Example sentences of "[prep] [be] [adj] [adv] a " in BNC.

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1 Olive trees can grow to be well over a thousand years old . ’
2 If the leadership of educational institutions is to be effective then a number of fundamental changes are needed .
3 To be effective therefore a framework must be set up which will allow expense to be apportioned and identified and variations detected .
4 A hybrid form of non-contingent cost based fee arrangement is to quote on a time basis for all work on the basis that the fee is payable whether or not the transaction completes in addition to arranging for a ‘ success fee ’ to be payable eg. a fixed amount on any completion and/or a sliding scale based on some monitor of performance .
5 I mean I walk around the town and I see a factory or a shop or a house , it only got to be empty about a week and all the windows are smashed .
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