Example sentences of "[noun sg] be [verb] [prep] a " in BNC.
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| 1 | So yes the answer to the question is yes there is a budget there is a budget and we need to do things now one of the problems could be the budget is n't sufficient to cover all that needs doing so I think you 'll find that the building been built at a certain time there a comes a time you 've got plan a maintenance programme which we have things need to be done . |
| 2 | Whales enmeshed in a drift-net are condemned to a slow death from starvation or suffocation . |
| 3 | For example , in the Amerindian language Cubeo , the main protagonists and their actions in a story are tagged by a particle in such a systematic way that a concise and accurate precis is obtained if just those sentences containing the particle are extracted ( see Longacre , 1976a for many such cases in this and other Amerindian languages ; and Anderson & Keenan , in press , re the so-called fourth person category in Algonquian languages , really a discourse-deictic category ) . |
| 4 | Since the Board are entering into a Scheme for adult education in co-operation with the LEA in Cambridgeshire much in the same way ( as ) had been done in Bedfordshire it seems as if it might be best for the Board to be recognised as the Responsible Body for this type of course . |
| 5 | Paper rolls for printing are delivered to a 1,200 sq m storage area at the lower level and finished newspapers are packed into bundles and dispatched by lorry from the top level . |
| 6 | Elsewhere I argue that transactions among the Buid are dominated by a principle not recognized by Polanyi , and that Sahlins ' reduction of Polanyi 's three categories to a single continuum is even more misleading . |
| 7 | Minor concentrations of copper , molybdenum , tin , tungsten and uranium are associated with a number of mineralised Caledonian calc-alkaline porphyritic granites in Scotland , Northern England and Wales . |
| 8 | And when the used rods of uranium are put through a chemical process designed to separate unpleasant waste from still usable fuel , as happens at the Sellafield plant in Cumbria , a whole range of radioactive pollutants is generated . |
| 9 | Restart facilities for off-line processes should be such that no more than four hours of normally processed text are lost as a result of a malfunction of equipment or software . |
| 10 | Traditionally , and with good reason , large amounts of text are set in a serifed face ( that 's one with the little tick marks at the ends of the letters ) and headings are set in a typeface that does n't have them ; a sans serif face . |
| 11 | The reason many copies of any one fragment of text are found on a disc is that if , like all my chapters , the text has been edited and re-edited many dozens of times , each edit will result in a new saving to the disc of ( almost ) the same text . |
| 12 | From psychoanalysis , aesthetics and obstetrics to housework , children 's games , munitions factories and pinball machines , images which hold the screen for an instant are woven into a rich critique of production line society ’ . |
| 13 | Most of the organic components of bile , namely bile acids , lecithin , bilirubin , and cholesterol are absorbed to a limited extent by the gall bladder mucosa . |
| 14 | Only one main branch is permitted , along which shoots above branch level are spaced at a minimum of 15 centimetre intervals . |
| 15 | JOE HARRIOTT Memories of the great altoist are evoked by a quintet featuring three members of his band : trumpeter Shake Keane , bassist Coleridge Goode , and drummer Bobby Orr . |
| 16 | Any mail messages which already exist in LIFESPAN for the specified user are formatted into a * . |
| 17 | Marketing any new product is fraught with dangers — the vast majority are defeated by a lack of consumer awareness . |
| 18 | The attempt to demonstrate how a close linguistic analysis can explain a text 's meaning and effect only partially succeeds in this case , since the thoroughness and precision of the description are undermined by a failure to discriminate between features of different significance within the poem , and by a general neglect of the socio-cultural context in which the text is embedded . |
| 19 | Two years ago , such farms were told to be self-sustaining , self- financing , many state subsidies were withdrawn , yet here today they 're still working to a central plan which dictates how much they produce and how much they 're paid for it , so decades of mismanagement are compounded by a lack of funds . |
| 20 | Although the three years of the course are planned as a coherent whole , themes are developed and elaborated upon as the course proceeds . |
| 21 | As long as the price and the product differentiation are perceived in a consistent or positive light , then the extra price will be viable . |
| 22 | AMERICAN ring doughnuts from The Delicious Donut Co are made from a flour which is said to give them a light , fluffy , and non-greasy consistency . |
| 23 | ACT Financial Systems Ltd and Hewlett-Packard Co are working on a Unix version of ACT 's Digital Equipment Corp VMS-based credit risk analysis system , Limits . |
| 24 | In this type of study , trend values of consumption and income are collected over a long period of time so that most cyclical fluctuations are smoothed out . |
| 25 | Access to external services and to Brunel University are accessed via a communications processor . |
| 26 | Researchers from Washington State University are embarking on a three-year project to measure the amount of methane produced by belching cows . |
| 27 | The Institute of Terrestrial Ecology and Reading University are embarking on a three-year study on the effects of pesticides on wildlife . |
| 28 | Again a scientist stands at the point which has at present been reached within a long tradition of enquiry . |
| 29 | Very rarely has such experience been shared amongst a wider group of community partners . |
| 30 | Displays of this kind are found in a wide variety of birds , but they are most common in the ground-nesting species . |