Example sentences of "be [verb] [adv] an " in BNC.
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| 1 | My guess is that most have been discarded once an aircraft goes out of service , or even worse , confined to the skip when a travel agent or airline goes out of business . |
| 2 | The Allied line had been pushed forward an average of 823m/900yds and , at the farthest , near Langemarck , about 1.6km/1ml . |
| 3 | Is the one you 're using now an old one ? |
| 4 | A woman and that do n't s I mean if you 're having just an argument it 's raised voices but a woman does n't scream and cry like that unless |
| 5 | From the far edge of the terrace I could see down to where I had been lying only an hour or two before . |
| 6 | Scotland seems to be producing quite an interesting crop of new players with Bernard Gallacher 's nephew , Stephen , the new Scottish Amateur Champion at 17 . |
| 7 | Does he agree that neighbourhood watches can be deemed only an aid to proper policing , in terms of numbers and police efficiency ? |
| 8 | With the Gunners fading alarmingly in their pursuit of the Championship , chairman Peter Hill-Wood has told Graham he has only to knock on his door to be handed virtually an open cheque book . |
| 9 | This can be shown diagrammatically an involuted loop , as in Figure 3.7 . |
| 10 | At the company 's annual meeting , executives from CGI Informatique SA , developer of the Pacbase software engineering system , said fiscal 1993 has so far not lived up to expectations , and indicated that the company will be considering either an acquisition or joint venture in the facilities management market . |
| 11 | An offer should only be announced once an irrevocable commitment to provide the necessary funds has been received from a person upon whom reliance can reasonably be placed at that time ( see Panel Notice 1991/4 of 1 May 1991 in relation to Luirc Corp and Merlin International Properties Ltd ) . |
| 12 | " He seems to be taking quite an interest in you , this Mr. Lorrimer . " |
| 13 | Sir Paul Girolami , chairman of Glaxo Holdings , will be handing over an £800,000 cheque today to Audry Collins , chairman of South Tees Acute Hospitals NHS Trust at a ceremony to mark the opening of a new dermatology centre at South Cleveland Hospital , Middlesbrough . |
| 14 | ‘ We 'll be putting together an oversight group with the top EDS and KF people , which will determine on a regular basis the business needs of the company . |
| 15 | She took a sip of her coffee and said , ‘ You seem to be making quite an issue of my not telling you , and I ca n't think why — especially if , as you say , you hardly knew Elise . ’ |
| 16 | I was not unhappy to be sitting opposite an attractive lady from Coll and there was only one person I knew of who lived on Coll . |
| 17 | It was widely believed that all restrictions on economic relations would be removed once an appropriate formula of agreement could be devised which would be acceptable to nationalist sensitivities . |
| 18 | Perhaps my hon. Friend will be reassured when I announce to the House that we will be laying tomorrow an order to ensure that , for all indictable offences , there will be the compulsory taking of evidence by tape recording in police stations . |
| 19 | Thus , if a blind hole is to be created then an attribute must be defined which will provide a unique association between the hole and block . |
| 20 | Some Health Authorities already employ a Nurse Recruitment Officer who is a member of the Nurse Education Department but this level of commitment is completely inadequate to mount the assault which will be required ill an average health district . |
| 21 | His musical memory was so acute that he once confounded a friend of his father 's , the court trumpeter and violinist Johann Andreas Schachtner , by insisting that Schachtner 's violin had been tuned exactly an eighth of a tone ( a tiny but noticeable fraction ) lower than Wolfgang 's own when he had last heard it — a fact that the astonished Schachtner was able to verify . |
| 22 | The prosecution allege these scratches had been inflicted just an hour earlier by Mrs Chandler as she fought back during the brutal sex attack . |
| 23 | The bad news was that for some reason our shore watchers had missed her actual departure and could only guess that she had been gone about an hour . |
| 24 | Vice-Chancellors with a high-powered escort including the Director-Gen. of the British Council are arriving here an hour or so before we leave ( i.e. c. 40 mins from now ) so I am frantically typing a brief letter of a confidential kind that I can hand over to them . |
| 25 | The girls who play Christina and Caroline in Neighbours have been putting together an album . |
| 26 | I am putting together an album of our preservation activities as we go along and will try to make it available on meeting nights and other public occasions . |
| 27 | Fourteen different CFC producers are putting together an evaluation of alternatives and their effect on the environment . |
| 28 | This tough process , it was realised , did not accord with their own equal-opportunities policy , in that candidates for paid advice workers ' posts were given only an oral interview , even though their job description may have been identical to that of a voluntary advice worker . |
| 29 | SYDNEY ( Reuter ) — Australia 's airline pilots said they were withdrawing the 30 per cent pay claim at the heart of a dispute that has disrupted domestic air services and were seeking instead an unspecified rise based on a 25 per cent increase in productivity . |
| 30 | ‘ We were putting forward an overall package because of the financial problems facing so many small clubs not a quick-fix job . ’ |