Example sentences of "be [adv prt] [prep] [adv] a [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | In less than three years , output is up 25 per cent to record levels , productivity is up 50 per cent , unit costs are down by almost a third , and Sizewell B is ahead of schedule and within budget . |
| 2 | Erm a a you 're in for quite a good day . |
| 3 | ‘ It 's turned quite cold and I think we 're in for quite a wet spell . |
| 4 | Thefts of and from vehicles are up by over a third according to figures just revealed . |
| 5 | Operating profits are up by almost a third to more than two hundred and sixty million pounds |
| 6 | The opportunity to escape from Reine appealed to Jean-Claude , even though he had been back for only a few weeks . |
| 7 | ‘ The director wants to see you right away , Marianne , and Dane asked me to tell you he 'll be down in just a few minutes , Shae , to finish off his costume fitting . ’ |
| 8 | Losses in the Liability account for the year were down by almost a third at $15.5m ( 1991 : $22.6m loss ) . |
| 9 | On the island of Luzon , the Agta people in the 1980s were down from about a thousand in 1936 to 609 . |
| 10 | No this is , cos Marion and Matthew they like Indians and they go both me ma , start again , they like Indian meals and they 've been round to quite a few and they said this is the best one they 've been to . |
| 11 | The forecast from Chris Haskins of Northern Dairies which now owns Express Dairies and has over 3,000 milk rounds delivering a daily pinta to five million 5m doorsteps is that the fall in doorstep delivery will not stop until it is down to about a third of the total . |
| 12 | Now it 's down to about a hundred words . ’ |
| 13 | The deficit in Australia was down by almost a half following a reduction in claims costs and New Zealand maintained its excellent 1992 performance to produce an underwriting profit for the quarter . |
| 14 | It was over for quite a few of our friends and neighbours . |
| 15 | Following a doubling of losses in the fourth quarter to $8.8m ( 1991 : $4.4m loss ) , the deficit in European territories at the full year was up by almost a third from $27.7m to $36.7m . |