Example sentences of "[be] [verb] a [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | His wife might even be sparing a thought for the murdered women 's families , never guessing that the man she was married to had been the perpetrator . |
| 2 | Faced with the choice of reinventing itself or hanging up its boots , 88open , the supporters club for Motorola Inc 88000 RISC vendors , is said to be finalising a plan to offer its conformance testing expertise to the industry at large , via a separate organisation that will develop and implement test suites for suppliers of other RISC architectures and consortia like PowerOpen or Sparc International it sees as potential customers . |
| 3 | Although we are dot going to be hobbling a horse by three legs and tethering it all day out in the sun , we will need a tolerant horse if we wish it to do boring or repetitious work . |
| 4 | Trapped in a cost-cutting spiral , Computone and Specialix — plus Chase Research Inc which is rumoured to be courting a buyer — are being forced to streamline their organisations . |
| 5 | Sports officer Ian Gardiner said : ‘ We will be submitting a bid for funds to put on a new series of Champion Coaching based on the popularity of the last course . |
| 6 | Examples are provided of the use of medication , including stopping such treatment when it does not appear to be helping a patient . |
| 7 | The Party leader , Mr Jacques Chirac , said he regretted that reaction in France to events in East Germany were often cool because of the fear of difficult consequences for France , but the priority should be to support a victory of democracy over communism . |
| 8 | The group would also be using a base in Perth as a central point for sending cranes all over the country . |
| 9 | The idea is that all meta data should be available to developers — who may be using a variety of tools — via a single , logical dictionary . |
| 10 | Richard Durrant is a local classical guitar player , he will be using a variety of instruments to play a varied programme of contemporary and other music . |
| 11 | Since rhetoric involves argumentation , then a basic question should be asked of any political discourse which appears to be using a rhetoric traditionally associated with the critics , rather than supporters , of the discourse : is the speaker or writer actually arguing against their own ideological tradition , or are they using a complex rhetoric to conduct an argument within their own tradition ? |
| 12 | An expanding body of work does provide evidence of racial discrimination in medicine , and St George 's Hospital Medical School was found to be using a computer program to shortlist applicants that downgraded those with non-English names . |
| 13 | With the same 14 mm bait I will now be using a size 4 and possibly a size 2 . |
| 14 | Next time you see him , he 'll be using a knife and fork like the rest of us . |
| 15 | And UTV 's Gerry will be using a satellite dish to do interviews from across the province live on the show . |
| 16 | Some decide that their child should be using a teacher beaker by the age of 6 months while others will happily breastfeed until the age of 3 years . |
| 17 | He must have supposed himself to be using a language absolutely purged of metaphor when he wrote at the grand climax of the Discourse on method |
| 18 | You 're not supposed to be using a ruler Emmy . |
| 19 | Charles Cockell ( PRO : COE-KELL ) will be using a device invented by Barnes Wallis to collect moths from his microlight plane . |
| 20 | This last point does not necessarily mean that you have to be using a page description language but , for the moment at least , it amounts to the same thing . |
| 21 | If you 'll be using a wheelbarrow frequently , then make risers low and treads deep , to make is easier to manoeuvre — or build a separate ramp for it . |
| 22 | To close the eyes should be to see a carnival amongst friends . |
| 23 | My advice would be to see a solicitor immediately as your case needs very careful investigation and consideration . |
| 24 | My advice would be to see a solicitor immediately as your case needs very careful investigation and consideration . |
| 25 | We may be handling a horse and get a feeling that we are in tune with the horse and that it is accepting and even anticipating whatever we want to do : we are in rapport with the horse , and are communicating with the horse but in a way that is not through the other senses . |
| 26 | Korda , in between doing his national service , seemed to be building a tennis career that would merely reach the dizzying heights of an anthill at best . |
| 27 | We should be building a side around him — not giving him away . |
| 28 | And here was I , thinking you could not be building a roof without nails . |
| 29 | Obviously all of this detail I explain to you here I 'm just giving you a brief overview it 'll be explained a lot more on the training course . |
| 30 | ‘ The breach of an order is now clearly seen as a criminal offence and the police will be pursuing a policy of bringing offenders to justice with the full and unambiguous backing of the criminal justice system , ’ he stressed . |