Example sentences of "are [verb] [pers pn] [prep] a [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Beauty is in the eye of the beholder , in which case Kitchens Of Distinction are using it as a sharp stick . |
| 2 | ‘ 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 . ’ |
| 3 | 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 " . |
| 4 | 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 . |
| 5 | 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 |
| 6 | You sorted it out and settled it ten years ago , but now you are facing it as a new problem at your present age . |
| 7 | 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 . |
| 8 | ‘ He is safe and well and we are treating it as a genuine abduction . ’ |
| 9 | Either way , astronomers are regarding it as a fascinating astronomical object and not just a recordbreaker . |
| 10 | 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 . |
| 11 | 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 . |
| 12 | R's like they are putting you in a helpless position and expecting you to be able to operate from there . |
| 13 | 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 . |
| 14 | If it has the Zenith then , if you are leaving it for a long period , try pulling out the choke after it has stopped . |