Example sentences of "be [prep] [noun] a [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The posts may not necessarily be particularly lucrative ( regius professorships are worth £100 a year , religiously paid in quarterly £25 cheques ) , but they are at some of the pinnacles of national life , they open doors and they command respect . |
| 2 | Guilt that the family member himself or herself may possibly have been in part a cause of the problem in the primary sufferer either by something done or not done . |
| 3 | The MPs are part of a six-strong Commons party who have been in India a week . |
| 4 | you know what I mean , but the fact that I have been helping him has already conflicted and he has n't been in school a week , you know , and then eventually when they get those books out and he 'll say oh I know that one , that says Luke |
| 5 | ‘ Oh , years and years ago , after we 'd been in Italy a matter of fifteen months or so . ’ |
| 6 | ‘ I have been in Paris a week . |
| 7 | Life in Takrit in Iraq fifty years ago was based on similar principles for the young Saddam Hussein as it had been in Scorniceşti a generation earlier for Nicolae Ceauşescu . |
| 8 | She had only been in office a fortnight when she gave a lecture on social services at the ICO . |
| 9 | In Liverpool , resistance was not as co-ordinated as it had been in Chicago a decade earlier , where the implementation of a quarter-hour telephone call-in system collapsed when all the police call boxes immediately developed mysterious malfunctions . |
| 10 | ‘ I have been in politics a bit longer than some of my colleagues , ’ he said on BBC TV 's On the Record yesterday . |
| 11 | Statutes which prohibit the production of evidence abroad , commonly known as ‘ blocking statutes ’ , many of which have been adopted since the 1978 meeting … , are in part a response to what are perceived in some countries as exorbitant assertions of jurisdiction by the courts of other countries . |
| 12 | Dry grasslands are in part a relic of early agriculture , dating from the days when pre-historic man undertook the first forest clearances . |
| 13 | Indeed , it may vary for reasons which are in part a matter for individual decision and temperament . |
| 14 | There are in India a variety of systems of home leave , furlough , early release and parole , but in practice relatively few prisoners benefit . |
| 15 | Therefore voluntary aided schools are in effect a kind of partnership : the premises are provided and to an extent kept up by the religious or other body which established them whilst the cost of running the schools is borne by the public purse . |
| 16 | Because Japanese firms supply the vast majority of the world 's memory chips , these prices are in effect a floor price for all memory chips . |
| 17 | It was suggested in the last chapter that analysis which tends to deal with the nature of modernity itself is always in danger of leading to assumptions concerning the superiority of certain ‘ advanced ’ peoples over others , which are in effect a version of primitivism . |
| 18 | Soon after the return of the Beagle , when he was still seeking for a mechanism for evolution , he began a series of notebooks , the M and N notebooks , which are in effect a search for a materialist theory of psychology : they are concerned with anything — for example , the effects of drugs , of ageing — which suggests that thoughts are influenced by the state of the brain . |
| 19 | For convenience , and to enable comparisons to be made with other Scottish economic statistics and UK export statistics , the estimates presented in this report are shown as calendar year values , although they are in fact a compromise between calendar year and financial year values . |
| 20 | Their productions this year 's follows from Rear Door , Split and Warp are in fact a mixture of choreographed and improvised movement . |
| 21 | Because of their implementation dates , they will probably be associated with the Major administration , but they are in fact a legacy of the Thatcher years . |
| 22 | The result has been that the majority of boards produced today fall under the blanket description of being funboards , although there are in fact a number of different designs . |
| 23 | Although the authors call them letters they are in fact a form of communication we call prayer . |
| 24 | We believe the critically acclaimed PJ Harvey are in fact a record company hype and do not exist . |
| 25 | Even if the rights being asserted are in reality a reflection of parental responsibility to ensure that children receive a suitable education ( although there is inevitably dispute between parent and state about the meaning of ‘ suitable ’ in this context ) , such responsibility gives rise to a considerable amount of power and authority . |
| 26 | Should the text be as described , I shall be unable to reconcile the Church 's utter opposition to the killing of the unborn child and euthanasia which are in essence a defence of human rights for those weakest and least-able-to-speak members of humankind . |
| 27 | Fortunately ( for us ) the commissioners of depopulation in 1517 discovered that Hygford 's father had enclosed 190 acres of arable land a few years earlier ; estimated to be worth £6 a year , this was probably all , or most , of what he owned there . |
| 28 | The new rate will be worth £1.92 a week if all £2,000 is earned which does n't sound like a lot but it is crucial if you are on a low wage . ’ |
| 29 | Entitled Challenge , it ‘ will be progressive in the sense that it understands Christian faith to be of necessity a commitment to the cause of all who are oppressed , discriminated against or unjustly treated . ’ |
| 30 | Meikle [ 1990 ] Crim.L.R. 801 , where it had been made clear that prosecutors are fully entitled to bring any number of offences against a single defendant at different times and so cause to be in existence a number of custody time limits not coinciding wholly with one another . |