Example sentences of "[am/are] [vb pp] [adv] a [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | PLAYER : Between " just deserts " and " tragic irony " we are given quite a lot of scope for our particular talent . |
| 2 | Better decisions result when the task and maintenance leadership roles are filled in a way that leads to coordination , thus overcoming the slowness , tangential discussion , loss of focus and other inefficiencies of groups . |
| 3 | When a whole number of Landau levels are filled in a MOSFET , the Fermi energy , EF , lies in a mobility gap . |
| 4 | The person who is out in the front teaching the class , or directing the piece of work they 're doing , they do , and everybody in it does … the kind of work we do is to do with a group of people … getting into a drama studio , and you know the set-up here ; there 's no uniform , there 's no ‘ Sir ’ or ‘ Miss ’ , it 's all Christian names , and that means that the holds are broken down a lot , so what is done in the end is to produce work which we hope makes statements which come from the pre-occupations , the beliefs , the honestly held beliefs of the people involved , whether they 're working from a text , an interpretation of a text , or whether they 're working from improvisation , doing their own work … so they get constant assessment from that . |
| 5 | The two staircases that are situated just a couple of yards from each other are another curious remnant from the past . |
| 6 | In these cases the chambers are approached down a flight of steps . |
| 7 | ‘ Some people are booked quite a way in advance and others we do n't get a lot of notice of at all … |
| 8 | Each canon has the following voice ( or ‘ consequent ’ ) only a quaver later and a semitone higher ( if one disregards the fact that the basses are transposed down an octave ) . |
| 9 | Similar effects are seen when a collagen gel sandwich is used to culture hepatocytes . |
| 10 | Visits to local chateaux and places of interest ( Saumur and Fontevraud ) are organized twice a week as part of the summer group vacation course , and a party and a disco evening are held during the course . |
| 11 | ‘ When you 're brought up a Catholic , you ca n't shake that off , ’ says Enya , ‘ and there 's that element of protection in religion that everybody needs . |
| 12 | Unscheduled Okay , this is er , it 's , it 's a diagnostic sheet if you find that you 're interrupted quite a lot over time , for you know , at a particular time , and you want to find out why you 're becoming less effective , you use this to log interruptions . |
| 13 | As a police officer , any woman who do decide to report a crime to us they are offered quite a lot of advise |
| 14 | These are offered once a month on Saturdays , from 9.30am . |
| 15 | Bank statements are supplied once a quarter for both accounts . |
| 16 | Both zither and dance music are played once a week . |
| 17 | Finally , in the Annex there are set out a number of terms which , according to the previous draft of art 3(3) , was to be an indicative list of terms which may be regarded as unfair . |
| 18 | ‘ I 'm mixed up a bit in it . |
| 19 | The first three songs on the album are tuned down a half step . ’ |
| 20 | The plants are trained up a string which is zig-zagged up and down to train it in one place . |
| 21 | They found him in robust mood , " his morale seemed higher than at Eighth Army HQ " and he seemed confident that he could " maintain " the " uneasy position " in Venezia Giulia " for several weeks if necessary , while negotiations proceed and decisions are taken on a government level " . |
| 22 | Danish lager brewing specialists , visitors are taken on a tour of the brewing , bottling and packing processes . |
| 23 | If a visible consensus is not reached , then decisions are taken on a majority vote . |
| 24 | ‘ It can be difficult to make your child take lengthy courses of treatments such as antibiotics when the average treatment can last for seven days — an eternity to a child However , newer , shorter-course antibiotic treatments are now available from your doctor , which are taken once a day for between three to five days . |
| 25 | The General Board may dispense any professor from discharging the duties of his office during one term ( i.e. a term of sabbatical leave ) for every six terms of qualifying service , provided that ( i ) qualifying service shall normally accumulate up to a maximum of eighteen terms , from which six terms are deducted whenever a term of leave is granted , and ( ii ) not more than three terms of sabbatical leave shall be granted in any one period of three years . |
| 26 | Furthermore , when horses , mules and donkeys are pastured together a horse foal may accidentally bond to a female mule and be thought to be her offspring . |
| 27 | For example , borrowings under the compensatory finance facility have to be repaid in quarterly instalments beginning three years and ending not later than five years after the date of the borrowings , whereas the enlarged access repayments are required twice a year beginning three and a half years and ending not later than seven years after the date of the borrowings . |
| 28 | The research , carried out over 30 years by the joint directors of the Child Development Research Unit at Nottingham University , shows that two-thirds of babies are smacked before the age of one , that three-quarters of four-year-olds are smacked once a week or more , and that by the age of seven , 22 per cent have been hit with implements . |
| 29 | The skylights in the galleries admit light through angled screens which are changed twice a year , at the equinoxes , and cut out direct rays to spread a diffuse illumination through the rooms . |
| 30 | PESC is chaired by a deputy secretary of the Treasury , and its three-year forecasts are published twice a year , under schedule 5 of the 1975 Industry Act . |