Example sentences of "of [pron] [adv] [be] a [adj] " in BNC.

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1 Algorithms detect most high risk patients , both young and old , and risk factor stratification shows that in about a third of them there is a likely or predominant initiating mechanism that is amenable to specific treatment — for example , paroxysmal atrial fibrillation with amiodarone ; an accessory pathway with ablation ; a gradient with β blockers , calcium antagonists , or myectomy ; conduction disease with a pacemaker ; refractory sustained ventricular arrhythmias with an implantable cardioverter defibrillator ; and relative ischaemia in the presence of normal coronary vessels with nitrates and calcium antagonists .
2 Between the two of them there was a fundamental issue at stake .
3 And by her expression the wound he was dealing the pair of them now was a mortal one .
4 Down the front of it there was a long slash .
5 She came to a little patch of sand , the bottom of a miniature canyon , and on the far side of it there was a smooth grey rock , sliced neatly off at the top to make a platform .
6 There 's a poem by Percy Bysshe Shelley about a traveller in the desert who finds in a vast empty plain the feet of what once was a colossal statue , and engraved on the plaque below the feet are the words ,
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