Example sentences of "[be] [adj] [prep] a [noun pl] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Clients who are interested in a Poppies franchise travel to the town for discussions and training . |
| 2 | This is the second time the college has been involved in a drugs scandal . |
| 3 | They 've been involved in a ratings war with us . |
| 4 | He flung himself into athletics and , eventually became a top-flight international sprinter ; which is just as well , for , had he not realized his early promise , he would have been stuck in a sports shop with no qualifications — which would not have reflected what he considered his genuine educational aptitude . |
| 5 | One class I proposed to visit , but was warned off as only one member was likely to be interested in a workers movement , all the others were retired from professions and it was thought I ( a gardener ) might offend them … |
| 6 | Windows makes it much easier to exchange information between different packages ; there are various mechanisms , one of which allows you to use the mouse to highlight a chunk of information in a spreadsheet , say , to be cut-and-pasted to a Windows word processor via an intermediate storage area called a clip-board . |
| 7 | Such symptoms may be present for a days or weeks and then clear up but in many , the symptoms are persistent . |
| 8 | She could n't be involved in a police investigation . |
| 9 | Institutional investors who include Schroders , Prudential and Phillips & Drew Fund Management are believed to be opposed to a rights issue . |
| 10 | his right to claim his fees and expenses , but he may also be liable for a damages claim for wasted time and money , depending on whether his actions have caused the loss complained of . |
| 11 | Should n't we , therefore , be entitled to a no-claims bonus ? |
| 12 | If the reporter , the editor and particularly the owner of a magazine or newspaper were liable to a six-months prison sentence for printing untruths and fabricated stores , then the problem would shrink to minute proportions . |
| 13 | The small number of women involved in white water paddling , she feels , is due to a women 's attitude to fear and taking risks rather than any negative feelings from male paddlers . |
| 14 | My Lord erm , er one ca n't of course draw conclusions from one market to the next , they are all different certainly is a self regulatory market is different from a futures market |
| 15 | There is little in this which is peculiar to a solicitors ' partnership dispute but with regard to the last noted remedy the court recognises the great and possibly irreparable harm that could be done by appointing a receiver over a professional firm and may be reluctant to make such an order at the behest of one disaffected partner ( see Floydd v Cheney [ 1970 ] Ch 602 and Sobell v Boston [ 1975 ] 1 WLR 1587 ) . |
| 16 | What do ordinary readers think , when their eyes catch the fact that someone they know is concerned with a police inquiry into crime ? |
| 17 | And anything that 's not on the up and up is , well I think it 's detrimental to a mans life . |
| 18 | It is common for a shareholders ' agreement to provide that the sale of the assets and undertaking of the company requires the approval of the shareholders . |
| 19 | It is rare for a police officer to witness such an event , therefore in most cases the evidence of passers-by or the driver of the other vehicle involved will have to be relied upon . |
| 20 | Lorna has been active as a tenants leader and was elected by tenants to represent them on Haringey Council 's Housing Committee . |
| 21 | That , a passion was affirmative to a women . |