Example sentences of "[be] [prep] a [adj] [noun sg] [verb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Harry Enfield has just been through a tough day auditioning people for his new BBC comedy series . |
| 2 | Unfortunately , most buildings built for the purposes of ‘ agriculture ’ have been for a long time exempt from such planning control as can be exercised by local planning authorities . |
| 3 | No , sure , have n't been for a long time have you ? |
| 4 | The simplest method would have been for a French submarine to wait for the Rainbow Warrior somewhere on the high seas and sink it with a torpedo but that posed the problem of what to do with any survivors . |
| 5 | Those products of reproduction — children — that are best adapted to the current circumstances will generally survive until they are of a suitable age to reproduce , passing on at least some of the characteristics favouring survival to their own children : those who are poorly adapted to the current circumstances will , in general , either die young or be unable to find a mate . |
| 6 | The JCT suggest that the form is suitable where the proposed works are of a simple content involving the normally recognised basic trades and skills of the industry and are without any building service installations or other complex specialist work . |
| 7 | All bedrooms are of a high standard offering private facilities , satellite colour television , in-house movies and hospitality tray . |
| 8 | These four volumes are of a convenient size to fit on an average-sized desk . |
| 9 | He will need to decide whether the planning issues raised by the proposals are of a sufficient scale to warrant the cost and delays which a public inquiry would entail . |
| 10 | you look like you 're in a drunken stupor do n't you ? |
| 11 | Could I , thank you very much , sir , and you 're , thank you for coming in , and the way you presented the report , it 's a difficult report , and we hope that er , we 're in a similar situation Thank you . |
| 12 | I mean it depends er whether you 're in a fearful hurry to start the training you know , t and get |
| 13 | It is n't easy when you 're in a single room jammed up with a double bed , and the dump is decorated as carelessly as the inside of a rarely used cupboard . |
| 14 | They are like a great yoke sitting on our shoulders . |
| 15 | Protection is given to the malicious and the reckless as the price of protecting from the threat of vexatious litigation all who are under a powerful duty to state facts and opinions frankly . |
| 16 | To what extent they are under a legal obligation to do so will be the subject of the following section . |
| 17 | Leaving aside the possibility of the parental duty being satisfied by the child being efficiently ( and so on ) educated ‘ otherwise ’ than at school , in view of its relative practical insignificance , parents are under a legal obligation to ensure both that the child receives a proper education and , if registered at school , that s/he attends regularly ( Education Act 1944 , section 39 ) . |
| 18 | The Chair is obviously referring to the fact recently in the courts , there was consideration of the closure of old persons ' homes , and you know that you are under a legal requirement to consult in respect of those otherwise any decision , to close without consultation can held to be invalid , and that has impinged on some authorities who were going down that route , so there is a duty there . |
| 19 | Insiders are in a privileged position ; they are under a moral duty to act responsibly , and not to profit from information which they receive but do not own . |
| 20 | It follows that the British courts are under a statutory obligation to apply to Community legal texts the Community methods of interpretation as developed by the European Court ; they would be under Community law even without the statutory provision . |
| 21 | Justices who exercise this delicate jurisdiction are under a statutory duty to carry out the inquiry expected of them by the Children Act 1989 . |
| 22 | Since the end of March control of Moscow 's police had been with a new directorate headed by USSR First Deputy Interior Minster Ivan Shilov and responsible directly to the USSR Interior Ministry [ see p. 38080 ] . |
| 23 | I suppose I am in a good position to weigh up the prospects of the major contenders in today 's race , at least , and I have no hesitation in declaring my delight at being on Docklands Express . |
| 24 | Your Royal Highness , ladies and gentlemen , as a minister , judge and professor , I feel I am in a good position to speak about the history of marriage , its importance in society , and the duties of the married couple to each other and the wider community . |
| 25 | However he considered that Vial ‘ was a man of such good natural abilities that when his mind was at ease , he had so much application that his deficiencies , had he lived , might have been in a great measure made up ’ . |
| 26 | It suffices to say that under it , once black Rhodesians had acquired a sizeable number of seats , but far less than a majority , they would have been in a powerful position to form a coalition with any breakaway group of whites . |
| 27 | The survivors can scarcely have been in a strong position to demand territory from the Romans . |
| 28 | Davidson 's party political position may make him a more objective source than those more closely involved , and he appears to have been in a good position to know what was going on . |
| 29 | If Cullam had been in a fit state to observe behaviour he might have thought the chief inspector bored or preoccupied . |
| 30 | Historically the BBC has been in a privileged position to negotiate coverage with the ‘ gentlemen amateurs ’ of the MCC , the Committee of the All-England Club , and the four rugby unions . |