Example sentences of "be [verb] [pers pn] [prep] a [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | MILLWALL defender Colin Cooper showed why Nottingham Forest have been pursuing him with a fine display in their 2–1 win at DERBY . |
| 2 | During his time as Party chairman , many constituency officers had been to see him on a similar errand . |
| 3 | Beauty is in the eye of the beholder , in which case Kitchens Of Distinction are using it as a sharp stick . |
| 4 | ‘ The Bosnian Serbs are using humanitarian aid as a military weapon and the Bosnian government and Croatian groups are using it as a political weapon . ’ |
| 5 | FoE 's rainforests campaigner , Tony Juniper , admits that some tree planting is a good idea , but says that " politicians are using it as a green smokescreen to hide the failure of developed countries to cut emissions of carbon dioxide " . |
| 6 | A group of kids are on a roundabout , one foot on and one foot off , they are pushing it at a giddy speed , round and around until their faces form a single banded blur . |
| 7 | What about like contraception should be integral part of it , and abortion and the options open to you , but I think it 's very important that we are taught it , we 're taught it in a heterosexual basis , and that 's just not the case , and that just alienates people any more , really more from a very early age . |
| 8 | No , oh , well no , we 're painting it as a female problem exclusively , but one that 's been |
| 9 | When they measure your speed , they 're measuring your velocity really , they 're measuring it in a particular direction , along that road . |
| 10 | We 're moving you to a safe house in Wapping . |
| 11 | ‘ You 're asking me for a snap judgement , Miss Levington ? ’ |
| 12 | The bill , th the , it 's three thousand pound , and they 're asking us for a thousand . |
| 13 | And we 're doing it in a second time . |
| 14 | They 're talking about going with us certainly , but they 're doing it in a positive way because they see what the future is . |
| 15 | There 's just time for a quick flip through the Highway Code and then your , but the test is even more daunting when you 're taking it on a 15 ton steam roller . |
| 16 | So we 're showing it in a peaceful way because in the end of course we can destroy by the ballot and not the bullet . |
| 17 | He says : ‘ There are great forces at work , and they 've already embraced us in a world market , they 're sweeping us towards a European destiny . |
| 18 | Back in Fr Butler 's home parish of St Lachtain in Freshford , Kilkenny , Fr Seamus Henry said : ‘ I have n't been in touch with John for some months but I am supporting him in a pastoral way . |
| 19 | if you ask a subordinate to write you a report explain that you are expecting it by a specific date and always with a one page management summary |
| 20 | It 's when you 've been flying them for a few days consecutively that it ( pardon the pun ) dawns on them that they could escape and find out what 's over the next hill . |
| 21 | You sorted it out and settled it ten years ago , but now you are facing it as a new problem at your present age . |
| 22 | Oh I 've been doing it for a long time have n't I ? |
| 23 | that is something that 'd happened all of a sudden , of about four throughout the cou , well three at the time throughout the country have suddenly gone like it within about a month or so of each other , and they 've never had any trouble before , but I was talking to Brian and he said that 's a load of cobblers , he says it 's been doing it for a long time and there 's loads of them doing it . |
| 24 | Living is very important to me as I 've been doing it for a fair few years now . |
| 25 | You complain that your marriage is n't a partnership , yet when you are not tearing a strip off him ( as mothers tend to do to sons ) or winding him up ( as mates do ) you are treating him like a no-talent support act . |
| 26 | ‘ He is safe and well and we are treating it as a genuine abduction . ’ |
| 27 | Meantime I am treating it as a double murder . ’ |
| 28 | He said : ‘ They seemed to be using us as a last resort . |
| 29 | She was so aware of him that he seemed to be touching her from a long way off . |
| 30 | Ca n't you stand the fact that I 'm seeing you as a fallible human being instead of the flawless cardboard cut-out you like to pretend to be ? ’ |