Example sentences of "[adv] [be] an [noun sg] [prep] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Keeping quiet had not only been an error of judgement , it had also poisoned any chance they might have had of entering into a worthwhile relationship . |
| 2 | I have long been an admirer of Hannah , and I have read the books and seen the television programmes . |
| 3 | There has long been an antipathy against council housing in rural districts . |
| 4 | The search for training which fits this description in the management of education is hindered in two ways : it has long been an area for tension between theorists and practitioners and it has from time to time been exposed to management models from fields where practice and purpose are very different from those of education . |
| 5 | Our belief was that this would not only be an attraction to City workers but a major facility for the millions of visitors to the Tower of London . |
| 6 | Neatly arranged opposite is an array of samplers , sequencers , drum machines and keyboards — just to prove there 's more to the man than the jingle-jangle of six strings over a pickup . |
| 7 | Below is an example from French , where separate drills of each tense ( already individually mastered ) would be placed side by side preferably in a meaningful frame and drilled across . |
| 8 | Below is an extract of conversation at the beginning of a shift . |
| 9 | Below is an extract of conversation between two policemen who are telling a third about a cot death the two of them had recently attended . |
| 10 | Inside was an assembly of metal rings and leather straps . |
| 11 | Last season Neath never came to terms with the loss of Rowland Phillips and Mark Jones to rugby league , and this season they have done no better in this regard ; the back row , once the fulcrum of the entire Neath effort , has no longer been an area of strength . |
| 12 | This chapter has been a complex one , but it has nevertheless been an exercise in oversimplification . |
| 13 | Henceforth probation work will no longer be an alternative to punishment but an alternative form of punishment . |
| 14 | But that will no longer be an option in future . |
| 15 | ‘ There could just be an element of risk involved for her . |
| 16 | The judgment obtained by O against Z will not normally be an order to Z to return the goods . |
| 17 | The ‘ Scheme ’ referred to above was an issue of Bonds of £25 face value to a total of £6,000 ‘ to be repaid ’ . |
| 18 | There had always been an inclination among ministers to preach on their Nonconformity and not on their Christianity and to end up ‘ talking politics ’ . |
| 19 | There has always been an element of surprise at the discovery that Britain is not wholly urbanised . |
| 20 | The truth is that there has always been an element of unreality in this view . |
| 21 | Nevertheless , there has always been an undercurrent of concern that the correlation between the economic performance of Japan and Germany and their bank-based financing systems might be a causal one — in which case the UK 's poorer economic performance might have something to do with her market-based industrial financing system . |
| 22 | Partly because , like any adolescent , he needed a different identity for himself ; but partly , perhaps , because he had always been an admirer of outlaws and vagabonds and especially of Matt Dillon , star of ‘ Gunsmoke ’ . |
| 23 | ‘ I have always been an admirer of Dalglish as a player and a manager . |
| 24 | What other companies fancifully referred to as ‘ corporate public relations ’ had hardly been an issue at Virgin up till now . |
| 25 | There will always be an element of risk attached to activities such as hillwalking , skiing , abseiling and canoeing . |
| 26 | Here we might note that they are also not in Edinburgh : we know this for B because B claims to have to go to Edinburgh , and go here means movement away from the place of the speaker at the time of speaking ; we know it for A also , because if A is in Edinburgh , then B's having to go to Edinburgh can hardly be an excuse for B not going to A today . |
| 27 | Technological improvement has also been an objective in state policies for the small firm sector . |
| 28 | In addition to the audit of a single building or a whole portfolio of buildings there has also been an increase in demand for the ‘ space audit ’ , usually from office tenants . |
| 29 | The civil sphere can also be an arena for coercion , through the activities of vigilantes , private armies , and mobs , irrespective of individual criminal activity . |
| 30 | Eating can also be an antidote to anxiety . |