Example sentences of "be [adj] [prep] a [noun pl] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | This is the second time the college has been involved in a drugs scandal . |
| 2 | They 've been involved in a ratings war with us . |
| 3 | One class I proposed to visit , but was warned off as only one member was likely to be interested in a workers movement , all the others were retired from professions and it was thought I ( a gardener ) might offend them … |
| 4 | Windows makes it much easier to exchange information between different packages ; there are various mechanisms , one of which allows you to use the mouse to highlight a chunk of information in a spreadsheet , say , to be cut-and-pasted to a Windows word processor via an intermediate storage area called a clip-board . |
| 5 | She could n't be involved in a police investigation . |
| 6 | Institutional investors who include Schroders , Prudential and Phillips & Drew Fund Management are believed to be opposed to a rights issue . |
| 7 | Should n't we , therefore , be entitled to a no-claims bonus ? |
| 8 | If the reporter , the editor and particularly the owner of a magazine or newspaper were liable to a six-months prison sentence for printing untruths and fabricated stores , then the problem would shrink to minute proportions . |
| 9 | My Lord erm , er one ca n't of course draw conclusions from one market to the next , they are all different certainly is a self regulatory market is different from a futures market |
| 10 | What do ordinary readers think , when their eyes catch the fact that someone they know is concerned with a police inquiry into crime ? |
| 11 | And anything that 's not on the up and up is , well I think it 's detrimental to a mans life . |
| 12 | It is rare for a police officer to witness such an event , therefore in most cases the evidence of passers-by or the driver of the other vehicle involved will have to be relied upon . |
| 13 | Lorna has been active as a tenants leader and was elected by tenants to represent them on Haringey Council 's Housing Committee . |