Example sentences of "[be] [adj] [prep] [adv] a " in BNC.
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| 1 | The 100 Group appreciates this and would be grateful for even a small gesture in the Budget , ‘ maybe with some indication that there could be more to come later' , Mr Lawrence suggests . |
| 2 | The house was in need of total renovation and would not be habitable for nearly a year , but the Ashleys moved into a hotel in Le Touquet from where they hoped to oversee the extensive repairs to the exterior and interior . |
| 3 | However , he also argued that , under imperial initiative , the process of social transformation in India could not be complete without either a proletarian revolution in Britain or ‘ the Hindoos themselves … grown strong enough to throw off the English yoke altogether ’ . |
| 4 | A central gravity anomaly , which underlies part of the carbonate shelf and hence is shown as a pink area , could be due to either a granite or a sedimentary basin . |
| 5 | Epilepsy may be due to either an increase in glutamate-mediated excitation or a reduction in GABA-mediated inhibition . |
| 6 | Furthermore , it suggest that those people who had become unemployed because of a temporary job coming to an end were just as likely to be unemployed for only a short spell and then to go back to work , and that they were less likely to have been continuously unemployed throughout the following year ( Moylan/Millar/Davies , 1984 ) . |
| 7 | After 1967 , when it was no longer a separate organisation , it had to be content with only a provisional annual budget . |
| 8 | I stayed right where I was on the floor telling myself I 'd be fine in just a few minutes . |
| 9 | This feature allows the virus to persist in the environment even though its host , the insect larva , may be present for only a few weeks during the year . |
| 10 | That may be so , but it does not prevent people in our field from continually falling into the error of supposing that a solution designed to match one problem must be applicable to quite a different problem as well . |
| 11 | ‘ We 'd be happy with just a council flat but there are n't any going these days . |
| 12 | It will be apparent from even a cursory glance at the preceding chapter that with relative ease , and often with no lack of management application , an apparently valuable asset can rapidly revert to a financial liability . |
| 13 | As the teachers ' notes had to be available at least a fortnight in advance of the visit , some lack of precision was inevitable . |
| 14 | Assuming there is no change in the relevant law , the data on which the aggregated tables is based will not be available for nearly a hundred years , and we have to keep this timescale in mind when planning for the future . |
| 15 | After Downes had been driven away , Morse and Lewis walked back to their own car , where Morse gave urgent instructions to the forensic lab to sent a couple of their whizz-kids over to the railway station — immediately ! — and to Kidlington HQ to see that a breakdown van would be available in about an hour 's time to ferry away a certain Metro . |
| 16 | To be one of only a handful of boys among hundreds of girls at a feis ( a competition ) was the surest way of pulling girls I ever saw . |
| 17 | When we discussed it , it became clear that there is a wide spectrum of response to the whole issue of private care , that the response from within the statutory services tends to be one of suspicion , tends to be one of sometimes a fairly moralistic approach and this is quite at odds with the response we are seeing from the government which tends to go to the other end of the spectrum and be promoting private care as the solution to many of the problems of service provision and volume that are being encountered at the moment . |
| 18 | It does n't take very long to master shaping methods and fairly soon the shaping can be hand-tooled with scarcely a check to the actual knitting while we attend to it . |
| 19 | " Then I shall have to be satisfied with once a week at the Prego Café . " |
| 20 | and they thought , they said then it was connected with the accident , erm because it , you know , she was in such a bad way , and , the other fellow was to blame , I think he 'd been drinking , I 'm not sure , but they 're claiming off the insurance and they reckon she 's gon na be entitled to around a hundred thousand pounds compensation , because , not only has she had these physical injuries , but because she had a knock on the head it 's also affecting her mental state |
| 21 | and Clifford , no Clifford said , the lads to each other are we going out again dad you know cos oh Margaret was in , yes , and there was some other boys , the boy across the road was eating something and the boys said and Clifford said do you mind if I just sit in the chair and be quiet for just a few minutes and he just sat in the chair and had his heart attack |