Example sentences of "is [prep] a [noun sg] [v-ing] [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | He who hears his words and obeys them ‘ is like a man building a house , who dug down deep and laid the foundation on rock ’ ( Luke 6:48 ) . |
| 2 | The person who hears his words and obeys them ‘ is like a man building a house , who dug deep , and laid the foundation upon rock ; and when a flood arose , the stream broke against that house , and could not shake it , because it had been well built ’ ( Luke 6:48 RSV ) . |
| 3 | He is like a man riding a dolphin . ’ |
| 4 | Peter ‘ Penny ’ Murphy , a local farmer who acts as curator of the birthplace when Dr Kavanagh is in America , is like a man savouring a dream . |
| 5 | When a new drug arrives in a society , it is like an infant taking a screwdriver to a clock . |
| 6 | It is in a way saying the same thing as the preface to The Reason of Church Government . |
| 7 | The Gay Business Association is probably the nearest that there is to a group holding a free-market-to-liberation point of view . |
| 8 | The church of St Michael and all Angels is on a ridge overlooking the river and the old water mill . |
| 9 | The best place for most artillery is on a hill commanding a wide field of fire with long clear lines of sight . |
| 10 | The return to the calling routine is by a jump using an address indexed by the appropriate index register . |