Example sentences of "[verb] a [noun sg] [be] [be] " in BNC.
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| 1 | PC Keith Fletcher was attending a call at Merchants Wharf , St Peter 's Basin , Newcastle , after neighbours reported a house was being raided . |
| 2 | He says he would n't have liked to have been told an incinerator was being built at the bottom of his garden , but having seen this one , he 'd be reassured . |
| 3 | Aid appeal AN APPEAL is being made to the Welsh Office to help fund , through Urban Aid , a £20,000 scheme to build a play area for children at Castle Walks maisonettes in Flint . |
| 4 | If you think a reference is being made to the Bible , you can use a concordance to the Bible . |
| 5 | Holding them of course means a return is being earned that otherwise would be forgone . |
| 6 | If you think an allusion is being made to a Greek or Roman myth , you can try Lemprièe 's Classical Dictionary or some other dictionary of Classical mythology . |
| 7 | Police chief Calvin Ross said a person was being questioned about the killing of Uwe-Wilhelm Rakebrand , the eighth foreign tourist and the fourth German killed in Florida in the past year . |
| 8 | The junction at Newton is to revert to double track , airline style black boxes are being installed in trains to pinpoint the cause of accidents , and a new electronic safeguard system which will literally stop trains in their tracks if a driver makes a mistake is being tested . |
| 9 | The junction at Newton is to revert to double track , airline style black boxes are being installed in trains to pinpoint the cause of accidents , and a new electronic safeguard system which will literally stop trains in their tracks if a driver makes a mistake is being tested . |