Example sentences of "[be] [adv] [prep] a [noun sg] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | These are rather like a water heater and storage cylinder in one . |
| 2 | What better way to prove that you have been somewhere in a consumer culture , than to buy something made locally whilst you are there . |
| 3 | But our improvement this season has been down to a team effort , not to any particular individual . |
| 4 | I know that you people are just over a bank holiday weekend and so will be slower than usual voicing your comments to the net but WE WON after all . |
| 5 | And when you have Oscar-winning actor Jeremy Irons starring opposite his wife , Sinead Cusack you know you 're in for a class act . |
| 6 | We 've got 50 copies to give out , so if you did n't win anything in our last quiz do n't worry , you 're in with a fighting chance this time . |
| 7 | You know , if , particularly so , if you 're only on a subsistence wage in the first place . |
| 8 | We 're not into a set thing like Sly And The Family Stone or James Brown . |
| 9 | You 're not for a wedding present or are you giving here a present ? |
| 10 | So probably be a good idea , even if you 're not in a union company to actually join a union . |
| 11 | But again we 're not in a growth area . |
| 12 | Let's hope for a butterflyfilled summer this year , and if you 're off to a country wedding , may it be as joyful an occasion as the Sarns ' feast . |
| 13 | Now I do n't see that there 's likely to be any connection , but since we 're up against a brick wall in the Stavanger case , I 've come to pick your brains . " |
| 14 | " You say you 're up against a brick wall — well , that 's just where we got to in the Southwark Bridge case . |
| 15 | Our solicitor is fighting for that , but we seem as though we 're up against a brick wall at the moment , so we 'll have to just wait and see . |
| 16 | Crusaders know only too well they 're up against a class outfit . |
| 17 | It could be argued that people in our region have actually lost confidence in their water , they 've suffered from cryptospyridia , blue-green algae , we 're now in a drought period , how would you reassure the public ? |
| 18 | Welsh coach Clive Griffiths said : ‘ With so few players to choose from , we are always on a knife edge . |
| 19 | Nobody , least of all the press corps plane-spotting outside Incirlik air base , believed the first official tale : that the waves of American aircraft returning with their bomb pods empty had been off on a training exercise . |
| 20 | Another Florentine nobleman , Jacopo Corsi , who took over the role of patron of the camerata when Bardi left for Rome , composed two numbers for Dafne , a tiny aria for Apollo and a unison coro finale , which have survived , but these are hardly in a nuova maniera . |
| 21 | Bear a thought for the locals in the Sutton District Water Company area on the edge of London — they are still under a sprinkler ban . |
| 22 | Barring a calamity erm they will retain their option with us to continue on a two year deal , erm they perhaps , and I have to erm be honest about this , I think they are probably in a marketing sense , the most aggressive erm marketing company that I 've ever witnessed in terms of the style , the panache , the charisma that they have from within . |
| 23 | At the non-advanced level , four main types of full-time course are available : the Ordinary National Diploma ( OND ) , a three-year sandwich course in general agricultural subjects , designed to meet the needs of the ‘ technician ’ ; the National Certificate , a one-year course for those intending to work as practical farmers , growers , or farm secretaries ; College Award courses which vary in length and in standard and are often of a specialist nature such as flower-growing or farm secretarial work ; and BEC Diploma courses which are being introduced by a small number of colleges . |
| 24 | Few of today 's PC based word processors can drive these devices properly and none of them currently produce a genuine WYSIWYG display although a couple are now including a preview capability . |
| 25 | Ho ho ho , ah God can you imagine that , Christ , aha here comes a car , there goes a car we are now in a country lane , looking out on the odd passing car bom , bom , bom , bom , bom I do n't know about Jessica and Rebecca actually |
| 26 | We are now in a maths lesson . |
| 27 | He explains : ‘ It may look like a poor run for a player of Neil 's calibre , but he 's been out with a hamstring problem for much of the time . |
| 28 | The squadron had been out on a practice bombing exercise and J. had been driving round the perimeter track that afternoon , inspecting the bomb bays of returned aircraft , and came back to park his vehicle in one of the empty hangars . |
| 29 | It 's been out on a Christmas LP , among lots of other songs , every year for six years running . |
| 30 | MIX and Max with Mel and you could be on to a video winner as we give away more than £2,500worth of Gibson tapes . |