Example sentences of "[v-ing] [conj] [pron] [be] a [adv] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Industrial chemicals lost £49 million in the fourth quarter , suggesting that there is a little more pain to come from ICI 's core businesses . |
| 2 | When asked to talk through her technique , she appears reticent , suggesting that it is a little too simplistic and old-fashioned , perhaps too naive for those readers who have been to art school . |
| 3 | When asked to talk through her technique , she appears reticent , suggesting that it is a little too simplistic and old-fashioned , perhaps too naive for those readers who have been to art school . |
| 4 | By the end of the evening you might well be accepting that I 'm a fully paid-up flesh-eating dinosaur like my parents ! ’ |
| 5 | Listen to that big-mouthed gilgul , acting like she 's a fully paid-up member of the team . |
| 6 | The offers were made to the County Council who normally consulted the schoolmaster before accepting and he was a very important factor in their success . |
| 7 | Er it 's thirty six pound a year to be a member there but if you are a keen sportsman their facilities are well worth using because it 's a very very good sports centre indeed . |
| 8 | And that is als , I 'm just saying that it 's a very dangerous |
| 9 | And and and and across the board there has been a cut of er , er of of of just below fifteen per cent , that that the that er er , our cut is forty five per cent , and and I mean , it er , it it it does er er create problems , there 's no doubt about it , and that I I got the letter from er which er , Rod instructed to come along to the department to me yesterday , in fact , I did refer very briefly to it , 'cos I 'm gon na just before the meeting that er er it it sets out saying that it was a very generous set settlement for ninety-three , ninety-four . |
| 10 | But then you got three or four hundred a day coming and it was a little over-crowded . |
| 11 | I remember my father saying when he was a very old man , ‘ Technique you can learn . |
| 12 | The German Environment Minister , Klaus Töpfer , expressed disappointment at France 's action , arguing that it was an unnecessarily abrupt response . |
| 13 | There was no mistaking that I was a very sick man . ’ |
| 14 | You see in British Steel we we have seventy thousand deferred pensioners and er it is a group of people that I feel extremely sorry for , because er in nineteen eighty-six British Steel introduced into their pension scheme while it was still in the public sector , retirement at sixty where with a pension credit spaced on length of service , so if you had thirty-five years service in , you could retire at sixty as if you were sixty-five and there was nothing done at all for deferred pensioners and in certainly our submission to British Steel for seeking improvements , we we asked that they er they look at deferred pensioner with a view to paying their pensions at sixty , recognising that it was a very high-class plane that might have to be er achieved in stages . |
| 15 | He was just non compos mentis most of the time and there were times when you could be forgiven for forgetting that he was a woefully sick man . |