Example sentences of "[prep] a [noun] be " in BNC.
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| 1 | Looking after a child is a full-time job , not something to be slotted in when you have a spare moment . ’ |
| 2 | This is gon na get really tedious after a bit is n't it ? |
| 3 | Accept that the months after a birth are often very difficult and talk to your husband about how you feel . |
| 4 | In general , the right technical skills and professional standards , understanding of the clients ' needs and requirements , keeping to deadlines , prompt responses and regular communication before , during and after a transaction were the factors most commonly identified as important . |
| 5 | A MAN suspected of drunken driving was under arrest last night after a father-of-four was mown down and killed as he cycled home from work . |
| 6 | THREE vigilantes who took the law into their own hands after a burglary were convicted yesterday after a man they confronted was killed on his own doorstep . |
| 7 | ‘ The days of signing £30,000 or £40,000 players who move on after a year are over . |
| 8 | ‘ Dilly ’ , as he was called , went to Summer Fields , Oxford , at the age of eleven and after a year was first in his election to Eton . |
| 9 | Men die to win democracy for their countries , which after a while is taken grudgingly ; and its practitioners come to be seen as less skilled , worthy and entertaining than the aristocrats of sport . |
| 10 | I think that a chief , or perhaps a leading group would after a while be decided on and priorities set in a way more mature than the boys , but girls would be less imaginative when it came to building shelters and lighting fires , and also less physically able to lift heavy objects and build things . |
| 11 | The areas you need to work on after a marathon are the hamstrings , the quads and the hips . |
| 12 | While the chances of a woman developing rheumatoid arthritis after a delivery are small , the researchers have nevertheless provided new evidence that hormones do play a role in some cases of the disease . |
| 13 | Those unfortunate enough to be carried away after a crackdown are uncertain whether they will return alive . |
| 14 | Awards after a hearing are significantly higher than those agreed by conciliation ( Dickens et al. , 1985 ; Genn and Genn , 1989 ) . |
| 15 | I he obvious inference after a time is that the man was homosexual and that the men talking were , too . |
| 16 | The courts have also been reluctant to find a breach of a duty of care on the part of the Prison Department , even when the health of a prisoner is at issue . |
| 17 | No abuse of a prisoner was allowed during court proceedings ( Mark 14:65 ; Matt. |
| 18 | Arthur 's Miller 's plays such as All My Sons and Death of a Salesman are now regarded as virtual classics , and so are Tennessee William 's Cat on a Hot Tin Roof , The Glass Menagerie and A Streetcar Named Desire . |
| 19 | The expectation of the future value of a currency is , strictly speaking , unobservable . |
| 20 | In my judgment , therefore , if there were a statutory provision that the decision of a visitor on the law applicable to internal disputes of a charity was to be ‘ final and conclusive , ’ courts would have no jurisdiction to review the visitor 's decision on the grounds of error of law made by the visitor within his jurisdiction ( in the narrow sense ) . |
| 21 | ( 8 ) Rights of control must be exercised in good faith and the oppression of a minority is unacceptable . |
| 22 | The sources of a convention are open-ended and diverse . |
| 23 | Should the scope of a Convention be limited to transactions in which there is some connection with a Contracting State , and if so , what should be the connecting factor ? |
| 24 | For it is characteristic of an agnostic to hold that the existence of a god is a possibility in which there is no good reason either to believe or disbelieve ; and it is characteristic of an atheist to hold that it is at least probable that no god exists . |
| 25 | The acid test of a skill is to watch someone else doing something effortlessly and then to try it yourself — you quickly discover that there is much more to it thin you imagined . |
| 26 | The acquisition of a skill is a tortuous process that takes us through the following sequence : |
| 27 | The internal representation of a skill is called a schema . |
| 28 | The performance of a skill is dependent on practising it and so a pupil 's success will be crucially dependent on how recently it has been practised . |
| 29 | The shape of a jigsaw is determined by the shapes of the pieces , but there are objects with well-defined shapes which are not explicable by the shapes of their constituent molecules . |
| 30 | So fraction of a total is fifty over one fifty . |