Example sentences of "[adj] be a [noun sg] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | erm Has that been a concern of unions , or has it been other sorts of organisations that have been pressing for them over the years ? |
| 2 | The obvious checks to this are a sense of individual identity , a willingness to assume responsibility , a mature morality and a developed sense of integrity . |
| 3 | Added to this are a couple of million pre-cataloguing or inventorial forms . |
| 4 | Following this are a retrospective of Eva Hesse and a view of Carol Seborovski 's work . |
| 5 | Had this been a function for Chedworth , one might at least have expected to find suitable tools . |
| 6 | Had this been a scene in a movie , it would have been followed by pistol shots and , no doubt , the entry of a deadly snake into the Sigmoid tent . |
| 7 | Not sauntering but fanatically rooted to their hallowed places at the end of the ‘ Up ’ main platform in most big stations are to be found the train-spotters , living proof of George Orwell 's observation that the English are a nation of collectors , in this case of train numbers . |
| 8 | Some clients are wonderful and some are a pain in the neck indecisive , argumentative , and generally difficult . |
| 9 | That 's been er er a matter which has been erm discussed er at some length by Stragg as has the topic of er house building and the the problems of er capacity for er new house instruction and other development within the , the Council but a number of erm matters er not least of which has been er the departure of two key members of staff during the period er there has er I 'm afraid been a degree of slippage and the original programme that we have put to you and which you agreed which we said at the time was ambitious er is already er showing signs of stress and it looks now I 'm afraid that it will not be er in the early part of the summer that the structure plan in draft form will be available and ready to be approved for consultation purposes , but towards the end of the summer and er er into the early autumn . |
| 10 | The estimates of a 1 and a 2 are a source of the substitution and income derivatives in equation ( 12–1 ) , which , when combined with the mean values for H , W and Yin the sample , can give the three elasticities in ( 12–3 ) . |
| 11 | Precedents 40 to 43 are a hybrid between the relief under s83 and heading L ( Voluntary Disposition ) of The Stamp Duty ( Exempt Instruments ) Regulations 1987 ( SI No 516 ) and it is suggested that the document should be submitted for adjudication . |
| 12 | Maastricht is now over ; let this be a test of the new Europe 's resolve . |
| 13 | Sister Margaret Traxler , of the National Coalition of American Nuns , said that she had told Dr Runcie : ‘ The Roman Catholic Church says this is a deterrent to unity ; but we say , how can this be a deterrent to unity when discrimination against women is evil ? ’ |
| 14 | ‘ Let this be a lesson to you , Jesse Frankenstein's-Daughter . |
| 15 | Were the organisation to make a profit for any particular period of accounts , would it be liable to pay income tax , or would this be a matter for negotiation with the Inland Revenue ? |
| 16 | Should this be a matter of concern ? |
| 17 | Could this be a symptom of a more fundamental and deeper problem ? |
| 18 | Could this be a prelude to a trade war even more destructive of world prosperity than a military war ? |
| 19 | Now granted that current account deficits bring downward pressure on a currency , should this be a source of concern for the authorites ? |
| 20 | Can this be a line from the same music paper which advised Bob Geldof and Paula Yates to get an abortion ? |
| 21 | I must begin with a coincidence which I would not dare to recount if this were a work of fiction . |
| 22 | If this were a story by a ‘ serious ’ writer the critics would pursue the symbolism of hidden latches and dark tunnels as diligently as the children pursue the gang of international smugglers discovered in the cave at the end of the tunnel . |
| 23 | Scott J concluded that if this were a case in which there was any question or threat of general disclosure by the defendant of confidential information concerning the way in which the plaintiff carried on its business or concerning any details of the affairs of any of its clients there would be no answer to the claim for an injunction ; but it was not general disclosure that the defendant had in mind . |
| 24 | If this were a study in local history we should now , of course , be looking ever more closely at the ups and downs of everyday life in Frome . |
| 25 | If this were a list of localities where an industrial plant unleashed disaster on the folks next door , that would be bad enough . |
| 26 | Specifically , we are presented with a rather bland , urban or suburban , middle-class model of family living as if this were a model of or for society as a whole . |
| 27 | By 1989 there was only one regular instance of Speedlink and Freightliner traffic sharing the same train , this being a service between Bristol and Coatbridge , but the organisation had already begun marketing its two products as complementary rather than competing systems , itself an important step forward in the history of Railfreight . |
| 28 | On reflection , both Louis and Carl had one thing in common , this being a knack for giving others an inferiority complex . |
| 29 | Indeed , Parry has recently argued that it is only under the conditions of a relatively free market that there is evidence for the entirely disinterested gift , in which calculation should be entirely absent , this being a product of the same emergent duality ( Parry 1986 ) . |
| 30 | It is possible to see Halliday 's view of theme — as whatever comes in initial position in the clause — as a reflection of ( a ) the nature of English as a language with relatively fixed word order , and ( b ) his study of Chinese , this being a language with a special category of topic which always occurs at the beginning of the clause . |