Example sentences of "[be] [verb] a [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | And if we are delayed a week , that means a lot of gratis P.T. and a battle course , which is not a pleasing prospect … . |
| 2 | In the meantime he had been pursuing a policy of rationalizing the trade by buying patent and grain distillery businesses that were in difficulty , collaborating closely with the large blending houses . |
| 3 | The Soviets are building a total of six such pipelines , each one between 3000 and 4000 km long . |
| 4 | But that may not happen soon … so the Tajiks … with extraordinary commitment are building a school for their children … with their bare hands . |
| 5 | We are building a park on the land . |
| 6 | The contract provides marine crews , towing vessels and full catering services for a Dutch/American joint partnership of offshore construction contractors , Heerema and McDermott , who are building a jacket and topside modules for the new Goodwyn A platform for Woodside Offshore Petroleum Pty Ltd . |
| 7 | The site was uncovered by Thames Water engineers , who are building a water treatment pipeline . |
| 8 | The site was uncovered by Thames Water engineers , who are building a water treatment pipeline . |
| 9 | The £1.7 million striker declared : ‘ We are building a squad , but to talk about winning titles at this stage is n't on . |
| 10 | Would you say that you are building a reputation in eccentric roles ? necessarily eccentric — that just sounds a gimmick . |
| 11 | MCDEVITT STREET Bovis are building a reputation in the healthcare sector , having recently won a US$30 million contract in their home town of Charlotte , North Carolina . |
| 12 | Unix System Laboratories Inc 's ex-director of strategic marketing Paul Calkin has surfaced as a principal in Systems & Software Integration & Distribution Inc where he and his staff are building a business consulting personal computer and low-end Unix companies on high-end strategic and sales issues . |
| 13 | ‘ We are building a team at Hillsborough which will be challenging for all the honours in the game . |
| 14 | If you are building a trailer , fit a suspension rated for a trailer heavier than the actual weight . |
| 15 | and she said oh , she said I 've been to see a friend |
| 16 | Never mind , she said to me this morning , she said I 've been to see a friend of yours , I said well who 's that ? |
| 17 | All of us that is except uncle Eugenio , who had never been to see a film , saying that it was a fraud , all illusion , and that when the lights went up and all the characters disappeared the screen was no more than a rag . |
| 18 | I suppose I had been given a sense of the evil of cinema by my strict Methodist grandparents , who were visibly shocked when once I confessed that I had been to see a film on Sunday . |
| 19 | " Have you been to see a doctor ? " |
| 20 | He had been to see a palmist and shown him her photo . |
| 21 | Puts them on notice that you 've been to see a solicitor . |
| 22 | They are opposing a bid by the Cotton Club to stay open until 2am . |
| 23 | They are opposing a bid by the Cotton Club to stay open until 2am . |
| 24 | If the patient has been seeing a physiotherapist privately , it still may be necessary to involve a second , specialist physiotherapist , if the patient stops progressing . |
| 25 | The first thing I learnt more or less was thkarni which means — well she said it meant — this white stork we 've been seeing a lot of . |
| 26 | The girl had been seeing a lot of another young man , an estate agent called Jose , and that association continued after the marriage — long after ! |
| 27 | THE NEW generation of personal computers that plug into company computer-networks are proving a boon to computer spies . |
| 28 | At this point , any function words are assigned a score equal to the maximum overlap score multiplied by a constant ( they were not overlapped by the program and therefore have a score of zero so far ) . |
| 29 | Tokens are listed under the phonetic variant which they realize , and additionally are assigned a label which describes the following environment ; these labels are explained as follows : |
| 30 | In all these versions the family is seen as having a direct relationship with the wider society , being that social form within which people are assigned a place in society and where they internalise the values of that place and which shapes sexual attitudes to conform to wider social needs . |