Example sentences of "[be] [adj] [prep] [adv] a [noun sg] " in BNC.
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1 | The house was in need of total renovation and would not be habitable for nearly a year , but the Ashleys moved into a hotel in Le Touquet from where they hoped to oversee the extensive repairs to the exterior and interior . |
2 | A central gravity anomaly , which underlies part of the carbonate shelf and hence is shown as a pink area , could be due to either a granite or a sedimentary basin . |
3 | Epilepsy may be due to either an increase in glutamate-mediated excitation or a reduction in GABA-mediated inhibition . |
4 | ‘ We 'd be happy with just a council flat but there are n't any going these days . |
5 | As the teachers ' notes had to be available at least a fortnight in advance of the visit , some lack of precision was inevitable . |
6 | After Downes had been driven away , Morse and Lewis walked back to their own car , where Morse gave urgent instructions to the forensic lab to sent a couple of their whizz-kids over to the railway station — immediately ! — and to Kidlington HQ to see that a breakdown van would be available in about an hour 's time to ferry away a certain Metro . |
7 | To be one of only a handful of boys among hundreds of girls at a feis ( a competition ) was the surest way of pulling girls I ever saw . |
8 | It does n't take very long to master shaping methods and fairly soon the shaping can be hand-tooled with scarcely a check to the actual knitting while we attend to it . |
9 | " Then I shall have to be satisfied with once a week at the Prego Café . " |