Example sentences of "[be] [adv] [verb] an [noun] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Meantime IBM Corp 's first quarter figures are due today and analysts are generally predicting an operating loss of about 50 cents a share on a decline in turnover of 10% or more — with a swingeing 20% or more decline in mainframe business : a year ago , IBM reported net of $1.12 a share before an accounting gain . |
| 2 | Business leaders , building society chiefs and the construction industry are also demanding an interest cut . |
| 3 | Children are given a list of intellectual challenges to master and are also given an obstacle/assault type course to complete . |
| 4 | People being assessed are also offered an advocacy service in case they feel that they would benefit from additional support . |
| 5 | Linda McCartney , Elton John , Peter Gabriel and George Michael are now supporting an emergency fund-raising campaign . |
| 6 | By now the man may be home enjoying an evening meal . |
| 7 | If this is the case , then an infested ant may appear to its colleagues to be simply carrying an ant larva , something it would regularly do as part of its nursing duties ( Journal of Zoology vol. 225 , pp 59–70 ) . |
| 8 | We are presently recruiting an Electronics Engineer to work in our Electronics Workshop . |
| 9 | Preoperative anxiety assessed before and after patients were randomly allocated an information sheet containing either simple or detailed descriptions of possible postoperative complications . |
| 10 | Even allowing for the fact that Orphism , as the most recent artistic novelty , was attracting the attention of a press and public made restless and sensation-hungry by the numerous artistic upheavals which the twentieth century had already witnessed , the fact is that by 1914 the abstract tendencies in European painting were already assuming an importance second only to that of Cubism from which they had largely sprung . |
| 11 | They were also shown an iron bar . |
| 12 | When the committee system of the ASEA is considered as a whole , it is apparent that members were consciously operating an employment policy based upon casework , the practice most conspicuously associated with the COS , which , given the origins of the Association , is by no means unexpected . |
| 13 | DEC and Microsoft are jointly developing an SQL Server GateWay for Rdb/VMS so Windows users can access information residing in Rdb/VMS databases . |
| 14 | The result is a wild , and sometimes very scary , portrait of Manson , his teachings and his bad craziness ; a look from behind those piercing cold eyes as the listener to Moran 's opera is suddenly given an expressway journey to the back of Charlie 's skull . |
| 15 | All can be upgraded using Intel 's clock-doubling OverDrive technology which is soon to offer an upgrade path to Pentium standard performance . |
| 16 | Specialix is also courting an OEM agreement with Ing Olivetti & Co SpA for RIO — Specialix claims to have 80% of the Italian I/O board market . |
| 17 | Advanced Micro is also offering an entry level design tool , MachXL , for £235 . |
| 18 | He is also making an oak flower stand to hold the flowers placed in the chapel every week by the Guild , and a new case for the facsimile of St Margaret 's Gospel Book . |
| 19 | But British authorities are sceptical of its importance and do not intend to add it to their evidence to the Sizewell public inquiry ( which is now enjoying an Easter break ) . |
| 20 | Taking potshots at NT is fast becoming an industry recreation despite it being a little unfair . |
| 21 | The collision was on a town centre route that is fast becoming an accident blackspot . |
| 22 | So if it 's drama you 're seeking , let's ask the Adjutant if he 's yet appointed an Entertainments Officer . ’ |
| 23 | Industrial Light is currently using an Alias system to create computer-generated dinosaurs for Steven Spielberg 's upcoming Jurassic Park film and has also used it for commercials . |
| 24 | One school is currently developing an activity recording system . |
| 25 | Miller is currently contemplating an autumn debut with his own gallery in Cologne . |
| 26 | The company is currently afforded an overdraft facility of £107,000 and we are in the process of agreeing to increase this facility in the near future to £135,000 . |
| 27 | Mr Dunn , who is currently devising an incentive plan for Thames Television , said he believed ITV had to motivate and retain the services of all its staff , but that schemes should be devised to spread profit sharing and share ownership company wide . |
| 28 | It ai n't suppose to be an engagement ring , it 's never called an engagement ring is it ? |
| 29 | The firm are currently negotiating an advertising programme with an agency . |
| 30 | He believes that one of his workers told Abba 's record company that he was secretly recording an Abba song with a group of soundalikes . |