Example sentences of "[am/are] [verb] [adv prt] a [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | PA are building up a definitive database of companies and contacts interested in ESPRIT CIME . |
| 2 | * South Korea and Russia are to carry out a joint survey to assess the damage caused by Soviet dumping of radioactive waste in the Sea of Japan . |
| 3 | BRITISH eye surgeons are to carry out a pioneering implant operation which could mean short-sighted people throwing away their glasses . |
| 4 | BRITISH eye surgeons are to carry out a pioneering implant operation which could mean short-sighted people throwing away their glasses . |
| 5 | Managing Director Stuart Hyslop said the posters with slogans on issues including the poll tax , crime , health and employment are carried on a commercial cash basis and no other party has approached the company to book space . |
| 6 | The two ‘ half-pictures ’ are transmitted down a single cable TV channel with normal bandwidth . |
| 7 | MOTORISTS in the North-East are snapping up a new device in the battle to beat car crime . |
| 8 | I am saving up a full account until our return , for it is impossible for me to give it in writing . |
| 9 | Garden Management Group are to set up a small IT panel to monitor horticultural computing . |
| 10 | THE MEN 'S MOVEMENT NEEDS MORE THRUST , MORE GRASP , IF WE 'RE TO WHIP UP A STIFF FRONT TO MEET THE FEMINIST POSITION AND LAY THE GHOST OF LIMP WET LIBERALISM ! |
| 11 | In fact er just before I retired they were saying , you know , my job 's obsolete and that , and then and says oh we 're opening up a big depot in Japan . |
| 12 | We 're picking up a strange noise on the sonar . |
| 13 | erm And as I said , we 're trying to , not that I 'm giving the opposite view to Doctor Plumtree , as I said , we 're trying to fund the people on the front line , you know , the foresters in their back yard , as it were , we 're trying to preserve it , and we also feel we 're not being patronising , it 's not like we 're writing out a large cheque and saying ’ here you are ’ , we 're actually putting a lot of time and effort into this , I mean , it 's now become a full time job for me and certainly for Dave Kester , and all the other people working on it . |
| 14 | Er I think I think probably they they 're going up a little bit later so |
| 15 | Oh yes you 're going back a few years ! |
| 16 | Let me just show you what it says , just get it straight , right that 's the service analysis for September nineteen ninety-two , alright so we 're going back a few months . |
| 17 | So , if you 're popping down a daily aspirin , keep the pop music down too . |
| 18 | And I think that our concern is to try and see how that can be improved and , and possibly the underlying reason for that is that erm we all feel that unless we take it seriously , the kind of disasters that increasingly affect developing countries , and try to make our own assistance more rational , more respectful in a way of , of them and their cultures , then I think we 're storing up an enormous amount of trouble for ourselves in the future . |
| 19 | Balance sheet , quote for three thousand pounds to strip the existing roof covering , and basically well , they 're putting on a new roof . |
| 20 | We just did the Radio One 25th Anniversary concert in Birmingham , and we recorded that , so we 're putting out a live medley of hits from it . |
| 21 | We 're sitting round a real fire burning logs , and a fan heater 's whining away in the centre of the room 's dark , threadbare carpet . |
| 22 | ‘ And it will look more as if you 're carrying out a professional duty . ’ |
| 23 | For the future of course , we have now erm negotiated with Eurofighter a rather better arrangement , they 're setting up a joint team , they 're trying to do all the work in one place and they really are now making a lot of progress . |
| 24 | In fact I tuned out altogether for at least a week , while John checked into the hotel and ran around town shuffling papers and permits and palmgrease and all the other shit you deal in when you 're firming up a fresh identity . |
| 25 | Obviously if you are flying over a bad area , with very few good sized fields , it is necessary to divert towards the best area within range and to start looking seriously for a field at several thousand feet . |
| 26 | STRASBOURG are sorting out a new deal for Northern Ireland winger Michael Hughes — even though the Larne man has two years of his current contract remaining . |
| 27 | Robin Chambers , the principal of Stoke-Newington school in South London , where the programme has been used for two months , says : ‘ We are ironing out a few difficulties , for instance getting the individual answer sheet completed in the correct way and working out who has the time to do it . |
| 28 | The birds follow the dog and are lured down a wide tunnel made of netting called a pipe . |
| 29 | Having fewer children , of course , gives rise to a situation which so many 20th-century parents will understand only too well : that one minute there are young babies in the house needing constant attention , while the next , in the twinkling of an eye it seems , Darby and Joan are staring around an empty house and having to re-learn the art of living with each other all over again . |
| 30 | In sum , I 'm writing off an odd paradox , criticising her for sometimes seeing herself as second best when Katell Keineg so patently is n't . |