Example sentences of "[noun sg] be [verb] [adv] an " in BNC.
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| 1 | Vice-Chancellors with a high-powered escort including the Director-Gen. of the British Council are arriving here an hour or so before we leave ( i.e. c. 40 mins from now ) so I am frantically typing a brief letter of a confidential kind that I can hand over to them . |
| 2 | One of the black , tendrilled parts of its body was picking apart an orange and ingesting it , segment by segment . |
| 3 | Each machinist was given virtually an entire garment to produce as a more satisfying method of working than ‘ production line ’ techniques . |
| 4 | At the moment , in contrast , a domicile of choice is lost once an individual ceases to be present in the host country and the domicile of origin revives . |
| 5 | When we say that Beaver is giving away an iceberg we do not mean a lettuce . |
| 6 | What they said remained inaudible , but it was clear that the Frenchman was offering only an occasional monosyllable to punctuate her husband 's rambling drawl . |
| 7 | In the cloistered shelter of the medieval monasteries brewing was becoming quite an art in the skilled hands of monks well used to brewing table beers for their abbots . |
| 8 | One response was to create both an exodus of talent from the country and capital flight . |
| 9 | By 1960 the American family was throwing away an average of 750 cans a year . |