Example sentences of "[det] be [prep] a [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | But this is precisely the situation used in our telephone work , and the dialogues resulting from this are of a different nature . |
| 2 | Some are on a twenty-five-year hold , some fifty … |
| 3 | Some are in a wide range of more traditional vocational subjects such as Divinity , Medicine , Law . |
| 4 | Some are in a bad way so we share what we have . |
| 5 | It may be that different accounting treatments lead to different ways of calculating cost ; this is to a considerable extent mitigated by accounting standards but can not be totally ruled out . |
| 6 | They fall squarely into the category requiring prevention but long-term effects of one offence , if this is of a minor nature , are far from inevitable . |
| 7 | If payable it will be assessed on the difference between the purchase price of the new house if this is of an appropriate category and the estimated ( lower ) price they would have paid in their existing location for a broadly equivalent house . |
| 8 | Finally a heavy press crushes out the remainder of the must , but this is of an inferior quality . |
| 9 | This is on a dangerous bend where pedestrians have to walk on the carriageway . |
| 10 | This is on a square plan and dates from the ninth century . |
| 11 | This is on an increasing scale of 1 to 5 where a rating of 3 signifies that the majority of the research is of national significance . |
| 12 | About 20% of the land is designated as Zone Defavorisee hors montagne and this is at a lower elevation of 200–400m , concentrated mainly in the north of Auvergne . |
| 13 | However , all this is at a given level of effort ; the final stage of the manager 's problem is On equating this first-order condition to zero , using result ( 4.8 ) that unc we have : unc hence |
| 14 | An effective way to do this is with a peel-off paint stripper . |
| 15 | The expert way to do this is with a trained eye inspecting visually from the roof and fire opening , followed by a test using a special smoke-producing pellet to check for leaks . |
| 16 | This is for a moderate rate of descent . |
| 17 | This is for a straight lecture , you know sometimes people stand up to give you a lecture . |
| 18 | And this is for a terraced houses that used pay thirty five to forty pound a year . |
| 19 | ‘ This is for a sick relative , ’ I told him . |
| 20 | This is about a young boy who is trying to avoid going to the dentists so he comes up with a series of excuses to give his mother . |
| 21 | There are too many schools where the ‘ management style ’ approaches this extreme , even if this is as a perceived necessity forced upon an unwilling or unwitting head/governing body by the pressures and pace of change . |
| 22 | The point is only that this is as a direct result of the accounting method adopted rather than any policy decision . |
| 23 | This is despite a tiny cellar which means deliveries are made up to five times a week . |
| 24 | This is despite a major reduction in the proportion of calls performed by deputising services , the use of which had been said to be the main factor increasing the numbers of night visits . |
| 25 | This is despite a stinking row after the perfume industry cut off supplies to Superdrug for slashing scent prices by nearly a third . |
| 26 | This is in a twelve hour so for a daily flow we 've This was a surveying period about twenty percent for to these for a full day . |
| 27 | This is in a fine state of preservation and still retains two male figures carved in the tufa forming the head of the side parapets of the auditorium ( 147 and PLATE 19 ) . |
| 28 | But this is in a different league from a full-size Pressurized Water Reactor . |
| 29 | We had a job which was involved in loading up the day before this is in a big van , in the previous job I I had , er er a large van fu filling it full of a houseful of furniture in the afternoon , sp spending two or three hours taking it out of store , and we were asked to deliver it to an address in New Brighton . |
| 30 | However , even in the present stage of battery technology and without recourse to any of the many new battery types under test at present it is estimated that due to the preponderance of short trips ( this is in an industrialised country equivalent in size to the UK ) 70% of present fuel consumption in cars could be substituted by use of battery vehicles . |