Example sentences of "[prep] a [noun] [conj] [be] " in BNC.
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| 1 | In this city where everything is possible , and he cuts such a figure in his light suit and striped silk tie , and is 32 and full of self-confidence , and can walk up to a girl he has never seen before and with a disarming smile ask her when lighting-up time is — how can he be wearing a maroon crew-necked sweater , and cavalry twill trousers with turnups , and be 22 , and find himself running after a girl and being told that she may or may not see him tomorrow ? |
| 2 | Warren Mitchell went around to see him after a performance and was amused — following Burton 's initial reaction to the money — when he grumbled , ‘ You wo n't believe all they give me for this ? |
| 3 | Trained in Ireland at the Cullinane yard for his first run of the 1984–5 season , he was then moved to Paddy Mullins , winning a handicap hurdle at Limerick Junction on his second outing for his new stable before his mood let him down again in the 1985 Gold Cup : he tried to pull himself up after a circuit and was tailed off when refusing at the last fence . |
| 4 | For instance , the commonly-used coconut matting got muddy very quickly after a game and was hard to clean . |
| 5 | On the Friday evening , their last night , I came downstairs after a bath and was on my way to the kitchen to get supper when , in glancing out of the windows at the front , it seemed that a dense fog had developed . |
| 6 | Wegerle has two ambitions after a move that is a record for both Rangers and the sellers , Luton . |
| 7 | ’ It 's no exactly my own idea of good taste and I could do wi' a suit that 's a better fit , but beggars can nae be choosers , as they say . |
| 8 | It is the record of a glory that was short lived , but makes an illustrious event in Aarau 's history . |
| 9 | That , as Viktor Pynzenyk , the leading reformer in Mr Kuchma 's cabinet , pointed out , means yet more inflation and yet further devaluation of a currency that is falling even against the rouble . |
| 10 | What becomes the English language starts as the dialect of a minority and is imposed upon the majority , usually by force , with legal punishments for those who refuse the schooling which will induct them in the national language . |
| 11 | The stress on efficient or productive causes means that , though Bacon 's natural philosophy includes Divinity , Hobbes 's excludes the theological study of a God that is eternal and ingenerate . |
| 12 | This can also be seen in Bentley Drummle who has the upbringing and background of a gentleman but is far from one . |
| 13 | Probably we have in our mind 's eye something in the nature of a raffle as being a form of random sampling , and we are right in thinking of this as one method . |
| 14 | Two recent cases of young Arabs dying while in police custody ( one of whom fell out of a window while being interrogated ) have added to this impression . |
| 15 | Ordinary people might at times come to the outer part of a temple and were able to participate in the festival processions . |
| 16 | Minutes later the little five-year-old lay in agony — the latest victim of a craze that is claiming thousands of young casualties a year . |
| 17 | The individual referred to whose level of participation did not increase until the second datapoint after transfer ( HM ) shows marked increase in use of leisure equipment ; the observers reported that this was very simple manipulation of a guitar and was possibly prompted by staff in an attempt to influence the evaluation . |
| 18 | And Bubbles — real name Patricia — died after accidentally taking twice the amount she should have done … and five times the level of a drug that was supposed to wean her off them , a Westminster inquest heard yesterday . |
| 19 | Perhaps the title led one to hope for more of a synthesis than is possible in the space . |
| 20 | He was on the receiving end of a look that was as coldly disdainful as any she 'd ever seen . |
| 21 | Here is an example of a style that is too common . |
| 22 | And er , I think that there are people who are a little wet behind the ears if they think that the general public are going to accept the costs of a budget that 's coming forward on a long these lines . |
| 23 | In November 1981 , Fidelity Electronics produced , and rapidly sold out , a limited run of a machine that was as good as the best 10 per cent . |
| 24 | The architect of the plan , the transport officer , Alex Macaulay , said that an extensive consultation exercise had shown public support of a level that was ‘ really quite remarkable ’ . |
| 25 | My beer was to be in a posh hotel where I was being treated for my birthday , and after the heaven of getting out of a T-shirt that was generating its own new species of life in the arm pits , and into a hot bath , I looked forward to discussing the day eagerly with my companion . |
| 26 | Right , what is the value of a , of a gradient that 's absolutely flat , absolutely level ? |
| 27 | This red eared terrapin is a victim of a fad that 's out of fashion . |
| 28 | ‘ Oh , for the touch of a vanished paw and the sound of a bark that is still . ’ |
| 29 | They reach the further boundaries of the solid in a time which is probably between a ten-thousandth and a hundred-thousandth of a second and are reflected back , as a kind of echo , very little attenuated or diminished in intensity . |
| 30 | The oilbird 's click lasts for about a hundredth of a second and is not a single sound but a burst of pulses , each only about a thousandth of a second long . |