Example sentences of "be [noun] [verb] a " in BNC.
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| 1 | More recently there have been attempts to fit a transformational grammar framework to the written production of deaf children ( Ivimey , 1976 ) . |
| 2 | In an effort to regain equilibrium in the enterprise there are attempts to negotiate a settlement . |
| 3 | There had always been cities providing a variety of religious , political , and commercial functions but few contemporaries doubted that the industrial city of the nineteenth century was a new phenomenon . |
| 4 | There had been plans to introduce a separate currency , in the form of Soviet roubles stamped with a letter " U " ( Ukraine ) for purchasing basic goods , but it was claimed that the Soviet authorities had thwarted the plans at the last minute , forcing the reintroduction of coupons instead . |
| 5 | There are plans to release a further six to ten bears to build up the community . |
| 6 | Prison officers say there are plans to re-open a Victorian jail which was mothballed nearly a year ago . |
| 7 | ‘ Yes , and I hear there are plans to open a licensed supporters ’ club just outside the ground . |
| 8 | Joan Brady , who lives in Dundalk and is spearheading the campaign in the Co Louth town , said there are plans to run a peace train between Belfast and Dublin next month . |
| 9 | There are moves to get hunslet out of Elland road … in particular there are plans to build a sports complex out at Stourton … it would be perfect close to the M1 even close to hunslet … ! ! ! |
| 10 | There are plans to build a recycling plant here — that 's a sign of the times with the insistence by the government that 25% of all household waste is recycled by the year 2000 . |
| 11 | There are plans to establish a Duck Raising Association so that local farmers can participate in the running of the plants . |
| 12 | First , there are technologies using a range of sensors on board satellites and manned aircraft , which allow the precise location and identification of targets and the identification and tracking , in real time , of mobile enemy forces deep within their own territory . |
| 13 | For analysts who are designers creating a new task there may be no alternative , but any task description arrived at by this method should be checked against the behaviour of real operators as they gain experience . |
| 14 | The 600 's usual thinline profile ( body thickness of 1″ ) has been retained on the Atlantis , but the bridge is lower than is usual for a Rick and the pickups have been countersunk to accommodate a lower playing action across the body . |
| 15 | The relevance of visual communication and the reasons why pictures are designs provoke a certain response are unravelled with an absorbing ind informative text backed by numerous skilfully selected examples and illustrations . |
| 16 | Indeed , the magazine took the opportunity to address the whole post-1960 transformation : " The elections of 1960 and 1988 are brackets enclosing a period of astonishing transformation — change that has placed the two campaigns in different eras . |
| 17 | Bills are certificates containing a promise to pay a specified sum of money to the holder at a specified time in the future . |
| 18 | Included are appendices containing a certain amount of relatively sophisticated economic analysis — diagrams and algebra . |
| 19 | There are companies producing a whole range of discs of both music and special effects for use in AV productions . |
| 20 | There are advantages using a mapping strategy that integrates information from several clone libraries , ( YAC , P1 and cosmid in the case of S.pombe ) . |
| 21 | I 'm very concerned that if we do n't get some urgent remedial action to do this brickwork , that we 're gong to have a major problem down there . |
| 22 | Most unpopular are subsidies to attract a buyer to take over an existing home so the seller is released to trade up . |
| 23 | Are officials getting a little worried about the outcome of the vote by COHSE , NUPE and NALGO staff on a new super union ? |
| 24 | Anglo-American shareholders are investors holding a portfolio of betting slips , punters rather than proprietors . |
| 25 | Among those in the current HNC group , there are ambitions to start a studio , to form a band , and to pursue individual careers . |
| 26 | In experimental work on the viscosity of the alkanes over a wide range of temperature Doolittle found however that the simple relation where A and B are constants gave a very much better fit to the experimental data , than the Andrade equation From the discussion we have given it is clear that fv is only a linear function of T if the expansion of the liquid is given by the linear equation and this is only true over small temperature ranges . |
| 27 | Closely associated with Mareva injunctions , and of direct relevance to the subject-matter of the present work , are orders requiring a defendant to disclose the whereabouts of his assets . |
| 28 | The vast majority of " common criminals " , as opposed to the political prisoners in the Women 's Prison , are prostitutes serving a six-month sentence for working without a licence . |
| 29 | There are means to get a response and I 'm grateful to take the temperature of the water . |
| 30 | There are ways to clean a carpet over and above vacuuming . |