Example sentences of "[noun pl] [prep] [be] [verb] a [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | I actually think the time is right in the next nine months to be buying a property . |
| 2 | By a letter dated 7 March 1983 the plaintiff formally appointed the defendants as agents to sell Caliban at a price of $3.5m. or such sum as the plaintiff might agree to accept , the defendants to be paid a commission of 5 per cent . |
| 3 | She remembers that she had been knocking on doors for years to be given a chance to act and had been practically laughed out of town . |
| 4 | To enable these two objectives to be achieved a Land Commission was established ( with headquarters located at Newcastle upon Tyne , in line with the dispersal of offices policy ) . |
| 5 | It is rather odd for someone who tends to denigrate official footpaths to be promoting a link between the Pennine and West Highland Ways . |
| 6 | Sean and Mandy are among 8 couples to be given a house in Clay Hill Close , a new development by the Enstone Community Housing Association . |
| 7 | They wanted the police to be seen a lot more . |
| 8 | One of the very first actors to be labelled a hellraiser was Peter Finch . |
| 9 | This provides one of Goody 's main claims to be making a contribution to further research : the field worker , whether anthropologist , historian , social psychologist or whatever , can ask of a specific culture why literacy did not fulfil its potential there , and what were the factors that ‘ restricted ’ its development . |
| 10 | One of the first women to be awarded a master 's degree in business administration from Harvard University , Franklin had served in the White House under President Richard Nixon . |
| 11 | Some schools do provide for students to be granted a scholarship towards the cost of tuition , but there are not many endowments of this kind . |