Example sentences of "[be] [prep] [noun sg] [prep] an " in BNC.
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| 1 | You 're in middle of an exam , you 're trying to do everything very quickly , and there 's a great long screed of text |
| 2 | Plans are under consideration for an extended European League which would include two teams in Germany , one in Spain , one in Paris or Milan and two in the UK . |
| 3 | Covering an area of 20,000 sq km within a state-owned forest reserve , the five-year project seeks to preserve the area 's rich tropical rainforests , which are under threat from an expanding local population . |
| 4 | This has been in existence in an annual version since early 1978 , and was first used for UK forecasting in March 1980 , and has recently had an aggregate ‘ supply-side ’ added ( this determining the equilibrium values of output , unemployment and relative prices ) . |
| 5 | Their initiative was thought to have been in response to an open letter published on Jan. 15 under the signatures of three former Presidents , the Archbishop of Bogotá , and the leader of the left-wing Patriotic Union Party ( UP ) , which had offered them the prospect of " society 's support … for less rigorous treatment " by the government if they released the estimated dozens of hostages they had seized over the previous two months and stopped drug trafficking . |
| 6 | Just over 70 per cent of students had been in receipt of an SERC award whilst on their Advanced Course . |
| 7 | If I 'd come when you first asked me , I might have been in Saracen for an entire month : I 'd probably have no job to come back to . ’ |
| 8 | He could n't think whether they had been in bed for an hour , or four hours . |
| 9 | On the famed Old Course itself , Greens Superintendent Walter Woods ' staff had been in action for an hour . |
| 10 | As a schoolboy it was thought he would have been in line for an International cap had the war not prevented all that . |
| 11 | He had been in charge of an Army motorcycle team which managed to raise the money for a £10,000 minibus for handicapped children . |
| 12 | Keith James and Jim McCreedy , who had been in charge for an increasingly fraught 20 months , had their resignations accepted this week . |
| 13 | Several arguments are in favour of an inhibitory effect of hyperglycarmia on gall bladder motility by suppressing activity of the vagal cholinergic system . |
| 14 | He stirs a band of brave knights to tackle the rising army of the dead , who are in pursuit of an ancient book of runes and magic spells . |
| 15 | The Code may also be of relevance to unitisation proposals which are in competition with an offer to which the Code applies . |
| 16 | The Code may also have relevance to unitisation proposals which are in competition with an offer to which the Code applies . |
| 17 | There are cases where the claimant is unable to satisfy the registration requirements with the Department of Employment as they are in receipt of an alternative benefit . |
| 18 | to tell his constituents that with London 's share of world trade in financial services is increasing and is now at twenty seven percent that the financial services sector round the U K four point three billion , that those employees that he refers to are in fact in an industry which even if it is redistributing employment it 's nevertheless growing . |
| 19 | An alternative , indeed additional , remedy which may be of help to an aggrieved investor is that provided by s.61 of the FSA . |
| 20 | It may be that Wilfrid 's personal support could still be of assistance to an aspiring aetheling , but it is interesting that Eadwulf spurned Wilfrid 's overtures . |
| 21 | Nevertheless , the internal processes which underlie the way we perceive and think must be of relevance to an understanding of the way sign language works for deaf people . |
| 22 | There are many roles that you may have played or tasks that you may have undertaken that would be of interest to an employer . |
| 23 | And even if the signature is original it would only be of value to an autograph hunter not an art collector . |
| 24 | Clearly these libraries might contain information that would be of use to an enemy . |
| 25 | There are a number of compounds ( particularly personal nouns ) that will not be found in a dictionary which will be of use to an NLP system . |
| 26 | Obviously , what is or may be of importance to an employer 's business is a question of fact ; and it was no doubt significant in Swain that S was the general manager , the wrongful employee was the managing director , his conduct was dishonest and it could have had a material effect on the defendant 's business ( labelling meat as " Empire Products " when it was not ) . |
| 27 | The adviser claimed to be in favour of an honest report and promised to give definite feedback at every stage of the appraisal . |
| 28 | She 'd gone on into a book-lined room which appeared to be in use as an office , and she was placing the shotgun along with two others in a locking steel cabinet . |
| 29 | In a Panorama documentary on Monday night , Tim 's father Colin will say : ‘ I wanted to look at the man , to hear his voice and to ask him directly about how he could be in league with an organisation like the IRA . |
| 30 | ‘ We indicated we would be interested to talk to Gerry Adams , because I wanted to look at the man and hear his voice and ask him directly about how he could be in league with an organisation like the IRA . |