Example sentences of "a [noun] be [prep] [pron] " in BNC.
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| 1 | He requests a ‘ prompt and positive response ’ to the letter and states pointedly that ‘ such a response is in everybody 's interest ’ . |
| 2 | Being a writer is in itself a type of contradiction because it means that you are both an actor , a participant in the world and also an observer , an interpreter , a maker of meaning . |
| 3 | Dastra in our last issue , has come forward to claim the £25 prize and a cheque is on its way to her . |
| 4 | The winner of the best adult joke is Mrs May Jones from Prescot , and a T-shirt is on its way to her for this the Echo office favourite . |
| 5 | The winner of the best adult joke is Mrs May Jones from Prescot , and a T-shirt is on its way to her for this the Echo office favourite . |
| 6 | There are so many disadvantages to a vet being on his or her own — on call for twenty-four hours , no time off , expensive locums for holidays , and everything depending on good health . ’ |
| 7 | Is it not the case that such a religion is by its very nature harmful to the cause of human equality ? |
| 8 | Joan for what it 's worth erm and this is just something you might want to think about a mobile is worth its weight in gold . |
| 9 | Within the hour , a telegram was on its way to London claiming the reward for information as to the whereabouts of Patrick Lundy and his female servant . |
| 10 | Cos , actually , the other thing about defenders hauling people down like that , you know , how many times when a forward 's through one on one on a goal keeper does he score ? |
| 11 | If a man who is a diabetic and who has arterial disease to the extent that this plaintiff had , is severely injured so that life is much more difficult to bear than otherwise it would have been , a defendant is in my view , quite unable , with justification , to say that a reduction in damages should thereby be brought about . |
| 12 | But to eyes not looking through ancient spectacles , it assuredly appears as an affair of the intercourse of a living being with its physical and social environment . |
| 13 | Being able to handle a car was for her far more important than playing Annie Get Your Gun . |
| 14 | How can you tell how er fluent a child is with it , with their reading |
| 15 | The normal way of classifying a child is by his Or her father 's profession , and this is essentially all we have to go on in this case . |
| 16 | A child was with him , holding his hand , and he too had a dog , a big pugnacious-looking black dog . |
| 17 | The little beach where Mariana had played as a child was to his left . |
| 18 | A bouquet is on its way to this super lady from Slinfold , West Sussex , with my very best wishes . |
| 19 | For a home is in itself the triumph of God banishing night and chaos and necessity , indwelling this lifeless clay with the Spirit divine of freedom and joy . |
| 20 | And it 's in fact drinking in a social context in a bar is in itself a form of itself imposes |
| 21 | A young woman once interviewed on the radio was asked whether she felt that working as a cleaner was beneath her . |
| 22 | ‘ Not when a nome is in it , ’ it said . |
| 23 | When however consideration is given to which patients should be transferred back to locally based hospitals from the geographically remote major illness hospitals , there are comparatively few for whom such a transfer is in their best interests , clinically or socially . |
| 24 | O what a panic 's in thy breastie ! |
| 25 | ‘ I do n't know what you mean , ’ he said , and then a girl was by their table with her notebook . |
| 26 | Browne knew the Masai well and understood how alien such a proposal was to their consensual system of politics , but nevertheless this was the beginning of a long and unavailing effort by the British to set up the laibon as chief of the Tanganyika Masai , until at last in 1933 the current occupant asked to be relieved of his office . |
| 27 | Ca n't put the handbrake on and sit on your hands with the alarm bells ringing because a babuska 's on her way home with her son-in-law 's dinner . |
| 28 | Somehow I was relieved that a guard was with us because I thought that if there was an accident his friends might try to get him — and maybe us — out . |
| 29 | For a word to have a meaning is for there to be rules for its use : rules in virtue of which the application of the word can count as correct in some cases and incorrect in others . |
| 30 | But to say that I have had an experience of God , whom I claim to be a transcendent being outside myself , can not be self-authenticating . |