Example sentences of "[prep] [adv] a [noun sg] be " in BNC.
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| 1 | But then , having thrown away the chance of greater equality , women gradually proceeded to win it back by devious ways until by 1960 there had been a stealthy but profound erosion of male dominance with hardly a male being yet aware of it . |
| 2 | With never a thought be it near or far , 'ere , |
| 3 | A railway company came to Wall 's aid and before long a trial was held under floodlit conditions . |
| 4 | A GOLF-MAD schoolboy who vanished from outside a nightclub was being sought by police yesterday . |
| 5 | The sight of it crossing the line in barely a walk was one of the saddest of the year . |
| 6 | In 1922 the percentage of households without even a plough was 32.7 in the Central Industrial Region , 33.6 in the Siberian guberniia of Omsk , and 55.8 in the guberniia of Tsaritsyn to the south of Saratov . |
| 7 | His presence there for over a year was a useful lever for Russia , which therefore replaced China as a contender for dominant influence in the peninsula . |
| 8 | The objection was based on the fact that among children born within a year of the previous delivery , a high proportion is premature since , as a minimum , about at least a year is needed to produce a mature baby . |
| 9 | The third cycle , of in-service training , should amount to at least a term 's worth every seven years for all teachers in post . |
| 10 | The luckless eight-year-old hit the fence so close to the ground that at least a somersault was inevitable . |
| 11 | at least a rat 's small |