Example sentences of "[be] [prep] [adj] [noun sg] a [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | According to Alcuin the oppression of the Church by the secular power had been for some time a feature of Northumbrian political and ecclesiastical life , but the problem now was that Eanbald was said to be accompanied on his journeys through Northumbria by a retinue more numerous than any which had attended on his predecessors and inclusive of low-born soldiers , and Alcuin affected to be at a loss as to why he needed so large a force . |
| 2 | He looked at me apathetically through a mist of weakness and pain and one could see he 'd been in that water a lot too long . |
| 3 | I have been in this city a week today . |
| 4 | ‘ I have been in this game a lifetime and wonder in what direction it is going and where it will all end up . |
| 5 | What she has achieved is remarkable given she is still very young and has only been in this business a couple of years . |
| 6 | Has the LDDC , in spite of all the hype and political prominence , been in some sense a failure ? |
| 7 | Probably , for we later read that ‘ want of opportunity has been in some respect a prejudice to my business ’ , and , ‘ the noble act of embalming has been entirely ruined by the undertakers ’ . |
| 8 | There are in this force a number of young men who have fixed hours of duty — 8.30 a.m. until 5.30 p.m. with every Sunday off . |
| 9 | Hamilton also points out that the replacement of forest by well-maintained agricultural terraces may actually reduce the amount of soil erosion , and Ives ( 1987 ) provides a timely reminder that the Himalaya are undergoing tectonic uplift which itself may be of sufficient magnitude a account for much of the increased sediment load of the major drainage systems . |
| 10 | The four circles are not presented as dealing with quite separate topics , such that to move from one to another would be in any sense a change of subject , but rather as four equally fundamental and interlocking dimensions of the same ground-motif that runs throughout : that Jesus Christ is the actualisation and realisation in time and history of God 's eternal decision to be God for and with man ; he is himself the everlasting covenant of God with us , and in that covenant the meaning and purpose of the created universe itself is contained ; and in him too lies the uncovering and overcoming of man 's estrangement from God by the divine ‘ No ! ’ of the cross which leads on to the ‘ Yes ! ’ of the resurrection . |
| 11 | For Kelsen , the dynamic principle is characteristic of legal positivism which understands law to be in some sense a product of human acts and decisions rather than a deduction from timeless and immutable principles . |
| 12 | The graduate in English was to be to some extent a scholar , in so far as he or she had a sense of the past and the capacity to understand literature in its historical contexts , particularly linguistic ; beyond that , what was looked for was wide reading , an appreciation of masterpieces , and a capacity to write well , attend to evidence , and disentangle sense from nonsense in argument . |
| 13 | Owing to his lack of resources he had always been to some extent a figurehead , but he had become an indispensable one . |
| 14 | and with us oh God and according to you we are to one church a church which opens doors and large windows a church which takes the world seriously ready to work and to suffer and even to for it and we follow and witness to him who is the saviour of the world Jesus Christ our Lord amen . |
| 15 | Contemporary bargaining structures are to some degree a reflection of bargaining patterns established at a fairly early stage of industrial development . |
| 16 | It is simply that the most plausible stories now available about that evolution , including its very recent date and also certain considerations about the physical characteristics of the species , suggests that human beings are to some degree a mess , and that the rapid and immense development of symbolic and cultural capacities has left man as a being for which no form of life is likely to prove entirely satisfactory , either individually or socially . |
| 17 | Although lengthy domestic and care routines are to some extent a reality of disability , it is necessary to work out a level of sharing between the women and their staff which allows a varied day and does not make a drudge out of anybody . |
| 18 | ‘ Look , we have been on this world a matter of a few days . |
| 19 | Within the family itself , each member contributes as part of the system , being in some way a member from birth through to death , so that the system has a long history . |
| 20 | The patrician planners of the late 1940s were in some retreat a decade later . |
| 21 | they were on about , talking about it last night were n't they ? , they , back in the fifties they were on eight pound a week |
| 22 | There were at one time a number of city-states , each with its own god . |
| 23 | We were , however , readier , I think , than at the beginning , to take seriously and to counter , the equally serious convictions of those who held that there was no place for courses similar to ours , of which there were at that time a number in various stages of development . |
| 24 | On balance , she felt enough loyalty to Gilbert and enough concern about Amy to feel that , if she were alive and if she were by any chance a party to her husband 's death , the Church rather than the police should be her first sanctuary . |
| 25 | Martin was for some years tutor to the MacLeods of Skye , and had also been at one time a scholar at Leiden University in the Netherlands . |
| 26 | a part payment of money , which is made so that the seller will not sell the goods to anyone else : You must pay a deposit to the hotel if you want them to keep a room free for you compare earnest(1) 3 an act or action of depositing : The rate of the river 's deposit of mud is about one inch a year deposit account n. a bank account which earns interest and usu. from which money can be taken out only if advance notice is given . |
| 27 | It is also relevant that the ability of families to deal with risks of early childhood morbidity is in good measure a matter of social and economic conditions ( see e.g. Wray , 1971 ) . |
| 28 | As I see it , the ‘ passivity ’ is in one sense a consequence of the decision to write the sonnets from a man to a man — as Sonnet 20 made clear , no ‘ activity ’ is contemplated . |
| 29 | When I answer this in the affirmative , I am aware that a man 's marriage with the woman of his choice is in one sense a boon , and in that sense the reverse of a loss ; yet , as between the plaintiff and the party promising an income to support the marriage , it may be a loss . |
| 30 | A novel is in one sense a game , a game that requires at least two players , a reader as well as a writer . |