Example sentences of "[am/are] [verb] [adv prt] [prep] a [noun sg] " in BNC.

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1 Conversely , if you are building up to a competition and wish to greatly increase your fitness and endurance , the FDR should be very intense and should make up a large part of your training .
2 Since the majority of Umbrian towns are placed up on a slope or are like a crown on top of a hill , there are invariably magnificent panoramas .
3 You may sense that your words are tumbling out into a kind of void .
4 A dot is placed in the appropriate column opposite each criterion and the dots are joined up by a line .
5 A dot is placed in the appropriate column opposite each criterion and the dots are joined up by a line .
6 All steel parts are checked through on a magnaflux machine .
7 Some of the finest acrobats in the world are limbering up for a show in the Big Top in Cheltenham .
8 The raffle or lottery is a form of random sample — in its simplest form the identical little numbered tickets are shaken up in a hat and drawn out one by one by someone with their eyes closed .
9 In the West , business agreements are carried out at a distance , say six feet or more .
10 Rocket tests are carried out at a missile centre at Shuan-ch'eng-tsu or at a nuclear test range in Lop Nor .
11 Measurements are carried out on a sample clamped in a thermostat .
12 Professor J. P. Payne of the Department of Anaesthetics at the Royal College of Surgeons insists that a research nurse should always be present when tests are carried out on a patient .
13 While the majority are carried out by a person known to the victim , random attacks on strangers are on the increase .
14 The defendant had produced a program called " Oscar " , a job scheduling program for controlling the order in which tasks are carried out by a computer .
15 This should not include VAT , as this is only payable when the repairs are carried out by a contractor/repairer who is VAT registered .
16 The Government may be the paymaster , but the actual negotiations are carried out by a team of health authority representatives who might be industrial relations experts but usually are not .
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18 These three jobs are carried out within a time dimension .
19 If migrating birds are caught up in a storm , or blown off course , it can be disastrous for , even undisturbed these vast journeys stretch them to the limit .
20 Workers are caught up in a form of ‘ prisoners ’ dilemma' .
21 It 's a fearful world where even the goodies have a strangeness about them , as they too are caught up in a world of little people , strange animals and flying objects .
22 The horses are walking round in a ring then .
23 Clare 's ambitions are to jump out of a plane ( with a parachute ) and , she says , to be in a Rentokil publication !
24 Social problems are crowding in on a city where the body-count for murders rose from a record 1,905 in 1989 to a new record of more than 2,200 in 1990 .
25 On Friday George Tinsley and John Warnock , of The North Yorkshire Brewing Company , are jetting off to a trade fair in Tokyo to promote the pride and joy of Teesside 's real ale enthusiasts .
26 The suggestion is that the other dimensions are curved up into a space of very small size , something like a million million million million millionth of an inch .
27 It could be argued that such a system is valuable in all high risk operations : it provides reassurance not only for the surgical teams but also for patients who are operated on by a surgeon in whom seroconversion subsequently occurs .
28 Similarly , Marshall Sahlins 's work on the Hawaiian islanders in his Islands of History , though far more acutely aware of contending multiple narratives trying to ascribe different significances to the same happenings , is also organised so that it allows Sahlins to present a narrative wherein conflicting stories/histories are mapped out in a framework which explores these histories ' interpenetrations , their assimilations of each other rather than their refusals of each other .
29 they are airlifted out in a helicopter gunship
30 That is nipples which are turned in like a crater , or which do not stick up by at least half a centimetre when gently pinched between thumb and forefinger from just beyond the base .
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