Example sentences of "a [adj] be [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Backed by nearly 200 years experience and boatbuilding tradition , a Moody is above all a boat you know you can trust . |
| 2 | Currently two main methods of describing a solid are in use in CAD systems . |
| 3 | erm that 's from a that 's on a personal basis . |
| 4 | That 's a that 's for |
| 5 | The individual pregnant woman must be viewed in the context of her environment , as a social being with physical , psychological , psychosexual needs and as a member of a family unit . |
| 6 | The disadvantage of the latter system is that there is a tendency to stuff all the envelopes in a section with the material simply because it is easier than going through m all , and because the gaps will have to be made up envelopes wasted if only a few are to left out of one section . |
| 7 | Such rules are not always calculated to improve the truth value of the police case and a few are at odds with the fact-finding object of police investigation . |
| 8 | Consequently there is no topic that is off limits for discussion , even if a few are off limits for experimentation . |
| 9 | ‘ I 'm sure that the majority of runners have to get money because you can not survive without it , and only a few are in a position to do otherwise . ’ |
| 10 | A few are by the main road , but most are quiet . |
| 11 | Quite a few are from the madrigal group , or people Tom 's got to know through it . ’ |
| 12 | A few were off duty that evening . |
| 13 | A few were in the hands of private companies , but the majority were owned either by the Federal or state governments . |
| 14 | Quite a few were in the printing and paper trades as folders , envelope makers , envelope stampers etc . |
| 15 | The libraries in the country districts were housed in the schools but a few were in church halls where schools were not available . |
| 16 | Colour was generally white , a few are blue , green , salmon and purple and a few were in two colours . |
| 17 | Jupiter which is a huge planet , if you look carefully here this is a this is to scale , this shows you the size of the planet . |
| 18 | The Irish Roman Catholic Church bishops yesterday made clear their disapproval of the form of wording chosen by the government to permit abortions in cases where the life of a mother-to-be is at risk . |
| 19 | Norrie Morrison , an analyst at the broker Kleinwort Benson , said : ‘ I think it will go a long was to reassuring shareholders about corporate governance … |
| 20 | Over a grand 's worth you 're looking at here , and you know how much it cost me ? |
| 21 | It is quite possible that a good is in principle tradable , but that the domestic distribution system has been ‘ captured ’ by a single supplier in such a way that entry by trade is difficult . |
| 22 | It could also be a useful was of spotting the disease early — when chances of containing it are best . |
| 23 | Remains of a P-40 are behind the Hurricane . |
| 24 | There were over 4000 LEA careers officers in the UK in 1985 , of whom about a sixth were in government-funded posts dealing with unemployed young people and those on YTS . |
| 25 | It has been the sometimes unspoken assumption of these two parallel debates — whose spokespersons are often one and the same — that to be on the side of modernity and modernism is to be on the side of critical theory , and that to be a postmodernist is at the same time to be in sympathy with poststructuralism . |
| 26 | In the face of poaching , land clearance and logging , the world 's population of wild tigers has fallen to around 7,000 ; three of the eight main species have died out and a fourth is on the verge of extinction . |
| 27 | One group of ships kept watch on Dunkirk and the Flemish ports ; a second , ready to protect the Thames estuary , lay in the Downs just north of Dover ; a third was at Spithead , covering Portsmouth and watching Le Havre ; a fourth was in the Mediterranean , off Toulon ; and the fifth , and most important , was Admiral Hawke 's squadron , whose close blockade of Brest , from his base at Plymouth , was to become a model for the future . |
| 28 | In determining whether a haulier is of good repute , the LA looks at the applicant 's conduct generally , not just at any previous convictions he may have . |
| 29 | That 's a daft was of voting . |
| 30 | A western is like a Japanese Noh play . |