Example sentences of "it [vb mod] be [prep] a [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | If an abstract is included , it may be on a separate loose sheet and can be used to give in some detail the contents and argument of the report to those who do not require to read the whole text . |
| 2 | It may be on a one-to-one basis or with a couple where one partner has impaired hearing . |
| 3 | That was great and started a whole year of being in America for me , which was seeing David as a major star and also for myself , experiencing life as it should be as a major star , with your cars and people looking after you and the record company being polite to you rather than treating you like shit and not working . |
| 4 | It was decided in the spring of 1892 to repair and rebuild the tower and as the Vicar in his letter puts it " To rebuild as an ornament to the village with a good clock in it , to make the fabric itself what it should be for a wealthy parish such as ours " . |
| 5 | I saw him move the mat so it should be on a slippery bit and then sort of pretend to slip on it , and then start to shout . ’ |
| 6 | That was not indexation but a recognition of the fact that , if an exemption is to be made , it should be at a sensible and workable level . |
| 7 | Does the Minister agree that , as Northern Ireland has the fewest days lost through stoppages or industrial action and is governed by the same industrial relations legislation as Great Britain , it should be in a special position to attract inward investment ? |
| 8 | The main consideration is that it should be in a sunny , sheltered position . |
| 9 | If this man had another career it must be as a professional singer . |
| 10 | To be credible , it must be in a firm ‘ s best interest to carry out the threat at the time it is called upon to do so . |
| 11 | It might be for a certain amount of time while they do so and so and then , what can he do ? |
| 12 | Every Buddhist boy became a monk for a period , it might be for a lent , or a year or two , it might continue for a lifetime or be as short as a week . |
| 13 | Thus the intrinsic value of something follows from its intrinsic nature , so that nothing exactly like it could be of a different intrinsic value , while yet it is not one of the features one could properly list in indicating what something else would have to be like to be just like this thing . |
| 14 | It would be worth a little temporary gossip to see how he did it . |
| 15 | When Nenna was not in the witness box , she sometimes saw herself getting ready for an inspection at which Edward , or Edward 's mother , or some power superior to either , gave warning that they might appear — she could only hope that it would be on a falling tide — to see where she could be found wanting . |
| 16 | If he ever left Everton now it would be for a modest fee . |
| 17 | Priced £18.95 , the book is aimed to be as useful to a PC novice as it would be to a seasoned user . |
| 18 | While no single Member State could unilaterally opt out of farm subsidies , a Government pressing the case for agricultural aid to be aimed solely at those who need it would be in a strong position to eventually win the day in a Community facing constant budget cuts . |
| 19 | Your time is much more limited than it would be in a real case , and you can not afford to waste it ; on the other hand , it is no use gabbling what you have to say , for then it will not be understood . |
| 20 | Alternatively , we may say that the plates are so close to each other ( as it would be in a practical diode ) that the electron beam has n't got a chance to spread . |
| 21 | Yes to Lochinver yes and that same steamer would be calling in Kinlochbervie and all the villages and this traveller for Hamiltons would be going round beforehand and you would be getting a hundred weight of sugar and tea it would be in a big tea box er er probably er er Ceylon coming from Ceylon but you the whole or you could buy a small quarter . |
| 22 | It would be like a strong wind tearing into the warmth , ripping the fabric of the old rugs , overturning the lamps , plucking loose all the hair so skilfully wound up into neat and careful buns , unravelling her mother 's dainty stitches , unravelling her mother . |
| 23 | If the glider is facing more or less directly into the wind , and there is a pilot in the cockpit , it is just as safe as it would be after a normal landing . |
| 24 | Such a company will employ many skills associated with EP ( integrating text and image , generating high-quality and low-quality frames from the same image , scaling , etc. ) but it will be on a tight budget . |
| 25 | If renaissance comes it will be in a new form : foreign tourists in holiday flats . |
| 26 | If rates do go lower , it will be by a marginal ½%-1%,; so now could be the time to take the plunge . |
| 27 | ‘ You 'll soon forget this part of your life , ’ she said to him , ‘ it will be like a bad dream . ’ |
| 28 | Crashing the car , taking someone else 's life with them , terrible situations , terrible tragedies can come about because a person physically goes to sleep so it can be in a spiritual sense that we can nod off to sleep and not only our lives are involved , but our fellow brothers ' and sisters ' too , |
| 29 | When old nationalisms come to the surface , having been suppressed for decades , it can be in a pure and dangerous form . |