Example sentences of "[be] [verb] [adv] [prep] a [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Only five survivors of Woking 's 1990-91 heroes are expected to feature tonight — Buzaglo , Mark Biggins , Trevor Baron and Wye brothers Shane and Lloyd — but they will be roared on by a 6,000 capacity crowd . |
| 2 | To travel through Ireland without visiting a pub would be to miss out on a huge chunk of Irish life . |
| 3 | Here your lines should be fine , light and crisp and areas of colour must be blended carefully for a smooth result . |
| 4 | All these ruffles should be smoothed out after a few days . |
| 5 | In all these cases catalogues can be amended simply by a general notice explaining that the groups of materials have been moved to remote storage . |
| 6 | The difference between the two countries is that the formal wording of the United States Constitution can be amended only by an extraordinary process , i.e. , one that goes beyond the provisions employed for amending the ordinary law . |
| 7 | According to Sampson , many other features of transformational grammar can be explained away in a similar fashion once one adopts this evolutionary perspective . |
| 8 | The reasons have been insufficiently studied because of the reluctance of the ethnic communities themselves to examine the issues dispassionately and because service planners and managers dance nervously round ‘ the problem ’ , hoping that the differences can all be explained away by a statistical artefact such as the ways people are brought to the attention of the services , by claims of racial prejudice in the ways staff handle patients , or by simple misdiagnosis . |
| 9 | Mr. Gilpin said ‘ picturesque ideas are all cloathed in bodily forms and may often be explained better by a few strokes of the pencil than by a volume of the most laboured description . ’ |
| 10 | But increasingly , doubts , some of which can be traced back to a general report on the supply of professional services by the Monopolies Commission in 1970 , were raised about whether restraints on competition in the professions are necessarily beneficial . |
| 11 | Surprisingly , the turning point that saw a struggling business transformed into a trendsetting group that has become a household name can be traced back to a Dutch merchant banker , who persuaded Conran to widen his horizons . |
| 12 | To a large degree , all of these developments can be traced back to a sudden and quite unexpected revolt against the drive and direction of nineteenth century thinking . |
| 13 | If the complaint turns out to be more serious or if agreement can not be reached on a resolution , it must be referred back for a full investigation . |
| 14 | Or should development be given over to a broad church of interest groups and realised by a catholic mix of architects working in a number of complementary styles ? |
| 15 | This feeling of being addressed in a special , understanding way does not happen with the best children 's theatre , and greater credit could be given even to a young audience , with less recourse to pantomime-like delineation of character . |
| 16 | You might arrange for pay to be given out at a different time and check whether the trains are less crowded somewhat earlier in the afternoon . |
| 17 | He also rejected the radical free market view , which proposed that each part of the electricity industry ( generation , transmission and distribution ) should be broken up into a large number of competing companies . |
| 18 | The tail , when bitten , may then be broken off at a weak spot near the base , where there is a slight constriction . |
| 19 | If a deal is eventually to be wrung out of a reluctant Kremlin to break the deadlock over the Baltic republics , much will depend on how much support Mr Yeltsin can muster . |
| 20 | Some settlement is likely to take place over a period after the trench has been filled , but this can be filled in at a later stage . |
| 21 | Sparse eyebrows can be filled in with a sharpened eye pencil , but soften with a brush afterwards so there is no hard line . |
| 22 | The Commander is best left separate from the tank so that he can be painted up as an individual model and put in or left out of the hatch as desired . |
| 23 | In principle , all opaque sequences are minimal lexical units and therefore should be listed separately in an ideal dictionary . |
| 24 | Tables can be used as desks ; end tables can be used for dining ; chairs can fold up and be hung from large colourful hooks , or be stacked up into a tiny space ; armchairs can become spare single beds ; well thought-out storage will take care of clothing , books , files and china . |
| 25 | There is not much comfort for the museum in the knowledge that celebrated works are impossible to fence ; the idiosyncratic choice of stolen works strongly suggests that one buyer 's taste was being followed and that they are destined to be hidden away in a private collection , possibly in South America or Japan . |
| 26 | All , however , can be gathered together under a common theme : that concerned with the genetics of psychosis . |
| 27 | Eliot recognized that this was not simply the last poem in his sequence but also its culmination , in which the themes and textures of the preceding three parts would be gathered together in a final statement . |
| 28 | The appeal court decided that the case should be heard tomorrow by a single judge . |
| 29 | Yet , between the upper strata of the landed aristocracy and the wealthiest members of the industrial and commercial society there were many links ; and gradually these two elements came to be joined together in a single ruling group … |
| 30 | The pH levels can be adjusted manually with a commercial adjuster . |