Example sentences of "[noun sg] be [v-ing] [adv] a " in BNC.
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| 1 | Around this lily-covered pond are growing just a few of the 3,000 members of the Araceae family . |
| 2 | If you recall yesterday , I think yes , the term sick as a parrot is becoming quite a , er , apparent to me in here again , that 's again looking at your faces , some of you , so you 're all quite happy about that one , you knew where you went wrong there . |
| 3 | At this date such illustrations were uncommon even in engineering , where drawing was becoming both a serious matter and something like an art form . |
| 4 | 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 . |
| 5 | Meanwhile , Reading Council were lashing together a municipal PR exercise , using as a dodgy pretext the 400th anniversary of the destruction of the local abbey by Henry VIII . |
| 6 | Wild Turkey is giving away a free packet of turkey-flavoured crisps with every shot of the drink ordered . |
| 7 | In more general terms the community is putting forward a demand that it should have the decisive voice in determining its own future , something no state is likely to welcome . |
| 8 | One of the black , tendrilled parts of its body was picking apart an orange and ingesting it , segment by segment . |
| 9 | And Gateway is giving away a 250g box of After Eight Mints with every bottle of Martell Cognac ( £16.49 ) . |
| 10 | The court was considering only a limited application by the European Commission for the suspension of parts of the act considered to be most at odds with EC non-discrimination laws . |
| 11 | ‘ And the trade is changing quite a lot . |
| 12 | Thus , this paper is adopting explicitly a particular position along the spectrum of views currently being expressed about comprehensive , multidisciplinary assessment of older people , and , as well as proposing a model for practice , is also an attempt to stimulate amongst professionals and managers a debate , which is now urgent , about how the development of assessment and care management systems should proceed . |
| 13 | Mind you , his movie career is going downhill a bit . |
| 14 | The Nottingham Forest midfielder is stalling over a £4m move . |
| 15 | Using OSF 's Distributed Computing Environment alongside Palladium , Systems Center is putting together a bundle of ISO DPA 10175 and Posix 1003.7.1-compatible distributed print services which it will supply to OSF in 1993 . |
| 16 | When we say that Beaver is giving away an iceberg we do not mean a lettuce . |
| 17 | An argument over which bulls are best ; British or Canadian and American is causing quite a rumpus . |
| 18 | What they said remained inaudible , but it was clear that the Frenchman was offering only an occasional monosyllable to punctuate her husband 's rambling drawl . |
| 19 | In the cloistered shelter of the medieval monasteries brewing was becoming quite an art in the skilled hands of monks well used to brewing table beers for their abbots . |
| 20 | For a limited period only , Leica Camera is giving away a free 28–70mm VARIO-ELMAR-R zoom lens , worth £577 . |
| 21 | His lean brand of nonchalant sexuality was attracting quite a few appreciative glances . |
| 22 | To their growing alarm , the £10.5 billion revenues that Koch Industries were earning from oil trading , refining , piping and ranching were yielding only a one per cent return to shareholders . |
| 23 | New pits were sunk at Dare ( 1870 ) and Bwllfa ( 1877 ) : by 1900 the four collieries of the Ocean Company were producing over a million and a half tons of coal annually , and many other pits had also been sunk profitably . |
| 24 | The DSM III ( American Psychiatric Association 1980 ) definition of nocturnal enuresis is bedwetting twice a month for children between the ages of 5 and 6 years . |
| 25 | I du n no , my step , my dad 's earning quite a lot though |
| 26 | That was particularly so when the 50p levy was generating quite a lot of finance at local level . |
| 27 | The report was released at the time of the local elections , for which the Party is putting forward a record number of candidates , contesting fighting one in nine seats . |
| 28 | By 1960 the American family was throwing away an average of 750 cans a year . |
| 29 | Being middle class was becoming more a matter of consumption than of belief . |