Example sentences of "[be] [prep] a [adj] [noun pl] " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ Did you come here , ’ mumbled Dottie , very close , ‘ to ask me fatuous questions the police have already been through a hundred times , or for other reasons ? ’ |
| 2 | He was , as golf professionals had been for a hundred years , a serf . |
| 3 | In July 1944 Attlee presented a paper on ‘ Foreign Policy and the Flying Bomb ’ , which pointed out that it would henceforth be impossible for Britain to rely upon the English Channel as a defence against her enemies : From our point of view , Norway , Denmark , Holland and France are necessary outposts of Britain and , in as much as Britain is now as she has been for a hundred years a shield for the U.S. , outposts of America as well . |
| 4 | what your look , same with your letter forage , I think mostly we were taught letter formation , which we have n't been for a few years now |
| 5 | Has n't been for a few years . |
| 6 | Fosdyke was all alone , had been for a few days since I had dinner with him in fact . ’ |
| 7 | Things will seem far worse than they actually are for a few days — but once the drama dies down you 'll see you 're in a fine position after all . |
| 8 | I once saw a painted picture of something like it in the Rockefeller Centre — must have been worth a million dollars or more — but we never had anything like that , so that mountain was my art , something beautiful and eternal . |
| 9 | My memories of cardiac teaching rounds are of a dozen students queueing to listen to a murmur while the registrar stood at the end of the bed swinging a stethoscope and staring out of the window . |
| 10 | There 's a dilemma of who 's taking decisions about what and should the troops on the ground who may be involved , could be involved in fighting following an air strike erm are not under a NATO flag , they 're under a United Nations flag , so it is quite a complex situation and a very delicate one to handle . |
| 11 | To imagine what it would have been like a hundred years ago , when men were swinging over the cliffs on ropes made of horsehair , and climbing the soaring pinnacles of Stac Lee and Stac an Armin to harvest the gugas , the young gannets which would ensure they survived the next winter . |
| 12 | The Thermai is only 80 metres from the centre of town and both Old Rhodes Town and the nightlife are within a few minutes walk . |
| 13 | Many of these organisations are within a few minutes of the King 's Buildings . |
| 14 | Those coming in from the sea do the same thing in reverse , leaving the wheel with a sideways dive when they are within a few yards of their nest-hole . |
| 15 | ‘ Yeah , and she 's been in a few times since . |
| 16 | He 's been in a few things . |
| 17 | What I mean by that is , when you get back to your branches , you will go onto further training programmes in branch training , developing your practice training , so each branch will vary how they sort of co-ordinate this , but let's say , we 've been in a few months now , and twice a week we 've got to go in for training . |
| 18 | It looks as though it 's been in a few scrapes before . ’ |
| 19 | However , Saturday 's setback at Celtic Park marked the first time in a year Goram had been in a losing Rangers team ( he was injured when Dundee won at Dens Park in August ) , and the assured nature of his performances at domestic , European and international level have helped gather an army of voters who could make the goalkeeper the first since Hamish McAlpine ( in 1985 ) to win the Scottish Football Writers ' Association Player of the Year award . |
| 20 | People who 've never even been within a thousand miles of Koraloona have heard of Mollie Green 's place . ’ |
| 21 | Um , said Tor , but then went on to explain that only a week or two before he had been within a hundred metres or so of a school of orca . |
| 22 | In terms of actual support , I think for me personally it 's been within a gay men 's group . |
| 23 | Eventually ( it would later be established it must have been within a few minutes of six-thirty ) the car slowed to a halt . |
| 24 | In a management buy-out , the managers are in a unique insiders ' position . |
| 25 | Though a picture may sometimes be worth a thousand words , this may not be true when it comes to drawing out facts from figures . |
| 26 | A picture may be worth a thousand words but you 'll still need some text to explain what the pictures are about ! |
| 27 | Although a picture may be worth a thousand words the reader still needs to know what the picture relates to . |
| 28 | ‘ Supposed to be worth a million pounds , ’ his voice sank to a whisper . |
| 29 | Well I mean that 'll that might be worth a few marks . |
| 30 | The title is reckoned to be worth an extra 50,000lbs in sales , so competition will be hot . |