Example sentences of "[noun sg] 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 | 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 . |
| 3 | 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 . |
| 4 | 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 . |
| 5 | The full course of study was to last only a year . |
| 6 | Lowestoft College was set aside a lake so there was no trouble in finding a good source . |
| 7 | A BARMAN was pushed over a 200ft cliff after his wife agreed to a £2,500 ‘ murder contract ’ , a court was told yesterday . |
| 8 | At this date such illustrations were uncommon even in engineering , where drawing was becoming both a serious matter and something like an art form . |
| 9 | 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 . |
| 10 | A cousin of my granny 's lived only a few hundred yards from us . |
| 11 | 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 . |
| 12 | Wild Turkey is giving away a free packet of turkey-flavoured crisps with every shot of the drink ordered . |
| 13 | 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 ? " |
| 14 | To accuse us of thinking we are the only ones interested in peace is to reiterate mindlessly a routine anti-CND slogan . |
| 15 | If the second rank trooper is slain then a model in the third rank is hit : resolve damage with a strength of 3 . |
| 16 | If a sawtooth program of testing is used then a meaning has to be attached to the observed " modulus ' . |
| 17 | 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 . |
| 18 | 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 . |
| 19 | A small-leafed clover was measured over a week under fully controlled conditions and shows a clear upward growth trend , see Figure and also – which show the details . |
| 20 | The pilots in the airliner above were unaware of the drama being enacted only a hundred feet below them . |
| 21 | In more general terms the community is putting forward a demand that it should have the decisive voice in determining its own future , something no state is likely to welcome . |
| 22 | A residential conference is held once a year to allow more sustained and detailed discussions around particular countryside issues . |
| 23 | A LUXURY £12 million hotel with a TV theme is to open just a stone 's throw from Coronation Street . |
| 24 | The big dyeing job was done twice a year at the hairdresser 's , but every month or so in between , Mrs Wormwood used to freshen it up by giving it a rinse in the washbasin with something called PLATINUM BLONDE HAIR-DYE EXTRA STRONG . |
| 25 | Their first move was to put together a leaflet containing a map of the areas being prospected and a list of concerns related to the effects of gold mining : this was distributed in June . |
| 26 | The sixty-two year old man 's body was discovered just a short time after he went missing from his ward . |
| 27 | The record was beaten just a year later , but Worrell is still the only batsman to share in two partnerships of over 500 runs in first-class cricket . |
| 28 | In addition , hot water is pumped around a second circuit to the radiators in each room , either through 15mm ( small-bore ) or 8–10mm ( microbore ) pipes . |
| 29 | And Gateway is giving away a 250g box of After Eight Mints with every bottle of Martell Cognac ( £16.49 ) . |
| 30 | The dividing wall was placed so a well established laburnum remained in one corner of their garden . |