Example sentences of "[noun prp] be [v-ing] [adv] a " in BNC.
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| 1 | To celebrate , sponsors Sol are giving away a crate of beer each to the first five postcards to arrive before Sept 24 at THE FACE . |
| 2 | ‘ Hey , beautiful ! ’ the proctologist , back aboard Wavebreaker at sunset , called down the companionway steps to where Ellen was tearing apart a lettuce for the evening meal . |
| 3 | But erm but the fact of the matter was , which whichever way you look at it , Russia was supporting essentially a liberal nationalist revolt . |
| 4 | The theme of Stalingrad was becoming rapidly a major embarrassment to the propagandists , especially those on the Wehrmacht staff , who had prematurely whipped up the victory atmosphere in September . |
| 5 | Already Northern Ireland was becoming just a pretty landscape , a backdrop to the pain behind her eyes . |
| 6 | Provided that Ali 's analysis of Hacihasanzade 's motives is correct-and one must remember that Ali is writing nearly a century after the event it would appear that already at the beginning of the sixteenth century the career of a kasabat kadi was regarded as a dead end . |
| 7 | So that you can try them yourself , Elizabeth Arden is giving away a week 's supply to the first 750 readers whose names are picked on 28 February . |
| 8 | It turned out that Cedric was getting rather a lot of meat and I drew up a little chart cutting down the protein and adding extra carbohydrates . |
| 9 | While Cliff Richard was accused of ‘ crude exhibitionism ’ by the moral majority for his regular slots on Oh Boy ! , the BBC was putting together a youth institution . |
| 10 | ‘ Reagan 's talking quite a lot about human rights , which probably suits Gorbachev . ’ |
| 11 | The man behind the famous rooftop shark in Oxford is creating quite a stir in another city centre . |
| 12 | Pick Systems Inc , Irvine , California is making rather a splash in the former Soviet Union and has now been awarded what it reckons is one of the largest computer automation projects to be undertaken by the Russian government in the next 12 months . |
| 13 | Guttersnipe has nothing against adultery per se , but feels that Mr Jones is trying perhaps a little too hard to live up to his theme tune ‘ It 's Not Unusual ’ . |
| 14 | IF Baroness Thatcher is feeling just a teensy weensy bit smug at the news that the Tories are in such a mess that a high proportion of them want her back as leader , well who can blame her ? |
| 15 | From his response to the huge volume of encrypted data that Coleman was sending twice a week to his DIA number in Maryland , Donleavy was interested in his reports , not just for their own sake , but as a means of cross-checking the official inter-agency pooling of information by the DEA and CIA . |
| 16 | But Mr Annan is putting together a planning cell staffed by people who are a mix of officials on short-term contracts and officers on loan from richer governments which continue to pay their salaries and expenses . |
| 17 | They ought to look again , for Mr Major is putting together a group of clear-minded , like-minded ministers and advisers , just as Mrs Thatcher did . |
| 18 | I only mention it now because Francis is taking quite an interest in her little boy . |
| 19 | Larry Ellison 's having quite a month : not only did Oracle finally get version 7 out , his house got a to-die-for spread in Architectural Digest . |
| 20 | But she could n't think straight while Julius was standing just a couple of feet away ! |
| 21 | Up ahead Neil Coles was putting together a 66 , which eventually saw him tie with Johnny , but by the fifth or sixth , when we 'd picked up a couple of birdies to Johnny 's pars or bogey , I thought , ‘ This is our Open . ’ |
| 22 | It baffled her as to why she should feel a tingle in her veins just because Piers Morrison was lying only a few inches away from her . |
| 23 | Meanwhile , DEC is pulling together a central NT engineering-cum-marketing group under Jesse Lipcon and has picked Dennis Schneider , who rolled out DEC 's Desktop Direct programme , as director of marketing . |
| 24 | Charter skipper Oliver Finnegan who runs deep sea trips on board his new boat ‘ Sharon Michele ’ out of Warrenpoint is making quite a name for himself amongst local sea anglers . |
| 25 | Especially as this new bit of gossip came at a time when the idea that Walter Machin was becoming posthumously a national figure was beginning to filter through to Oswaldston consciousness . |
| 26 | Starting from the logic of sustainability , we end up with a very similar size for a new community to the one that Howard was writing about a hundred years ago . |