Example sentences of "[prep] [noun sg] [be] a [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | There will of course be a delay between the completion of time sheets by the operatives , or bonus calculations by the bonus surveyor , and the actual payment of wages including any expenses and allowances . |
| 2 | It may of course be a partner who is the one who needs caring for . |
| 3 | IF YOUR MOTOR CAR IS NOT INSURED AGAINST DAMAGE the services offered by our Appointed Repairers can be recommended although the question of its repair will of course be a matter for your own attention . |
| 4 | There can of course be a facade of gentleness that is not genuine . |
| 5 | The idea of unitary authorities structure plans , er I think could only be a disaster and the first option which is the most viable , could of course be a dissipation of democracy of the indirect democracy er because erm I think what you probably have is a number of officers , civil servants and a scattering of councillors er and really the the direct local involvement which we have now through directly elected councillors on , on planning committees and strategic planning committees would have . |
| 6 | Equally clearly , in these circumstances the quantity of will be a constraint upon . |
| 7 | There might for example be an editor , compiler or translator . |
| 8 | It may in part be a function of the teacher 's own practices , and when this is so an analysis of his or her use of time , from the broad organizational strategies right down to the minutiae of moment-to-moment interactions with the children , could help both in creating more time and in making for a more effective and efficient context for learning . |
| 9 | g ) access to forecasting skills and methods : the quality and accuracy of the forecasting process will in part be a function of skills and methods available . |
| 10 | There would in addition be a minister for Science and Technology at the newly supreme DTI , with responsibility for determing investment in research . |
| 11 | She was advised that formal evidence would have to be called in order for her to form an opinion under section 7(5) of the Act of 1976 as to whether the defendant should be remanded in custody or on bail on the same or more stringent conditions , and that accordingly the hearing would in effect be a trial and would require to be heard before at least two justices . |
| 12 | This would not end the wars , but it would in effect be a declaration from the Israelis announcing that whilst they intend to fight to keep the disputed territory , they are nevertheless admitting that their right to it is no different from that of anyone else , and until the world produces some better way than fighting , this is how they will-operate . |
| 13 | The explicit aspects are those which are expressed by the attitude-holder about an issue should the issue in question be a matter of public controversy . |
| 14 | For the House of Commons , proportional reprentation would in consequence be a reduction , not an extension of democracy . ’ |
| 15 | And this weakened commitment may in turn be a by-product of the intensity of the subject commitments that have been built up elsewhere in the school curriculum . |
| 16 | But suppose we have a figure which , though it looks perfectly round , may in fact be slightly flattened on two sides , and in reality be an ellipse . |
| 17 | In the case just considered , social institutions could in principle be an expression of a pre-cultural disposition . |
| 18 | A board of directors could not exist and act as a corporate entity if it were composed of two groups of people , each deriving its authority from and answerable to a different principal body , the one liable to be in conflict with the other ; for it would in fact be a negotiating committee . |
| 19 | I was beginning to realize that this diet could in fact be a breakthrough for all those who were still left with the typical British ‘ pear ’ shape , even after losing weight successfully . |
| 20 | Anything less than sixty hectares would be unrealistic and it certainly wo n't allow us any flexibility at all to allocate erm sufficient land as we see it to meet the needs of the resident population , and there would in fact be a shortfall er of employment land provision in our view towards the end of the plan period . |
| 21 | An earlier phone call to Springfield from Curtis had seen to that , when the lieutenant had passed on his suspicion that the sect could in fact be a front for a Triad drugs operation . |
| 22 | As we shall see , mystical teachers tirelessly proclaimed that visions and voices were not an essential part of the mystical journey and could in fact be a distraction ; the mystical apprehension of God certainly had nothing to do with the ordinary emotions . |
| 23 | In a different sort of context , what appears to be an abstract design , devoid of reference to the natural world , may in fact be a stylisation of a person , an animal or an imagined figure . |
| 24 | But then , if they are in regions where antimatter dominates over matter , the repulsion would in fact be an attraction , and the white hole would be indistinguishable from what is , in our Universe of matter , a black hole . |
| 25 | In contrast , exchange rate fluctuations can not by definition be a source of uncertainty in world trade under a fixed exchange rate system . |