Example sentences of "be [prep] a [unc] " in BNC.
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| 1 | I 'm just getting now because erm erm I 've been for an aud not an audition . |
| 2 | Tax to pay on your death , none because you yourself are worth a h less than a hundred and fifty thousand pounds and your will have ten thousand pounds , free of tax . |
| 3 | So you 're like a erm like a booklet or something like that that they want to present er for say the clients are you with me ? |
| 4 | What form of building this curia took is unknown , though it may not have been unlike a principia . |
| 5 | So , Here I am with a f****** great tiff file ( 600K ) . |
| 6 | It is of no surprise to you and I to know that we are in a erm an economic crisis , and , but I think that we might be accused of being in an area that does n't take the fair share of the cuts . |
| 7 | Measurements of the densities of several semicrystalline polymers points to the fact that a significant fraction of the chain units are in a non crystalline environment . |
| 8 | There are dishonest traders about unfortunately , just as I suppose there are dishonest people in most walks of life but we like to think that in Nottinghamshire they are in a s small minority . |
| 9 | I do n't want to be in a ru |
| 10 | You 've all been and this is really addressed to H O H members , not to erm delegates group or whatever we call ourselves erm everyone 's been to a erm job evaluation H O H A discussion , right ? |
| 11 | I 've never actually been to a Grand Prix before so I 'm really looking forward to it . |
| 12 | There are very very few who are er interested in finding a gambling haunt or a , you know , television or film theatre or whatever , you know , er er by and large there are a lot of people who chat to a waitress if they 're a bloke or , or chat to the , the whatever it is if they 're girls but er in , in a , in a friendly way , who will have a drink but will not be paralytically drunk , who may watch television or a , you know , film or theatre or something if it 's appropriate but wo n't get twitched if it is n't , you know , and and by and large erm all the people we 've , we 've , we 've , we 've come across I came across before have been very very good company and it is , it is delightful to have the have you , cos have you been on a Si on a Signpost ? |
| 13 | Previously , allocation of funds had been on a per capita student basis , but this changed to a research project grant system . |
| 14 | Hitherto NATO 's naval presence in the Mediterranean had only been on an ad hoc basis . |
| 15 | Most of the debate between the CNAA and the CDP concerned ‘ self-validation ’ , the CNAA 's role , progress towards autonomy or some particular aspect of the relationship between the CNAA and the polytechnics — and the discussions were on an ad hoc basis . |
| 16 | personally do is as a mo er er for my kids that I teach is they write their homework in the back of their exercise book so their homework diary is the back you know |
| 17 | Connection to the BasisPlus database is through an ISO879 parser , a device that determines whether a string of input symbols relates to sentences in a given language . |
| 18 | Erm it 's off a er an ordinary postcard that was produced many many years ago , quite common . |
| 19 | But , and this is like a er a wind tunnel cos down between the house here |
| 20 | so you 're in the end , you have to say to him , well you 'll have to wet your pants , cos because , it 's like a bi bit longer the trek . |
| 21 | Oh he said oh I 'd like to give it all a good he wants to clean it there 's always something on the floor , it 's like a erm lino , it 's probably but all bigger squared |
| 22 | But call it departement , it 's like a cou it 's like an English County . |
| 23 | Oh it would have been half as small , and she used to tell us grand stories with them setting off in the morning with their a bottle of milk and their , it 's like a pi with them , to keep the fire going to keep them warm and everything . |
| 24 | Well yeah but it 's better tha , I mean that 's that 's like a bus signal and that 's like a ser , this one that 's going round . |
| 25 | It 's like a wah , but not a wah , if you see what I mean , and I just use that for Angela Cray . |
| 26 | He 's got a big farm in but he 's like a land but Barry is a landscape |
| 27 | ( 4 ) Because the essence of a bailment is the transfer of possession , the hiring with its obligation to pay rent does not commence until delivery and the bailee is under a prima facie duty to return the goods when the agreement comes to an end ( see Chapter 13 ) . |
| 28 | In the late 19th century , they studied bumps on heads ( phrenology ) and if you were unfortunate enough to have a large protuberance on your forehead — well , you would n't have got as far as nice chats in the grocer 's with a friendly-going-on-gullible type like myself . |
| 29 | the they day staff , so consequently whoever 's in a =pec specific position has got to have the responsibilities that go with that position . |
| 30 | Because the single electron in a dithiadiazole radical , , causes S-S bond weakening ( it is in a π*; molecular orbital that is antibonding with respect to the S-S bond ) , changes in this bond distance are useful in indicating the extent of ligand to metal electron flow . |