Example sentences of "be [vb pp] [adv] a [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | For some reason I 'd thought I 'd be given just a sample in a small box — like those used to send out wedding cake . |
| 2 | Because of its major 3rd ( as opposed to the conventional ♭3 found in a normal phrygian mode ) this scale has a very Spanish/Classical flavour and can be heard quite a lot during the solos on the track Surfing With The Alien . |
| 3 | Every building has a shrine at which offerings must be placed twice a day . |
| 4 | A resolution of 22 March 1792 provided for the erection of temporary stabling for 50 horses , to which were to be added later a lecture theatre and a dissecting room . |
| 5 | For instance I have increased the skimmed milk allowance from 4 ounces to 10 ounces per day and I have allowed red meat to be included twice a week . |
| 6 | These will be carried once a month and will alternate with contracts in the food and electronics sectors . |
| 7 | because erm there will be oh what was I it 's alright I was concentrating said you can put the handbrake on these set of traffic lights if you like because you might be sat here a while and your foot will ache you know ? |
| 8 | Does he agree that neighbourhood watches can be deemed only an aid to proper policing , in terms of numbers and police efficiency ? |
| 9 | The agreed price of the three acres of land was £180 and a proper conveyance was to be prepared by Theed Pearse the solicitor , who was also owner of the adjoining land on which the County Hospital was to be built nearly a century later . |
| 10 | The planned Leipzig Museum for Contemporary Art was conceived back in 1987 , before the reunification of Germany , as a place in which art from both East and West could be seen together a means of ending the isolation that East German museums found themselves in . |
| 11 | All credit limits need also to be revalidated once a year . |
| 12 | I think in some ways it 's better , because girls are meant to get on better in the sciences in girls ' schools ; they 're meant to be pushed backwards a bit in boys ' schools . |
| 13 | My own view is that for readers to be promised even a glimmer of understanding as to the origins of our world and the universe was tempting enough , but the further promise that it was to be told briefly was irresistible . |
| 14 | But could we please be told just a little bit more about Compus course , er run by Horizon , that 's mentioned in the last paragraph , erm on the , on green one , it 's on the first page . |
| 15 | To be used successfully a simulation model must adequately represent the system under study and there must be sufficient relevant data available to allow for the calibration or tuning of the model . |
| 16 | This space does n't have to be vast — just think of how many people can be accommodated around a 1.5-metre circular table , for instance . |
| 17 | A cinema show or film strip could be shown once a week . |
| 18 | An after-school revision class will be offered once a week throughout the second term . |
| 19 | the property will be independently assessed by an accredited third-party organisation ; and once the BS rating has been achieved , the property will be assessed twice a year to ensure that standards are maintained . |
| 20 | The body needs to be brushed once a day for a few minutes before your morning bath or shower ( twice if you have cellulite ) . |
| 21 | well who would you need to make the suggestion that the brochure should be updated once a year , to whom would you normally make that suggestion , if it needs to be made ? |
| 22 | Mr but you must have therefore suggested it to them then that er the service charges needed to be updated once a year |
| 23 | Colwyn , who requested the match to be brought forward a week to avoid clashing with this weekend 's important game between Glamorgan and Durham at their Rhos on Sea ground , must have wished they had n't bothered . |
| 24 | If such a hole-to-block relationship is to be defined then a number of expert rules can be established as follows : 1 ) The domain of " hole " must have a " touching " relationship with the domain of " block " on at least one face to produce a blind hole . |
| 25 | And it only needed to be cut once a year . |
| 26 | But cows must be milked twice a day , every day of the year , so if you are a dairying smallholder you must find your recreation in the variations within the farm . |
| 27 | Cows to be milked twice a day , every day , water to be carried to all the cattle , fodder to drag to the high pastures , hay to be cut if the weather was benevolent , dry stone walls to be repaired after the ravages of winter , cows to be calved and ewes to be lambed ( usually in the middle of the night ) , horses to harness , drains to be dug … the list is endless . |
| 28 | Whenever I hear a man being witty or sensible or kindly or civilized I think : the qualities which now seem so much a part of this man could be stripped away at any time , and there would be left just a man who suffered and who fought with his suffering like an animal . |
| 29 | If Olwyn managed to go to bed without having to be forced then a reward from the menu was given to her . |
| 30 | Indeed , in factories in San Salvador , as one woman trade unionist reported , the pill is available from vending machines and instructions for use merely state : " the pill should be taken once a day in order not to have more children " and conclude with the comforting advice " if you do n't feel well , there are other methods " . |