Example sentences of "be [noun] [conj] a " in BNC.
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| 1 | You 'll be asked to drink lots of water beforehand ; your stomach will then be greases and a hand-held transducer ran over it . |
| 2 | Right the next word then , should it be field or a sports park ? |
| 3 | You do n't need to be statistician or a graphic artist to be able to use TableCurve — the professional-standard curve fitting program designed for scientists and engineers . |
| 4 | Lord Harris agreed to be chairman and a group of academics , about half of those whom Robertson had approached , turned up to an informal first meeting at Dean 's Yard , Westminster ( ‘ Suddenly all these distinguished geezers I had spoken to on the phone were there in this room ’ ) . |
| 5 | Pray for the Mission Board , that there might be unity and a singleness of purpose . |
| 6 | It was expected to be months before a government could be formed . |
| 7 | Again there might be uncertainty when a man was rising in the world ; Edward Watson of Lyddington had a personal estate of £200 , and as a justice of the peace should be reckoned as esquire ; but in Rutland , at any rate , his income was small , a mere £8 per annum . |
| 8 | There will be presents and a cake . |
| 9 | It may be mid-1993 before a major economic upturn takes place . |
| 10 | Stephen considered that it would be rape where a woman 's permission was ‘ extorted by force or fear of immediate bodily harm . ’ |
| 11 | ICL Hungary general manager Ian Leach is currently in the UK discussing the possibilities with ICL subsidiary Technology Plc , though it may be July before a final decision is taken . |
| 12 | The Government 's Central Statistical Office says it could be July before a new system of European trade statistics is up and running and next year before the whole picture emerges . |
| 13 | It would be shame if a superficially reasonable idea was destroyed by a premature focus on poorly designed reagents. et all . , |
| 14 | This decision would have had the effect of making a software designer 's choice of storage medium crucial to the question of patentability but it was , fortunately , quickly overruled in the Court of Appeal where Lord Justice Nicholls said : It would equally be nonsense if a floppy disc [ sic ] containing a computer program was not patentable that a ROM characterised only by the instructions in that program should be patentable |
| 15 | The design incorporated the use of 4 litres of Siporax and the other media would be Flocor or a similar product . |
| 16 | It would have been no use asking him whether he thought there was a unifying purpose in life , whether it could really be chance that an animal so small that it could n't be seen by the naked eye could die millions of years ago in the depths of the sea and be resurrected by science to prove a man innocent or guilty . |
| 17 | It can only be obtuseness or a refusal to believe that can still lead the Opposition to make that claim . |
| 18 | It would n't be beer and a hand of solo then , but dinner parties and bridge games with their wives in cocktail gowns and real jewellery . |
| 19 | Her chicken-pox had turned out not to be chicken-pox but an over-violent reaction to a takeaway pizza . |
| 20 | And you eat in what is called messes so that you eat in a mess of four and the server comes in and puts a plate of it might be venison and a plate of which is a kind of erm corn and er in front of you . |
| 21 | While there may be pressure if a parent , however much loved , requires an undue amount of attention , a more commonplace problem is the effect of retirement on a couple 's relationship . |
| 22 | The visitor would understandably back off quickly and there would either be pandemonium or an utter , stunned silence . |
| 23 | In 1970 and 1971 the applicant association , representing the interests of the 300 existing licence holders , was assured by the town clerk that there would be consultation if an increase in the number of licensed vehicles was to be contemplated . |
| 24 | Exactly what causes it is unknown ; it may be virus or a bacteria , or many interacting factors may trigger the disease . |
| 25 | It is easy to see why credo , ‘ I believe ’ , should be a dubious case : belief does seem to leave something to the discretion of a trustee , and there may well be doubt whether a rather tentative expression of belief sufficiently expresses a testator 's intention that a trust should be set up . |
| 26 | Thus there could be doubt where a case should be tried ; there could be , and frequently was , dispute about the competence of courts . |
| 27 | Whether the planning is for greater parental involvement , producing the school prospectus or fund raising there needs to be structure and a sense of priorities . |
| 28 | On one side of the animal there were to be letters and a number which would identify the revenue district , sub-division and village of the animal . |
| 29 | I 'd rather be a rat and his wife than be April or a doctor . ’ |
| 30 | A detailed examination of the linen , the small pillow with its corner tassels and broderie anglaise hem and the wrap-over sheet with similar trimmings , appear not to be bedclothes but an exceptionally superior coffin suite . |