Example sentences of "be [prep] a [noun sg] [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | He was a huge man in his early thirties who had been for a time a heavyweight boxer . |
| 2 | ‘ The more anonymous I am as an actor the easier it is to make you believe I 'm someone else . ’ |
| 3 | The more children there are in a family the less likely it is that the younger child will have eating difficulties . |
| 4 | BORINGLY familiar it may be as a measure the rise in the price of cigarettes in the latest budget gives me open , honest pleasure , though its smallness causes me disappointment . |
| 5 | I 'm like a headmistress a lot of the time . |
| 6 | And that general report would be in a sense a summate report or a form tutor report or a er , pupil management report , whatever title |
| 7 | Any culture , because it has to retain traditional customs and beliefs , has to be in a sense a conservative institution . |
| 8 | And he felt that it would be in a sense a miracle to produce a detailed adaptation to a particular way of life , a kind of adaptation to being fertilized by bees that you see in an orchid , by a single a large jump . |
| 9 | If competence and complexity are increasing correlatively , tomorrow 's user will be in a sense no better off than his present day counterpart . |
| 10 | Well that 's the best thing , cos I 'm on a case a couple of weeks and I rang your police on Friday night |
| 11 | The draft timetable will have been decided on at the sale strategy stage and will be to an extent a function of the marketing process chosen . |
| 12 | You will not be at a level a good deal lower than the surrounding ground , so you will have to lay a hardcore base to build up the foundations to suit the path material and method of laying . |
| 13 | If it is felt that incapacity should be at an end an unannounced visit to the claimant may be necessary . |
| 14 | The ‘ Fury and the Spitfire has been to an airshow the previous day at Yeovilton , they had then flown to Humberside for another airshow and were on their way home . |
| 15 | If the books are on a spinner the front book is mercilessly bent forward to see the books behind . |
| 16 | For example , in the following sentence : Since the last time we met when we had that huge dinner Ive been on a diet the first two tone-units present information which is relevant to what the speaker is saying , but which is not something new and unknown to the listener . |
| 17 | Day 14 ) Not only has Dave been on a raft the last week but today — honest Dave , I 've waited two months for that 50 bucks you promised me not to reveal this , but it has not arrived — he got off the raft and walked around Upset . |
| 18 | I remember him being in a pub a while back and a woman saying to him , What 's your wife going to do ? |
| 19 | For the keys — often made of thick grey iron , sometimes with decorated handles — were in a sense a promise of return , a promise that history inevitably broke . |
| 20 | The riots were in a sense a foretaste of the Gordon Riots of the summer of 1780 . |
| 21 | This was a consequence of the blurring of the two affinities in the early 1460s when Warwick was a loyal servant of the crown and when his men were in a sense the king 's men at one remove , a relationship formalized in some cases by entry into the royal household . |
| 22 | Stalnaker , 1975 ) Or , to interpret the idea in a way less ontologically extravagant , a way which does not seem to commit us to a plurality of somehow existing worlds , what the conditional means is this : if our actual world were different in that it were raining , and differences overall were in a sense the smallest possible , the balcony would be wet . |
| 23 | This was a consequence of the blurring of the two affinities in the early 1460s when Warwick was a loyal servant of the crown and when his men were in a sense the king 's men at one remove , a relationship formalized in some cases by entry into the royal household . |
| 24 | All chemical reactions were in a sense an expression of this principle ; and if it seemed in some case that the weights of the reactants and the products were unequal , then the chemist must have missed something . |
| 25 | The concept of the poll tax was that the more people there were in a property the more they paid , whereas under the council tax students will not add to but will deduct from the bill . |
| 26 | When the celebrations were at a height the lady who had been rescued said she would present a piece of silver when she got back to England to the squadron and what would they like . |
| 27 | Thus the question of whether a legal duty exists is for a positivist a relatively simple matter of examining the relevant commands , norms or rules of a legal system and does not involve a consideration of , for example , what this duty really means in political , economic or social terms . |
| 28 | It 's about a pound a word . |
| 29 | So in other words it 's about an introduction an expansion and an end Now as I 've said tomorrow I 'll fill in a bit more detail on those so if you leave some some gaps there between those three sections . |
| 30 | There are , therefore , two key features : first , that the patient is of an age the law regards as proper , and second , that he is of sound mind . |