Example sentences of "be [vb pp] [adv] [prep] a [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | His experience will be highlighted tonight in a probe into cash machines by ITV 's This Week programme . |
| 2 | It can be amended even in a way not covered under the Bill 's title if the amendment is connected with the Bill 's purpose . |
| 3 | Another method of identification has recently become more widely accepted , in spite of the fact that it needs to be implanted surgically by a vet , although this is a relatively minor procedure . |
| 4 | Occasional breaks in routine were available , to be undertaken either as a sign of enthusiasm , or as a momentary release from tedium . |
| 5 | This pattern can be explained either by an artefact arising with short PCR probes detecting clusters of short repeats or by a low abundance of the ERG product among other repeat products containing CpG trinucleotides . |
| 6 | This suggests that a fusion of languages is taking place which can not be explained simply by an appeal to the notion that speakers from time to time animate different personas , some " British " and some " Caribbean " . |
| 7 | The world has always looked to Britain for stability , inventiveness and general mental agility , yet our National Prestige is low , our currency is less than one third of its immediate post-war value against the dollar and can not be explained entirely as a result of market speculation . |
| 8 | Today when the primacy of history above all else — the economic , even class conflict — is asserted within a Marxist discourse , together with an accompanying defence of humanism , it can usually be traced back to a Marxism of a Sartrean existentialist form . |
| 9 | The origins of UAPT-Infolink plc can be traced back to a group of traders meeting in coffee houses to exchange their personal experience of bad debtors . |
| 10 | Almost the whole development of the law of trusts and its interpretation can be traced back to a combination of two factors : the slight respect of trusts for set legal form ; their independence from an heir and from the will . |
| 11 | Firstly , the feeling for the tradition is very strong in the village ; secondly , Gawthorpe is an ancient settlement — its history can be traced back to a Viking chief named Gorky and there is evidence that it existed in Roman times ; thirdly , the original custom was to bring in a new May tree each year . |
| 12 | All information should be confidential in the sense that it can not be traced back to an individual , i.e. anonymity must be guaranteed to achieve frankness . |
| 13 | This mucus capsule swells rapidly on contact with water , protecting the egg from abrasion and fungal infection , while the outermost layer enables the eggs to be fastened on to a plant . |
| 14 | A ‘ money bill ’ , one dealing essentially with financial matters , can be delayed only for a month . |
| 15 | But can he not , in this case , be dismissed even without an Address ? |
| 16 | A case involving a murder charge would be referred on to a Crown court . |
| 17 | If no other provision is made , ordinary Government Bills ( and other Public Bills ) will be referred automatically to a standing committee . |
| 18 | Curriculum adaptations and support teaching sessions are provided by the resource teacher , and these sessions may be given either on a withdrawal basis or within the classroom . |
| 19 | Once he had returned the white card , a client 's name , address and phone number were Processed into a lead , which would then be given out to a dealer . |
| 20 | An answer to this , I shall argue , so far as an answer is possible at all , can be given only through an analysis of experiences from the point of view of the one who has the experiences ; i.e. through a phenomenological analysis of the modes of experiencing . |
| 21 | Directions as to how to use the aid should also be given together with a discussion of the circumstances in which its use is likely to be helpful . |
| 22 | Once the soil has been dug , it should be broken up with a fork , hoe , back of a rake , by hand , with a hand fork , or whatever you find most convenient , until it reaches the stage at which raking it backwards and forwards , and then crossways , reduces it to the fine tilth described . |
| 23 | Once this point has been reached there will be a rapid reduction in the number of non-reproductive males , and the large units will be broken up into a number of smaller ones , in part through takeovers and in part through fission of units containing followers . |
| 24 | Of the longer term organizational trends that have developed within the travel industry , diversification needs to be broken down into a range of separate forms . |
| 25 | Gradually , through compromise , a workable plan will emerge , and this can then be broken down into a programme phased over a number of years . |
| 26 | However , in all cases the instructions can be broken down into a sequence of primitive operations on the various parts of the processor , such as the accumulators , the adder and the program counter ; notice that some of these parts are not directly accessible to the programmer . |
| 27 | For example , the fetching and execution of a " store accumulator " instruction can be broken down into a sequence of more primitive operations as shown in Figure 3.19 . |
| 28 | Hierarchy presupposes an already determined outcome or purpose ; the underlying idea of hierarchy is that such an outcome can be broken down into a set of sub-processes . |
| 29 | And since complicated situations or statements can very easily be broken down into a set of simple statements , this in effect means that computers can store complex pieces of information too . |
| 30 | In Chapter 4 I argue that the concept of women 's ‘ domesticity ’ which is used loosely in sociological writing needs to be broken down into a number of more precise concepts before much sense can be made of women 's similarities/differences on this dimension . |