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Example sentences of "[verb] a [noun sg] be [prep] " in BNC.

No	Sentence
1	‘ In the past many people did n't know a building was under threat until it was about to be demolished .
2	Employing a nanny is beyond most couple 's budget .
3	I know they say a picture 's worth a thousand words ( and James would no doubt agree with you ) , but I think we 'll keep things as they are for the moment .
4	To find a girl was to ‘ shufti bint ’ .
5	Dr David Clark , Labour Agriculture spokesman I am convinced one reason you used a cucumber was for self-preservation .
6	It is when the Great Detective makes a jump out of such ideas that he solves the baffling mystery , that he sees , to quote a famous example from Poe , that the best place to hide a letter is in a letter-rack .
7	By identifying surpluses at a early stage in the planning process a firm is in a good position to plan the investment of such funds .
8	Business and planning manager will ensure a contract 's in place for routine inspection .
9	The only way to reproof a tilt is with a product specifically designed for the job .
10	As it happens , the most convincing way of pretending to clean a window is to actually do so .
11	He says a pet is for life , if circumstances change it 's up to the owner to arrange to have the pet looked after .
12	In case you 're wondering , I could n't give a monkey 's about hunting , a sport once described as the unspeakable in pursuit of the uneatable .
13	If you ask me she did n't give a monkey 's about the shopping complex or the money .
14	But to be made a deacon was for the first time to profess before a multitude that the soul undertook the cause of God in a special ministry , and for the first time to feel sent to an apostolic work .
15	The bus company says an investigation is under way and there may be disciplinary action .
16	A second way of implying an operand is by encoding it as part of the operation code , although the range of values is very restricted as we do not wish to allocate many operation codes in this way .
17	As we all know our lending institutions , from banks to building societies , have long ago given up caring a tinker 's about customer service or quaint notions of that sort .
18	Being able to handle a car was for her far more important than playing Annie Get Your Gun .
19	A police spokesman confirmed an investigation is under way .
20	You might argue that the only way for a nurse to learn how to dress a wound or administer an injection is by observing and practising the skill until she is competent .
21	In 1790 Quaker William Kitching opened an ironmonger 's on the corner with Prebend Row .
22	One advantage of using a hearing-aid is in hearing one 's own voice ‘ from the outside ’ — the aid microphone picks up the voice of the user as well as voices of other people .
23	That evening , having explained that the best place to enjoy a peach was in the bath , Adam fed one slowly to Miranda .
24	But they can not be alike , since one of them requires a sentient being for its existence while the other does not .
25	Stealing a memory is like murder , you miserable slob . ’
26	I could n't spell and about the only time in your life you 're not allowed to use a dictionary is in an English ‘ O ’ level exam . ’
27	A right to use a lift is in the nature of an easement .
28	Another way to form a polymer is by a condensation reaction where the reaction of two monomers results in a composite molecule together with a product of the reaction .
29	For them , getting a winter coat was a big thing , it was to many working-class women what getting a car is to many men .
30	It is also worth noting here that the only mid-Tertiary movements in northern Europe that can be called an orogeny are in Spitsbergen , where we find the last expression of an Atlantic compressive line clearly preserved down the west coast , presumably reflecting the continued grinding together of the northernmost tip of the European plate with that of Greenland .