Example sentences of "[be] [conj] [adv] [prep] a " in BNC.

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1 Sub-section ( 4 ) provided that the power to re-hear should be exercisable only within 28 days of the order/sentence/finding of guilt as the case may be and only by a court constituted in the same manner as that which made the earlier decision .
2 A small number of late-nineteenth-century thinkers did begin to warn against the dangers of pollution and environmental exhaustion , but they were as yet in a minority .
3 Presumably , the reason is that even with a word mask , word targets are represented at two levels ( word detector and letter detector ) while letter targets are represented at only one .
4 Nonetheless , the significance of Lukacs 's theory is that even in a post-Stalinist epoch it presents socialist realism as rich in possibilities .
5 The plain fact is that even in a deposit based account , unless you 're a non-tax payer , any interest you make will already have had tax deducted and you may find your money is probably doing no more than keeping pace with inflation .
6 What it means in practice is that just as a wife has no entitlement to supplementary benefit ( SB ) in her own right — her husband must claim for her as his ‘ dependant ’ — so a single woman living with a male lover may be denied SB and required to look to him for support .
7 What is surprising is that just for a change , some of this talk is being turned into action .
8 A growing number of large companies are including information on environmental issues in their annual reports , although as the Institute 's Financial Reporting 1991–92 points out , it ‘ is as yet at an experimental stage and assessment of its value is still tentative ’ .
9 IF neither x nor y is as yet in a cluster
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