Example sentences of "[pron] be [verb] [adv] a " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ It is difficult for me to find the limits of the car yet because I am given only a limited number of laps and I do n't know the circuit . ’ |
| 2 | In response to a most generous inquiry , I am putting together a selection of my screenplays for … |
| 3 | 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 . |
| 4 | When the interviewer , Mr Jeremy Paxman , said he could not be serious Mr Ashdown replied : ‘ I am making very a serious comparison . |
| 5 | ‘ Actually , ’ she said , ‘ you 'll notice I 'm wearing rather a long dress . |
| 6 | ‘ I 'm doing quite a lot of work behind the scenes and talking to various people but I 'm not rushing into anything . |
| 7 | I felt as if I were moving just a beat faster than everyone else . |
| 8 | Actually , Cole was n't proposing donations to aid agencies as the ‘ solution ’ to mass starvation any more than Stuart Weir and I were doing so a few years ago . |
| 9 | The sun on my back was warm , but the February nights were still near zero and I was wearing only a sweater . |
| 10 | Mine seem to vary — I was given both a biography of Nancy Reagan , a quite old hardback of TV critical reviews and articles by Clive James and Muriel Spark 's autobiography ( about her childhood in Edinburgh ) recently and have enjoyed them all in different ways . |
| 11 | ‘ I was thinking maybe a Mafia don who 'd turned State 's Evidence against his Family . ’ |
| 12 | I was telling about a dozen girls what would happen to them when they arrived at RAF Wilmslow . |
| 13 | For him to go to Stuttgart he would have had to pay his own way ( I was gaining only a pittance from athletics at this time ) . |
| 14 | I was weighed once a week , but never told my weight . |
| 15 | Except that privately I was lauded quite a lot and told , ‘ Oh that 's good , keep going into the hospitals and doing that ’ , but people could n't acknowledge it in public because their jobs would be on the line . |
| 16 | Well I erm , I was , I was burgled about a year ago and I 'm am ex er , I 'm a retired criminal lawyer , and , but I , I felt that if I lived in the States and trained in the States and I carried a gun then and I felt very vulnerable in not having a gun because he , I was in my own home and he fist me with a knife |
| 17 | Well , it really speeded things up and I was making quite a bit more , but I missed the chat . |
| 18 | I was doing over a hundred k.p.h. then through a miasma of mist , the Pacific glimmering opaquely away to our left and the light fading . |
| 19 | I was allowed only a small chamfer . |
| 20 | Currently , the average UK company pension fund is invested 80 per cent in equities ( 60 per cent UK ) and and only 9 per cent in bonds — in sharp contrast to US and European funds which are invested about a third in bonds . |
| 21 | The skylights in the galleries admit light through angled screens which are changed twice a year , at the equinoxes , and cut out direct rays to spread a diffuse illumination through the rooms . |
| 22 | ‘ It can be difficult to make your child take lengthy courses of treatments such as antibiotics when the average treatment can last for seven days — an eternity to a child However , newer , shorter-course antibiotic treatments are now available from your doctor , which are taken once a day for between three to five days . |
| 23 | If a scheme for Northern Ireland is to have a real chance of success , it must not only enjoy the support of a majority — it must enjoy also the acquiescence of most of the rest , a vivid illustration of the need for an adequate social foundation for any constitutional structure which is to enjoy even a modicum of success . |
| 24 | Are actually as defined in this book , which is involves quite a lot of activity before felling and after felling . |
| 25 | Indeed arguably the only reliable evidence of who has given money to the Tory Party is the honours list which is published twice a year ! |
| 26 | If it 's a concrete floor you could either put down a new wood floor or tile it with some sort of composition tile or sheeting like vinyl or linoleum which is showing quite a revival . |
| 27 | On that day the Mexican Government plays host to United Nations ' World Environment Day , the purpose of which is to send forth a clear message : |
| 28 | Selling shares for gain should not be confused with giving part of your family business to the next generation , which was made easier a few years back under the inheritance tax rules . |
| 29 | Deddington is indeed a failed town which was founded probably a little before 1190 presumably because of its situation at the junction of what by then were important routes . |
| 30 | The new MOT exhaust emissions test , which was introduced only a few months ago , will also play a significant part in cleaning up the air . |