Example sentences of "[det] [be] [prep] a " in BNC.
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| 1 | But this is precisely the situation used in our telephone work , and the dialogues resulting from this are of a different nature . |
| 2 | ‘ I 'm sure that the majority of runners have to get money because you can not survive without it , and only a few are in a position to do otherwise . ’ |
| 3 | Some are on a twenty-five-year hold , some fifty … |
| 4 | Mental handicap can be caused by a wide range of medical , social and environmental factors , of which some are to an extent preventable . |
| 5 | Some are in a bad way so we share what we have . |
| 6 | Some are in a state of imminent collapse and in others , side passages branch off in all directions and shafts can suddenly appear at your feet dropping down hundreds of feet into the darkness . |
| 7 | Some are in a wide range of more traditional vocational subjects such as Divinity , Medicine , Law . |
| 8 | This were in a school playground . |
| 9 | Among other relics was discovered a folding chair , this being in a badly burned condition having been placed on the funeral pyre . |
| 10 | Some were from a local technical college and were taken for short periods . |
| 11 | Curiously , of John 's first hundred Palace appearances , almost half were as a substitute and , although he demonstrated great potential , he never really established himself as a regular member of our side until the autumn of 1990 . |
| 12 | It may be that different accounting treatments lead to different ways of calculating cost ; this is to a considerable extent mitigated by accounting standards but can not be totally ruled out . |
| 13 | Members of the committee will see that savings continue to come through on the school meals service and this is to a very considerable extent , the result that the ethos of the previous Conversative administration which ran a tight ship and positively encourage deficiency . |
| 14 | They fall squarely into the category requiring prevention but long-term effects of one offence , if this is of a minor nature , are far from inevitable . |
| 15 | This is of a peculiarly uncertain nature since the supplier , by lawfully terminating the agreement , will automatically bring the hirer 's interest to an end . |
| 16 | Finally a heavy press crushes out the remainder of the must , but this is of an inferior quality . |
| 17 | If payable it will be assessed on the difference between the purchase price of the new house if this is of an appropriate category and the estimated ( lower ) price they would have paid in their existing location for a broadly equivalent house . |
| 18 | ‘ I 'm afraid this is on a cash bar basis , ’ I said , putting the glass on the table and preparing to open the can . |
| 19 | This is on a par with Ronald Reagan 's dinner-party anecdotes about video games nurturing the skills of future fighter pilots , but the fatuous and the profound are all equal in Soul . |
| 20 | It should be made clear that this is on a completely self-financing basis and that at an increasing number of dinners spouses now attend the dinner rather than do their own thing . |
| 21 | This is on a dangerous bend where pedestrians have to walk on the carriageway . |
| 22 | This is on a square plan and dates from the ninth century . |
| 23 | This is on an increasing scale of 1 to 5 where a rating of 3 signifies that the majority of the research is of national significance . |
| 24 | About 20% of the land is designated as Zone Defavorisee hors montagne and this is at a lower elevation of 200–400m , concentrated mainly in the north of Auvergne . |
| 25 | And this is at a time when the debate about sexual politics in the press concerns a couple of commercials that allegedly mock men . |
| 26 | The irony is that this is at a time when such diseases are slowly being reduced in Britain . ’ |
| 27 | However , all this is at a given level of effort ; the final stage of the manager 's problem is On equating this first-order condition to zero , using result ( 4.8 ) that unc we have : unc hence |
| 28 | So when he sees Rose staring at him with her dark , serious eyes among the crowds on the staircases in the interval ( this is at a concert ) he does n't hesitate for a moment , but goes straight up to her . |
| 29 | Now Jerry Bailey the man who rode Ah Kong This is at a press conference after the Breeders ' Cup . |
| 30 | For your part , we very mich hope that piloting centres will use all available channels to provide us with feedback — whether this is at a seminar or centre visit , via the piloting questionnaire , or through informal contacts with the piloting team at SCOTVEC . |