Example sentences of "[be] [verb] [prep] a [noun sg] [adv] " in BNC.
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| 1 | But , while her non-dramatic soul was saying that to present herself at Vasey 's looking the way she did was going a bit over the top , she had never been dismissed from a job before . |
| 2 | The Police Complaints Authority may direct that disciplinary charges are heard by a tribunal rather than by a chief officer sitting alone . |
| 3 | The positioning of electric equipment is important because of possible splashing with waterjets ; therefore , it is imperative that such equipment is specially protected and that outlet sockets are placed at a level where there is no danger of their coming into contact with water . |
| 4 | For trousers , socks and shoes , the garments are placed on a stool slightly to the side of the patient . |
| 5 | ‘ L'Etat c'est moi ’ was a shrewd remark , but can hardly have been intended as a definition even in the France of the time . |
| 6 | The account hovers on the brink of farce , and must surely have been intended as a spine-chiller more analogous to a modern horror film than a literal description of something which was to be believed in . |
| 7 | The place had been intended as a family home , he had told her . |
| 8 | His splendidly preserved antique desk had been placed like a barrier solidly across the room about two thirds of the way up . |
| 9 | B.P. has been likened to a honeycomb where groups worked as if in sealed-off cells . |
| 10 | These have been calculated by a technique misleadingly known as ‘ programme budgeting ’ . |
| 11 | When a programme has been developed to a stage where it is appropriate to subject it to observational tests it is confirmations rather than falsifications that are of paramount importance , according to Lakatos . |
| 12 | GPSG is computationally economical and has been developed to a point where a large number of interesting syntactic phenomena may be dealt with in an integrated formal framework . |
| 13 | Herodotus has long been regarded as a mythographer as much as a historian , for he records not just the bare facts , but the multiple versions of events he has gathered from a variety of sources . |
| 14 | Anthony Caro 's ‘ Tower of Discovery ’ has already been erected in a plaza close to the entrance to Expo 's site . |
| 15 | Whereas this job , although it centres around the similar sort of thing , has become much more diverse particularly in the last three or four years with our involvement with deposit of poisonous waste and site licensing … ; planning applications are referred to a lot more now than when I first started . |
| 16 | She swung to face him angrily , her pale cheeks now flushed to wild apricot , her breasts rising and falling with bottled-in emotion , annoyance , embarrassment and a feeling of having been manipulated into a situation where she had behaved like an ill-bred lunatic . |
| 17 | In reality heavy drinking is far more pervasive than is commonly realized and most drugs which are consumed to excess are prescribed by a GP rather than bought illegally . |
| 18 | Dick 's fighter was not without its problems , the primary one being that the fuselage had been modified with a hacksaw so that there would be room to put a second seat in the airframe . |
| 19 | Once we are entrapped in a dilemma then action of one sort or another is predetermined . |
| 20 | Miss Goody Two Shoes has n't been to work for a week apparently . |
| 21 | A dozen shags and a cormorant are perched on a stack nearby and , as usual , the cormorant is the first to ‘ chicken out ’ and fly off as we approach . |
| 22 | Both the arms of the saltire and the semi-roundels are decorated in a manner quite different to similar panels in the Middleborough mosaic . |
| 23 | Closed Circuit Television cameras are appearing at a location near you — or , at least at the east end of Princes Street , Tollcross , Haymarket , St. John 's Road , Leith Walk and Quality Street . |
| 24 | Now you are walking by a field where the corn has just been cut , and you see the stubble left . |
| 25 | The totals had been disclosed at a time when local authorities and others were being subjected to curbs for alleged lack of efficiency . |
| 26 | The sand grains themselves are confined to a layer very near to the surface and thus their erosive effect is very limited in vertical extent , while surface creep can obviously affect only an extremely limited vertical range . |
| 27 | ‘ Every room here has been booked since a year ago , and I was dearly hoping Donna would screw up the nerve to send her packing , but Mrs Foster happened by , and Matthew 's fiancée recognised her . |
| 28 | But few critics are laughing at a time when ex-Klansman David Duke is able seriously to contend the governorship of Louisiana . |
| 29 | Elsewhere I argue that transactions among the Buid are dominated by a principle not recognized by Polanyi , and that Sahlins ' reduction of Polanyi 's three categories to a single continuum is even more misleading . |
| 30 | In this type of support system the front line units are considered as a layer just like all the other layers . |