Example sentences of "[adj] be [conj] [prep] a " in BNC.
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| 1 | What is increasingly clear is that for a large number of headhunters in the major eight firms — and many of the more profitable smaller ones — this functional or industry specialisation is a key to success . |
| 2 | The reason for this is that for a vocabulary of size L , there exist Li-1 different histories . |
| 3 | This is that within a structure X Y based on assignment , the surface realization of instances of qualification within X ( however many there may be ) will tend to be such that subordinate items will precede , and within Y such that they follow the item qualified , provided in each case that no further instance of assignment supervenes . |
| 4 | Anyone who has heard it will declare that this is but of a piece with all the rest ! ’ |
| 5 | often this is because of a distinctive vocal sound , but sometimes more subtle devices make everyone want to listen . |
| 6 | This is because of a sleepy driver who knocked me off my bicycle one evening in 1980 , breaking my back and severing my spinal cord . |
| 7 | Leaders of the Colombian Federation of Teachers ( FECODE ) , believe this is because of a shift in policy in the early 1980s , when union members started to challenge educational policy instead of confining themselves to labour demands . |
| 8 | This is because of a National Coal Board drive for efficiency . |
| 9 | This is because on a long timescale the main effect of the glitch is an increase in slowdown rate , which is responsible for the slope in the later part of Fig. 1 a . |
| 10 | This is because in a growing economy , business units multiply and existing businesses expand , leading to an increased demand for cash holdings for reasons of safety and liquidity . |
| 11 | Tabs of Fuggles Fissenden was known for his strange custom of always leaving the Robin Hood public house backwards , this was because on a number of occasions having imbibed too freely , he fell forward on leaving , breaking his clay pipe , so for ever afterwards he removed himself backwards concerned not with his own safety but with that of his clay pipe . |
| 12 | He suggests that this was because of a dispute over the carrying of the Irish tricolour ; the NILP would not march with it and the republicans would not march without it . |
| 13 | This was because of a minor theme on which the admiral wove several variations which went something like this : ‘ I said to So-and-So [ often a general , minister or other senior official ] : ‘ Are you refusing to do what I ask ? ' ’ |
| 14 | This was because of a cosmological theory that was then very popular — the Steady State Theory propounded by the US scientist Thomas Gold and the UK scientists Hermann Bondi and Fred Hoyle . |
| 15 | This hope turned out to be mistaken , but this was because of a new feature of the situation which was barely visible in 1072 : the Hildebrandine vision of a unified administrative system of government under papal direction was the real enemy of the primacy , as we can see from the history of the next fifty years . |
| 16 | What is becoming increasingly obvious is that in a society growing ever more stressful and complex , we can not hope to educate children as though they were immune to the social , economic and emotional stresses which their parents have to bear . |
| 17 | They show an African head and the story behind these is that during a battle in the 15th century , when all the Pucci adults were killed , an African slave hid a baby of the family under her garments and fled via an underground passage , thus saving the Pucci line and earning herself a place in the family 's heraldry . |
| 18 | That is because as a racing team , Ferrari is like Britain before the Norman Conquest : a bunch of fiefdoms , with all sorts of lesser people shoving against each other for power in a small factory where there is n't any ultimate power to be had : at least not until the Grand Old Man goes . |
| 19 | That 's as against a national average of about five percent . |
| 20 | Er and that 's because of a good cooperation between the districts and the County Council . |
| 21 | It should be er finished by about 8.30 this evening , so you should be alright after then , but until 8.00 tonight , Wokingham Road at Reading will be closed er that 's because of a bust gas main so allow some extra time for your journey . |
| 22 | Of these perhaps the greatest was that at a stroke all the feckless local officials of whom Wilson complained so bitterly had been removed . |