Example sentences of "[be] [adj] [adv] [prep] a [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Most failures in examinations are due not to a deficiency of knowledge but chiefly to lack of familiarity with the techniques of playing the examination game . |
| 2 | There had been enormous economic advances , which had been possible only on a basis of mutual assistance . |
| 3 | As far as APEX is concerned they are OK up to a point but they just want to follow the legal procedures and we want them to take some kind of militant action . |
| 4 | If pig butchers kept piggy banks , his must have been empty once in a while during this period … |
| 5 | Series producer Madeline Wilstshire explains : ‘ We have more drama in this series but the reporters are not actors , they 're just ordinary teenagers who are interested enough in a subject to want to make a television programme about it . ’ |
| 6 | I do n't think I 'd have been warm enough in a shellsuit . |
| 7 | If your whole departments going out for any reason , for a departmental meeting , if you 're all out at a conference , or if there 's some sort of briefing or something going on , please let the switchboard know which numbers will be unattended , and how long you 'll be out for . |
| 8 | And anyone with a ponytail — mind you , they 're all out of a job now , are n't they ? |
| 9 | Cos I think we 're all in for a chance to getting it now , fifty thousand |
| 10 | ‘ We needed it to dry off , but now ‘ t is dangerous if we 're near enough to a castle for the smoke to be noticed . |
| 11 | The latter has allowed borrowers to take our mortgages that are larger both as a multiple of income and as a proportion of property valuation . |
| 12 | Chocolate and chips are fine once in a while , but every day it 's a disaster , says Derek Cooper |
| 13 | We sit against the wall , beneath a slogan reading ‘ Rescue My Foot ’ which has been spray-painted not by a patron , but by the owner , Abel . |
| 14 | The Museum of British Road Transport at Coventry , the Patrick Collection , the National Motorcycle Museum near the NEC , and the huge Aerospace Museum at RAF Cosford are all well worth a visit . |
| 15 | Propaganda campaigns , class struggle , the cult of the model worker and even the almost evangelical rhetoric of the cold war are all back with a vengeance . |
| 16 | The regular functions are present together with a change sign facility , a currency mode , dollars of course , and ten independent memories . |
| 17 | I am alone here with a task I must carry out ! |
| 18 | As the ball hangs there , moon-white against the wall of cloud , everything in the world seems briefly up for grabs and I am seized by two contradictory feelings : there is so much beauty in the world it is incredible that we are ever miserable ; there is so much shit in the world that it is amazing we are happy even for a moment . |
| 19 | ) Both these sources provide suitable but expensive paper ; it may be possible instead for a teacher 's aid to produce appropriately ruled paper as required . |
| 20 | These changes in the participation rates of the elderly must be due either to a reduction in the demand for the labour of this section of the population , or a reduction in the labour services offered or supplied by the elderly , or some combination of the two . |
| 21 | It would , as Mr. Lloyd conceded , be exercisable also in a case where no misrepresentation inducing the transaction could be pointed to but where a registered proprietor had entered into a transaction under a misapprehension for which the other party to the transaction was not responsible , a misapprehension as to the value of the property , for example . |
| 22 | When will the Government realise that enlargement will not be acceptable just as a slogan for the Tory re-election campaign , but that it means saying now , and clearly , that the EFTA countries are needed in the Community and that early membership for central and eastern European countries , according to realisable targets , should be a priority to which we are committed ? |
| 23 | Will my right hon. Friend send a message today to the leaders of the National Association of Local Government Officers who are spending some £2 million on a shoddy and inaccurate advertising campaign , telling them that their policies of abandoning competitive tendering , abolishing the Audit Commission and introducing a minimum wage would be acceptable only to a party which has already sold its soul to the trade union bosses ? |
| 24 | There will be an hour 's break during which organisers hope the weather will be fine enough for a picnic and the performance begins at 7.30 p.m . |
| 25 | It was agreed that the key strategy for the next 18 months — two years was to produce a network of interested people who would be valuable both as a resource and as a means of disseminating ideas and information . |
| 26 | They can be valuable purely as a means of providing social companionship , activities of all descriptions , and intellectual stimulation . |
| 27 | The length of the synthetic sequence should be long enough for a pattern to emerge ; the length of the four sequences given above is not sufficient for reliable conclusions to be drawn . |
| 28 | They wanted Benjamin to be fuzzy enough as a fantasy figure so that everyone in America could identify with him without joining the Movement . |
| 29 | There was some scepticism as to whether performance would be good enough in a system built from the bottom up in objects . |
| 30 | Alternatively , information can be faxed directly into a system . |