Example sentences of "be [conj] [prep] a [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | It 's also a mite expensive , although you should bear in mind that retail prices are deceptive things ; the chances are that after a period of high demand and correspondingly high prices , the cost of the SRV will settle down to around the same as the Clapton Strat . |
| 2 | The facts are that within a decade of the Vienna Congress , nationalism was gathering furious pace . |
| 3 | HAMLET : … for you yourself , sir , should be as old as I am if like a crab you could go backward . |
| 4 | No , the they 'll be a pupil input , it might well be that as a department there 's a decision that the pupil would not write |
| 5 | But it would n't even be that on a system with the facility for multicurrency sales ledgers . |
| 6 | I also think that Mrs somewhat underestimated the formal hours required , I have noted from the er , the B M A documents setting out the charges to be expected to be levied by agencies in relation to nurses that extra hours will be charged per hour and I can foresee that if an agency contracts to provide ten hours formal care that er , it might be that with a number of carers they would find themselves very , very frequently putting in for extra hours of care . |
| 7 | It may be that from a stockbroker they would have done , although there is room for argument . |
| 8 | Micros are astonishingly powerful , and it may well be that in a couple of years time they will provide the most attractive solution — but they do not provide it yet . |
| 9 | First , because of membership of the EMS , wage-bargainers and price-setters in other countries may take particular notice of the DM exchange rate and inflationary trends ( if any ) in the Federal Republic ; second , over a period of time , wage and price responses in other countries might evolve towards the German norm ; third , it may simply be that in a period when for fundamental social and political reasons the control of inflation came to assume dominance in policy-making , policy-makers found it a useful discipline to conduct their fiscal and monetary affairs in such a way as to stabilise the exchange rate against the DM . |
| 10 | It might be that in a list of names every tenth name is the leader of a section of ten people ; to sample by every tenth would then result in either a sample of nothing but leaders or a sample with no leaders at all . |
| 11 | For the reader , however , an art defined as national , made as cohesive and marketable as possible , may be less than convincing as an entity ; it may be that within a survey or an anthology there are just a limited number of interesting and attractive works . |
| 12 | An example would be if on a door to a storeroom which contained high-voltage electrical equipment involved in the supply of electricity to the hotel there was a notice which said ‘ Danger : Keep Out : High Voltage ’ . |
| 13 | But it was n't to be and as a result we now have fewer engineers and probably fewer skilled people in industry than ever before : crumbly foundations to build upon if it is going to be built along the old traditional lines . |
| 14 | William Pitt , First Earl of Chatham , should have had pall-bearers equal in rank to himself , but this was not to be and in a letter written in 1778 following the funeral in Westminster Abbey , the nineteen-year-old Pitt the Younger said to his mother , ‘ The Court did not honour us with their countenance , nor did they suffer the procession to be as magnificent as it ought ; but it had , notwithstanding everything essential to the great object , the attendance being most remarkable . |
| 15 | But it was n't to be and within a minute Stoke were level . |
| 16 | It could n't really be because of a home movie , could it ? |
| 17 | This may be because of a scarcity of suitable sites , but the great number of individuals present makes it possible for unmated young birds to help their parents in the labour of digging holes just as the young Florida scrub jays help their parents rear new broods . |
| 18 | 1.14 " Working day " means any day on which clearing banks in the City of London are ( or would be but for a strike lock-out or other stoppage affecting such banks generally ) open during banking hours and " working days " shall be construed accordingly |
| 19 | Its bare outlines were that in a Luton car park a gang of four men had shot dead a sub-postmaster while trying to obtain from him the post office keys . |
| 20 | The first person must have been guilty of conduct which either was an offence under the Act or would have been but for a defence in sections 24 or 25 , Coupe v. Guyett ( 1973 D.C. ) . |
| 21 | They show an African head and the story behind these is that during a battle in the 15th century , when all the Pucci adults were killed , an African slave hid a baby of the family under her garments and fled via an underground passage , thus saving the Pucci line and earning herself a place in the family 's heraldry . |
| 22 | The final point which needs to be made about ethnicity is that as a speaker variable it can not usually be isolated from social class . |
| 23 | Certainly , one theory as to why crime appears to be going up is that as a society we are more intolerant of certain types of violence than we were in the past . |
| 24 | My own assessment is that as a country we are being daft about candle ends . |
| 25 | His greatest asset , of course , is that as a man he is so well liked . |
| 26 | The fact is that as a consequence of climbing out of the depression in the early 1980s , of remodelling our business processes , and of becoming a serious entrant into the high tech race , the work force profile has changed and will continue to change . |
| 27 | A very important point for married couples to know is that as a result of independent taxation each partner now enjoys his/her own annual exemption of£5,800 instead of , as before , their gains being aggregated ( i.e. added together ) for tax purposes . |
| 28 | The fundamental one is that as a result of the mathematization of physical science , what importantly occurs in it are equations or formulae of several kinds , propositions to the effect that one set of magnitudes is related in a certain way to another set or sets . |
| 29 | ‘ The good news is that as a result of those measures , and despite the hostile trading environment throughout the world , the Group is in a better position today than many believed possible a year ago . |
| 30 | One problem with this cosy consensus , and its greatest irony , is that as a nation we take our pubs too much for granted . |