Example sentences of "[pos pn] [noun sg] [am/are] [verb] a " in BNC.
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| 1 | Lawyers acting on their behalf are seeking a judicial review . |
| 2 | When she was rescued by the local authorities and given her present welfare flat , she asked that her address be kept a secret . |
| 3 | In its membrane are embedded a variable number of cervical sclerites . |
| 4 | ‘ I do n't mind telling you , but keep it under your chapeau ’ — Amaranth shuddered slightly ‘ that Carole and her crowd are having a little meeting early this evening to work out their tactics . |
| 5 | He would unquestionably have recommended that her mother be given a hospital bed , and long before this . |
| 6 | Each defendant and his witness are given a limited time — say fifteen minutes altogether — in the box . |
| 7 | Salim is an Aeneas who makes it to London , where those of his blood are founding a way of life , and he has his Dido both in Yvette and in Metty . |
| 8 | yet the practical results of his thinking are attracting a growing world-wide audience . |
| 9 | Mr Lapointe and his secretariat are facing a mounting barrage of accusations , most of them linking the secretariat 's allegedly biased lobbying against the ban with the money being given by Far East wildlife traders to the organisation 's ivory monitoring unit . |
| 10 | So Dr Palcic and his team are developing a second test to help decide who might benefit from their first test — they are trying to determine whether a patient might have signs of lung cancer by looking at cells coughed up in his sputum . |
| 11 | Despite her attempts to have him killed , husband George Taylor pleaded with the Judge that his wife be spared a jail sentence . |
| 12 | Can you put your hand on your heart and say that you and your team are providing a first-class service to them ? |
| 13 | " Some of our lot are suggesting a story from somebody . |