Example sentences of "be a [noun sg] of [noun] [Wh adv] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Charlton thought it may have been a kind of store-yard where goods for the abbey were landed and deposited . |
| 2 | While they had been talking , there had been a couple of moments when he had n't looked in the least civilised ! |
| 3 | Their contents had usually turned out to be machine parts but there had been a couple of times when he had found something a little more palatable — once a case of French Burgundy , on another occasion a case of German hock . |
| 4 | Unfortunately there have been a number of cases where monies raised by voluntary activities have gone missing and , because the school is linked by name to the parents ' organisation , the schools ' reputation has suffered . |
| 5 | There have been a number of occasions when defects in software have had very serious implications . |
| 6 | There are a variety of reasons why , despite this new move , you may still wish ( or be obliged ) to bring a wrongful dismissal claim in the civil courts , for example : |
| 7 | There are a variety of reasons why people choose a register office wedding . |
| 8 | As well as distortions to the official figures produced by police recording practice , there are a variety of reasons why victims of crime often do not report offences . |
| 9 | It seems that there are a variety of reasons why an increasing number of European and North American trees are becoming damaged or killed . |
| 10 | As one might expect from the discussion elsewhere in this chapter , there are a variety of reasons why adjustment to monetary union is not likely to be spread evenly across space . |
| 11 | ‘ There are a host of reasons why even outstanding candidates do badly , ’ says Peter Boorman , the principal of Davies , Laing & Dick . |
| 12 | There are a number of areas where further work would be most important . |
| 13 | There are a number of areas where problems are caused in trying to ascertain the appropriate standard of care for the plaintiff . |
| 14 | Small believes there are a number of reasons why his flock suffers such heavy fox predation . |
| 15 | There are a number of reasons why lone parents may not receive maintenance including the unwillingness or inability of liable relatives to pay maintenance , perhaps because of unemployment or the formation of second families . |
| 16 | There are a number of reasons why maintenance research is less attractive than productivity research in general , and particularly so for marginal areas . |
| 17 | There are a number of reasons why crimes are not reported to the police and thus not recorded in the official criminal statistics . |
| 18 | There are a number of reasons why meetings tend to have a poor reputation . |
| 19 | There are a number of reasons why males might be more vigilant than females , but at the moment the evidence supports three hypotheses . |
| 20 | There are a number of reasons why His Friend Chris is perhaps not the ideal chairman for the election . |
| 21 | There are a number of reasons why these filamentous algae flourish , the two most common being too much light ( artificial or sunlight ) and too few aquarium plants . |
| 22 | There are a number of reasons why we might want to omit the subject . |
| 23 | Sadly , there are a number of reasons why Khat is unlikely to catch on . |
| 24 | There are a number of reasons why this is so . |
| 25 | There are a number of reasons why this relationship between change and evaluation deserves emphasis : |
| 26 | There are a number of reasons why many socialists have argued strongly for the replacement of market mechanisms by state planning . |
| 27 | There are a number of reasons why people lose their hair , stress is a very key factor . |
| 28 | There are a number of reasons why it is difficult to compare lexical access systems . |
| 29 | There are a number of reasons why I have chosen to express these findings in terms of number of word-strings rather than in average number of words at each choice point ( branching factor ) . |
| 30 | More specifically , there are a number of reasons why it should have come about . |