Example sentences of "[noun sg] [prep] [pron] be [adv] a " in BNC.
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| 1 | On a rocky eminence commanding what was for centuries the lowest point at which the Forth could be bridged , the castle — on the site of a Roman fort — and its steeply pitched town stand between what was once a marshy plain and the shadowy beginnings of the Highlands beyond , with the Ochils and Trossachs already edging in . |
| 2 | Hence national levels of support for what is essentially a late-secondary or post-secondary programme , the local organization which supports it and the commitment of teachers who contribute to it at more than one level — all these matter . |
| 3 | You should also keep your event low key for there is now a campaign to stop conker contests . |
| 4 | As a result of what was reportedly a wide-ranging discussion , it was agreed to establish as a prelude to discussion of the Union Treaty two bilateral commissions to negotiate on the most contentious issues in USSR-Russian Federation relations , namely the delineation of state powers , ownership of state property , and the rights to dispose of natural resources . |
| 5 | That 's a big chunk of the population and I worried about the hardship that I was causing as a result of what was really a commercial decision . ’ |
| 6 | But the technical side of it is only a means to an end , making sure it 's a really clean sound , without going into too much extra cabling and everything . |
| 7 | Yet , even the most unfussy eater must feel uneasy about the effect of what is almost a daily litany against eggs/chicken/ ‘ E ’ numbers/growth hormones/chemical cocktails and so on . |
| 8 | A complete review of what is now a vast , varied — and sometimes idiosyncratic — literature would take us well beyond our available space and our aim here will be to summarise the main approaches to the topic , in order to try to disentangle some arguments in the debate and draw some general conclusions from it . |
| 9 | Uproar , the end of the meeting , and a day off for Harvey-Jones , but a quite unnecessary break in what was really a rather uninspiring task in any event . |
| 10 | The ‘ electors ’ , usually prominent citizens , then vote according to the public mandate in what is essentially a rubber stamping process . |
| 11 | Teachers came from various parts of Germany and the continent to what was obviously a happy meeting of colleagues and friends , old and young — a real Medau family gathering . |
| 12 | This provides a neat solution to the brief description of what is otherwise a somewhat amorphous offence in its definition and contours . |
| 13 | It 's just a case of it 's just a case of a few individuals or people with rank who think they 've go so much power they 're gon na press people |
| 14 | ‘ You did hit him in the stomach — and that briefcase of yours is quite a solid design , after all . |
| 15 | I had rather a dread of this post 's conveyance for it was only a spring cart , and I thought I felt myself being bumped , but as it was I enjoyed this nine miles in the post gig better than all the drives I had had . |
| 16 | Last Wednesday saw the formation of what is effectively a Japanese version of the now defunct ACE Advanced Computing Environment consortium . |
| 17 | It can therefore be a valuable aid to the better understanding and management of what is inevitably a very complex process . |
| 18 | UEC II is part of an attempt to evolve Motif into what is essentially a developer toolkit , into an end-user environment . |
| 19 | Scheer quickly decided to attempt escape from what was potentially a disastrous situation by executing the manoeuvre known as the a ‘ Gefechtskehrtwendung ’ , a ‘ battle turnabout ’ in which all his ships turned 180° to starboard , reversing his line . |
| 20 | During the 1960s I was a mechanical engineering consultant in what was then a very embryonic consultancy in Cambridge . |
| 21 | My reference to it was simply a tease , and all the more tempting given Victor 's known sensitivity on the point . |
| 22 | If she was trying to impress Luke with her willingness to play by his rules , acting like a jealous child over what was undoubtedly a business phone call was hardly the way to begin . |
| 23 | The two samples of European eagle owl mentioned in Chapter 1 ( Table 1.2 ) show little difference between what is clearly a fledgling pellet collection and one from the adults . |
| 24 | The difference between them is just a matter of time . |
| 25 | For the purposes of the Act ‘ shares ’ includes ‘ stock ’ and the distinction between them is merely a source of confusion . |
| 26 | really sort of she 's just a pretty little girl . |
| 27 | He was in his mid-twenties in 685 , still a pagan and the leader of what was evidently a powerful fighting force . |
| 28 | Bach 's Sarabande from the E minor Lute Suite may at first seem to be a freely flowing melody ; in reality , it is a skilful decoration of what was probably a simple basic conception : The rhythm ( bar 2 ) is really a diminution of ( bar 4 ) ; the quavers in bar 1 are echoed in augmented values in bar 3 ; while the note succession in bar 1 is used again to form bars 3 and 4 . |
| 29 | A year later Joe had arrived , and the first doctor in the district had attended her in the first room of what was now a complete frame house . |
| 30 | The evidence for the intensive use of sorghum and millets some 8,000 years ago indicates that such use first occurred much earlier than previously thought , and took place in what is today a rainless desert . |