Example sentences of "be [vb pp] [indef pn] [prep] a [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | And now I find myself eating tomatoes in the winter , which must be considered something of a luxury . |
| 2 | If anaphors were to be resolved one at a time and left to right , nothing would yet have been done about ‘ him ’ , so the configurational contribution would be missed and reasoning would be inevitable . |
| 3 | If , unusually , there is no time pressure , the targets can be approached one at a time in order of their relative attractiveness . |
| 4 | The VPP500 system features a series of 1.6 GigaFLOPS vector processors , in parallel configurations of from seven to 222 , offering performances of 11.2 to 355 GFLOPS — the nodes can be added one at a time . |
| 5 | If half the records on a track have to be moved one at a time , and a device revolution is required for each movement , additions can take a great deal of time . |
| 6 | Beechams Pills could be bought one at a time in a spill for a penny . |
| 7 | For this reason , cards should be exchanged one at a time and with some care . |
| 8 | To discharge the node , added electrons must be removed one at a time , which needs a definite voltage change . |
| 9 | a series of instructions which would normally be issued one at a time on the keyboard to control a program . |
| 10 | These factors will be taken one at a time , and the scientist will set up experiments to test them . |
| 11 | It goes to the root of the Positivist idea that hypotheses can be tested one at a time by comparing their implications with objective , neutral facts of experience . |
| 12 | It is a distinction which may in the end prove more suggestive than serviceable : the author who tells , and who can be accounted something of a ventriloquist , may well , for instance , be more than capable of carnival , and may even be every bit as plural in his works as his dialogic counterpart . |