Example sentences of "be [adv] [verb] [prep] a [det] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Many mums who have apparently short labours have actually been gently dilating for a few days without realising it and without having any of the other traditional ‘ signs ’ of labour : a ‘ show ’ as the plug to the cervix is expelled , waters breaking or the first contractions . |
| 2 | I mean we are only talking about a few yards difference . |
| 3 | Bearing in mind that if we do have the whole house then people are only coming for a few days or or even one night could no they had somewhere to stay . |
| 4 | Yet , what , one might ask , is a tropical institute doing in central London in the 1980s when Britain 's influence and claims in those climes are largely reduced to a few dots on the global map ? |
| 5 | We are not talking of a few fanatical terrorists , we are talking of a nine million-strong nation in the heart of the Balkans . |
| 6 | You 're not talking about a few thousand pounds but millions , millions I shall be borrowing from various banking concerns who are willing to lend that money on the strength of my reputation . |
| 7 | The process of counting is a proficient one and a sufficient number of results are usually announced within a few hours of the close of the polls to know which party has won the election . |
| 8 | The winter sales may be coming to an end … but Gloucester 's rugby men are still looking for a few late bargains when they head north to Sale this weekend . |
| 9 | In 1773 when raw silk was difficult to obtain , the owner of a throwing mill in Sherborne wrote : … having discharged many of my hands which are either starving , or are become burdensome to the town , others are incessantly crying for a little work and could they obtain but a morsel of Barley-bread they are happy , they very often go days with little or no nourishment … the continued cries of the poor people complaining for want of the necessaries of life as well for want of employment is shocking indeed … and what is worse the overseers are not so bountiful to the necessitous as I could wish . |
| 10 | Overdrafts to customers are often granted for a few days or weeks . |
| 11 | I 'm not asking for a few soothing words to calm my conscience ; if I can , I want to help . |
| 12 | The timber lid is in two parts and could be easily made from a few lengths of timber stained or painted to match the surroundings . |
| 13 | I 'm just visiting for a few days . ’ |
| 14 | Regression techniques , because they set out to make the squared distances of the residuals from the line as small as possible , can be unduly influenced by a few exceptional data points . |
| 15 | Oki Electric Industry Co Ltd will close parts of three ageing plants in the Tokyo area due to restructuring : plants in eastern Tokyo , Hachioji and Takasaki , both in northwestern Tokyo , will be partly closed within a few years , and construction of a new plant in Shimizu , west of Tokyo , due to open in 1995 , has been postponed , too . |
| 16 | Telomere function seems to be fully defined within a few hundred base pairs in ciliates or yeasts and thousands base pairs in vertebrates . |
| 17 | Most of the houses in the village were quite large , with shutters which were only opened for a few hours in the mornings ; if there was a breeze long lace curtains could be seen gently moving . |
| 18 | Inventories were normally taken within a few days or weeks of the testator 's death . |
| 19 | This was because the scientific elite of the Athenaeum , on whom the correspondents relied , were well aware that research on controlled thermonuclear reactions was already being furtively pursued in a few British laboratories . |
| 20 | Erm , then we all just worked at getting pieces out on paper , all that was going fine , and then I assigned two more people to stick all the pieces together and trying to create sentences from it , and I think the only time that I , we lost it was like , right at the end we were like looking for a few words to make our sentences make sense . |
| 21 | Senior ministerial posts were also given to a former Environment Minister , Padraig Flynn , and two junior ministers dismissed with Reynolds in November , Maire Geoghegan Quinn and Michael Smith . |
| 22 | The major industrial developments were heavily concentrated in a few key areas of the Empire . |
| 23 | ( 6.5 ) unc provided x is free in no unc ( 6.6 ) unc provided x is free in no unc Note that it is possible to deal with cases where x is only declared in a few of the |
| 24 | Due to the pilot nature of the scheme it is only operating in a few selected areas initially , which is why your parish has not been contacted . |
| 25 | Rules ensuring media ownership is not concentrated in a few hands , with restrictions on cross media holdings . |
| 26 | Both the ITC and the Radio Authority are to enforce rules ensuring media ownership is not concentrated in a few hands . |
| 27 | The application may be submitted at any time ( as long as the candidate is still registered with the Institute ) and the examination is normally arranged within a few weeks . |
| 28 | In fact , the separatist movement which developed in Sicily after 1943 proved short-lived , though its disappearance is still mourned by a few as ‘ the end of the Sicilian nation ’ . |
| 29 | ‘ That was a game we should have won after taking a two goal lead , and I think it 's still rankles with a few of the lads . |
| 30 | If an organisation is market leader and has a size and presence which can ensure that manpower planning is possible so that most jobs can be filled from graduate entry , then the need for an executive search firm is probably limited to a few specialist or technical appointments . |