Example sentences of "be [vb pp] [adv prt] a [noun] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | In these cases the chambers are approached down a flight of steps . |
| 2 | Finally , in the Annex there are set out a number of terms which , according to the previous draft of art 3(3) , was to be an indicative list of terms which may be regarded as unfair . |
| 3 | Socioecology assumes that any ecological opportunity ( technically known as a niche ) exploited in the wild by animals after billions of years of evolution will be filled in a couple of months in a work environment . |
| 4 | decided that by using a temporary coupler from the motor to the drive shaft some preparatory work for making the change could be carried out a year before the main change , reducing the delay . |
| 5 | Project appraisal involves many calculations which must be carried out a number of times to produce a proper sensitivity analysis . |
| 6 | ‘ I 'm mixed up a bit in it . |
| 7 | The latter two allow the tool to be hung on a wall by two screws , which pass through the plastic sheath and convert it into a vertical holder . |
| 8 | A set of pictures can be hung from ribbons or cords — for example , a set of two or three miniature ovals can be hung down a length of ribbon , with a velvet or silk bow positioned at the top of the strip . |
| 9 | For the planted aquarium the total tank volume should be turned over a maximum of once every hour , and filtered gently , with no spraybars , aeration , or jetting effect . |
| 10 | Therefore the total water volume of your aquarium ( 100 litres ) should be turned over a maximum of once every hour , and the water should flow very gently back into the aquarium , avoiding strong currents and surface turbulence . |
| 11 | Was n't it hard enough on that poor child to know no parents , to be totally disowned by her relations up in Westlands , to be brought up an orphan in the convent in second-hand clothes , and sent to a secretarial course when she had her heart set on going to university without being mown down by a car on her first week . |
| 12 | A second and commodious objection to the view of nomic connection which has been set out was anticipated earlier ( 1.3 ) , and may be shored up a bit by the fact lately mentioned , that science broadly speaking is not much engaged in arriving at complete descriptions of causal circumstances-causal circumstances as we have conceived them . |
| 13 | The Precision bass , however , was designed to be tuned down an octave from a guitar 's lower four strings . |
| 14 | On arrival you will be taken on a tour of the city , including Union Square , Golden Gate Park and Fisherman 's Wharf for views across the beautiful bay . |
| 15 | The highlight of the event will be tomorrow , when they will get the chance to drive their cars around the original test-track and be taken on a tour of the factory . |
| 16 | ‘ The idea was that he would be taken up a couple of hundred feet , ’ said Gavin Birkett . |
| 17 | As you say three thousand pound a year that could be paid off a place of our own is is just I mean if I have to rent it well I 'll have to rent one . |
| 18 | We are served up a series of bizarre experiments which converge into a monster mutant which can absorb all human and mechanical objects in its path . |
| 19 | Danish lager brewing specialists , visitors are taken on a tour of the brewing , bottling and packing processes . |
| 20 | Several had been taken on a yacht at sea . |
| 21 | After the computer has been started up a number of times — possibly 90 — the damage starts . |
| 22 | Trow Gill is dry , a grass slope rising and narrowing to a breach in the cliffs at the top , a passage through it being made up a tumble of boulders . |
| 23 | Another squint through the net curtains showed Cunningham being pushed up a ramp in the direction of the reception area . |
| 24 | If a Japanese firm were brought on a tour around West Belfast they would see all the barbed wire and be discouraged . |
| 25 | A lady in a black straw hat , who was being weighed out a Pound of grits by the grocer 's assistant , overheard . |
| 26 | ‘ If you mean the Prince thinks that we 'd be better off if the clock were set back a couple of hundred years , ’ Caroline said , ‘ the answer 's yes . ’ |
| 27 | After that I would shower them away , and peering over my side — all in my mind — would watch them being swept down a hillside in a cleansing torrent of water . |
| 28 | The field was laid out in strips about two feet apart and only after pushing into the crop did I realize that the plants were trained up a trellis of almost invisible wires and that I was in a hop field — a ‘ beer field ’ , as Duncan would have called it . |
| 29 | Seventeen Stormont MPs were taken on a tour of inspection by the University for Derry Action Committee and one of them , Dr Robert Nixon , the Stormont Unionist MP for North Down , declared that they had been misled by the Lockwood Report and that there was no shortage of suitable land or amenities in the city . |
| 30 | Chris Law of Internal Audit , Regent 's House and Susan Grieve of Leamington Spa Branch were taken on a tour of the department , given a slap-up lunch and presented with a £250 cheque by Bob McInnes , Branch Banking 's Deputy Managing Director . |