 2 ) Proceedings on the Bill at a sitting of the Standing Committee on the said 5th December may continue until Eight o'clock , whether or not the House is adjourned before that time , and if the House is adjourned before those proceedings have been brought to a conclusion the Standing Committee shall report the Bill to the House on 6th December .
21 Whatever new curricula are introduced into a school the influence of educational traditions remain as much a source of continuity and stability as they are of unacceptable ‘ educational conservatism ’ .
22 If he is to be treated as an out-patient the order may specify the place of treatment .
23 Surgical inexperience can not be considered as an explanationfor the high failure as rebleeding was noted in all three centres and in each centre the operations were carried either directly or under the close supervision of a highly experienced hepatobiliary surgeon .
24 In sexual abuse cases where leave is sought for the child to be interviewed by an expert the court may stipulate that all interviews be recorded on video tape as advocated by Douglas Brown J in Rochdale Borough Council v B W , A K and others ( 1991 ) cited above , a wardship case involving allegations of ritual abuse .
25 Suppose , next , that a catastrophe , which will wipe out life on this planet , threatens , and can only be prevented by an expenditure the same as would be needed for that capsule for the slug .
26 These were that interrogation rooms in police holding centres should be monitored by silent , closed-circuit television and that a prisoner should be given the right to be visited by a solicitor every forty-eight hours until either released or charged .
27 If at any time after a person has been charged with or informed he may be prosecuted for an offence a police officer wishes to bring to the notice of that person any written statement made by another person or the content of an interview with another person , he shall hand to that person a true copy of any such written statement or bring to his attention the content of the interview record , but shall say or do nothing to invite any reply or comment save to caution him in the terms of paragraph 10.4 above .
28 It was exciting to travel by private plane and helicopter with courtiers standing to attention , to be driven in a limousine the size of a small house , and to stay in palaces and castles in the lap of luxury .
29 In this way , the model can be brought to a halt a short distance from the ground with all of the blade energy and pitch range still available to make the landing .
30 That vision could not be put into practice if Highland were to be governed by an authority the size of Belgium .
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