Example sentences of "be [verb] a [adj] [noun pl] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The Regional Council Highways Department is to install a kerb at this corner and the Community Council are to plant a few trees . |
| 2 | But then came the news his immigration application had been delayed a few weeks because he 's a diabetic . |
| 3 | The task the reader is set is rather like that of completing a jigsaw puzzle , where we are given a few pieces at a time , and have to keep guessing what the rest of the picture will be like . |
| 4 | A 230 ton barge has been encountering a few problems on its journey up the River Wye . |
| 5 | I mean I had no idea that by doing ‘ I left no ring with her ’ by Viola I was doing something that must have been heard a hundred times that day — I had no idea . |
| 6 | ‘ If Ossie had been sacked a few days later , I would have accepted it as part and parcel of football . |
| 7 | The club 's former accountant Vince Farrar has been given a six months suspended sentence . |
| 8 | Ruth had decided to say she 'd been unwell , and had been given a few days off to recover her strength . |
| 9 | Nuclear power has been given an encouraging thumbs up in a recent Daily Telegraph survey which looked into what kind of country the British public wanted their children to inherit . |
| 10 | The judge said he 'd already been punished a thousand times . |
| 11 | It is possible that this funding may cease after 1997 , but as Manchester Computing Centre has been designated a national datasets centre , the expertise to support the data should remain there . |
| 12 | I have been preaching a few times and invitations are coming in , so it is good experience for me . |
| 13 | You 'll soon get the hang of it — once you 've been caught a few times you 'll suss out the attack patterns — but until you do , frustration is high . |
| 14 | Richard had only been climbing a few months , but he was as strong as an ox and had no respect for tradition ( he did n't know all the horror stories ) . |
| 15 | However , once printed text has been photocopied a few times , or faxed , or degraded in some other way , the characters can become similarly indistinct . |
| 16 | A woman who claims to be a leading sheep breeder has been fined a thousand pounds for cruelty . |
| 17 | If at any point you come into contact with it you lose a life immediately and are moved a few steps back . |
| 18 | If you are replacing a few boards in an existing floor , and have brought them from a timber yard , do n't come home and fit the boards straight away . |
| 19 | It must have been said a thousand times in angling literature that location is the key to success and in zander fishing this was never more so . |
| 20 | The trolley had been pushed a few feet away and my handbag removed from my shopping bag . |
| 21 | The grandparent could have been living a few houses away . |
| 22 | But Beatrice complained sadly that she had nothing to wear that had n't been seen a hundred times . |
| 23 | The Empire State Building has been moved a few blocks uptown . |
| 24 | Er we 're getting a few bodies back into the team emptying the treatment room and and things are looking a lot better . |
| 25 | so if you 're staying a few nights some get some saved up do n't you ? |
| 26 | ‘ You 're doing a million things wrong , ’ is Jack 's final summing up . |
| 27 | ‘ We both know the gentleman concerned and we 're not very happy about the way things are going so we 're making a few enquiries of our own . ’ |
| 28 | Oh , but the public think they 're ringing a local police station |
| 29 | They 're backing a private members bill , that 's the Wild Mammals Protection Bill , which has been introduced by the Labour MP Kevin McNamara . |
| 30 | Its twenty five years since the folk rock band Fairport Convention first got together and this year they 're planning a few suprises , but one of the stars will be missing . |