Example sentences of "[be] [verb] [indef pn] [prep] a " in BNC.
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| 1 | The Irish are seeing something of a cricketing revival … it 's the fastest growing sport in their home country , and they feel confident about taking on the World 's best . |
| 2 | Twin humbucker guitars are enjoying something of a rebirth at present , thanks mainly to the players who are treading that particular path ( I 'm thinking of Nuno , Satriani & co ) and having played Strat derivatives for so long , it 's easy to forget just how good a neck humbucker sounds at full throttle . |
| 3 | Erm Eric in , in Manchester from where he comes is extremely well known obviously within the G M B but his record he 's one of the individuals in the trade union movement that I think are becoming somewhat of a rarity these days I know that many of us when we first started in the movement were very easily able , and , and very relaxed about combining trade union and political activities together but of course as time goes on and , you do tend to become more involved in the one and the other , because of course it 's all time-consuming but I can honestly say that in Eric 's case he 's never deviated one iota from his commitment both to the trade union , this union in particular , and to the Party never deviated at all . |
| 4 | Hereford are staging something of a mini revival this year inching their way out of the gloom at the bottom of division three . |
| 5 | This suggested they had been attacked one at a time , and taken by surprise , which reinforced the verdict that two and not four men were involved . |
| 6 | At school , she had been considered something of a ‘ character ’ — a freak by her enemies , an eccentric by those loyal to her , or touched by the high voltage of her need . |
| 7 | The well-known argument is that the woman 's refusal to concede to sexual intercourse is totally unjustified , since the two bodies have in fact already been made one by a flea , who has been sucking blood from them both . |
| 8 | Miami 's new-born Murk label that has been causing something of a stir on these shores of late , enough at least for Network to wet their oars and row straight for a licensing deal that sees three of the label 's best tracks to date brought together for a sampler EP . |
| 9 | You 're becoming nothing but a delinquent ! ’ |
| 10 | You 're eliminating one at a time . |
| 11 | And the way the management work in here , I can say is they , aim they 're promoting anybody to a chargehand they usually promote somebody that 's actually no threat to themselves . |
| 12 | if we can resolve it with cos then you 're getting summat on a different style of thinking to that , you know , I know Fred does n't wan na be involved but then you 've always got somebody , well we 'll have to go and see Fred first . |
| 13 | An hour on the workbench could make them play quite reasonably , but do n't imagine you 're getting anything like a real Rickenbacker for a bargain price ; they 've got the looks , but that 's about all . |
| 14 | With the emergence of low-cost presentation graphics packages for both the Macintosh and the PC , and the latter has also been experiencing something of a resurgence , another fundamental change in the market has been occurring . |
| 15 | The remedy may change , or in acute injuries more than one remedy may be required , but in classical homoeopathy the remedies are administered one at a time and not as a mixture . |
| 16 | Hereford are suffering something of a flu epedemic at the moment . |
| 17 | We may now be seeing something of a revival of the reformative approach . |
| 18 | And now I find myself eating tomatoes in the winter , which must be considered something of a luxury . |
| 19 | If anaphors were to be resolved one at a time and left to right , nothing would yet have been done about ‘ him ’ , so the configurational contribution would be missed and reasoning would be inevitable . |
| 20 | If , unusually , there is no time pressure , the targets can be approached one at a time in order of their relative attractiveness . |
| 21 | The VPP500 system features a series of 1.6 GigaFLOPS vector processors , in parallel configurations of from seven to 222 , offering performances of 11.2 to 355 GFLOPS — the nodes can be added one at a time . |
| 22 | If half the records on a track have to be moved one at a time , and a device revolution is required for each movement , additions can take a great deal of time . |
| 23 | Beechams Pills could be bought one at a time in a spill for a penny . |
| 24 | THINGS have deteriorated so far and so fast at Higgs & Hill that shareholders were lucky to be offered anything as a final dividend . |
| 25 | The Yorkshire outfit have been producing some good results in their own division , and have lost only one of their eight league games so far , but we saw the big gulf in scoring power between some of the first and lower division clubs in the county competitions and York look to be facing something of a Mission Impossible . |
| 26 | For this reason , cards should be exchanged one at a time and with some care . |
| 27 | In plain English it is more important , in an administrative context , to be seen to be doing something about a politically generated agenda of problems than it is to examine critically the agenda itself . |
| 28 | The thing is they wo n't be going shopping , they wo n't be doing anything for a long time and she 's |
| 29 | Bearing in mind that I 'm taking one in a fortnight 's time . |
| 30 | if it was the national advertising campaign and knowing and er basically then , I would n't of thought I 'd be talking anything above a hundred thousand , I would and , and I ca n't remember the exact figure but given |