Example sentences of "[noun] be [verb] [adv] a " in BNC.
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| 1 | Around this lily-covered pond are growing just a few of the 3,000 members of the Araceae family . |
| 2 | Regattas are held twice a year with full consultation with FPA . |
| 3 | To celebrate , sponsors Sol are giving away a crate of beer each to the first five postcards to arrive before Sept 24 at THE FACE . |
| 4 | William and Debbie Balthis , now both nine , and their six-year-old brother David were burned over a third of their bodies in the accident four years ago . |
| 5 | However , it must be added that these subjects were consuming quite a large quantity of food and were not attempting to shed weight . |
| 6 | We can explain this pattern if we remember that in the normal prose condition subjects were receiving both a syntactic and semantic context . |
| 7 | Plenary sessions were held once a month only , even at the height of the Famine , and merely ratified previous decisions of the two-man presidium . |
| 8 | The echidna , Australia 's spiny anteater , protects itself by digging rapidly downwards until its soft underside is completely hidden and its enemy is offered only a sea of powerful , sharp spikes . |
| 9 | If you recall yesterday , I think yes , the term sick as a parrot is becoming quite a , er , apparent to me in here again , that 's again looking at your faces , some of you , so you 're all quite happy about that one , you knew where you went wrong there . |
| 10 | If a complex hierarchical series of sub-spaces is employed then a number of intermediate brick models will also be established . |
| 11 | Where your employee is paid once a month but is paid in multiples of a week ( for example , on the last Friday of each month ) , add together the gross payments made on the last pay day before the end of the QW and any other payments made after the pay day at least eight weeks before that . |
| 12 | The full course of study was to last only a year . |
| 13 | Lowestoft College was set aside a lake so there was no trouble in finding a good source . |
| 14 | ‘ Hey , beautiful ! ’ the proctologist , back aboard Wavebreaker at sunset , called down the companionway steps to where Ellen was tearing apart a lettuce for the evening meal . |
| 15 | A BARMAN was pushed over a 200ft cliff after his wife agreed to a £2,500 ‘ murder contract ’ , a court was told yesterday . |
| 16 | At this date such illustrations were uncommon even in engineering , where drawing was becoming both a serious matter and something like an art form . |
| 17 | With FA Cup final vouchers being distributed tonight a big crowd is expected , and Crosby believes the fans can play their part in encouraging a matchwinning performance . |
| 18 | Meanwhile , Reading Council were lashing together a municipal PR exercise , using as a dodgy pretext the 400th anniversary of the destruction of the local abbey by Henry VIII . |
| 19 | A cousin of my granny 's lived only a few hundred yards from us . |
| 20 | He says a new museum is added once a year , the size of the Convention Centre has doubled and the LA International Airport has been transformed . |
| 21 | Wild Turkey is giving away a free packet of turkey-flavoured crisps with every shot of the drink ordered . |
| 22 | The campaign is based around a $1 million advertising campaign on the slogan : " Your car can survive a day without you : can you survive without your car ? " |
| 23 | To accuse us of thinking we are the only ones interested in peace is to reiterate mindlessly a routine anti-CND slogan . |
| 24 | If the second rank trooper is slain then a model in the third rank is hit : resolve damage with a strength of 3 . |
| 25 | If a sawtooth program of testing is used then a meaning has to be attached to the observed " modulus ' . |
| 26 | Lynda said that getting ready for the first visitors was proving quite a challenge . |
| 27 | Baker countered by saying that critics had failed to recognize the importance of the huge cutbacks the Soviet Union had agreed to make and that the US proposal was to allow only a very limited Soviet capacity to modernize . |
| 28 | The fishhouse ( an early dream ) went up in 1977 , and most of my pennies went on the building , so that staging was designed around a 48″ tank size . |
| 29 | But erm but the fact of the matter was , which whichever way you look at it , Russia was supporting essentially a liberal nationalist revolt . |
| 30 | The theme of Stalingrad was becoming rapidly a major embarrassment to the propagandists , especially those on the Wehrmacht staff , who had prematurely whipped up the victory atmosphere in September . |