Example sentences of "[noun prp] be [vb pp] [prep] a [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | At a too typical parents ' evening Mr and Mrs Bloggs are directed to a folded card bearing Fred 's name resting on a slightly dog-eared pile of exercise books . |
| 2 | As well as studio kitchen sequences , the Rankins are filmed on a scenic culinary circuit of Ireland . |
| 3 | Most of the vines have a slightly east to north-facing aspect , although those near Montbré are found on a gentle east-facing ridge . |
| 4 | Like , where were all the anti-war songs when the Falklands were turned into a mass graveyard for the young men of England and Argentina ? |
| 5 | Like , where were all the anti-war songs when the Falklands were turned into a mass graveyard for the young men of England and Argentina ? |
| 6 | PAKISTAN were locked in a fresh ball-doctoring row yesterday after their three-run Texaco Trophy win at Lord 's . |
| 7 | They also suspected him of fomenting violence to prevent Inkatha being marginalized as a political force . |
| 8 | Dacre is hardly likely to have welcomed the appointment of an ally of Henry Clifford , first Earl of Cumberland [ q.v. ] , who had supplanted him as warden in 1525–7 and was to do so again in 1534 , but relations between Dacre and Musgrave were worsened by a protracted dispute over rents in Bewcastledale . |
| 9 | Alongside the Vauxhall car won by Drake for a year , and the £400 team manager 's prize collected by Graham Howell , Royal Berkshire were presented with a magnificent Vauxhall Indoor Trophy and a cheque for £2,500 . |
| 10 | WING wizard Phil Ford treated himself to five touchdowns as Whitehaven were swamped under a tidal wave of tries in this Lancashire Cup tie . |
| 11 | State President de Klerk and Foreign Minister Roelof " Pik " Botha were greeted by a 21-gun salute and the South African national anthem as they arrived in Nigeria , hitherto a leading critic of the South African regime . |
| 12 | Finally , the aspirations of the Greeks of Crete were met by a Turkish promise at last to put into force constitutional reforms announced ten years before . |
| 13 | The Tynedale Fenwicks and the Liddesdale Elliots were involved for a long time in a savage , unyielding feud ; and the Armstrongs , among their many clashes , quarrelled simultaneously with the Scottish Turnbulls and Johnstones and with the English Bells , while the Bells were also feuding with the English Grahams . |
| 14 | In this region the Kupferschiefer is underlain by a thick series ( several hundred to one thousand meters ) of Rotliegendes ( Lower Permian ) , often represented by volcanic rocks . |
| 15 | On Feb. 14 the EC 's European Parliament again requested and the Commission on Feb. 20 agreed that the ECJ be asked for a new opinion on the agreement . |
| 16 | The Grand Old Duke of York did lead his men ; Dick Whittington was a 15th century Lord Mayor of London ; Ring-A-Ring-O'-Roses is said to relate to an outbreak of plague in London in the 17th century ; and Bluebeard is based on a psychopathic French murderer of the 15th century . |
| 17 | For the first time in 2 and a half centuries , the Rococo Garden at Painswick is dominated by a Gothic screen called an exedra . |
| 18 | It was a royal monopoly , and an earlier King Arkesilas is depicted on a Spartan vase of the mid-sixth century supervising his officials as they weighed it on a man-size balance ( Chamoux , Cyrene , plate vi . |
| 19 | Throughout his travels in the southern hemisphere Gould 's behaviour towards the Aborigines is distinguished by a fearless , compassionate , and unbiased recognition of their plight , and a profound respect for their way of life . |
| 20 | Three Senior Professional Officers ( SPOs ) were rapidly appointed to County Hall posts to act as a channel of communication for the CMHTs ( for the sake of simplicity , the key contribution of the SPOs is subsumed to a large extent within our discussion of the CMHTs ) . |
| 21 | Firstly , Dustin is hidden under a folding bed which he is repairing in readiness for his first sexual experience , and then he is off-camera , talking to his parents , in the one comic-satiric scene that Woody Allen might not have disowned . |
| 22 | LIVERPOOL 'S latest recruit Stig Inge Bjornbye is set for a dramatic debut next week after receiving a work permit . |
| 23 | Liverpool 's latest recruit Stig Inge Bjornbye is set for a dramatic debut next week after receiving a work permit . |
| 24 | Talabheim is built within a huge shallow crater , many miles across , whose outer edge forms a rocky rim and a natural wall . |
| 25 | More specifically , Frith/Moll is appropriated for a partial critique of patriarchal law , sexual exploitation , and aristocratic culture . |
| 26 | The Opera North appeal to sponsor Don Carlos is launched with a special gala at Leeds Grand Theatre . |
| 27 | A simple route up one bank of the river and a return by the other takes the walker through delightful Strid Wood , alongside The Strid — where the Wharfe is constricted through a deep , narrow channel — and the attractive High Strid . |
| 28 | ANDF is conceived as a ground-breaking way of enabling software vendors to write , package and distribute one single version of an application to run unchanged on laptops , workstations , servers , mainframes , even supercomputers . |
| 29 | Improv is based on a multi-dimensional model . |
| 30 | Last techy bit — Johnny is installed as a bona-fide screen saver under your Desktop icon in the Windows control panel , so it 's fully compatible with everything else , and not running as an add-in TSR . |