Example sentences of "[be] [vb pp] [prep] a [adj] [noun pl] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Transverse effects have been examined in a few instances . |
| 2 | The possibility of a title going ‘ out of print ’ if selection decisions are delayed must also be considered — though this is unlikely if orders are placed within a few months of publication . |
| 3 | If the district registry had appreciated the urgency and the short period of the order without doubt they would have sought directions and the result would certainly have been that the appeal would have been set down at some other convenient centre or , as happened , in London at or before the beginning of this term and would have been heard within a few days , that is , the appeal would have been heard approximately a month ago . |
| 4 | Sarah told her that John had secured a job in an hotel but had been sacked after a few days . |
| 5 | The girl had been placed on a social services ‘ at risk ’ register after suffering a broken arm and collarbone in a fall . |
| 6 | Children who come to this school are limited to a Fine Arts base , and possibly Graphics . |
| 7 | Kielder Water , the largest man-made reservoir in Europe , surrounded by the largest man-made forest in Europe , was opened by HM The Queen in June 1982 , and has been developed into a major water-sports centre . |
| 8 | First impressions , and they are formed within a few seconds of listening to these headphones , are of an unveiled immediacy , very extended high-frequency response and seamless midrange . |
| 9 | To protect the spirit of demilitarisation , a convention has been followed that defence spending will not exceed 1 per cent of GNP , and although this ceiling has been broken on a few occasions , the 1 per cent target has a symbolic significance . |
| 10 | Some of the young calves are fattened on the farms but many are reared for a few months and then sold for fattening in central or eastern Britain . |
| 11 | Suddenly he is more relaxed and confident and those horrible little worms of self-doubt which are perpetually burrowing away in a golfer 's head are banished for a few holes , anyway . |
| 12 | He had been exposed as a secret police informer under the ousted communist regime , although he insisted that his activities had been confined to reporting on foreign visitors to Sofia 's Natural History Museum ( where he had been a department head ) and on his visits abroad for scientific research ; he categorically denied that he had ever informed on dissidents . |
| 13 | Pointon had been caught by a late Giggs tackle just before , and the referee decided that a strong word with the young Welshman , who had given United the lead with a goal worthy of crowning champions , was sufficient . |
| 14 | WACC has acquired a certain expertise in this field , but its activities so far have been confined to a few countries or sub-regions . |
| 15 | Criticism of the war seems to have been confined to a few individuals . |
| 16 | Without them the useful life of streptomycin might have been confined to a few years . |
| 17 | All the beauty that ought to be but rarely is , all the promises of perfection are caught in a few moments of that iridescent light . |
| 18 | And the results are expected within a few weeks . |
| 19 | The four have undergone doping tests and the results are expected within a few days . |
| 20 | As explained earlier , it is therefore important to avoid the use of independent overflow areas except as a safety precaution ; the one exception to this is when updates are grouped in a few areas . |
| 21 | It was unlikely that murder had been committed for a few pounds , but one could never be sure . |
| 22 | Now and again , of course , you have to deal with the awkward moments , like someone reading aloud from a Sunday paper the ‘ sordid story of perverted vice ’ which has obviously been concocted over a few jars by a hack hounded by deadline . |
| 23 | Career family home — all had been ruined in a few seconds . |
| 24 | In Northampton a blind widow of eighty-two has been robbed of a thousand pounds at her home . |
| 25 | In the province of Alberta alone , public timberlands almost the size of the UK have been leased to a dozen firms . |
| 26 | Choose an open , sunny site where brassicas have n't been grown for a few years . |
| 27 | So if you take a hundred gallons on a day meter , you 're charged for a hundred gallons of water going out as sewage , er the Anglia rate is is is double ours for sewage . |
| 28 | The winds at lower altitudes have been measured at a few locations by landers as they descended through the atmosphere . |
| 29 | The best places for bottles in Montepulciano are the cool brick cantine like that of the Contucci Palace , cellars furred with black fungus where Vino Nobile has been produced for a thousand years . |
| 30 | This is a very laborious and exacting technique and , to date , it has only been used with a few plants . |