Example sentences of "[verb] be [verb] a " in BNC.
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| 1 | But I mean it could 've been made a bit bigger than that could n't it , for the seat |
| 2 | See I 've been getting a kind of rash on my face |
| 3 | In nineteen eighty six treat people as if their labour is worth nothing you know those men have given their lives to the quarry industry and there 's no doubt that there is money to be made from slate at the moment and people are people that have the money to invest are making a lot of money okay they 're inves they 're risking the money but er people are risking their lives as well and giving their lives . |
| 4 | Silvertone are seeking a court declaration that four members of the band and their manager Gareth Evans are bound to their contract , among unconfirmed rumours that Geffen are ready to move in to snap up the band for £2.2 million . |
| 5 | S. M. Qaim , CChem , FRSC , has been elected a foreign member of the Pakistan Academy of Sciences . |
| 6 | Professor Peter Warren of the Classics Department has been elected a Corresponding Member of the Society for Cretan Historical Studies . |
| 7 | Former BAIE national chairman Bob Gooding has been elected a Fellow of the Association . |
| 8 | Helen Hughes ( Mrs Brock ) has been elected a Fellow of the Society of Antiquaries . |
| 9 | Fenella Wojnarowska has been elected a Council Member , Royal Society of Medicine , section of Dermatology . |
| 10 | FUW 's man JOHN Phillips , of Cwmbach , near Builth Wells , has been elected a new vice-president of the Farmers ' Union of Wales . |
| 11 | I could have told him that he has been elected an honorary member of the Academy Club drinking school run by Oofy Prosser and Stephen Hargrave , in recognition of his services to literature . |
| 12 | Pro-Vice-Chancellor Professor Brian Pickering of the Department of Anatomy has been elected an Honorary Member of the Romanian Academy of Medical Sciences . |
| 13 | The Monument to the People 's Heroes , the stone obelisk in the middle of the square where student leaders had their ‘ command centre ’ , has been declared a forbidden zone because it is felt to have been contaminated by the students ' presence . |
| 14 | There are so many works of art in the church that it has been declared a museum and is included as such on the official list of Milanese museums . |
| 15 | We are now entering the last decade of our century and of our millennium , which has been declared a ‘ Decade of Evangelism ’ . |
| 16 | It has lofty and spacious reception rooms and a ballroom and has been declared a national monument . |
| 17 | Despite agreement some years ago that seven sites around Britain 's coast needed protection , only one — Lundy Island — has been declared a Marine Nature Reserve so far , writes Dr Madeleine Havard , WWF 's Marine Conservation Officer . |
| 18 | A witness can not be asked in examination-in-chief about any previous statement made out of court which is inconsistent with his testimony unless he has been declared a hostile witness by the court . |
| 19 | Meanwhile , Castlemorton Common near Malvern in Worcester , invaded by 20,000 travellers last year , has been declared a no-go area by the Home Secretary . |
| 20 | A WOODEN Darlington church has been declared a no-go area in bad weather . |
| 21 | Much of the Levels has been declared an " environmentally-sensitive area " , and there are a number of sites of special scientific interest ( SSSIs ) . |
| 22 | One of the most fearsome figures on television has been entertaining an army of his young fans here in the region . |
| 23 | The style of the Victorian era has been enjoying a revival , first with the conservatory and now reproduction cloches . |
| 24 | One of the largest Polish communities in Britain has been enjoying a style of dancing seldom seen outside its homeland . |
| 25 | Another point : the intruder who has been denied a quick escape route is unlikely to remain in the house for very long ( it 's one of the first things he sizes up after breaking in ) . |
| 26 | In stark terms , B has been denied a judgment by a tribunal which had agreed that certain issues should be heard by it and upon which it had heard argument . |
| 27 | Modern theories of water structure centre on computer-simulation models from which has been developed a concept which is similar to the DNA model just discussed , the concept of cellular automata . |
| 28 | ‘ Partly as a result of excessive leniency , ’ he went on in a familiar line of argument , ‘ there has been developed a pestiferous class of young ruffians who have caused great suffering to the respectable … to whom they have become a terror . ’ |
| 29 | Safety Officer , Dave Johnson , who has been promoting a number of initiatives , commented : ‘ It reflects the workforce 's commitment to better safety standards . ’ |
| 30 | Arguedas , however , was faced with the thorny problem of translating into the alien medium of Spanish the sensibility of a people which expresses itself in Quechua , and his great achievement has been to evolve a style which captures the rhythm and flavour of Quechua to convey the spiritual world of the Andean Indians . |