Example sentences of "be a [adj] [noun pl] [prep] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | I am a lesbian women of colour whose children eat regularly because I work in a university . |
| 2 | The only thing that stuck out in a day that seemed to have been a hundred hours of confusion was that nun . |
| 3 | Churchill had been a hundred miles from London , weekending in the country . |
| 4 | There appears to have been a colonnaded pronaos in front with a wide intercolumniation . |
| 5 | When we were there Stan was with us and he 'd been a few times to Brussels to with the Labour Party and , and he said oh it 's great ! |
| 6 | And there had been a few lines from Ellen , proving that Oreste so far from being carried to heaven by an angel was firmly rooted in East Retford and had grown another two inches . |
| 7 | While there have been a few studies of women offenders , investiga-tors have generally looked upon the difference between masculine and feminine criminality merely as a reason for eliminating female subjects from their researches on the ground that they provide insufficient material . |
| 8 | Sometimes , people in ancient places , in flashes of paranormal imagination , see once again the Forum in Pompeii as it must have been a few days before Mount Etna 's eruption ; or — was it Freud 's or Jung 's story ? — musicians in a Rhenish Schloss , playing clavichords for a duke and his family . |
| 9 | Oxygen itself has been present in significant amounts in the atmosphere for only about two and a half billion years — just over half the total life of our planet ; and there had already been a billion years of evolution before that . |
| 10 | This is not the place to explain logic , but there are a few bits of terminology which occur often in this subject which are not entirely standard . |
| 11 | Here are a few hints for speech-making of any kind . |
| 12 | There are a few glimmers of hope , however , since fewer firms are having trouble collecting fees and all but the larger firms are optimistic about increasing their client base . |
| 13 | While there are a few changes in detail , most British school and college mathematics classrooms do not differ much from those of a hundred years ago . |
| 14 | There are a few records for June and July , when up to four have been seen together . |
| 15 | Could you see that there are a few crates of champagne — those half-bottles , so convenient for visitors . ’ |
| 16 | There are a few pairs of words ( minimal pairs ) in which a difference in meaning appears to depend on whether a particular is syllabic or not , for example : But we find no case of syllabic where it would not be possible to substitute either non-syllabic ( type a ) or ( type b ) ; in the examples above , ‘ Hungary ’ could equally well be pronounced and ‘ adulterous ’ as . |
| 17 | Significantly , there are a few areas of overlap , which will allow very effective dovetailing between our operations . |
| 18 | There are a few touches of delirium in Lecercle 's text itself , as he would certainly be delighted to admit ; I take them to be caused by an invasion of normal English by French . |
| 19 | There are a few accents of English which may do this , so that , for example , ‘ cattle ’ is pronounced , but this is not the case in RP . |
| 20 | Vacancies still exist for tenors and basses in particular and also there are a few spaces for contraltos . |
| 21 | Locals tend to stick to the pleasures of eating out in the evening , but there are a few spots in town for night revels . |
| 22 | Fish normally seek out the warmer shallows , and if there are a few days of sunshine before opening day then you will know where to choose on the bank . |
| 23 | However , there are success stories and the following are a few examples of ICI 's recent initiatives on recycling : |
| 24 | There are a few examples of maverick programmes ( like Rapido ) selling themselves , so , encouraged , we decided we had not too much to lose ( more money … ) : we should check out the world 's biggest film and TV market , MIPCOM . |
| 25 | These are a few examples of community initiatives that have taken place : |
| 26 | But there are a few details of chapters 1–3 which we should mention . |
| 27 | the ending may seem quite unconvincing , with the prospect of their marriage , but there are a few clues from Pip 's first meeting with her till then that may suggest some development . |
| 28 | There are a few items of Interest , but generally , local news is scarce . |
| 29 | There are a few items of Interest , but generally , local news is scarce . |
| 30 | Here are a few myths about exercise you might have believed in : |