Example sentences of "be [verb] [noun] [prep] a [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | SOME Northern Ireland construction companies are so desperate for business they are building houses at a loss , a report reveals today . |
| 2 | SOME Northern Ireland construction companies are so desperate for business they are building houses at a loss , a report reveals today . |
| 3 | He had , over many weeks , been siphoning petrol from a garage owner 's tank and lorries ; and the owner had , on this particular weekend , diluted the tank with water . |
| 4 | Support for this interpretation has been sought in the effects of a procedure in which subjects are given pre-exposure to a variety of flavours . |
| 5 | Until mid-December , Barbier-Beltz continues to show work by Patrick Dubrac — constructions whose heterogeneous elements are given unity by a lick of white paint — and by Jean-Loup Trassard , whose photographs record the immutable aspects of nature . |
| 6 | ‘ But it 's a younger generation — the Yuppies , the Sloane Rangers , the rich whizzkids , women my age — who are seeing fur as a status symbol again . |
| 7 | CLUBS are seeing red over a shortage of referees in the KY Youth League . |
| 8 | ‘ Surrogate Japanese exports — and some US ones too — are using Asean as a springboard . |
| 9 | If you are using LIFESPAN across a network , then you will also need to create the above directory on each of the additional VAXs from which you intend to access LIFESPAN . |
| 10 | If you are using LIFESPAN across a network , then you will also need to carry out the ASSIGN on each of the additional VAXs from which you intend to access LIFESPAN . |
| 11 | If you are using LIFESPAN across a network , then you will also have to set the directory file ownership on each of the additional VAXs from which you intend to access LIFESPAN . |
| 12 | If you are using LIFESPAN across a network , then you will need to copy the following files from the Installation Directory on the host node to the Installation Directory on each of the additional VAXs , ensuring their protections are preserved : — |
| 13 | If you are using LIFESPAN across a network , then you will have to repeat the steps in this section on each of the additional VAXs from which you intend to access LIFESPAN . |
| 14 | If you are using LIFESPAN across a network , then you will have to repeat the steps in this section on each of the additional VAXs from which you intend to access LIFESPAN . |
| 15 | If you are using LIFESPAN across a network , then you will have to repeat the steps in this section on each of the additional VAXs from which you intend to access LIFESPAN . |
| 16 | This section describes starting and stopping LIFESPAN Processes , and the File Transfer Server Process ( FTSP ) if you are using LIFESPAN across a network . |
| 17 | If you are using LIFESPAN across a network , it is advisable to start the FTSP on the remote nodes prior to starting LIFESPAN on the host node . |
| 18 | Bursting with spring health , they are drawing sustenance from a compost containing thousands of banknotes and travellers cheques . |
| 19 | In the last year I have been helping residents with a variety of local problems and have successfully applied pressure on Oxfordshire County Council to act on the problems caused by the gypsies at the end of the Abingdon Road , near the Rivermead Rehabilitation Centre . |
| 20 | JLM Projects Ltd have been given permission for a plan to build four houses on the site of a former Mission Church at Moor Crescent in Ludworth . |
| 21 | There again is the brave Boris Nikolayevich facing up to a murderous convict who has been given work on a building site and is threatening foreman Yeltsin with an axe ; sheer strength of will sends the man packing and the construction team gets the work done on time . |
| 22 | She had been given directions to a smallholding where they sold early strawberries on a roadside stall but she must have missed her way , taken a wrong turning and come out here . |
| 23 | Of course the swell has been gathering force for a century or more , since Joseph Thompson first saw ‘ the most peculiar band of men to be found in Africa ‘ . |
| 24 | I 've been using RapidCad for a month or so and It 's not given me the slightest problem . |
| 25 | Consequently , the sample group had been using heroin for an average of five years when they were interviewed . |
| 26 | Meanwhile goods collected by the Worcester Kurdish Refugee Association are gathering dust in a warehouse . |
| 27 | This Report has already pointed out that something more than singing and playing may lie needed if boys and girls are to remain part of a choir or music group . |
| 28 | The Lavergnes are demanding £50,000 plus a share of the millions the famous shot has made for Doisneau and his picture agency Rapho since it was made into a poster in the 1980s . |
| 29 | According to Stephen Auditaire of the Fremont , California-based X Business Group , corporations are adopting X as a component of their PC integration strategy — and that wo n't necessarily affect X-terminal business , as PCs are normally used only for occasional access to corporate databases , not the constant heavy graphical use more suited to X-terminals . |
| 30 | Today we are becoming part of a family . |