Example sentences of "[conj] [adv] a [noun sg] be " in BNC.
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| 1 | Next time , you , your daughter , your grand-daughter or just a neighbour is pregnant , you could think of the thirty-odd years that the NCT has spent safeguarding the interests of parents and babies , and you could get out your cheque book . |
| 2 | I could not imagine a German , Italian or even a Frenchman being so patient in such a discussion . |
| 3 | Whether Golitsin was a KGB plant or simply a fraud is irrelevant . |
| 4 | He suffered a flashback , an out-of-place reel from an old dark house horror movie , or maybe a nightmare being offered for psychoanalysis to Ingrid Bergman . |
| 5 | Not quite a woman — because I wanted to do things with Gittel that only a man was supposed to want to do ; not quite a man — because I wanted Gittel to do the same things back to me . ’ |
| 6 | She gave that only a moment 's thought . |
| 7 | There is a rule that normally a person is bound by his signature , Saunders v. Anglia Building Society ( 1970 H.L. ) . |
| 8 | Of course , the countryside must continue to be a working landscape ; but if most people 's definition of a river as something more than just a drain is valid , then that broad definition must be consciously built into the brief of those who wield this mighty technology of the JCB , the Hymac , and the Swamp-dozer . |
| 9 | The whole is tied together by the notion of control although later a distinction was to be made between the authority of office and the authority of expertise . |
| 10 | Analysis of these omissions from the W7 showed that about a quarter were simply inflexions of words that already existed in the dictionary . |
| 11 | If it is argued on the basis of this reply that even a maniac is not beyond redemption and that given the right kind of treatment he might be able to take his place again within society , the argument only serves to show the different moral considerations that can be brought to bear on situations of moral dilemma . |
| 12 | The question is held to be one for the unrestricted discretion of the jury or magistrates who are allowed to find that even a bruise is enough . |
| 13 | I is the author , and you is the reader — although here a trick is played and the author talks to us as though we are there , listening rather than reading . |
| 14 | The result is that today a recording is seldom the transcription of a single musical event . |
| 15 | Discount stores are often self-service , and most offer a delivery service for larger items , although sometimes a charge is made for this . |
| 16 | Nobody was hurt and luckily a picture was taken of the offender who is being actively sought . |
| 17 | The ringisho ( request for a decision ) goes back and forth and eventually a consensus is achieved among the interested parties , with the president giving his final approval . |
| 18 | The lamps in the cressets gave out the scent of perfumed oil , and somewhere a lutenist was playing quietly . |
| 19 | But that day his mother had suddenly flown a warning flight , while his father rose into the air and swooped into the valley and back beneath the cliff edge , and suddenly a man was there with something green in his hand which rose into the sky above him and came down towards him . |
| 20 | Law had indeed already done enough as leader to make his departure unthinkable and so a memorial was drawn up by Carson and signed by almost all the party 's backbenchers , stating full confidence in Law and begging him to stay on with a revised tariff policy . |
| 21 | Queen 's Bench Masters ' Practice Direction of 25 March , 1988 requires that where an order is made transferring an action from the Queen 's Bench Division to a county court , the party having carriage of the order by himself or his solicitor shall forthwith produce at the Filing Department of the Central Office the order transferring the action and shall file : ( 1 ) a copy of the order transferring the action ; ( 2 ) a statement of the names and addresses of the parties and of their solicitors ; ( 3 ) copies of any pleadings served ; ( 4 ) if he is the plaintiff and has not served a statement of claim , particulars of his claim together with a copy for each defendant ; ( 5 ) if he is the defendant and only a counterclaim is transferred and no counterclaim has been served , particulars of the counterclaim together with a copy for the plaintiff ; ( 6 ) where money has been paid into court , a copy of the notice of payment into court ; ( 7 ) a statement of the index numbers of any affidavits filed . |
| 22 | Indeed , in the first series of patients only 72% were bleeding from varices , haemostatic treatment was not uniform and only a minority were treated with sclerotherapy . |
| 23 | Many easterners are still not convinced by the virtues of unfettered markets , and only a handful were in any active sense dissenters under the previous regime . |
| 24 | A useful review of some of this work is given in Anon. ( 1982a ) and only a summary is presented here . |
| 25 | He bargained in his soul with fate , promising to dedicate his life to Imperial service without scruple — if only a life was left to him to dedicate . |
| 26 | In the notebooks of Crime and Punishment , Marmeladov ( at this stage called ‘ the civil servant ’ ) is made to argue that ‘ if only a man is really alive , then he suffers , and therefore he needs Christ , and therefore Christ will come . ’ |
| 27 | If all modules in the LIFESPAN system are to be listed the user should enter ‘ A ’ ; if only a subset is required the user should enter ‘ P ’ . |
| 28 | If only a bruise is caused , s.47 is an overcharge . |
| 29 | If nevertheless a treaty is concluded , the third party to the earlier treaty can not claim that it was unaware of the restrictions . |
| 30 | Another deadly volley of canister and scarcely a man was left on his feet and capable of charging even had he wanted to do so . |