Example sentences of "[noun] [pers pn] [be] [verb] a " in BNC.

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1 In my own case I was given a section — a small area in the central division — with just over 300 crimes per year .
2 In this case I was chairing a " Report Extra Special " , as well as editing it .
3 Now in this particular case I 'm using a tap funnel Tap funnel just as it 's it 's Erm the concentrated acid you do n't just sort of pour it in and run away and leave it to it .
4 He just leaned on me and when he caught me with a left hook I was given a standing count .
5 let's now say that a joint event with the I P R and the E I C G I 'm having a lot of difficulty making contact with the I P R
6 Turn it down a bit I 'm expecting a phone call in a minute , but I think I 'll have one .
7 At this early hour I was taking a final look at the layout of the course .
8 At present I am doing a course at the local college and I recommend this to anyone .
9 In my gybe , it seemed that by pulling up on the boom I was committing a lot of weight to the back which , although turning the board initially , caused it to lose speed through the turn .
10 When she returned to the bedroom she was carrying a flannel .
11 Oh Linda she 's having a bit of a
12 In effect you are creating a context of knowledge into which all your reading must be assimilated .
13 In the case of a Japanese company wishing to invest in this country , whereas hitherto the attractions of the United Kingdom economy , along with the English language , which is important in Japanese investment , have been significant , for the future we are issuing a warning to the Japanese investor to be careful ; he may not be able to price across Europe in the future , he may experience high interest rates in this country and he may find it much harder to trade into the Community , because if we are not participating in the single currency we may not get all the benefits of the single market either .
14 But if we alter the length of the sleeves and the shape of the neck we are getting a bit nearer to our own design .
15 She told us ( 27 January , p 221 ) that a neutron decays into a proton , an electron and a neutrino , but in the diagram accompanying her words we were shown a representation of a neutron decaying into a proton , an electron and an antineutrino .
16 In this chapter we are looking a little more closely at speech , the ‘ twin ’ of speechreading .
17 It shows how well we are conducting the service , in what is an old bedding factory , after all , and if you 've been to Winchester lately , you will have seen a six million pound record office , with with modern architecture in a prominent position in Winchester , er , which I 'm sure they 're conducting a service , but I 'll bet you that pound for pound we 're giving a far better service in Wiltshire , with our dedicated staff , who 've been there a long time .
18 So with fifty ohms we were getting a cer let's say with fifty ohms we were getting about ten amps going through .
19 no , he 's at football they 're getting a mini , minibus back .
20 I also have to make sure when the passengers come into the airport terminal they are entering a clean , well-presented environment .
21 By letting you do this research they 're putting a additional risk on us …
22 For a young horse he 's run a tremendous race .
23 If this was delusion it was given a sense of realism in the immediate post-war world through the UK economy being clearly stronger than the economies of either Europe or Japan [ Barnett , 1972 ; Maddison , 1984 ] .
24 Alpha Microsystems has written off its Italian and French subsidiaries and will be closing them soon , citing poor margins and continuous losses : as a result it 's taking a non-recurring charge in the second quarter , ended August 30 , and posting net losses of $3m , or 99 cents a share , on sales of $12.9m , up 9% .
25 This was discussed with Mr Brown and as a result he was given a variable height bed which could be kept low to enable him to get in and out easily .
26 In the course of two years ' research he 's discovered a great deal but admits there are gaps that he would like to fill . ‘
27 In the nineteenth century it was Richard Wagner whose extraordinary ambition it was to make a complete artistic environment , in which the arts would blend .
28 cos he 's , this Friday he 's taking a group erm youngsters to Paris
29 Town 's team revolves around Glenn Hoddle he 's having a fitness check in the morning …
30 On the Saturday he was ordained a priest and on the following morning , appropriately the feast of St Peter 's Chair , the full ceremonial began in St Peter 's , when Innocent , anointed with the holy oils by Octavian , cardinal bishop of Ostia , was consecrated a bishop .
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