Example sentences of "[be] [noun sg] [conj] a " in BNC.
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| 1 | If a proton and deuteron fuse , the products are helium-3 and a gamma ray , a burst of high energy light ( no neutrons are produced here ) . |
| 2 | We would say to workers that if there has been penetration or an exchange of bodily fluids , then the subject may crop up on the agenda . ’ |
| 3 | Erm , I 'm I 'm never sure about Bishops and Archbishops , erm I remember Archbishop Runcie once commenting about er , an activity that took place at the installation of a Bishop and it 's , I gather , I mean I 've , I have n't actually been to one , but if you 're Bishop or an Archbishop when they act to the triumph and act of installation took place there were you 'll find that the person was surrounded by Bishops and they were all sort of looking in on this er , this body that was gon na be installed and somebody once asked what are they doing ? |
| 4 | remind you that all money at the moment goes either to first which is n't quite so bad cos they 're family but a vast amount goes into and , both of whom have therefore access to our commercial sensitive , for want of a better term , information and we want to control that . |
| 5 | There has been speculation that a Carrier Battle Group of the Royal Navy would be sent to the Red Sea to relieve an American unit for redeployment to the Gulf ; and that this would be based on HMS Invincible . |
| 6 | Regarding Afghanistan ( on which there had been speculation that an agreement on a ceasefire was imminent , in view of recent political developments in the country and an unexpected visit by President Najibullah to Moscow in the week preceding the Irkutsk talks ) , both sides agreed on the need for elections , but remained at odds over the transition process . |
| 7 | They have not always been sufficiently quick to follow up when there has been evidence that a site has been tampered with , and certainly they have not always been keen to organise rescue excavations to investigate these sites . |
| 8 | Right the next word then , should it be field or a sports park ? |
| 9 | You do n't need to be statistician or a graphic artist to be able to use TableCurve — the professional-standard curve fitting program designed for scientists and engineers . |
| 10 | Lord Harris agreed to be chairman and a group of academics , about half of those whom Robertson had approached , turned up to an informal first meeting at Dean 's Yard , Westminster ( ‘ Suddenly all these distinguished geezers I had spoken to on the phone were there in this room ’ ) . |
| 11 | Pray for the Mission Board , that there might be unity and a singleness of purpose . |
| 12 | Again there might be uncertainty when a man was rising in the world ; Edward Watson of Lyddington had a personal estate of £200 , and as a justice of the peace should be reckoned as esquire ; but in Rutland , at any rate , his income was small , a mere £8 per annum . |
| 13 | It may be mid-1993 before a major economic upturn takes place . |
| 14 | Stephen considered that it would be rape where a woman 's permission was ‘ extorted by force or fear of immediate bodily harm . ’ |
| 15 | It would be shame if a superficially reasonable idea was destroyed by a premature focus on poorly designed reagents. et all . , |
| 16 | This decision would have had the effect of making a software designer 's choice of storage medium crucial to the question of patentability but it was , fortunately , quickly overruled in the Court of Appeal where Lord Justice Nicholls said : It would equally be nonsense if a floppy disc [ sic ] containing a computer program was not patentable that a ROM characterised only by the instructions in that program should be patentable |
| 17 | It would have been no use asking him whether he thought there was a unifying purpose in life , whether it could really be chance that an animal so small that it could n't be seen by the naked eye could die millions of years ago in the depths of the sea and be resurrected by science to prove a man innocent or guilty . |
| 18 | It can only be obtuseness or a refusal to believe that can still lead the Opposition to make that claim . |
| 19 | It would n't be beer and a hand of solo then , but dinner parties and bridge games with their wives in cocktail gowns and real jewellery . |
| 20 | And you eat in what is called messes so that you eat in a mess of four and the server comes in and puts a plate of it might be venison and a plate of which is a kind of erm corn and er in front of you . |
| 21 | While there may be pressure if a parent , however much loved , requires an undue amount of attention , a more commonplace problem is the effect of retirement on a couple 's relationship . |
| 22 | The visitor would understandably back off quickly and there would either be pandemonium or an utter , stunned silence . |
| 23 | In 1970 and 1971 the applicant association , representing the interests of the 300 existing licence holders , was assured by the town clerk that there would be consultation if an increase in the number of licensed vehicles was to be contemplated . |
| 24 | Exactly what causes it is unknown ; it may be virus or a bacteria , or many interacting factors may trigger the disease . |
| 25 | It is easy to see why credo , ‘ I believe ’ , should be a dubious case : belief does seem to leave something to the discretion of a trustee , and there may well be doubt whether a rather tentative expression of belief sufficiently expresses a testator 's intention that a trust should be set up . |
| 26 | Thus there could be doubt where a case should be tried ; there could be , and frequently was , dispute about the competence of courts . |
| 27 | Whether the planning is for greater parental involvement , producing the school prospectus or fund raising there needs to be structure and a sense of priorities . |
| 28 | ‘ I 'm nob but an old fool , lass . |
| 29 | Despite such considerations , there has been concern that a neonatal diagnosis would interfere with the normal social and emotional growth and interaction of child and family . |
| 30 | De Benedetti had been vice-president and a major shareholder of the Banco Ambrosiano from November 1981 to January 1982 , before ceding control to Roberto Calvi , who was found hanged in London in April 1982 [ see p. 32083 ] . |