Example sentences of "[adv] [be] [prep] a [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | It was also announced that ambassadors ' postings would henceforth be for a maximum of five years , and that their appointments would be approved by the council of USSR and republican foreign ministers . |
| 2 | The plan is that if we have to leave , and we 're still not sure , it will only be for a while . |
| 3 | Oreste had been spared and it could only be for a purpose . |
| 4 | The words tumbled over each other in her eagerness. ‘ 'T WOULD only be for a day or so while I try to get a message to the Queen . |
| 5 | It would , after all , only be for a week or so , after that they were due back at Purley . |
| 6 | But it should only be for a matter of months . ’ |
| 7 | If it did it might only be for a moment , the briefest of seconds , and she wanted Creggan h be ready for it . |
| 8 | ‘ To be judged a success is business should only be as a result of consistent , sustained growth , ’ he said . |
| 9 | No , we have in fact done a great deal to conserve our resources here , er and as I say we have treated er something like 500 patients by the end of this year , addition to what we treated in er the previous year , and that can only be as a result of good management , both nursing and medical . |
| 10 | Aunt Lilian and Aunt Kit walked into the nearest shop whenever their clothes became too shabby and bought the first thing that fitted them ; if they debated , it would only be about a garment 's staying power . |
| 11 | The way forward could only be through a measure of government intervention and inevitably it provoked at the time and in its later consequences , or lack of them , sharp controversy which did much to form the particular arguments reformers used to articulate their basic ideological assumptions . |
| 12 | The light could only be from a torch — obviously — but there was something oddly fragmented about it . |
| 13 | A motor manufacturer will only be in a position to estimate revenue because they do not know how many cars they will sell . |
| 14 | Presumably we would only be in a position to be considering an investigator if both , we had a erm a greater number of complaints from around the Commission coming into York , and i and further members of staff were to leave . |
| 15 | If so , it would surely only be after a period of mourning . |
| 16 | ‘ If there was somewhere you might stay in the meanwhile , I may shortly be in a position to help you . ’ |
| 17 | Consequently , the printing department will shortly be in a position to offer a full range of printing services which will include document and newsletter design and typesetting in addition to our usual single and colour printing . |
| 18 | But with Wimpol on board the Commission may shortly be in a position to announce what really happened . |
| 19 | And , as I said , I think that we shall shortly be in a position to proceed against someone . ’ |
| 20 | Lewis reached his third Test fifty before edging a flowery drive , and Salisbury recovered from an excruciating blow on the box from Waqar to bang him through the covers and generally give the impression that he might soon be worth a sport higher than No. 9 in the order . |
| 21 | Mrs Hawkins reported that she had been unable to take photos at this location as she had first to finish off a slide film , but will soon be in a position to take the required photos and also others to be displayed at the A.G.M. and then stored in the village archives . |
| 22 | I assured myself that it would be only temporary and I would soon be in a flat again , but ‘ temporary ’ turned out to be five years . |
| 23 | A little after 3 o'clock this morning he rapped at several doors in Marlborough Street ( adjoining one of the piers ) and informed them that fire had been set to one of the ships in the harbour [ and ] matches were laid in several others ; the whole world would soon be in a blaze , and the town also destroyed … |
| 24 | As my pregnancy went on , I wondered whether the baby was a girl and If I should soon be in a mother/daughter relationship with my own child . |
| 25 | And it was Alec that was driving and Will Will , he said mind where your about Alec , you 'll er you 'll soon be in a ditch but good 's sake he said it 's not me So they were both |
| 26 | Magyars , Roumanians , Serbs , Bulgars , Arnauts ( Albanians ) , Greeks and Turks will then finally be in a position to settle their own mutual disputes without the intervention of foreign powers , to settle among themselves the bounds of their individual national territories , to manage their internal affairs according to their own judgement . |
| 27 | " Ca n't you just be in a place , Frederica ? " |
| 28 | Erich Fromm has , however , pointed out the ways in which this theory has some fit with modern American assumptions that war is basic to mankind , and that if there is another war , it will not be as a result of American or Russian policies , but a further manifestation of unchangeable biological drives of destructiveness . |
| 29 | This will not be as a result of a concession to terrorism . |
| 30 | An art monograph need not be about a person , but can be about an individual work or a scheme such as a mural decoration . |