Example sentences of "are [verb] [pers pn] [prep] [art] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Try looking at people , objects and places as if you are seeing them for the first time without being influenced by what you have known about them in the past . |
| 2 | For me one of the greatest gifts is the ability to look at things as if you are seeing them for the first time . |
| 3 | Let me now assume that you are being considered by a prospective principal and are seeing him for the first time . |
| 4 | Beauty is in the eye of the beholder , in which case Kitchens Of Distinction are using it as a sharp stick . |
| 5 | ‘ 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 . ’ |
| 6 | 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 " . |
| 7 | The United States department of defence is currently looking at using multi media to train reservists , and a few publishers are using it as an exciting new media for publishing encyclopaedias . |
| 8 | Chris Patten , the Secretary of State for the Environment , later countered : ‘ If the Labour Party are accusing us of an electoral bribe , it shows that they find it rather difficult to criticise us on any other grounds . ’ |
| 9 | Send them to your boss 's secretary , stating in writing that you are starting on the preparation of the report , as instructed , and are basing it on the enclosed terms of reference . |
| 10 | 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 . |
| 11 | So there is a shortage of hard information in some areas , er , it is a changing situation , and it is one where the Committee is under very clear instruction to extend the alternative care options that it gives to clients , and therefore that again is a complexity in terms of your ability to ensure you 've got adequate funding and are directing it in the right areas in , in order to meet , not only the needs of people out there , but the changing needs and what is , Mike has already referred to as being the preferred solutions erm , many of which have not been available to people in the past . |
| 12 | Now Amsterdam seem to be willing to take him on despite the scandal , and are presenting him as an exciting and controversial figure , while many of his former colleagues in The Hague admire him , as do the public ; he is seen as decisive , inspiring and provocative . |
| 13 | But we hope so , but I do n't I 'm not facetious enough to think that I can change a personality in a person , but what we 're trying to do is make him feel a loving and a commitment , that we are providing him with the best we can . |
| 14 | 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 |
| 15 | You sorted it out and settled it ten years ago , but now you are facing it as a new problem at your present age . |
| 16 | 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 . |
| 17 | ‘ He is safe and well and we are treating it as a genuine abduction . ’ |
| 18 | ‘ The only difference between Lee and Roy Keane and David Hirst is that they are doing it in the Premier League . |
| 19 | Understand that you are not shutting the door on the one you loved , but you are shutting it on the negative force that lived — or still lives — within them . |
| 20 | ‘ We have spent a lot of time explaining it and we think people are approaching it in an open way . ’ |
| 21 | Now they are taking her to the High Court . |
| 22 | Either way , astronomers are regarding it as a fascinating astronomical object and not just a recordbreaker . |
| 23 | But his turning up at such an occasion may be an explicit act of communication — a way of saying without words that he can now resist the blandishments of the bar and that his friends and colleagues are to regard him as a reformed character . |
| 24 | An apprentice fitter for the Harbour Commissioners , Mark has burst through showing tremendous talent this season and already there are some who are nominating him as a future British 125cc champion . |
| 25 | R's like they are putting you in a helpless position and expecting you to be able to operate from there . |
| 26 | And there we are putting it into a three or four year old 's hand something that 's erm got that sort of temperature round it . |
| 27 | If it has the Zenith then , if you are leaving it for a long period , try pulling out the choke after it has stopped . |
| 28 | Property shares will get a shot-in-the-arm should one of their over-geared number announce that its bankers are backing it into the New Year , rather than pulling the plug . |
| 29 | Now the eight twelves are killing you for the same reason . ’ |