Example sentences of "[ex0] be a [adj] [noun pl] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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1 | What I have n't done and I ought to because of the erm the way that this discussion has to unfold , I ought to say that pure few sentences about why should there be a strategic sites policy at all and erm I ought to put that on the record although it 's pretty well trailed in all the paper work . |
2 | There were a few moments silence before they turned their backs to the church and , still holding hands , sang : |
3 | There 's a deep clothes cupboard in my bedroom . |
4 | There 's a young plain-clothes man working on it but he has to go slowly . |
5 | There 's a mutilated notes department as well that you can send really screwed up notes to . |
6 | He stretches and stifles a yawn , there 's a few days stubble on his jowl , hair thin but shaggy , eyes peering briefly above the rim of his sunglasses , suede fringes swaying from his jacket as he roams the room before plonking into a chair . |
7 | There 's a heavy police presence inside the club , and NO FREE DRINKS ! |
8 | Landlord Adrian Magee told Today : ‘ There 's a big drugs problem in the area and most publicans are desperately concerned about it . |
9 | Set amidst a backdrop of greenery there is a small raised-sides swimming pool . |
10 | The letter may well be a fake but the worrying fact is that it proves there is a dirty tricks campaign designed to blacken the name of the Princess . |
11 | There is a separate sports hall with a 25m swimming pool , two squash courts and a gym . |
12 | In spring there is a fascinating arts festival and in November the famous London to Brighton Car Run . |
13 | Scottish texts and authors are also studied in several of the honours courses offered by the department of English Literature and there is a joint honours degree in English and Scottish Literature . |
14 | Recent experience suggests that these advantages of existing firms can only be offset if there is a large savings surplus in the home country , where entrants have strong relationships with investors and issuers , where there is a desire and ability to invest in euromarket instruments and/or a lower cost of capital , as is the case for Japanese firms . |
15 | It is , at best , a damage limitation exercise and , at worse , an angry customer encourages others when there is a public relations vacuum . |
16 | There is a full entertainments programme during the high season and the hotel has a taverna with frequent live music . |
17 | Downstairs at Maison there is an intriguing accessories department with original table and kitchenware , luggage , glass and ceramics — ideal for spring wedding presents . |
18 | With hindsight , of course , it is now possible to question the glamorizing of drug-taking in such films as Easy Rider , Psych-Out and The Trip and others ; the in-built health warnings were seldom noticed and there was a certain drugs bandwagon rolling , anyway , largely created in the pop industry where drug usage was not only referred to , even poetically eulogized in song , but physically demonstrated by some of its more tragic exponents like Brian Jones , Jimi Hendrix and Janice Joplin , to name but three in a long line of fallen idols and heroes . |
19 | Then there was a six months period without fits and everything was going fine , and then he started up again . |
20 | Then Windows 3 arrived and bang ! — suddenly there was a huge Windows spreadsheet market and Microsoft began to look very smart . |
21 | Public relations well as I 've already outlined there the actual fiasco surrounding the proposed er share repurchase there was a public relations nightmare form beginning to end . |
22 | There was a little police station there . |
23 | I mean there was , there was a wonderful Times cartoon , I do n't know if you saw it , of Yeltsin showing all the troubles he , he could n't control his government , there were economic problems , people were being nasty to him apparently as he was saying how do we manage and it turns out of course at the end , the final kick line is he 's talking about John Major 's situation . |
24 | There was a large police presence at the rave , despite it being licensed by the local council . |
25 | There was a heavy police presence at Welford Road , Leicester , amid fears of disruption at the controversial tour 's opening game . |
26 | William Craig , the Minister for Home Affairs , refused to take the advice of moderates to ban the Paisley demonstration and although there was a considerable police presence , nothing was done to stop the Paisleyites blocking the civil rights marchers . |
27 | There was a full drinks cupboard in the corner . |
28 | In turn he made it clear that the directors wanted an opportunity to participate in whatever business they ended up in and that there was a realistic profits incentive . |
29 | It is interesting to note that included in the government-funded School Curriculum Development Committee 's Arts in Schools project ( 1986 ) there was an equal opportunities section which clearly recognized the need to take this issue seriously . |