Example sentences of "be a [adj] [noun pl] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ You 're a million miles from that . |
| 2 | Perhaps the book Lamentations is not the book you normally turn to find words of encouragement , but they 're a tremendous encouragements to be found in it . |
| 3 | I am a lesbian women of colour whose children eat regularly because I work in a university . |
| 4 | The only thing that stuck out in a day that seemed to have been a hundred hours of confusion was that nun . |
| 5 | And there must have been a hundred copies of a pamphlet on the campaign against street trading in animals . |
| 6 | Churchill had been a hundred miles from London , weekending in the country . |
| 7 | There appears to have been a colonnaded pronaos in front with a wide intercolumniation . |
| 8 | Otherwise , some people would indeed quite literally eat themselves to death — in fact there have been a few cases of disturbed people doing just that in recent years . |
| 9 | But again I think it has been unfortunate er er that recently there have been a few cases in which it would have been better not to prosecute |
| 10 | Working with one set of tattered plans there have been a few problems along the way . |
| 11 | But there have been a few problems in trying to explain to the Chinese the finer points of a fish supper . |
| 12 | When we were there Stan was with us and he 'd been a few times to Brussels to with the Labour Party and , and he said oh it 's great ! |
| 13 | There have been a few moments during the making of Aspel and Company which have aged me considerably — but then I comfort myself with the thought that life would be very dull without any crises to get the heart racing . |
| 14 | Parish clerk Jennie Flintoff said there had been a few accidents at the entrance to the village . |
| 15 | Had I been a few feet nearer the bomb I should have been blown to pieces — had I been a few feet further away I should have been cut to pieces by shrapnel . |
| 16 | Competitively , snooker has until the last few years been confined to Britain and its old Commonwealth , but there have always been a few tables in the Far East , catering for the needs of expats . |
| 17 | And there had been a few lines from Ellen , proving that Oreste so far from being carried to heaven by an angel was firmly rooted in East Retford and had grown another two inches . |
| 18 | While there have been a few studies of women offenders , investiga-tors have generally looked upon the difference between masculine and feminine criminality merely as a reason for eliminating female subjects from their researches on the ground that they provide insufficient material . |
| 19 | It can be assumed then that by 1910 the age range ran from 14 to 43 for certain , and there will most likely have been a few women in their late forties or early fifties . |
| 20 | And I 've been a few years on the Council now and when I first went on the Council I was going to move mountains and make oh big Taj Mahals everywhere , but when you get on these things you have a rude awakening , it does n't work out that way and it works out exactly the same in this erm . |
| 21 | Maybe that 's one reason why this show has been a few years in the making . |
| 22 | But recently , including today 's CBI distributive trades survey , there have been a few straws in the wind suggesting things really might be getting a little better . |
| 23 | Sometimes , people in ancient places , in flashes of paranormal imagination , see once again the Forum in Pompeii as it must have been a few days before Mount Etna 's eruption ; or — was it Freud 's or Jung 's story ? — musicians in a Rhenish Schloss , playing clavichords for a duke and his family . |
| 24 | For , he was sure , no mistake , there had been a few flings in her life . |
| 25 | Oxygen itself has been present in significant amounts in the atmosphere for only about two and a half billion years — just over half the total life of our planet ; and there had already been a billion years of evolution before that . |
| 26 | " " There are a thousand lettuces in a pile at the top of the marsh . |
| 27 | A Earthworms are one of the best foods you can feed to your fish , for they are a complete animals with all the essential amino acids to sustain life and dietary requirements . |
| 28 | They retired a fortnight ago , , called the oh aye there are a few nicknames for them , including the Sisters . |
| 29 | There are a few things to be wary of in using the fifty millesimals . |
| 30 | While there are a few things in digital technology which have no possible representation in analogue form — infinite impulse response filters are a good example — most digital blocks derive their shape from the original analogue function . |