Example sentences of "[noun sg] is [verb] [adv] a " in BNC.
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| 1 | The echidna , Australia 's spiny anteater , protects itself by digging rapidly downwards until its soft underside is completely hidden and its enemy is offered only a sea of powerful , sharp spikes . |
| 2 | If you recall yesterday , I think yes , the term sick as a parrot is becoming quite a , er , apparent to me in here again , that 's again looking at your faces , some of you , so you 're all quite happy about that one , you knew where you went wrong there . |
| 3 | Where your employee is paid once a month but is paid in multiples of a week ( for example , on the last Friday of each month ) , add together the gross payments made on the last pay day before the end of the QW and any other payments made after the pay day at least eight weeks before that . |
| 4 | He says a new museum is added once a year , the size of the Convention Centre has doubled and the LA International Airport has been transformed . |
| 5 | Wild Turkey is giving away a free packet of turkey-flavoured crisps with every shot of the drink ordered . |
| 6 | The campaign is based around a $1 million advertising campaign on the slogan : " Your car can survive a day without you : can you survive without your car ? " |
| 7 | To accuse us of thinking we are the only ones interested in peace is to reiterate mindlessly a routine anti-CND slogan . |
| 8 | If the second rank trooper is slain then a model in the third rank is hit : resolve damage with a strength of 3 . |
| 9 | If a sawtooth program of testing is used then a meaning has to be attached to the observed " modulus ' . |
| 10 | In more general terms the community is putting forward a demand that it should have the decisive voice in determining its own future , something no state is likely to welcome . |
| 11 | A residential conference is held once a year to allow more sustained and detailed discussions around particular countryside issues . |
| 12 | A LUXURY £12 million hotel with a TV theme is to open just a stone 's throw from Coronation Street . |
| 13 | In addition , hot water is pumped around a second circuit to the radiators in each room , either through 15mm ( small-bore ) or 8–10mm ( microbore ) pipes . |
| 14 | And Gateway is giving away a 250g box of After Eight Mints with every bottle of Martell Cognac ( £16.49 ) . |
| 15 | ‘ And the trade is changing quite a lot . |
| 16 | The purpose of this paper is to put forward a case for developing the online catalogue 's potential as an interactive retrieval tool for the library user . |
| 17 | Thus , this paper is adopting explicitly a particular position along the spectrum of views currently being expressed about comprehensive , multidisciplinary assessment of older people , and , as well as proposing a model for practice , is also an attempt to stimulate amongst professionals and managers a debate , which is now urgent , about how the development of assessment and care management systems should proceed . |
| 18 | Mind you , his movie career is going downhill a bit . |
| 19 | The Nottingham Forest midfielder is stalling over a £4m move . |
| 20 | If the right surgeon is picked then a report ought to be available within six weeks or so . |
| 21 | It will be in everyone 's interest that the precise arrangements are specified , eg whether the partnership has a tenancy or contractual licence to occupy and in consideration of what payments , or whether the property is to be enjoyed rent free , or whether the firm is given only a non-exclusive personal licence which will determine on the death or retirement of the partner who grants the same . |
| 22 | The area is known as referential communication , as the role of the speaker is to describe verbally a given object ( or , more rarely , an action or relationship ) , so that the listener , relying entirely on the language received , can work out what the message refers to . |
| 23 | At the moment , in contrast , a domicile of choice is lost once an individual ceases to be present in the host country and the domicile of origin revives . |
| 24 | These two types of choice are known respectively as " closed " and " open " ; the range of possibilities in a closed choice is called technically a " system " ; that in an open choice a " set " . |
| 25 | Using OSF 's Distributed Computing Environment alongside Palladium , Systems Center is putting together a bundle of ISO DPA 10175 and Posix 1003.7.1-compatible distributed print services which it will supply to OSF in 1993 . |
| 26 | Unless a society is to utilise only a fraction of the intelligence at its disposal it must obviously in one way or another make sufficient provision for vertical mobility to ensure that capacity passes , unimpeded by vulgar irrelevancies of class or income to the type of education fitted to develop it . |
| 27 | When we say that Beaver is giving away an iceberg we do not mean a lettuce . |
| 28 | Zither music is played once a week . |
| 29 | An argument over which bulls are best ; British or Canadian and American is causing quite a rumpus . |
| 30 | The objective of their ‘ Unified Unix ’ vision is to put together a cost structure for open operating environments that can match NT on the desktop . |