Example sentences of "[v-ing] [pron] be [adv] a [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Revulsion at what has been happening there is not a prerogative of the politically correct . |
| 2 | Not vérité photographs — pretending there is n't a mind behind the camera or a finger on the button . |
| 3 | ‘ They are not using the services in their own authorities so SSDs are misled into believing there is n't a demand for services . |
| 4 | While ELT publishing was still in its youth — in the days when both toes and fingers were needed to count the number of UK ELT publishers — one might have been forgiven for believing there was just a trace of the treasure hunt in its approach to the stern commercial discipline of market development . |
| 5 | Meeting her was always a problem . |
| 6 | Indeed , many executives harbor misconceptions , believing it is merely a matter of adding extra engineering and design personnel or introducing the latest computer-aided design ( CAD ) technology . |
| 7 | Chassis details follow the broad principles laid down by the Turbo R , with three-stage electronically controlled dampers serving what is basically a MacPherson strut front and semi-trailing arm rear suspension geometry . |
| 8 | They further suggest that regional planning would limit any unconstrained growth arising from operating what is essentially a reimbursement system . |
| 9 | But Wittgenstein has been seen to argue convincingly that naming is a subsidiary use of language and that many substantives are not used for this purpose ( the psychological participles like ‘ thinking ’ being the obvious example ) and , furthermore , that naming itself is not a sort of primal act of speech acquisition but a clutch of language-games that need to be mastered like any others . |
| 10 | So gripped did I become with my inability to proceed at one point , that I almost became benighted through ignoring what was literally a keyhole through the rock . |
| 11 | They did not necessarily have any particular treatment in mind , and certainly not forced feeding which is always a measure of last resort , designed to maintain life rather than to cure . |
| 12 | Thus a councillor may find himself co-opted on to a committee of another local authority , since such a committee may , providing it is not a finance committee , co-opt non-members . |
| 13 | However , strictly speaking it is not a number but a physical quantity with units of mol-1 . |
| 14 | there 's a lot of backtracking it 's not a question of learn every integral there is and you have them all neatly laid out in your head in a |
| 15 | Now I was n't coming I was n't a refugee from anything except unemployment . |
| 16 | Factoring itself is not a term that means much to many outsiders , although invoice discounting has the virtue of describing what it does . |
| 17 | I 'm not saying they 're not a class , I mean , I mean |
| 18 | You 're saying it 's just a place where you 're happy . ’ |
| 19 | Lilley was blatant about the government 's intention to tax the benefit , saying it was simply a matter of timing and overcoming the practical difficulties involved . |
| 20 | His family it 's like dad if he wants to better himself at running he 's not a natural at it . |
| 21 | But because of a contract signed by Darlington Borough Council and the hotel 's former leaseholders in 1974 , the rent paid by the company running it is only a fraction of its market value . |
| 22 | Is there a sense in which if you knew it was coming it 's not a disaster , or at least it , it need n't be a disaster ? |
| 23 | They were not instructed to do so by the apostles and their doing it was not a condition of membership of the church community . |
| 24 | Because she is doing what is clearly a test , the words she writes down in this list have no real context : she would probably not write in the course of a story " I heard a funny nose … " without recognising the error herself when she read it back . |
| 25 | There had been tears in her father 's eyes as he 'd handed her the satin-lined box containing the jewels and Emily , taking it , had felt a constriction in her throat for , with the gift , her father was recognizing she was now a woman . |
| 26 | See if you know that Mrs L and Mrs T can get away with talking about your colour and that knowing there 's not a thing you can do about it because they do n't believe you . |
| 27 | On the other hand , if somebody talks about revolution , structural changes or socialist society , one is safe in assuming he is not a Communist' ( 25 May 1968 ) . |
| 28 | But the company are saying to us , like the M O D , we 've had the ending of the Cold War things are now changing there is not a demand . |
| 29 | For example , at least some of the 50,000-odd Sun users in the telecommunications sector could do with more advanced network management tools , he says , claiming there are already a couple of initiatives under way . |
| 30 | For example , at least some of the 50,000-odd Sun users in the telecomms sector could do with more advanced network management tools , he says , claiming there are already a couple of initiatives underway . |