Example sentences of "be [verb] [art] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Lynda says that she did think long and hard about changing careers — not least about the fact that as a Stoy 's partner she could soon be drawing a six figure profit share , compared to the substantially lower salary she would get at C&R . |
| 2 | I shall be drawing a considerable sum in a few days but you must know how it is , travelling the country as we old soldiers do … thank you … ten pounds will be quite sufficient … and you must let me spend some more of it in your excellent company … that evening 's entertainment we enjoyed together , Mr Wood , ’ his voice rose in the small hallway and the other guests and servants indoors and out strained noticeably to catch what would surely be the eloquent testimonial of a compliment , ‘ was one of the , shall we say , most boisterous and wise , a rare combination , Mr Landlord , I have spent , whether in London , in Europe or in and out of ships and foreign postings in a long lifetime . |
| 3 | But it was n't true ; today the invisible hand of fate seemed to be drawing a thick black line under that particular chapter of her life which involved anything related to Luke . |
| 4 | I was asked if I wished my name to be withdrawn a second time but I declined , feeling it would be wrong to have to continue to rely on the goodwill and hospitality of friends in order to continue playing . |
| 5 | On the other hand , the person who discovers a lump under their skin but is too frightened to go to the doctor lest he diagnose cancer will be perpetuating the threatening situation — and this would hold even if the lump was in fact benign . |
| 6 | What was feasible general practice , and whether that was the best place to be contacting the local people . |
| 7 | ‘ I know the piece ’ , he wrote ; ‘ it is a very silly play and the translation will have to be altered a great deal if it is to work as an opera … |
| 8 | Yet , in April , the Executive Committee of the National Union of Textile Workers ( NUTW ) declared its intention of demanding a restoration of the 5 per cent on base wages lost in 1921 and that the cost of living addition should be altered every three months — an action which would benefit the textile workers . |
| 9 | ‘ Their deaths shall be avenged a thousand times ! ’ |
| 10 | Discount levels are determined according to aggregate purchases over three years and will apparently be policed every four months . |
| 11 | ‘ He will be nursing a secret desire to try to make amends , even though everyone has reassured him that these things happen . |
| 12 | Critics claim that that consumers will , in effect , be SUBSIDISING the major industrial polluters who continue to evade prosecution . |
| 13 | Next week , in recognition of this magnificent feat , Public NME will be devoting the entire page to care of your dust mask . |
| 14 | A source close to the Law Commission suggests that , in the case of contracted-out services , one legal remedy might be to sue the relevant agency for breach of contract . |
| 15 | Both statistics are equally powerful in large samples but by and large you will always be using a small sample , so use the test statistic which is designed for small sample work , that 's the F statistic . |
| 16 | If you use Imigran more than once or twice a month , you should also be using a continuous anti-migraine treatment and reserving Imigran for breakthrough migraines . |
| 17 | If you write a spreadsheet for somebody else , you might be using a sixty six megahertz four eight six duel processor erm , spaceship , and , somebody is using a steam driven I B M A T or something , and it runs quite acceptably on your machine , a reasonable speed , and you give it to somebody else on that steam driven thing , and it takes ages to do anything , and er , you press a button and they wait half an hour sort of thing . |
| 18 | It will , in that sense , be using the existing form of uneven development to its maximum advantage . |
| 19 | The AA says fourteen thousand extra drivers a day will be using the existing motorway and its link roads by 1991 . |
| 20 | The railway is currently under construction and will be using the trackbed of the long-closed Newbury Railway , previously standard gauge and originally Brunel 's broad gauge . |
| 21 | Are we supposed to be using the pre-course questionnaires that I 've seen a couple of times , on all course ? |
| 22 | The remaining locations should be using the new system by October this year which will then see the completion of a major personnel and data processing project which will have taken two and a half years to plan and implement . |
| 23 | Can he tell us whether and how he will be using the new marketing initiative of his Ministry to assist exports in the industry ? |
| 24 | In conversations which involve speakers of both the first and second generations it is mainly the behaviour of the second generation speakers which is of interest , for it is these individuals who have " stylistic mobility " between London English and Creole and can be assumed to be using the two codes differentially ( though not necessarily consciously ) in a strategic way . |
| 25 | Yeah , were going to be using the first plane on Hong Kong on February the first |
| 26 | Despite Herbert 's claim to be using the plain saying of direct felt expression and humility towards addressing the divine , he is also demonstrating his poetic standing . |
| 27 | At first , no doubt , it was in the nature of an exercise just to see if he could still write : he was working very closely to the structure of " Burnt Norton " and seemed to be using the earlier poem as a model from which to draw inspiration . |
| 28 | Last month more than a thousand women in Birmingham were recalled after a nurse was said to be using the wrong type of spatula . |
| 29 | If you are properly set up under Windows then you should have the ANSI.SYS driver in your CONFIG.SYS file , if not then it may well be worth installing it unless you are driving an HP LaserJet in which case you 'll be using the Roman-8 character set ; the Roman-8 codes are 247 , 248 and 245 respectively . |
| 30 | " He wo n't be using the old way for long . " |