Example sentences of "[am/are] [adv] [verb] [prep] a [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | If graded tests are widely adopted within a school and if they are used properly as a means of assessing individual pupils ' ability and knowledge , according to their progress along the path of expertise , then the school must be prepared for classes that are grouped vertically , not horizontally . |
| 2 | Units are loosely linked by a theme in groups of six , of which the last is always a reading unit . |
| 3 | If left unploughed , these communities are eventually replaced by a Festuca rubra — Trifolium repens sward . |
| 4 | And these negotiations are mostly conducted in a tone of high comedy ; after 1930 Pound 's anger is virtually monopolized by Roosevelt 's USA , and English culture is for him just something that he ca n't take seriously . |
| 5 | Here the vines are mostly grown at a height of between 140 and 180 metres on south-east and south-west-facing slopes although some climb steeply from the outskirts of Hautvillers and rise to a height of around 250 metres . |
| 6 | Used as part of the walls in the later fabric , a number are badly mutilated as a result . |
| 7 | The saxophones are rarely employed as a group in the orchestra , but the E flat alto has now and again been used for solos , e.g. in Ravel 's orchestration of Mussorgsky 's Pictures from an Exhibition , Vaughan Williams 's Job and Britten 's Sinfonia da Requiem . |
| 8 | The problem has been particularly acute in the top echelons where the blue and grey suits are rarely disturbed by a skirt . |
| 9 | Nicholas Dyer is imagined as the builder of Nicholas Hawksmoor 's churches in the East End of London ; the enlightened edifices of a rational Christianity are thereby ascribed to a devil-worshipper , while the name ‘ Hawksmoor ’ is assigned to the Detective Chief Superintendent who , in the later narrative , frets himself into a delirium over a series of stranglings which takes place in the vicinity of the churches . |
| 10 | While this demonstrates the public 's faith that the police can resolve any situation , the neighbourhood police are thereby presented with a dilemma : they either criminalize formally legal behaviour or disappoint public expectations . |
| 11 | They continue to argue for what no one else is prepared to offer and they are wholly isolated in a fantasy world . |
| 12 | The schemes are locally run on a franchise basis , by voluntary organizations , schools or employers , and the hope is that in the first phase , up to 1993 , 10,000 people aged between sixteen and twenty-four — immediately dubbed ‘ Charlie 's Army ’ by the press — will join full- or part-time programmes of about twelve weeks . |
| 13 | Although they are constantly condemned as a novelty , ‘ Cud 's ‘ Leggy Mambo ’ shows a new found musical awareness . |
| 14 | Although they are constantly condemned as a novelty , ‘ Cud 's ‘ Leggy Mambo ’ shows a new found musical awareness . |
| 15 | In a framework of this kind the processes of history are necessarily viewed as a decline from a Golden Age . |
| 16 | But if you are already a tenant and you are suddenly faced with a crisis , you will need legal advice to solve it . |
| 17 | The road continues on a switchback course , reaching more open ground with wider views and , after a few more miles that seem to be leading nowhere , arrives at the top of a hill where the cottages of Arnisdale are suddenly revealed around a bay ahead . |
| 18 | When these problems are suddenly posed by a book such as ours , they will quite understandably assume the form of revelation , or of sacrilege . |
| 19 | The courses are obviously based on a training model , and all colleges running such courses should evaluate longitudinally whether participants do in fact secure subsequent employment or further education and training . |
| 20 | In La Male Honte , " Foul shame " ( although the title itself is ambiguous , representing Anglo-French " The purse of Honte " , and the fabliau itself revolves around this ambiguity ) , the deceased Honte 's friend carries the legacy due to the crown to the king " " a son col " " : simply , " on his back " , although since we know that we are reading a " " fablel " " we are especially prepared for a word such as col = " arse " , and have to carry forward in our minds to the rest of the fabliau the notion that it might be significant that the friend carries what is due to the king on his backside . |
| 21 | Similar problems occur in Sweden where many private supplies are highly acidified as a result of acid rain . |
| 22 | that and so on , erm , erm , I , it would be nice in fact if the er Ipswich evening tabloid which gave us prominence to this rule er would give just a little space to er this latest development , erm but I would like to , not being excessively caracole I mean reading this document I do feel a slight er switch on your comments on er Pipers Vale , er which you note , there are no er nationally er or er common species which sounds as though you have designs on it , erm I , I wonder if this would be the place to ask you , you know , to make some sort of statement about Pipers Vale , you know that we are basically looking for a route which does not touch on Pipers Vale |
| 23 | Still less does one know whether people tend to resist suggestions from a machine that go against their unaided habits , or whether they rapidly and thankfully accept that some things are better done by a computer . |
| 24 | Venetian blinds are better suited to a study or workroom where a simple , practical treatment is needed , and where they can be easily dusted over . |
| 25 | As capital markets are not perfect , definitions vary from researcher to researcher and some things are better measured as a stock rather than a flow , so that documented wealth distributions are not simply the present value of all future income streams . |
| 26 | The next few miles are delectable and not to be hurried , and indeed are better appreciated by a traveller on foot than in a car . |
| 27 | Few hotels are better equipped for a Club holiday . |
| 28 | Those occupational categories where health is likely to be worse — those with lower incomes , unskilled jobs , etc — are hardest hit in a recession . |
| 29 | These two CDs are charmingly illustrated with a picture of a kind of ‘ secret garden ’ , the gate ajar , seen from both sides of the garden wall . |
| 30 | However , I recently received some literature about the appalling treatment of dogs and cats in South Korea where they are apparently regarded as a gourmet food . |