Example sentences of "[adv] [be] a [noun] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | There 'd apparently been a Friday night meeting though the chairman had gone to New Zealand the day before at which new directors had been appointed . |
| 2 | This region has long been a spawning ground for Croat hotheads who dream of annexing this area to Croatia . |
| 3 | Marrakesh has long been a winter watering hole for the rich , the chic and the famous and the Shah had arrived at the height of the tourist season . |
| 4 | Gregory Butler has long been a field leader in this domain . |
| 5 | Banbury had long been a market town of importance , and acquired a modest industrial capacity in the nineteenth century . |
| 6 | The lands below are a patchwork quilt across which armies of ants march and countermarch . |
| 7 | After the shop girl stopped giggling at my enquiry , she explained , handkerchief on mouth , that Brack Loaves with rings inside are a Halloween tradition . |
| 8 | Thus , whereas a horseman 's work formerly revolved almost entirely around his horses , his modern counterpart must not only be a tractor driver but a ‘ general farm worker ’ — a mechanic , a labourer and perhaps even a part-time stockman , too . |
| 9 | ‘ It will only be a village school . |
| 10 | And now there was the loud crashing retort of what could only be a pistol shot , joined immediately by the rattling , roaring sound of thunder in the sky . |
| 11 | David Clark thought there might be some need for review while Adrian Bird felt that a blanket prohibition should only be a starting point which should be used in conjunction with local knowledge . |
| 12 | At work , he could only be a trade unionist . |
| 13 | The equipment need only be a sponge filter , air pump and heaterstat . |
| 14 | a client , who may not necessarily be a KPMG audit client . |
| 15 | Assessment in individual areas through SATs will necessarily be a sampling process . |
| 16 | What the legitimate ambit of a certain power actually is will necessarily be a value judgment . |
| 17 | The court must bear contemporary social standards in mind in making what will in some cases necessarily be a value judgment . |
| 18 | Opposite is a bank barn with ramp approach and a fine canopy and threshold . |
| 19 | They 're done because the old-fashioned way of doing a , putting something together is a paste-up job , you 've got all these stories filed about all sorts of things , and then some editorial chap or chapess sits down with sort of paste and scissors and cuts the things off , and they tend to cut things off the bottom to make it all fit until it feels about right . |
| 20 | Featured below is a sample selection of the range of hotels available , to give you an overall impression of the high standards offered in The Hague area . |
| 21 | The white air cushion 200ft below is a postage stamp . |
| 22 | The input file in the example below is a text file produced by a word-processor . |
| 23 | Below is a tutwork wage account which was paid in October 1884 . |
| 24 | The example below is a program segment that " packs " an integer number between 0 and 65535 ( & ffff ) into 2 bytes , least significant byte first . |
| 25 | When a production manager for example , meets a customer to discuss a quality problem or a minor design change , he is fulfilling a marketing role ; and so is a personnel manager when he negotiates an agreement with union representatives that a particular customer 's goods may be moved from the premises during a strike . |
| 26 | Not only is a citation order necessary for individual numbers , but a filing order for arranging numbers for different subjects with respect to one another must be determined . |
| 27 | Inside is a plastic platform which is perforated to allow liquids to seep through to the tank in the bottom . |
| 28 | Walter Long was a country gentleman who played up to that image for all he was worth , using Henry Chaplin- " the squire — as his political model . |
| 29 | The local authority appealed against the orders and sought an interim care order on the grounds that ( 1 ) the justices had erred in law when they had made the order preventing the parents from having contact with each other as contact between adults was not a step which could be taken by a parent in meeting his responsibilities towards his child and thus fell outside the terms of section 8(1) of the Children Act 1989 ; ( 2 ) there had been no application for a section 8 order and before exercising powers under section 10(1) ( b ) of the Act of 1989 the justices should have invited the parties to make representations , and the failure to do so was a material irregularity ; ( 3 ) the justices , having found as a fact that the parents had been in continuous contact and there were grounds for believing that the children would suffer harm , had been plainly wrong in refusing to make the interim care order in respect of both children in that they had failed to have regard to the facts that both parents had colluded over injuries to D. , the mother had lied when she had stated that there had been no contact with the father , the father had been in breach of a bail order there had been a violent incident on 23 November 1991 which had involved both parents , the mother had refused to be accommodated with the children in a mother and baby home , and the mother had changed her mind about the adoption of R. ; and ( 4 ) in all the circumstances the order which would have been in the best interests of the children and which the justices should have made was an interim care order . |
| 30 | Inside was a gold wedding ring and on the locket itself , the name ‘ Agnes ’ . ’ |