Example sentences of "[vb pp] [pron] [be] [adv] a " in BNC.
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| 1 | You do n't just put a two page report in and it 's resolved it 's probably a three month project that you need to go continuously once a week to a trial meeting or or three months once a week to a two hour meeting . |
| 2 | In September 1968 the executive sanitary officer in his annual report for 1967 said that over one thousand houses were occupied by more than one family and in several cases seven or eight families occupied what was originally a single dwelling . |
| 3 | Around Ashton-under-Lyne , for example , where it was reckoned there were nearly a hundred cotton mills within a ten-mile radius — all on the river Tame or its tributaries — we find hamlets in the 1790s with the significant names of Boston , Charlestown and Botany Bay . |
| 4 | Well there 's , there 's still , as we 've seen there 's still a , a very big group of poor . |
| 5 | ‘ I said to the grave digger , in conversation with him , ‘ Look , are you in the right plot ? ’ and his answer was the priest told him to dig the grave opposite Patrick 's but when he came along he 'd seen there was already a burial there , who was the sister Annie , but had seen this vacant plot next door , so he had dug the vacant one . |
| 6 | The people were friendly , there was plenty to eat if they 'd wanted it , and from what he 'd seen there were quite a few unattached girls around . |
| 7 | Well , er the C B I and other bodies are pressing for them to come down at once , er John Major has said it 's only a question of time . |
| 8 | Defence cuts and a changing world order have turned what was once a bustling workshop into an empty and eerie expanse of space . |
| 9 | Should the next level of output quality be needed it 's just a matter of taking the disk to the nearest bureau service and getting it run out on a typesetter . |
| 10 | The Soviet Union saw no need to remain in military terms and appears to have thought it was merely a matter of time before communism was extended to the southern half of the peninsula . |
| 11 | so that when the first sheets are produced it 's just a matter of saying , oh , yeah , I 'll edit this now in that sort of format . |
| 12 | A Andy 's got it 's just a blue one . |
| 13 | Part of it as far as I could see was in India that i India India 's actually got it 's quite a success story for development in a lot of ways . |
| 14 | Conditions like the menopause where , in the past , women were told it was just a phase they were going through . |
| 15 | With ‘ Boss Drum ’ , they 've produced what is virtually a concept album . |
| 16 | Arms salesman ; okay the Avenger the Equaliser the Total Fucking Nutter went for the legs too but still , and the editor spiked , and the rapist-lenient judge raped and the pornographer poisoned and stroked and the man who was so callous about the bloodshed in the Iran/Iraq war forced to watch his penned animals die like cattle like soldiers like cattle and then bled to death in his own private fountains of blood and the businessman who put profits before safety and not only helped kill a thousand people but then tried to get out of paying the survivors and dependants any compensation gets his own gas explosion — blevey is the technical term apparently — and fuck me whoever he is ( assuming he is a he ) , he 's got a sense of humour or at least irony why he 's produced what 's almost a snuff video effectively a snuff video if you mean brain-death anyway it 's the closest anyone will admit to ever having seen or found one even the Obscene Pubs Squad who 've been looking for years but although everybody assumes they exist nobody 's ever seen one until old gorilla man comes along and just makes his own , specifically to warn off any other porn merchants thinking of dealing in snuff ! |
| 17 | In such cases what we need to discover is the most specific head all of whose incompatibles are xenonyms — that is , a head such that , for any hyponym , at least one incompatible can be found which is also a philonym of the modifier . |
| 18 | Before an opportunity is actually found there is usually a preliminary sense that there is an opportunity somewhere in the area . |
| 19 | However , the court agreed with the views expressed obiter by another division of the court in the case of Emerson ( 1990 ) 92 Cr.App.R. 284 ; where a transcript was provided it was merely a means of presenting the exhibit , which was the tape itself , to the court : if the jury wished to hear the tape rather than rely on the written transcript , there was no proper reason why they should not be allowed to do so . |
| 20 | Once he heard you 'd been arrested it was just a matter of finding out which police station you were being held at , ’ Hall said . |
| 21 | But for the women involved it was also a kind of victory . |
| 22 | Marjorie Mowlam , Labour candidate for Redcar , has admitted she is still a member of the Campaign for Nuclear Disarmament . |
| 23 | There was a throbbing urgency developing in the way they touched , a desperation in their kisses ; the yearning for fulfilment that had been growing in her since this man had first taken her was now a scream deep inside her , aching for him , crying for him , sobbing for him . |
| 24 | A Christian feminist who has propounded what is clearly a ‘ high ’ Christology ( though it may also be a ‘ low ’ one , for she wants to speak clearly of the humanity of Jesus ) is Patricia Wilson-Kastner , in her book Faith , Feminism and the Christ . |
| 25 | For a few days the president agonized over whether to exercise his veto , but , in the end reluctantly signed what was now a Congressional rather than a presidential bill . |
| 26 | If the identification is confirmed there is now a precisely dated time marker that can be followed from its source in Iceland across the North Atlantic and the North Sea and onto the European landmass . |
| 27 | Massive deforestation in the Himalayan foothills during the 1980s had aggravated what was already a serious problem in Bangladesh . |