Example sentences of "be [adv] [prep] a [noun sg] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Most are rather like a sandwich with the steel springs embedded in a honeycomb of foam . |
| 2 | Perhaps we think our friends see us as calm and capable while we know that we are secretly in a state of panic . |
| 3 | ‘ I doubt it may have been somewhere in a circle of exiles , plucking that familiar of yours . ’ |
| 4 | I think we are on to a loser with this one , but good luck … |
| 5 | We are necessarily at a distance from them , detached . |
| 6 | As dawn appears in the sky our progress quickens ; after crossing a few fields and climbing several hedgerows we are suddenly on a road with farm buildings a short distance away . |
| 7 | Burrowing species are obviously at a disadvantage in such situations , although some species are able to escape by swimming . |
| 8 | Tonight they are together at a banquet aboard the Royal Yacht Britannia to mark the EC summit . |
| 9 | Wassall must have been in with a chance of winning the £10,000 first prize because he was the fifth fastest qualifier , with a time of 11.92sec for the 100 metres . |
| 10 | ‘ I am constantly in a state of surprise that I have survived this long as an actor . |
| 11 | The Sandinistas in government are somewhat at a loss for their own charismatic figure , but continue to draw amply on the ( revised ) ideology and mythology of Sandino himself and of the martyred heroes of the revolution . |
| 12 | My sisters have been along to a couple of events , and Mum and Dad watch my performances on television , as well as videos of my races . |
| 13 | After all , they had been together for a couple of years and she did idolise him . |
| 14 | Operating as Shadowfax Restaurants , the partnership has been together for a number of years , and currently has two Pizza Express outlets in Barnet and Finchley , and part ownership of a pizza restaurant in the West End of London . |
| 15 | If the conditions in which a lineage of animals lives remain constant ; say it is dry and hot and has been so without a break for 100 generations , evolution in that lineage is likely to come to a halt , at least as far as adaptations to temperature and humidity are concerned . |
| 16 | It was the first time she had been so near a man with sweet breath and the scent of success about him . |
| 17 | Now Amiga owners are in for a treat with Mindscape 's home computer version of the Nintendo toads . |
| 18 | WHILE SNES players are in for a treat with Super Mario Kart , sadly the same can not be said for NES owners , with their Christmas Mario offering , Mario and Yoshi — a game which takes the form of a puzzle startlingly similar to the classic Tetris . |
| 19 | If we are in with a chance of the Championship going into the New Year , then I am determined we will not be beaten . |
| 20 | Now they are away to a University of Wolverhampton team in the quarter finals.The Observer Moot is a national competition in which pairs of students representing law departments from universities in England , Wales and Northern Ireland argue points of law before a moot judge . |
| 21 | Second , that I am not in a position of knowledge and I ca n't deliver some goods to them ; that basically , I 'm on a journey and I will hate the techniques I 'm learning for unpicking the threads of my life by becoming assertive and getting new knowledge with them . |
| 22 | ‘ Only that you could n't help the police very much because you 'd been away for a couple of days , ’ said Melissa . |
| 23 | The city has changed so much that anyone who has been away for a couple of years could be forgiven for thinking that he arrived in a time machine , not an airliner . |
| 24 | No , cos I 've been away for a couple of days . |
| 25 | The trend , in recent years , has been away from a system of strict , item by item controls to broad limitations upon total borrowing . |
| 26 | if you are already on a diet from your doctor or a dietitian |
| 27 | Innovations in teaching methods do not usually come in the form of simple additions to a teacher 's repertoire , generalizable to all subject matters , but are usually designed to achieve more effectively an understanding of some particular X. Usually , for a variety of reasons , the descriptions of ‘ how to proceed ’ are not at a level of precision which makes the teacher a programmed automaton ; it follows that any teacher persuaded to adopt the innovation must be willing and able to explore modifications to his repertoire in order to try and achieve the hoped-for improvement in his pupils ' understanding of X at which the innovation is aimed . |
| 28 | Even when our conscious feelings are not in a state of conflict , it is difficult to portray them relatively accurately in words , but it is much more so when they are . |
| 29 | If you are not in a position to be ruthless about getting rid of people on the platform , school them in the proper way to behave — sitting still , looking towards the speaker and not thumping the table in their enthusiasm . |
| 30 | That may change and as we move out of the recession hopefully , er the er erm position will improve , but it does mean that for next year we are not in a position to er achieve the level of income that the , the current year 's budget er required us to and which er on a normal knock-on basis as this element of the budget moves on from year to year , we would n't er have very much hope I would er put to you of actually meeting the level of income that would allow us to operate er a standstill budget in , in this area . |