Example sentences of "[noun sg] be [verb] [prep] a [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | So yes the answer to the question is yes there is a budget there is a budget and we need to do things now one of the problems could be the budget is n't sufficient to cover all that needs doing so I think you 'll find that the building been built at a certain time there a comes a time you 've got plan a maintenance programme which we have things need to be done . |
| 2 | Whales enmeshed in a drift-net are condemned to a slow death from starvation or suffocation . |
| 3 | Paper rolls for printing are delivered to a 1,200 sq m storage area at the lower level and finished newspapers are packed into bundles and dispatched by lorry from the top level . |
| 4 | And when the used rods of uranium are put through a chemical process designed to separate unpleasant waste from still usable fuel , as happens at the Sellafield plant in Cumbria , a whole range of radioactive pollutants is generated . |
| 5 | Traditionally , and with good reason , large amounts of text are set in a serifed face ( that 's one with the little tick marks at the ends of the letters ) and headings are set in a typeface that does n't have them ; a sans serif face . |
| 6 | From psychoanalysis , aesthetics and obstetrics to housework , children 's games , munitions factories and pinball machines , images which hold the screen for an instant are woven into a rich critique of production line society ’ . |
| 7 | Most of the organic components of bile , namely bile acids , lecithin , bilirubin , and cholesterol are absorbed to a limited extent by the gall bladder mucosa . |
| 8 | Although the three years of the course are planned as a coherent whole , themes are developed and elaborated upon as the course proceeds . |
| 9 | As long as the price and the product differentiation are perceived in a consistent or positive light , then the extra price will be viable . |
| 10 | In this type of study , trend values of consumption and income are collected over a long period of time so that most cyclical fluctuations are smoothed out . |
| 11 | Researchers from Washington State University are embarking on a three-year project to measure the amount of methane produced by belching cows . |
| 12 | The Institute of Terrestrial Ecology and Reading University are embarking on a three-year study on the effects of pesticides on wildlife . |
| 13 | Again a scientist stands at the point which has at present been reached within a long tradition of enquiry . |
| 14 | Very rarely has such experience been shared amongst a wider group of community partners . |
| 15 | Displays of this kind are found in a wide variety of birds , but they are most common in the ground-nesting species . |
| 16 | Well , just generally , we have n't restricted recruiting of care staff , in other words , unless we know there 's a decision been made about a residential establishment which there has n't been at present . |
| 17 | The moment of the break is not transcendent but it is a breaking free of the determinations of ideology — a moment in which the presuppositions that determine ideology are transformed by a critical response to them . |
| 18 | Some instances of modern statutory liability are considered in a later section of this chapter but a more generalised revival of the Rylands v. Fletcher idea is proposed in two modern law reform proposals . |
| 19 | Where injuries or property damage are caused by a defective machine an immediate investigation by an engineer is essential to establish the extent to which the claim can be defended . |
| 20 | The relations philonymy , tautonymy and xenonymy are connected in a systematic way with paradigmatic relations , and with presuppositions and encapsulations . |
| 21 | The fibre story is even more confused by the report that , among ‘ healthy ’ volunteers , an outgoing personality and positive self-image are associated with a larger stool output . |
| 22 | Now Oxford West and Abingdon Conservative Association are calling for a new privacy law aimed at curbing the telefoto lens . |
| 23 | Leapor 's poems inviting friends to tea are written in a similar vein of pleasure or celebration . |
| 24 | The boundaries of the sacred battlefield are marked by a thousand great carved menhirs . |
| 25 | Has any study been made of a similar problem ? |
| 26 | In Drosophila the segmentation genes paired and gooseberry are required for a proper wingless and engrailed expression . |
| 27 | Not only has the essential large vacuum cell been reduced to a small glass cell , but Wieman has also been able to replace gas lasers with solid state devices . |
| 28 | Those women who need to gain weight are treated like a rare breed . |
| 29 | Examination of men and women who still live in Hertfordshire has shown that lower birth weight and infant weight are associated with a higher incidence of known risk factors for cardiovascular disease , including raised blood pressure , plasma glucose and insulin concentrations , and plasma fibrinogen and factor VII concentrations . |
| 30 | Under Article 100A(3) , measures of harmonisation are based on a high level of health protection . |