Example sentences of "[adv] a [noun sg] be [verb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Suddenly a mechanism was provided by which the brain ( which may or may not be considered in some way related to the mind ) could intrude on the elementary processes of message reception and transmission . |
| 2 | Suddenly a searchlight was blazing in their eyes . |
| 3 | To check how much a paragraph is inset move the cursor into that paragraph and look at the ruler line . |
| 4 | As you might imagine my monthly food bill has gone up quite appreciably , far more than the five pounds a month just before the programme Too Long a Winter was made . |
| 5 | And also of course , a , a , a problem that you ca n't solve is , you never know in advance how long a conversation 's going to be . |
| 6 | A railway company came to Wall 's aid and before long a trial was held under floodlit conditions . |
| 7 | At one o'clock a hymn was sung to enable those wishing to leave to do so whilst newcomers entered . |
| 8 | Perhaps a couple are looking at one another in a different light — it is to be remembered that one in three marriages now ends in divorce . |
| 9 | But we may well have seen them without registering that fact ; perhaps a film is set in a particular location and we are so involved in the plot that the background scenery enters only our subconscious mind . |
| 10 | Her myasthenia gravis became unresponsive to anti-cholinergics so a thymectomy was performed . |
| 11 | It was decided to recall Blake to London in a manner that would not arouse his suspicions so a message was sent to Nicholas Elliott , chief of MI6 in Beirut , who got in touch with Blake and said that London would like to discuss a chance of promotion and a new job with him . |
| 12 | ( 2 ) The loans must be to defray expenditure incurred in acquiring ordinary share capital of a close company complying with s13A(2) as described above , or in lending to such a close company where the money loaned is used wholly and exclusively for the purpose of its business or the business of any of its associated companies provided the latter are also close companies satisfying the conditions of s13A(2). ( 3 ) When interest is paid on the manager 's loan , Newco must continue to comply with s13A(2) — this means it must continue to satisfy the relevant purpose test rather than that it should continue to remain a close company ; in the case of a purchase of shares in Target , the reason why Newco should be close after the institutions commit to invest is to ensure that institutions and management can invest at the same time and that , at that time , Newco is both close and satisfies the relevant purpose test , ie already controls Target ; management can not commit Newco to acquiring Target until the institutions have committed to funding Newco , and once they have so committed the institutions are likely to control Newco under s416 , so a structure is needed whereby management also controls Newco at this point . |
| 13 | Winter will be a problem because the whole body of water will cool ( a pond has its base temperature protected by the earth ) so a heater is needed when freezing temperatures are expected . |
| 14 | General Monk , in the spring of 1660 , led a bloodless coup and declared that Charles II should become King , so a warship was sent to Holland to fetch him back to England , where he arrived before the end of May , aged 30 years , and was received rapturously in London . |
| 15 | It was then discovered that it was impossible to put a solid roof on the stadium , so a compromise was reached in the form of an awning — a ‘ symbolic roof ’ . |
| 16 | ‘ The shelling was getting closer , so a decision was made that to protect the civilians and to protect the soldiers ’ own lives , ’ he said . |
| 17 | So a truce was declared in July 1921 , and negotiations took place between Mr. De Valera — on behalf of Sinn Fein , and the British government , so that by December an agreement was reached to partition Ireland , with six Counties of Ulster remaining with the United Kingdom , with its own Northern Ireland Parliament in Belfast . |
| 18 | So a truce was made with the Spartans ( 451 ) which , as Thucydides describes it ( i.112 ) , need not have been motivated by more than Athens ' commonsense desire to deal with her enemies one by one . |
| 19 | Law had indeed already done enough as leader to make his departure unthinkable and so a memorial was drawn up by Carson and signed by almost all the party 's backbenchers , stating full confidence in Law and begging him to stay on with a revised tariff policy . |
| 20 | Supplementing the corpus with more recordings of naturally occurring speech would have been very time-consuming , so a questionnaire was designed in order to investigate ( amongst other things ) the possibility of such a constraint operating . |
| 21 | Wood engraving was a technique which most artists could not manage , so a craftsman was needed to translate the drawing ; on the other hand , an artist might be expected to do his picture on the stone , from which it would be directly printed . |
| 22 | There had not been a meeting of the accident investigation division for fifteen years and there had been a great deal of development in the civil aviation scene in the intervening period , so a meeting was called in Montreal in January and February of that year . |
| 23 | That incident illustrated how easy it would be for an atomic war to develop , so a hot-line was set up by means of a permanent telephone link between Washington in the U.S.A. and Moscow in the U.S.S.R. |
| 24 | Only 17 anglers turned up for Sunday 's Notts AA Open on the Trent at Shelford so a match was organised downstream at East Bridgeford where there was a stunning result . |
| 25 | So a line was put in , up to Colliery . |
| 26 | Fights between rival gangs of lager louts were turning town centres into no-go areas on Friday and Saturday nights , so a report was commissioned . |
| 27 | As an employer , agriculture occupies some 8m people in the present EEC , the majority of whom are farmers and their families ; only a minority is employed on a wage basis . |
| 28 | Indeed , in the first series of patients only 72% were bleeding from varices , haemostatic treatment was not uniform and only a minority were treated with sclerotherapy . |
| 29 | Only a quarter are employed , half the proportion among married mothers . |
| 30 | It seemed that they should stop and follow the sight of the two young boys , but it was too late they had been and they had gone and now only a disturbance was left behind . |