Example sentences of "[be] [verb] [adv] a [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | One of devices recovered after the second tip-off had been hidden only a short distance from Shell offices at Hill of Rubislaw , sealed off after the morning bomb scare . |
| 2 | PA are building up a definitive database of companies and contacts interested in ESPRIT CIME . |
| 3 | If the need for more labour intensive economic activities is recognised , and if the full social costs of continuing rural decline and urban expansion are calculated then a strong case can be made for more determined political action and considerably increased government investment in many DRAs . |
| 4 | Once more , we are given only a masculine point of view . |
| 5 | The party had been roping down a hanging glacier . |
| 6 | * South Korea and Russia are to carry out a joint survey to assess the damage caused by Soviet dumping of radioactive waste in the Sea of Japan . |
| 7 | BRITISH eye surgeons are to carry out a pioneering implant operation which could mean short-sighted people throwing away their glasses . |
| 8 | BRITISH eye surgeons are to carry out a pioneering implant operation which could mean short-sighted people throwing away their glasses . |
| 9 | The popular budget and mid-priced range from EB seems not to be with us any more , alas , but the importers are bringing in a good looking range from Gravity which they hope will take over from where EB left off — prices from about £45 to £55 . |
| 10 | ‘ It is difficult for me to find the limits of the car yet because I am given only a limited number of laps and I do n't know the circuit . ’ |
| 11 | IT 'S hard enough for a woman to discover her husband 's been knocking off a naive girl in the typing pool . |
| 12 | Managing Director Stuart Hyslop said the posters with slogans on issues including the poll tax , crime , health and employment are carried on a commercial cash basis and no other party has approached the company to book space . |
| 13 | A few minutes later you are walking up a short wooden ladder , round the corner and you find a 200ft waterfall — bridges cross the torrent twice before you reach the top and continue along the path . |
| 14 | I am driving along a narrow main road , used by fast-moving traffic , with my children in the back seat . |
| 15 | The engineering unions have been seeking either a 35-hour week or a two-hour reduction . |
| 16 | There had been windows on the westerly side of the school , but they appeared to have been built up a long time , judging from the appearance of the workmanship on the outside . |
| 17 | The two ‘ half-pictures ’ are transmitted down a single cable TV channel with normal bandwidth . |
| 18 | Let us further assume that the charge distribution is uniform and denote the charge per unit length by pl ( we are defining thereby a linear charge density of dimension coulomb per metre ) . |
| 19 | A Liverpool City Council spokesman said : ‘ He has been granted both a disabled facilities grant and mandatory renovation grant . ’ |
| 20 | MOTORISTS in the North-East are snapping up a new device in the battle to beat car crime . |
| 21 | I am saving up a full account until our return , for it is impossible for me to give it in writing . |
| 22 | Garden Management Group are to set up a small IT panel to monitor horticultural computing . |
| 23 | I took , I took the cheque around on Monday , I had the , the last appointment on Friday and erm since I 've had the abscess , the tooth that 's got a crown on top , I think it 's been pushed up a little bit and my top teeth , the first two keeps catching was this |
| 24 | The Netherlandish and Dutch paintings are hung on a dull green background , the Spanish and French on light grey . |
| 25 | One of his achievements since joining Guy 's in 1985 has been to set up a full fertility unit . |
| 26 | THE MEN 'S MOVEMENT NEEDS MORE THRUST , MORE GRASP , IF WE 'RE TO WHIP UP A STIFF FRONT TO MEET THE FEMINIST POSITION AND LAY THE GHOST OF LIMP WET LIBERALISM ! |
| 27 | You 're becoming quite a leading man in this crew , George Merry . |
| 28 | In fact er just before I retired they were saying , you know , my job 's obsolete and that , and then and says oh we 're opening up a big depot in Japan . |
| 29 | You 're opening up a whole new can of beans as to why he married this young kind of Lolita-ish girl . |
| 30 | We 're picking up a strange noise on the sonar . |