Example sentences of "you [be] [verb] a [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ Have you been taking a medical history , Nurse Dungarvan ? ’ |
| 2 | Ah , so you been doing a whole week of cooking . |
| 3 | If you are teaching a heterogeneous mob of children in an afternoon session with little or no equipment , the advice given is clearly not for you : you are a ‘ sub-teacher ’ , teaching a ‘ sub-class ’ , The official curriculum plan washes its hands of you . |
| 4 | If you are sending a personal letter to a person at their place of employment and you wish that person only to open it , the envelope and letter should be marked PERSONAL . |
| 5 | If you are replacing a few boards in an existing floor , and have brought them from a timber yard , do n't come home and fit the boards straight away . |
| 6 | If you are considering a new boat or retrofit rig you 'll want to know more , just write , phone or fax for our product literature , to arrange a meeting or to organise a tender . |
| 7 | This is hard enough when you are considering a normal decorating job , but when it comes to choosing paint for a special job , then the task can be very complex . |
| 8 | These are excellent if you are considering a long stay of two or three months . |
| 9 | Equally you will not need an application form , except possibly for the record , if you are seeing a single applicant who has applied for the job ‘ on spec . ’ |
| 10 | When you are eating a fibre-rich diet there are restraining limits on how many calories you can actually manage to consume in a day — even if you are n't trying to shed weight . |
| 11 | Certainly , if you are eating a good diet , not smoking cigarettes , consuming little alcohol , are physically and mentally well , aged between 18 and 65 years , and not pregnant or breast-feeding , then you should not need any nutritional supplements . |
| 12 | Your basic pension may be increased if you are supporting a dependent spouse or children . |
| 13 | If you are holding a New Year highland fling , who better to supply Scottish recipes than Sue Lawrence , the 1991 MasterChef winner who is from north of the border . |
| 14 | So if you are producing a Victorian mystery , for instance , you would do well to think of a plot in terms more of melodrama than if you were writing a book set today . |
| 15 | When it is your turn to shoot , declare whether you are firing a single shot or a volley . |
| 16 | The tipsters and sporting gentlemen who frequent the stables and have the inside running from the horse 's mouth as well as from the trainers and jockeys suggest that if you are seeking a handsome return on an investment you should sell your house and put the money on Alain Prost to win the world championship this year . |
| 17 | Notice that if you are transferring a hard disk drive to a new motherboard then you should backup all of the data . |
| 18 | If you are fitting a new brace , the top should be at the latch side of the gate . |
| 19 | One consequence of this ‘ switching-off ’ ( and how many of us describe flopping in front of the television with exactly these words ? ) could be as follows : you are watching a party-political broadcast in which a candidate is giving a speech . |
| 20 | These factors are particularly important as the best preventative maintenance service in the world can be seen as less than satisfactory , if oily , unkempt , poorly dressed engineers are given to camping out in your hotel lift lobby without warning and taking lifts out of service just as you are receiving a large influx of guests . |
| 21 | But if you are charged a few pounds , you 'll soon make up the difference once you 're filling up with cheaper , lead-free petrol . |
| 22 | When you are experiencing a certain kind of bite which you are finding difficult to hit , try to relate the bite with what you have seen the chub doing or ; your close season excursions , then decide from there what course of action would be best to hit the fish . |
| 23 | This means that you would be wise not to set your heart on one career but to keep options open , even if you are taking a vocational course . |
| 24 | Sound public relations demands you know why you are taking a particular course of action . |
| 25 | Up you get , ooh you 're a big lump now , you are getting a big girl . |
| 26 | If you are addressing a named person or persons — Joan Johnson , Mr A. B. Tiller , Mr and Mrs Smith — then the salutation will address them by name . |
| 27 | If you are buying a new heater , showroom staff should be able to advise on this . |
| 28 | If you are buying a 12 volt chime , you 'll need to use special bulbs in the bell push . |
| 29 | The price is high but you are buying a top quality tent and one of the North Face 's most popular . |
| 30 | If you are installing a new bathroom , it has to meet the requirements of the Building Regulations . |