Example sentences of "[adj] be [prep] a [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ I 'm sure that the majority of runners have to get money because you can not survive without it , and only a few are in a position to do otherwise . ’ |
| 2 | Some are in a state of imminent collapse and in others , side passages branch off in all directions and shafts can suddenly appear at your feet dropping down hundreds of feet into the darkness . |
| 3 | The images in which researchers are most interested are from a sensor on board the vehicle called the thematic mapper . |
| 4 | This were in a school playground . |
| 5 | Of these , 700 were of a banking or economic nature ; 129 were industrial visits and the remainder were social events . |
| 6 | Adeniyi said that in a survey of 93 scientists and engineers from Nigeria who attended overseas courses on remote sensing , only 22 were in a position to apply the knowledge that they had obtained . |
| 7 | Julia Garvey 's body was found in one bedroom of the family home at Teddington near Cheltenham … the two children Ben aged 4 and Hannah aged 2 were in a bedroom next door . |
| 8 | Curiously , of John 's first hundred Palace appearances , almost half were as a substitute and , although he demonstrated great potential , he never really established himself as a regular member of our side until the autumn of 1990 . |
| 9 | ‘ I 'm afraid this is on a cash bar basis , ’ I said , putting the glass on the table and preparing to open the can . |
| 10 | This is on a par with Ronald Reagan 's dinner-party anecdotes about video games nurturing the skills of future fighter pilots , but the fatuous and the profound are all equal in Soul . |
| 11 | Now Jerry Bailey the man who rode Ah Kong This is at a press conference after the Breeders ' Cup . |
| 12 | For your part , we very mich hope that piloting centres will use all available channels to provide us with feedback — whether this is at a seminar or centre visit , via the piloting questionnaire , or through informal contacts with the piloting team at SCOTVEC . |
| 13 | So when he sees Rose staring at him with her dark , serious eyes among the crowds on the staircases in the interval ( this is at a concert ) he does n't hesitate for a moment , but goes straight up to her . |
| 14 | And this is at a time when the debate about sexual politics in the press concerns a couple of commercials that allegedly mock men . |
| 15 | The irony is that this is at a time when such diseases are slowly being reduced in Britain . ’ |
| 16 | Possibly we 're looking to reduce home help hours , but this is at a time when , at the same time I 'm saying to you , we 're having problems with our S T G , our special grant for care in the community . |
| 17 | And this is at a time , of course , when we have other doors opening to us , which we shall need match funding , objective rural Dent , and er , er for the for the for the budget to be , it to have been cut in this way , is is is is very serious . |
| 18 | A way to do this is with a switch that can direct the photon to one of two detectors set to measure different directions of polarisation , both at A and at B ( Figure 16 ) . |
| 19 | No what we said was that if you were interested to see if two variables are associated , this is for a pi squared you might look at sex differences , men and women , and smoking or non-smoking now if they were associated what we 've said is that you might for example ex in fact women 'll probably smoke more than men . |
| 20 | This is for a number of reasons . |
| 21 | I think this is for a number of reasons — feminism does tend to post racism as a sort of subsidiary of patriarchy for example . |
| 22 | ‘ No , this is for a news interview . ’ |
| 23 | However , common sense dictates that for a boy of 14 to be away from home and unsupported with no income , home or friends , is a very serious , vulnerable and lonely situation for him to be in , especially when this is for a period of three months . |
| 24 | This is without a doubt the greatest drug movie ever made . |
| 25 | This is about a factor of 3 smaller than current best estimates of the neutron star radius . |
| 26 | One way to think of this is as a type of economies of joint production . |
| 27 | What we are saying , and this is as a result of figures which are supplied by O P C S is that we are broadly saying that we will remain in this narrow band towards the end . |
| 28 | This is despite a perception by some respondents in both the OFT and AMERG surveys that the public needs to be better informed of the services and architect can offer . |
| 29 | This is in a way a companion volume , in its emphasis on the geographers , to his much earlier book , Lectures on the Geography of Greece , based on lectures given in Oxford in 1872 ( 1873 ) . |
| 30 | erm the normal disciplines that the County Council applied on income headings is that if income varies for reasons of er conditions for example and this is in a way akin to that , then the committee normally has to find these erm er the additional resources to cover tha that income erm I have had long discussions with John on this and th the point that he was putting there was er demonstrating that income had followed the amount of work perhaps has not fallen and the below the line item is a recognition in the part of that argument i in a sense for fifty-fifty between below the line reaching seven thousand erm and we 've identified savings and other heads for example the staff advertising example where reduction in turnover , there 's no effective service saving there , so these such things can go towards meeting this income conditions . |