Example sentences of "[be] [verb] [adv] [prep] a " in BNC.
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| 1 | By then it was clear that the relaxation of tensions between East and West had gone far beyond the détente of the 1970s , when the Atlantic alliance and Warsaw Pact had remained strong and tensions had been eased only against a background of continuing ideological competition between the two sides . |
| 2 | Er has the card been filled in with a date on it ? |
| 3 | These have been hidden here by a little firm , and I think I know whose it was ! ’ |
| 4 | Against this , J.H. Gagnon and William Simon have argued in their book Sexual Conduct that sexuality is subject to ‘ socio-cultural moulding to a degree surpassed by few other forms of human behaviour ’ , and in so arguing they are building both on a century of sex research and on a century of questioning the notion of ‘ natural man ’ . |
| 5 | Conversely , if you are building up to a competition and wish to greatly increase your fitness and endurance , the FDR should be very intense and should make up a large part of your training . |
| 6 | ‘ The tackle from behind has been stopped here for a long time , but they were doing it all night and getting away with it . |
| 7 | Railway enthusiasts are queueing up for a nostalgic trip on a steam train . |
| 8 | Instead of just inspecting records within the Input range you can define n output range so that all the records found as a result of the search are gathered together into a separate table . |
| 9 | Does the television studio , in which a group of academics are gathered together for a discussion on an ‘ academic ’ issue , count as an academic setting ? |
| 10 | Austin Brown , the ace photographer who took these beautiful pictures , had already been flown off in a Cessna 172 . |
| 11 | But you talk with a group of youngsters , one of whose friends has just been flown back from a border patrol paralysed for life ; or to a big warm-hearted farmer who tells you , as he jokes with his grandchildren , how he sleeps with his rifle beside his bed and watches every road for landmines — and you see the other side of the coin . |
| 12 | They had also been joined here by a number of " White " emigres from outside the USSR , that is to say anti-Communists who had gone into exile during or after the Civil War of 1918–20 and had subsequently lived in various European countries . |
| 13 | Theses are assigned exclusively to a single category in all of the above lists . |
| 14 | 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 . |
| 15 | In a book which was actually about statistics , A. L. Bowley once established four rules to guide designers of schedules and questionnaires.3 They are given below as a starting point for our discussions . |
| 16 | The staff and students are quickly getting to know each other and are shaping up into a hardworking and enthusiastic team . |
| 17 | Cenwulf 's dealings with Sussex are witnessed only by a grant to the bishop of Selsey from 801 . |
| 18 | I know any number of indigent dames who have found such employment , and they are treated quite as a member of the family . ’ |
| 19 | This was carried out by Sachs ( 1967 ) and it compared recall of sentences which had just been heard with recall of sentences which had been heard earlier in a passage . |
| 20 | The Review covers some 90 countries , which are listed alphabetically with a resumé of the press and general media situation in each country . |
| 21 | His name had been leaked inadvertently in a press interview which I had given and someone had traced his whereabouts . |
| 22 | And so , drawing together the threads of this obsessive preoccupation with the civility of ‘ Old England ’ which had been ripped apart by a new strain of hot-blooded and un-English violence , the Old Thunderer arrived at a truly horrific conclusion : ‘ Our streets are actually not as safe as they were in the days of our grandfathers . |
| 23 | Even its provenance had been established : a whole heap of such material — mostly in longer pieces — had been ripped out of a nearby house and lay , awaiting removal . |
| 24 | You may sense that your words are tumbling out into a kind of void . |
| 25 | Tonight was just the culmination of what 's been building up for a long time . ’ |
| 26 | The two of them had been at daggers drawn ever since 1183 , and in recent months , as incident followed incident , tension had been building up to a new peak . |
| 27 | ‘ It was heat-of-the-moment stuff but it 's been building up over a little while . |
| 28 | The pressure — it 's been building up like a head of steam … ’ |
| 29 | That is to say that they were demand led , except perhaps in their respective " manias " when a number must be viewed as having been undertaken ahead of a demand . |
| 30 | An overnight case had been placed carefully on a sheet of newspaper . |