Example sentences of "[be] [adv] of a [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ Besides , ’ Theda added , her eyes flashing , ‘ after the way he spoke to me , I am not of a mind to hand him gifts . ’ |
| 2 | These impressions are not of a kind that occur in our daily life . |
| 3 | The scope of this section is wide , since there are three reasons why a person may be dealing otherwise than as a consumer : first , because he is a businessman ( see s 12(1) ( a ) ) ; second , because the other party is not a businessman ( see s 12(1) ( b ) ) ; and third , because the goods are not of a type ordinarily supplied for private use or consumption ( see s 12(1) ( c ) ) . |
| 4 | He replied , in pan , ‘ The questions and problems which you indicate are exactly of a nature about which I warned you . |
| 5 | But when the order came signed by the president you know , hands up , who 's commander in chief , not so fast MacArthur , you 're out of a job erm MacArthur accepted that . |
| 6 | Thirty seven workers at a world famous piano factory have been told they 're out of a job . |
| 7 | If anything if if it does You see again and then you see if you 're out of a job you see you if you happen to be out of a job then you 're not eligible for a pension policy . |
| 8 | Yeah , like the electricity , but your chickens come home to roost when your overtime goes , when your job goes and you take on a commitment and they never , the last ten , fifteen , twenty , twenty five years and they 've never ever , ever taken on a commitment like that before , when it 's presented with just the roses around it , everything 's sweetness and light and roses and the other side is n't really put , put to you , think of the worse scenario , you 're out of a job , what can you do ? |
| 9 | In that case could you keep it going for a while if you 're out of a job ? |
| 10 | They are usually of a polyvinylchloride ( PVC ) material and available in pastel shades as well as imitation pebble . |
| 11 | The loose , undulating rhythms of trees and foliage are still of a kind seen in Fauve canvases by Matisse ( and have their origin ultimately in the late work of Gauguin ) , while the colour is decorative and heightened to an unnatural degree . |
| 12 | Other observers have also detected significant departures from ‘ pure ’ bureaucracy in Soviet systems of government , though these are often of a type familiar to Western students of bureaucracy and have positive results , such as entrepreneurial initiative , departures from hierarchical principles , the development of informal relationships , creativity , pragmatism and instrumentalism ( Granick 1954 ; Armstrong 1965 ; Stewart 1969 ; Hough 1969 ; Churchward 1968 ; Hough 1973 ) . |
| 13 | At the non-advanced level , four main types of full-time course are available : the Ordinary National Diploma ( OND ) , a three-year sandwich course in general agricultural subjects , designed to meet the needs of the ‘ technician ’ ; the National Certificate , a one-year course for those intending to work as practical farmers , growers , or farm secretaries ; College Award courses which vary in length and in standard and are often of a specialist nature such as flower-growing or farm secretarial work ; and BEC Diploma courses which are being introduced by a small number of colleges . |
| 14 | In some cases , teachers in fee-paying schools knew nothing until they received a letter announcing ‘ the school has shut down and they are out of a job ’ . |
| 15 | 2.7% of German graduates are out of a job ; France has graduate unemployment of 3.7% . |
| 16 | But now the 95 workers are out of a job … the Ministry of Defence has given the contract to supply uniforms to workers in Morocco instead . |
| 17 | Never ever been out of a union er till I retired cos I always paid these fees and er yes . |
| 18 | I do n't want to detail the mistakes I made and quite clearly I have done things quite differently the second time around — otherwise , I 'd probably have been out of a job again at Sheffield Wednesday . |
| 19 | They claim that employers are unlikely to consider anyone who has been out of a job for so long . |
| 20 | He 'd have been out of a job if he 'd |
| 21 | ’ It 'll be out of a tin , I 'm afraid . ’ |
| 22 | This may be out of a desire for absolute simplicity and ready accessibility for visitors , or because other commitments do not allow time and people to be available for the preparation and practice of music . |
| 23 | ‘ I could be out of a job . |
| 24 | If we flew a perfect mission every trip then there would be no need to train , but then in a perfect world we would not need an Army and I would be out of a job . |
| 25 | The calculation of Turkey 's president , Turgut Ozal , is that Iraq will not attack Turkey and that Saddam Hussein will soon be out of a job . |
| 26 | They might all be out of a job if the Factory Commission came and shut the place down . |
| 27 | ‘ Does that mean we 're all going to be out of a job ? ’ was the question everybody wanted an answer to . |
| 28 | You wo n't be worrying then , because you will be out of a job , and every other bugger that works here ! ’ |
| 29 | York town crier John Redpath , who gained national notoriety earlier this year when he appeared on TV in a Liberal Democrat party political broadcast , is certainly glad of the tourists because otherwise he would be out of a job . |
| 30 | While a crushed Roward tried to come to terms with the fact that he would be out of a job after the Hong Kong Sevens for Simpkin it was a goal realised after four long years in the territory as its technical director . |