Example sentences of "[conj] [be] [prep] a [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | If you are an ex-Manorian but have not yet joined the Association or been to a reunion , send for details to The General Secretary , Manor House Association , Manor House , Northfield , Birmingham B31 2AE . |
| 2 | He has never had a girlfriend or been to a disco or a dance . ’ |
| 3 | To splice a feather back together , after a bird has flown into a barbed wire fence , say , or been in a fight , you have to cut off the damaged feather about ¼ to ½ inch from the base , take a similar feather from a dead bird and cut it to fit . |
| 4 | Children may learn to pass urine and faeces in it but accidents will still happen when they are preoccupied in play or are in a place where they do not know where the lavatory is . |
| 5 | Since the majority of Umbrian towns are placed up on a slope or are like a crown on top of a hill , there are invariably magnificent panoramas . |
| 6 | Without him we might not have won the Championship or be in a position to be playing Rangers . |
| 7 | Staring at each other while having dinner or being at a party , then go home , go to bed and talk . |
| 8 | One of these elements turns up in each of one 's conscious episodes , or is of a kind such that each of one 's conscious episodes contains an instance of the kind . |
| 9 | ( a ) is receiving inpatient treatment or is on a waiting list for inpatient treatment |
| 10 | There are now two further exclusions which apply — if the insured at the time of effecting insurance is receiving inpatient treatment or is on a waiting list for inpatient treatment and if he has received a terminal prognosis then no payments will be made . |
| 11 | You can imagine what happens if a child is undergoing surgery or is on a life support machine when the electricity is cut . ’ |
| 12 | A worthwhile person is always clear : she never loses her grasp on what is going on , gets confused , or is at a loss for an explanation , or at the very least a coherent understanding of what is going on . |
| 13 | ( b ) That other person is at least 13 but less than 16 years of age and the actor is a member of the same household as the victim , or is related by blood or affinity to the fourth degree to the victim , or is in a position of authority over the victim and the actor used this authority to coerce the victim to submit . |
| 14 | In order to establish whether an employee was or is in a position to take advantage of his employer 's special trade connections , it is necessary to examine the quality of the contact between the employee and those connections : " the character of the work done " per Younger LJ in Attwood 's case . |
| 15 | The opera was called ‘ sister Chiang ’ & was about a girl who was leader in the guerrilla fighting in Szechwan just before the liberation . |
| 16 | was receiving inpatient treatment or was on a waiting list for inpatient treatment |
| 17 | Then she ran into a problem : everyone she had wanted to ask originally was currently dead or no longer kayaked or was in a state somewhere between the two . |
| 18 | It is also possible to feel , and to be told in London , that there was more to be said about the mad love than he allowed himself , or was in a position , to come up with . |
| 19 | At the same time we were organising meeting 's to tell local people about it and to get there views and to make it clear again that we were , you know , we were in a position where we were being forced to do something by this legislation that we did n't want to do and we wanted just , the alternative was if we had set a rent rise , which have been dramatically higher , I mean the four pounds , twenty five rent rise that we eventually had to agree to was higher than what the Council wanted to put the rent 's up by , you would think well the Council put the rent 's up by four pounds , twenty five , erm , and you know , that , that 's why the Council does that sort of thing but it 's us that gets involved in that kind of work , producing information and developing responses and then the secon d major area is what I 've just labelled a strategic policy development , and that mainly erm put policies that are like a rise within the Council rather than things that come from outside , like for example , because were the kind of Council we , we are , there was a debate amongst officer 's and member 's to develop an anti poll strategy and two hundred and eight thousand pounds was found to be linked to that strategy and erm , as that 's enabled various initiative 's to get under , under schemes , crashes for children in the town , stuff like that , er and also , erm to provide an overall policy frame work for other Council department 's . |
| 20 | Some people found that being in a crowd aggravated tinnitus . |
| 21 | Women are under more ideological pressure to maintain a perfect home in owner-occupied property , where standards are seen to be the individual responsibility of the owners , rather than being outside a tenant 's control as in rented property , although of course women in all forms of accommodation are subjected to these pressures . |
| 22 | I loved being out on the sea — it felt much more like ‘ real ’ sailing than being on a lake . |
| 23 | She had joined the course at her parents ' insistence and while it was n't her idea of fun at the time it seemed a better alternative than being behind a typewriter . |
| 24 | ‘ It was better even than being in a novel — this being , this fairly wallowing in a libretto . ’ |
| 25 | And she would be pregnant now , of course , no doubt about it , which was better than being in a convict ship bound for Australia , where somebody would have made her pregnant in any case . |
| 26 | The cost of rehabilitating a patient after a heart attack is somewhat less than being in a hospital bed for a third of a day , so I do not think that we are denting the NHS 's resources by providing this for everybody . |
| 27 | Goibniu will never give away anything that is worth a button . ’ |
| 28 | He can not , however , investigate a complaint that is already subject to court proceedings , one that is about a State social security benefit or a dispute that is more appropriate for investigation by another regulatory body . |
| 29 | Finally it will be bundled with a Windows-based graphical client , something that Pick has long shied away from , but which it now accepts that is on a number of users ' ‘ tick-boxes ’ . |
| 30 | Consider , for example , a particle that is at a point A at a certain time . |