Example sentences of "[be] [v-ing] [pron] [prep] an [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The United States department of defence is currently looking at using multi media to train reservists , and a few publishers are using it as an exciting new media for publishing encyclopaedias . |
| 2 | Chris Patten , the Secretary of State for the Environment , later countered : ‘ If the Labour Party are accusing us of an electoral bribe , it shows that they find it rather difficult to criticise us on any other grounds . ’ |
| 3 | It 's cos you 're using it for an improper |
| 4 | With chains and gags and — dirt — This week , ever so efficiently filing records for this surgeon , I just happened to come across a sixteen-year-old who had his leg off last year — they 're fitting him with an artificial one , it takes months , they 're incredibly slow — and it 's started up for certain now in his other leg , he does n't know , but I know , I know lots of things . |
| 5 | ‘ Luce is fond of you and she does n't want to hurt you , but you 're putting her in an impossible situation by your pig-headedness . |
| 6 | But now they 're filming it for an appreciative video audience |
| 7 | Now Amsterdam seem to be willing to take him on despite the scandal , and are presenting him as an exciting and controversial figure , while many of his former colleagues in The Hague admire him , as do the public ; he is seen as decisive , inspiring and provocative . |
| 8 | So it takes all the pain out of coming up with annual appraisals because you 've been doing it on an incremental basis . |
| 9 | ‘ We have spent a lot of time explaining it and we think people are approaching it in an open way . ’ |
| 10 | ‘ I 'm expecting something from an old friend and I just remembered he only has this address for me . ’ |
| 11 | To the rapid , repetitive beat two glistening bodies were contorting themselves into an impossible position , their backs horizontal to the floor and no more than a foot from it . |
| 12 | With their assistance , gears and warped carburettor components and portions of armour major and minor were assembling themselves into an enormous baroque weapon . |
| 13 | In effect the Berlin banks who loaned money to the Junkers were paying themselves through an agricultural clearing house in East Prussia . |
| 14 | Lazy-lidded grey eyes in a dark , chisel-chinned face were regarding her with an insulting trace of laughter somewhere in their depths . |
| 15 | She had met her connection in the usual place but the moment the deal was struck they were busted by three plainclothes policemen who had been watching them from an unmarked car on the opposite side of the road . |
| 16 | If you are under 60 but your husband has reached 65 and is retired , he may be able to claim a dependency addition of £32.55 for you , provided he pays it to you or is maintaining you to an equivalent amount . |
| 17 | It is well written and interestingly , Warner is publishing it as an original B format and its gimmick to bring it above the rest is to give it a dust jacket . |
| 18 | UTV and Channel 4 now have their own separate sales arrangements in Dublin , and UTV is pushing itself as an all-Ireland TV medium . |
| 19 | Although 70% of the company 's revenue was from Unix in the last fiscal year , Progress defended its support of the AS/400 : IBM is refocusing it as an open platform and database server which means it can be combined with Unix , commented Wark . |
| 20 | He is taking us on an interesting excursion , |
| 21 | It occurred to Cassie that he was keeping himself under an unnatural control , like a muzzled animal . |
| 22 | This man was lodging himself like an irritating burr under her skin . |
| 23 | As the abrasive words poured into her ears , he was moving her against an ornamental lacquerwork cabinet of hip height and bending her backwards , a hand dealing with the intricacies of her bustier with a sure skill that bore witness to a wealth of experience with even the most esoteric of feminine garments . |
| 24 | He was threatening them with an extraordinary general meeting of the club . |
| 25 | ‘ I 'd hoped for so much from that class since I was taking it at an American university , but — ’ |
| 26 | Patrick did n't need to be a doctor to know that his mother was drinking herself into an early grave . |
| 27 | The music by which he frequently composed his poetry ( a natural continuance of a centuries-old tradition ) was asserting itself as an independent expression . |