Example sentences of "[be] [art] [noun] [adj] [conj] [art] " in BNC.

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1 Regarding Woodhouse Close are the readers aware that the deal involves a housing association which will take over in excess of 150 of these properties ?
2 Examples of this are the Strobe 100 and the Hewlett Packard Sweetlips plotters .
3 You erm you 're , you 're a bit uncertain and a bit nervous all the way through it but I think it was , it was basically because you
4 Whether you 're a sales assistant or a customer , it 's important to find out as much as possible about the product on sale .
5 Also , I am a bit older than the rest of you , but you can perhaps understand that I do n't want to drop dead without a proper and public recantation .
6 In the early days I had been a bit disappointed that the NUJ had n't immediately leapt to John 's defence , but ever since I had first been to see the General Secretary , Harry Conroy , and his assistant , Tom Nash , the union had done what it could to respond to what was asked of them .
7 Cos the fact that they only went down there , came back and were milling around waiting I would n't have been a bit surprised cos the car was a filthy old car .
8 He could have been a lot worse but the whole thing will upset him a lot . ’
9 ‘ We were just shocked after the robbery but felt that it could have been a lot worse and no great harm had been done to anybody .
10 The DTI says you are a company first and a charity next , but we say we are a charity first .
11 Obviously the City boys are a bit fussier than the country boys about when they play .
12 I 'm a lot better than the last time you saw me .
13 ‘ I 'm a businessman first and a boxer second , and the reason I 'm so successful as a pugilist is that I know my limitations better than anyone else . ’
14 Indeed for some treatments there may be no service available since the providers consider it unprofitable .
15 Now his club 's tighthead , he has gone out of this way to improve his scrummaging technique with specialist advice from among others , his boss , Sandy Carmichael , the 50-times capped Scottish and Lions tighthead Iain Milne ( ‘ immensely helpful ’ ) and Jim Telfer ( ‘ he is just the kind of coach I need because I can be a bit lazy and the fact that he just keeps at you all the time was very good for me ’ ) .
16 It could 've varied , you know , any time if you like from , from March till May and without knowing the exact date you might be a bit late or a bit too early er for future business .
17 Mm Bit bit your 's will be a bit bigger than the average Chesapeake Bay Retrievers .
18 The jeans 'll be a bit long and the jacket 'll drown you , but at least you 'll be protected a bit if we come off — oh , and I 've got a lid for you to try .
19 They tend to they tend to be a bit noisier than the others , but actually they are very constructive , and on Banbury School Governors it 's not the political appointees that erm I 've seen as a problem particularly .
20 I suppose I wan na be a bit careful that the experience I get is n't too specialist as well .
21 yeah , but I need to be a bit skinnier and a bit taller
22 Mars takes a bit longer to revolve on its axis than the Earth , so a Mars afternoon would be a bit longer than an Earth afternoon .
23 It should all be a lot clearer when the Chancellor speaks next Thursday .
24 I think we 'll all be a lot better when the summer gets here
25 I seemed to be a lot happier than the rest of my fellow travellers who seemed to be very sleepy .
26 The effective transfer may therefore be a lot smaller than the nominal tax , particularly when there is a large difference between s r and s w .
27 This is thought to be a mite higher than the brewery workers in Hartlepool will draw on the dole even if the management buyout of Cameron 's Brewery is successful .
28 Take a railway running at a loss : the average cost of providing concessionary travel would be a sum greater than the fare charged to the public .
29 This list is not exhaustive , and various writers attempted to show that their selected list of traits were the ones that provided the key to leadership .
30 This was before the advent of the IBM PC , so the hardware platforms were the Apple II and the TRS/80 .
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