Example sentences of "be [verb] [det] a [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | At certain times of the month and whatever , I could be using half a gram a day and towards the end of the month whatever money I had left went on It . |
| 2 | Firstly , it is a requirement that public notice shall be given that an inspector 's investigation will take place , together with an invitation to anyone who so wishes to write to AIB to draw their attention to any particular aspect considered relevant . |
| 3 | ‘ Grateful to be given such a friend . ’ |
| 4 | ‘ The majority of low-paid members feel it 's an insult to be given such a letter . ’ |
| 5 | ‘ At the end of the day the majority of low-paid members feel it 's an insult to be given such a letter . ’ |
| 6 | So loud are these calls that a single insect can be heard half a kilometre away and a chorus of them can set a whole forest ringing and echoing . |
| 7 | G. is pleased with the response at the company — not only do they report as soon as possible when they 've got a pollution , they let him know about the progress they make : ‘ I 've got them so well trained now they 'll be phoning half an hour before they have a discharge . ’ |
| 8 | Who indeed could have forecast that the Provincial sector would be announcing such an improvement in their financial situation resulting from rapid but targeted investment in new trains , with the prime objective of cost reduction ? |
| 9 | Kunz admits that 1993 is an unlikely time to be opening such a venue in a depressed New York . |
| 10 | In the final stages of this journey , Ease Gill can be seen half a mile down the slope on the right . |
| 11 | His spirits lifted only to be dashed half an hour later when the hoarseness reappeared . |
| 12 | It is obvious that , if you can not handle these problems , you are not qualified and therefore , should not be presenting such an enterprise as an independent project . ’ |
| 13 | An unambitious enough menu — and what a delicious surprise it would be to encounter such a meal at any one of those country town Hôtels des Voyageurs , du Commerce , du Lion d'Or , to which my own business affairs in France now take me . |
| 14 | Conservative councillor Jackie Nilsson criticised the survey , saying : ‘ It 's very insensitive to be sending such a survey to the recently-bereaved . |
| 15 | From a reading of their own literature , librarians and information scientists might have expected that one area where use of IT would definitely have been recognised to be giving such an advantage to its users is that of the retrieval of publicly available information online . |
| 16 | ( b ) Anyone whom he has reasonable grounds for suspecting to be committing such an offence . |
| 17 | Gesticulating wildly in a crowded space , so that others are frightened that they might be struck by the defendant , is not punishable unless it can be shown that the defendant was at least aware that his conduct might be having such an effect . |
| 18 | I suppose this is erm , a caricature , a self portrait this little , I , in fact I was , really actually hilarious as I felt that , I , I , do n't actually know an awful lot about Gaugin , but if , if I knew nothing about him at all , I would of thought he was having a bit of joke of himself with this , but er , being the person that he was I ca n't image that he had that quality , that , I do n't believe he would be laughing at himself , erm , erm , the symbolism erm and conflict of this painting its dazzles me more than , than the colour or at least as much as the colours in it , but there 's a , there 's a half eaten , well it is n't half eaten , but there 's half an apple at the top and , and that was the , the way into me finally , for , for writing about this , this again is a shopping list , I call it a shopping list , this is just visual images that , that will be opened out at some point and turn it into something , and my images were erm Shoulders of the matador smoking snakes , dare to bit an apple , see one half gone and still I wear a halo intact , that I 'm sure I 've completely wrong about him as a , a person , but as the painting that 's obviously something else , erm , I found that one of the things that were he 's , I , I think probably that everybody who writes is that you 'll come to a point when you ca n't write , you stop writing , you have n't got anything you want to write about , or your frightened of writing , and I devise exercises so that , that does n't happened to me , I think writing is like any skill you have to keep doing it to be able to do it , its , you , some of it is a game and the rest of it is hard work , and one of the exercises I , I delighted using erm a portrait of a woman erm , its about erm the er still life , its the back one , yes this one here , I have , I , I hope to use this as a writing exercise I found the , the maths in this and the colour of the piece of fruit in the background , very interesting because most of the colours to me seem a , a lot less vibrant then many of his other paintings , and so they , they attracted me and have a , a strong sense of erm , er a hidden desire in that and so it , to use it as a writing exercise which I intend doing , it will be able about a situation of character 's with erm something that 's hidden , some desire , I do n't , the , not even spoke about to themselves or , or generally , erm I like to sort of say that came from those two little , just this amounts of colour which seemed to be saying such a lot |
| 19 | Underlying his bullishness was a feeling of incredulity that Oldfield , one of his oldest friends , should be taking such a step at all , and that Oldfield could have drifted so far away from him without Branson having read the warning signs . |
| 20 | ‘ You would n't be making such a fuss if you 'd been named as Vitor 's girlfriend , ’ the young man had declared . |
| 21 | I may have been being a bit selfish , but I could n't bear to lose him in that way , and he seemed to be making such an effort himself , not ever putting weight on that leg and eating as much as he could . |
| 22 | ‘ The expectations may be based upon some statement or undertaking by , or on behalf of , the public authority which has the duty of making the decision , if the authority has , through its officers , acted in a way that would make it unfair or inconsistent with good administration for him to be denied such an inquiry . |
| 23 | John Lyons could be taken to be offering such an analysis when he says that the English language is different from other languages in that it ‘ extends ’ the meaning of particular words beyond the culture-specific because of the international demands made on it ( Lyons , 1982 ) . |