Example sentences of "[vb base] [adv] [be] a " in BNC.
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| 1 | Erm yes , I mean if er er if er I mean obviously being a chartered accountant you 'll , you 'll know where to invest it but I mean wh wh what sort of return would you expect er her to get on say a , a three hundred thousand investment ? |
| 2 | What I want now is a head of department in a really good school , and then I 'd do what our head of department has done . |
| 3 | ‘ What I want now is a good scotch and soda to take the taste away . |
| 4 | What I want today is a ban on tree felling in old growth and primary forest north and south . |
| 5 | We just say here 's a bucket . |
| 6 | a penny , say here 's a penny . |
| 7 | Constantly rising profits in what is generally a depressed area , suggest here is a latter day John Moores with a magic formula for success , based on doing the simple things properly . |
| 8 | And we 're happy we once again say on the phone , Well what I want tomorrow is a deposit cheque , contract , bankers order and if you 've got copy available I 'll take that a juggle it around as you want . |
| 9 | What you really want then is a way to sort of happenings or embarrassments because you 're a bit stuck of where you want to go . |
| 10 | You will have gathered from what I have said that barbel really are a true shoal fish , and it is true to say that , as is the case with all true shoal fish , they school together with fish of like size . |
| 11 | Oop here 's a pie . |
| 12 | To read Macbeth with Johnson 's ‘ Miscellaneous Observations ’ open alongside is a great pleasure . |
| 13 | But really what it does it can either stand alone and print just be a printer put the data in and then . |
| 14 | So , if erm so your , your , your principal complaint , I maybe wrong it maybe not your principal , look at page a hundred and twenty seven for your assistance , erm standard form of agreements restricted competitions , the service of the petitions or the agents provided so this is names and thereby restrict the competition as the agents them say erm then impose on that it was a regime etcetera , erm that the , the competitive the anti competitive one is your sub paragraph one is n't it ? , on page one , two , seven your saying look here is a of , of dictated through their bi-laws , a standard form that all agents must use , you say , erm , er that that restricts competition because it means that agents are free , or as free as they ought to be , erm to compete with each other or providing services to outside names , I follow that , I did n't say I except it , but I follow that entirely , erm , but does n't , does n't , if you 're right does n't it follow that the agreements are void ? |
| 15 | You see look here 's a script all typed out . |
| 16 | You know if I 'd gone on the I said hello look here 's a mad man |
| 17 | While it 's always good to know the odd tuba player ( and let's face it , most of them are ) , Chase unfortunately was a fanatic , believing that there had been no good jazz since the King Oliver band . |
| 18 | Andermatt too is a place for travellers ' decisions : whether to return north back to Uri , or to choose one of the other three cardinal points of the compass for further travel . |
| 19 | What I like best is a job is a job . |
| 20 | This may not be downright evil , but in the absence of potential disbarments ( like possibly being a rubber doll ) it requires a considerable amount of bad faith . |
| 21 | I found , too , an assertion that fashion today is a sign that women 's emancipation is well underway — a claim that can not go unchallenged . |
| 22 | or a bit in the B A I E Communicators Newsletter in Scotland you know here 's a member that 's launched a new publication for the Scottish prison service |
| 23 | The guitar 's dimensions do limit its penetrating power , but what you get instead is a sparkly , ultra-fast response that clearly articulates fingerpicked notes as fast as you can spit them out . |
| 24 | What they often get instead is a pat on the back , a stack of reading matter , an order form and a two-day pep talk . |
| 25 | Mind you , it looks as if they did quite a bit of homework and know kelly is a converted winger … |
| 26 | Diplow too is a beautiful house — ‘ the old green turf on the lawn ; the soft , purplish colouring of the park beyond ’ — but it is not ‘ homelike ’ as Monk 's Topping is . |
| 27 | What we find instead is a kind of delinquent black camp . |
| 28 | ‘ Aid often is a springboard to trade … |
| 29 | " Chuck here is a deadeye , " replied the senator , ruffling the hair of his elder son . |
| 30 | The flick switch here is a practical touch , working in a similar fashion to , say , Trace Elliot 's ‘ pre-shape ’ facility on their amps in providing instant access to a specified sound , in this case a cut-mid sort of slappy sound . |