Example sentences of "[pers pn] are [verb] [verb] a [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ Nick Serota and I are lobbying to get a curator for the collection , ’ Mr Wheatley tells me . |
| 2 | ‘ Yes , ’ replies Craftsman Browne , ‘ but I 'm going to make the most of it — Geordie and I are going to hire a car and drive into the States to visit Yellowstone Park , getting back in time to spend a night in the Cadillacs Club in Medicine Hat … . ’ |
| 3 | You are aiming to create a sense of likeability and equality . |
| 4 | If you are hoping to start a family soon and have already investigated the financial aspects , you will know that statutory maternity pay is determined by your length of service and requires you to earn on average enough to pay Class One National Insurance Contributions . |
| 5 | You are pressed to attend a school sports day . |
| 6 | You are invited to become a friend of The Georgian Theatre Royal for a contribution of just £20 for one year . |
| 7 | You are invited to send a representative to meet the Japanese team at 12.15am on 23 March at British Gas Bristol North District offices . |
| 8 | You are invited to send a representative to cover the quiet area construction between 9am and 5pm on 23 and 24 April . |
| 9 | You are asked to plan a survey to investigate the consumption of sweets by school children . |
| 10 | If you are asked to assess a Design Change , it is because you are manager of one or more of the modules referenced , or manager of a package containing one or more of these modules . |
| 11 | book , you are asked to read a chapter there and it 's er full of er advice regarding television |
| 12 | The story of the Smith family , first introduced in Part 1 , is presented again and you are asked to write a protocol that follows the ten steps in Part 3 and makes use of the information in Parts I , 2 and 4 . |
| 13 | You must stop your ears whenever you are asked to sign a treaty selling your home . |
| 14 | If you are seeking to create a specialism from within the firm it is necessary for the specialist to understand , have a feel for and , most particularly , want to do personal injury work . |
| 15 | If , on the other hand , you are seeking to influence a group of people in a more formal meeting , then consciously working through each stage in the sequence is more appropriate . |
| 16 | ‘ These fraudsters will give you enough information to make you greedy and that 's when you are ready to be scammed because you are expecting to make a fortune . ’ |
| 17 | Just remember that next time you are tempted to book a holiday on the strength of something you read in one of the Sunday supplements . |
| 18 | Pro-active public relations is when you are helping to make a situation or event happen and are keeping ahead of things . |
| 19 | However , if you are trying to create a period shot or a specifically national look you may have to hire props . |
| 20 | He now realised that he needed to redefine his criteria for book selection to include material of broader interest than merely that which would fit in with his teaching : You buy your library books with a different set of criteria than the sort you use when you are trying to choose a textbook , and I had to restrain myself and think : " Well , I would n't like this , but maybe there is somebody who would . |
| 21 | Cutaways are a great help when you are trying to build a sequence of events over which you have little or no control . |
| 22 | The trouble is that tiptoeing is desperately uncomfortable when you are trying to win a war at the same time . |
| 23 | However , it will produce results as it stops the club rolling over and generating topspin — something you definitely do n't want when you are trying to play a shot which places a premium on accuracy . |
| 24 | " I know precisely how many patients we receive here each day , but you are trying to cram a lifetime into a month or so . |
| 25 | When you are in the lower echelons of any service , you are left guessing a lot of the time . |
| 26 | If you are going to use a machine code program in a number of your BBCBASIC(Z80) programs , the simplest way is to assemble it once , save it using PROC_save ( described later ) and load it from each of your programs using PROC_load ( described later ) . |
| 27 | You are going to use a video and some slides on a little portable projector . |
| 28 | Again , if you are going to use a research department in your agency , you will want to put in your requests on a formal basis giving them time to fulfil the task . |
| 29 | This offers more options and would be worth considering if you are going to do a lot of editing . |
| 30 | You are going to need a pair of kitchen scales or letter scales to weigh your food accurately . |