Example sentences of "[be] [adv] [prep] a [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | These are rather like a water heater and storage cylinder in one . |
| 2 | Most are rather like a sandwich with the steel springs embedded in a honeycomb of foam . |
| 3 | When male students are numerically in a minority , do they form a ‘ minority group ’ ? |
| 4 | Perhaps we think our friends see us as calm and capable while we know that we are secretly in a state of panic . |
| 5 | ‘ I doubt it may have been somewhere in a circle of exiles , plucking that familiar of yours . ’ |
| 6 | What better way to prove that you have been somewhere in a consumer culture , than to buy something made locally whilst you are there . |
| 7 | Yugoslavia had been effectively without a President or a commander of the armed forces ( a role held by the Collective Presidency ) for several days as the term of his predecessor , Borisav Jovic ( a Serb ) , had expired on May 15 . |
| 8 | The Dawson International Executive Share Option Scheme 1993 ( ‘ the Executive Scheme ’ ) provides for share options to be granted to those senior employees who are most in a position to affect the fortunes of the Company . |
| 9 | We are necessarily at a distance from them , detached . |
| 10 | As dawn appears in the sky our progress quickens ; after crossing a few fields and climbing several hedgerows we are suddenly on a road with farm buildings a short distance away . |
| 11 | Burrowing species are obviously at a disadvantage in such situations , although some species are able to escape by swimming . |
| 12 | Starting and finishing at the Hill Inn , the walk passes through a district liberally pockmarked with caves and potholes of which Bruntscar and Gatekirk Cave are especially worth a halt to inspect the outsides . |
| 13 | Starting and finishing at the Hill Inn , the walk passes through a district liberally pockmarked with caves and potholes of which Bruntscar and Gatekirk Cave are especially worth a halt to inspect the outsides . |
| 14 | Two to three tablespoons of tinned tomatoes are enough for a sauce made from 2 lb. of the fresh fruit or for 3 pints of stock . |
| 15 | Tonight they are together at a banquet aboard the Royal Yacht Britannia to mark the EC summit . |
| 16 | ‘ I am constantly in a state of surprise that I have survived this long as an actor . |
| 17 | The Sandinistas in government are somewhat at a loss for their own charismatic figure , but continue to draw amply on the ( revised ) ideology and mythology of Sandino himself and of the martyred heroes of the revolution . |
| 18 | For a discipline which has made a speciality of the modern world we are somewhat at a disadvantage compared to journalists . |
| 19 | ‘ God and the King ’ , he proclaimed , ‘ are so in a league … as one can not be enemy to the one , but that he must be to the other . |
| 20 | Because of its large distance from the Sun Jupiter moves around its orbit rather slowly , and therefore the intervals between oppositions as seen from the Earth ( the synodic orbital period ) are only about a month longer than a year . |
| 21 | After all , they had been together for a couple of years and she did idolise him . |
| 22 | Operating as Shadowfax Restaurants , the partnership has been together for a number of years , and currently has two Pizza Express outlets in Barnet and Finchley , and part ownership of a pizza restaurant in the West End of London . |
| 23 | She had been inside for a day . |
| 24 | If the conditions in which a lineage of animals lives remain constant ; say it is dry and hot and has been so without a break for 100 generations , evolution in that lineage is likely to come to a halt , at least as far as adaptations to temperature and humidity are concerned . |
| 25 | It was the first time she had been so near a man with sweet breath and the scent of success about him . |
| 26 | you know how you get those rows that are literally on a row ? |
| 27 | Thus , in deciding , for example , whether to close down an unprofitable factory and make those working in it redundant , the directors are required to consider the effect of closure on the employees , but they are nevertheless under a duty to shut the factory if they believe this to be in the interests of the shareholders . |
| 28 | Now they are away to a University of Wolverhampton team in the quarter finals.The Observer Moot is a national competition in which pairs of students representing law departments from universities in England , Wales and Northern Ireland argue points of law before a moot judge . |
| 29 | ‘ Why wait till they are away on a weekend ? ’ asked Mrs Cornforth . |
| 30 | Nevertheless , if Qaddafi shows himself limited by this commonplace either-or , he has a decided advantage over West European or American anti-statesmen , who are generally at a loss to say how a society with only families will organize itself : what is to make the linkages among families ? — the market ? — a mafia ? — a telephone company ? |