Example sentences of "be a [noun sg] [prep] [v-ing] " in BNC.
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| 1 | And they 're a way of getting a lot a lot of things in a in a in a space . |
| 2 | Yes , I think that an insight feminists have had about soap operas , about the real contributions they make , is that they 're a way of starting conversations about important topics , either in the family or with colleagues at work or whatever . |
| 3 | He probably thinks you 're a plonker for carrying a rucksack and wearing hefty boots with gaiters when the temperature is in the eighties . |
| 4 | You 're an expert at surviving without being close to a woman . |
| 5 | He gave a shout of laughter , then said , ‘ My oath — you 're an expert at finding an answer . |
| 6 | ‘ I am a specialist at handling irascible women . ’ |
| 7 | It does not have to be the only thing which persuaded him to do so but it does have to have been a factor in influencing him . |
| 8 | It may have been a factor in leading a plaintiff to sue in the county court rather than the High Court when his or her claim lay within its jurisdiction . |
| 9 | The source of ivory may well have been a factor in reserving it very largely to symbolic rather than practical use . |
| 10 | They also believe that their poor accomodation may have been a factor in loosing the baby . |
| 11 | So the history of train transport has partly been a history of striving for greater efficiency and lower fuel costs — one percent at the very beginning to forty percent now with diesel . |
| 12 | The high capital costs of building a good ‘ medium-secure ’ unit on a general hospital site with other admission beds has been a deterrent to developing more suitable facilities . |
| 13 | Sometimes it has been a case of seeing something done really well and it inspires us to do it even better . |
| 14 | ‘ Since then it 's mostly been a case of building up our database . |
| 15 | But it has been a case of getting better at managing the cash ; better at keeping down the costs . |
| 16 | But getting the internal cost structure right for the 1990s has not simply been a case of manning level reductions . |
| 17 | Indeed , you had , you had thought about it and so it would just have been a case of saying , yes , this is obvious . |
| 18 | Clearly , CMHTs have been a vehicle for coordinating the work of a wide variety of professionals involved with mentally handicapped people . |
| 19 | In the middle of a prime corn-growing district , Chichester is unlikely to have been a centre of putting out ; high wages there probably showed the influence of a craft-based manufacture , though on too small a scale to have any marked effect on the level and distribution of wealth . |
| 20 | There has been a revolution in printing techniques , and stationery with well designed bold letter headings is inexpensive to purchase , gives identity , creates impact , reinforcing the message of quality and care . |
| 21 | In every resolution , there has been a reference to making the money available for other ’ social and economic priorities ’ , thus confirming that the Labour party is the party of high taxation . |
| 22 | What is already clear is that it has been a success in developing our own AI-skilled personnel . |
| 23 | Early assessments indicate that fundholding has been a success in enabling practices to manage their budgets and develop patient services in the way it chooses . |
| 24 | What I think we had , and not me personally , as I say I had no proposals , but what I think some members of our group may have had was statements about what the Liberal Democrats were prepared to do , so there has n't been a negotiation , but it certainly has n't been a rejection of listening on our part erm . |
| 25 | The researchers concluded that ‘ one may infer that many felt there had been a conflict between studying for interest 's sake and studying for examination success ’ . |
| 26 | For many professions , including surveyors , there has been a tradition of forbidding the carrying on of business under the protection of limited liability . |
| 27 | There has long been a tradition of separating these ‘ special ’ clinics from the rest of the hospital , and many of them still go under euphemistic titles such as ‘ Martha and Luke ’ clinic , James Pringle House , or ‘ Lydia ’ clinic . |
| 28 | There has been a tradition of networking in Japan since before the Second World War . |
| 29 | She had also been a builder before coming to the school and ended up doing most of the work . |
| 30 | It would have been a way of criticising his regime which it was difficult to counter directly , and , in the short term perhaps most troublesome of all , it was possibly also a source of popular disorder . |