Example sentences of "[be] [verb] [pron] [prep] a [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | MILLWALL defender Colin Cooper showed why Nottingham Forest have been pursuing him with a fine display in their 2–1 win at DERBY . |
| 2 | During his time as Party chairman , many constituency officers had been to see him on a similar errand . |
| 3 | The Irish are seeing something of a cricketing revival … it 's the fastest growing sport in their home country , and they feel confident about taking on the World 's best . |
| 4 | Beauty is in the eye of the beholder , in which case Kitchens Of Distinction are using it as a sharp stick . |
| 5 | ‘ The Bosnian Serbs are using humanitarian aid as a military weapon and the Bosnian government and Croatian groups are using it as a political weapon . ’ |
| 6 | FoE 's rainforests campaigner , Tony Juniper , admits that some tree planting is a good idea , but says that " politicians are using it as a green smokescreen to hide the failure of developed countries to cut emissions of carbon dioxide " . |
| 7 | STAFF at the Wedgwood visitor centre are bracing themselves for a bumper summer season . |
| 8 | Hereford are staging something of a mini revival this year inching their way out of the gloom at the bottom of division three . |
| 9 | He 'd just been amusing himself with a new challenge , the new blonde female who 'd temporarily appeared in his life … |
| 10 | A group of kids are on a roundabout , one foot on and one foot off , they are pushing it at a giddy speed , round and around until their faces form a single banded blur . |
| 11 | What about like contraception should be integral part of it , and abortion and the options open to you , but I think it 's very important that we are taught it , we 're taught it in a heterosexual basis , and that 's just not the case , and that just alienates people any more , really more from a very early age . |
| 12 | No , oh , well no , we 're painting it as a female problem exclusively , but one that 's been |
| 13 | They 'll miss him , like they missed many of their first team players who 're saving themselves for a vital league game next week . |
| 14 | And the way the management work in here , I can say is they , aim they 're promoting anybody to a chargehand they usually promote somebody that 's actually no threat to themselves . |
| 15 | When they measure your speed , they 're measuring your velocity really , they 're measuring it in a particular direction , along that road . |
| 16 | if we can resolve it with cos then you 're getting summat on a different style of thinking to that , you know , I know Fred does n't wan na be involved but then you 've always got somebody , well we 'll have to go and see Fred first . |
| 17 | An hour on the workbench could make them play quite reasonably , but do n't imagine you 're getting anything like a real Rickenbacker for a bargain price ; they 've got the looks , but that 's about all . |
| 18 | We 're moving you to a safe house in Wapping . |
| 19 | ‘ You 're asking me for a snap judgement , Miss Levington ? ’ |
| 20 | The bill , th the , it 's three thousand pound , and they 're asking us for a thousand . |
| 21 | And we 're doing it in a second time . |
| 22 | They 're talking about going with us certainly , but they 're doing it in a positive way because they see what the future is . |
| 23 | There 's just time for a quick flip through the Highway Code and then your , but the test is even more daunting when you 're taking it on a 15 ton steam roller . |
| 24 | So we 're showing it in a peaceful way because in the end of course we can destroy by the ballot and not the bullet . |
| 25 | He says : ‘ There are great forces at work , and they 've already embraced us in a world market , they 're sweeping us towards a European destiny . |
| 26 | Yeah the firework systems supposed to be the centre of the Red Vase designs , we 're putting ourselves in a considerable disadvantage in not visiting and influencing these Red Vase Designs . |
| 27 | True , you ca n't do it , if you 're restricting yourself to a positive answer . |
| 28 | So if we 've got somebody earning nine thousand , they 're going to want to know why they 're insuring themselves for a hundred thousand on living insurance benefit . |
| 29 | Back in Fr Butler 's home parish of St Lachtain in Freshford , Kilkenny , Fr Seamus Henry said : ‘ I have n't been in touch with John for some months but I am supporting him in a pastoral way . |
| 30 | if you ask a subordinate to write you a report explain that you are expecting it by a specific date and always with a one page management summary |