Example sentences of "a [adj] [noun pl] [noun] be " in BNC.
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| 1 | For instance , a unified acrylics business was created from two that were previously in Mond Division and two in Petrochemicals & Plastics . |
| 2 | The interaction of these three elements leads to discordances and complaint , as when a frail person-s destinations are t–o distant , or when pram-pushing mothers encounter narrow pavements . |
| 3 | In order to highlight the way in which the rise in wealth and the fall in savings have moved together , the axis showing the savings ratio is inverted : a lower savings rate is represented by a rise in the line on the graph . |
| 4 | A rear-facing gunners position was installed into the aft cockpit under a redesigned canopy . |
| 5 | This becomes a possibility once a mobile communications system is adopted . |
| 6 | ‘ And here I was , thinking that a few hours leave was on the cards . ’ |
| 7 | But within a few hours Mal was suffering exhaustion and Bill had injured himself falling on diamond-hard green ice on the Lhotse Face . |
| 8 | Within a few hours Denwood was stripped of everything , there was not a soul or a vestige of its recent occupation to be seen in the place . |
| 9 | In all but a few cases interviews were taped . |
| 10 | In a few cases people are the target , usually the result of the horses not having being handled properly ; but mostly the aggression in horses is directed towards other horses . |
| 11 | In a few cases data were not available for some of the more minor roads entering a junction . |
| 12 | Within a few minutes Elisa was on the settee in the sitting room where , at last , she regained consciousness . |
| 13 | And then in a few minutes Dennis is going to join with me in explaining to you how we are going to make the quality planning procedure work for you . |
| 14 | A few yards west is the dry entrance to the caves , which novices like myself can safely probe until confronted by difficulties ; daylight is admitted from manholes in the surface clints . |
| 15 | Think the closing dates a few days time is n't it ? |
| 16 | Within a few days Caledonia was in complete agreement : the entire team should take up golf . |
| 17 | A quick spin of his ‘ Sweet Freedom — The Best Of ’ compilation album of a few years back is proof enough that he has had many hits in his home patch without making similar in-roads here . |
| 18 | Calcium ions turn on the zygote at fertilisation , and a few years back were named the ‘ final common pathway ’ in cell death . |
| 19 | One of the wonder boys we sold a few years back was Ian Snodin , to Everton . |
| 20 | It is most unlikely that a mother or father looking at a new-born child will be saying : — ‘ We have here a potential villain , who could , in a few years time be getting a living by robbery , violence or some other criminal activity . |
| 21 | Contact with the man Wagner now kindled an interest in Wagner the theorist and within a few weeks Nietzsche was writing again to Rohde to impress on his friend his high opinion of Wagner 's Opera and Drama , a treatise written nearly twenty years before , but apparently now providing Nietzsche 's first direct acquaintance with any of Wagner 's theoretical works . |
| 22 | Within a few weeks Richard was loading Marshal with honours , lands and responsibility and an incident such as this , combining skill at arms with sound political common sense , could well have impressed him . |
| 23 | For a few months Hervey was one of those in day-to-day control of the royal administration . |
| 24 | The Churchill Government inherited a highly efficient system of Cabinet and official committees , but with in a few months officials were complaining that the neat system consolidated by Clement Attlee was in disarray . |
| 25 | A few rams heads are visible decorating the tops of some of the countless columns in the building , but they seem more pastoral than sinister . |
| 26 | After a couple of hours , during which some sticks and other items were thrown at the police and insults were shouted , a mounted police line was drawn up behind the police cordon and a row of police vans . |
| 27 | A British Visitors passport is valid for countries featured in this brochure . |
| 28 | A British Waterways licence is required , costing $1 per day . |
| 29 | A British Waterways licence is required , costing £1 per day . |
| 30 | The amount of fabric fullness required is variable and although a minimum of twice the length of the curtain fixture is satisfactory , two and a quarter to two and a half times fullness is preferable to achieve a well-balanced , attractive pleating arrangement . |