Example sentences of "be [verb] [prep] a [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The structure can be stabilised by a triangulation that is most economic when symmetrical and evolves into the familiar forms of roof trusses , bridges , arches and vaulting . |
| 2 | Margaret Stanhope saw by the watch that never left his wrist that their unromantic interlude would soon be drawing to a close . |
| 3 | In the hollow below , Bigwig seemed to be drawing to a close . |
| 4 | The clear danger was , however , that certain factions within the party leadership would not be so tolerant as Su Xiao Kang hoped and that the freer intellectual atmosphere of 1988 might be drawing to an end . |
| 5 | There were some signs in 1990-91 that Japan 's long-running dispute with the Soviet Union might be drawing to an end . |
| 6 | The lack of welfare officers , the rarity of home leave , the concept of visits and letter-writing as a privilege which could be withdrawn as a punishment , and the denial of permission to keep family photographs , were all indications of an absence of serious interest in helping to maintain a prisoner 's contacts with the outside world . |
| 7 | A contestant may withdraw , or be withdrawn from a competition through injury . |
| 8 | He further announced on Jan. 29 , 1990 , that 2,750 military and civilian personnel ( including their dependants ) would be withdrawn from a number of bases in the United Kingdom and elsewhere ( for other announcements of US defence expenditure cuts and for European concerns about reduced US miliary commitment to Europe see p. 37226 ) . |
| 9 | The edges of mirrors can be smoothed with a carborundum stone but using water rather than oil as the lubricant . |
| 10 | This networking of previously lone individuals and groups will be highlighted through a number of networking facilities including the innovative Networking Game . |
| 11 | Gender relations will be highlighted as an area in which external images of the Laz may conceal a much more complex reality . |
| 12 | Marx believed that this contradiction would be highlighted by a second : the contradiction between social production and individual ownership . |
| 13 | The limestone scars seen on the left during the ascent here give place to a moorland shelf inclined at an easier gradient which , on investigation , is found to be perforated by a line of potholes . |
| 14 | I recognise that it may also be tinged with a note of bias , for I passionately believe with the project organisers that school and community are parallel and co-operative agencies in the education of young children , and that to establish understanding , as well as to promote real creativity , children should begin reading and learning in the language they speak at home . |
| 15 | Mandela was to be assassinated by a sniper on his return from abroad in mid-July . |
| 16 | These , and other changes , all contributed to the doubling of productivity within those six years , and he is optimistic that it could be trebled as a result of the fast , electronic and computer assisted information that is now available . |
| 17 | It was not a right to be enjoyed as a source of revenue or worldly glory : it was to be guarded as a gift from the past , representing an eternal principle of order . |
| 18 | A ship would have to be guarded by a warship , the Americans , who supplied the original plutonium , insisted . |
| 19 | ‘ T is too narrow a road to be guarded by a castle . ’ |
| 20 | Nervous convulsions have been attributed by some clinicians to toxocariasis , but there is still some disagreement on whether the parasite can be implicated as a cause of these signs . |
| 21 | And it can quickly produce a list of signs that need to be altered for a relief route or during a major road repair . |
| 22 | Thus a computer architecture and instruction set can be frozen at a later stage in the design process , and can be altered as a result of any inadequacies or improvements . |
| 23 | With a text on a word-processor no one version is final , any version can be altered without a trace . |
| 24 | You know that I do not necessarily go along with your concept of visual character in the way that you use it , but would the visual character be altered in a way that would cause a coincidence of greenbelt function were that important hedge not in existence on the north side of D thirty nine ? |
| 25 | The physical environment can be altered by a manager , who may be able to regulate noise levels at work , comfort and security of working conditions , seating arrangements , the use of open-plan offices or segregation into many small offices , the physical proximity of departments as well as individuals . |
| 26 | For instance , arrows need to be propelled by a bow and chariots need to be drawn by horses . |
| 27 | A hay net can be improvised as a seat belt , especially if there is nothing else ( no seats either ) . |
| 28 | Second , the union of two people who have the same biological sex , but one of whom is an operated transsexual with a female gender identity should be recognized as a marriage . |
| 29 | It was beyond possibility that he could be recognized as a policeman , yet he had not even been given a coquettish smile . |
| 30 | It was hateful to have to be like that , and usually she did not allow herself to think on those lines , but it was there and had to be recognized as a factor . |