Example sentences of "[verb] [be] [verb] a [det] " in BNC.
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| 1 | A 230 ton barge has been encountering a few problems on its journey up the River Wye . |
| 2 | ‘ Some of the people who have been having a go at Steve are n't fit to tie his shoelaces , ’ retorts Foster , who has been imparting a few words of wisdom to Cram as a former miler-turned-European 5,000m champion himself . |
| 3 | The Empire State Building has been moved a few blocks uptown . |
| 4 | There is a dining room ( with a beautiful Italian monks ' table dating from the early 18th century which interestingly has been lowered a few inches — the monks ate standing up ) , three bedrooms individually decorated , a comfortable study-cum-television room with a log-burning stove — and for bookworms , over 3,000 books . |
| 5 | I feel that this is a difficult poem to understand but when it has been read a few times the meaning becomes clear . |
| 6 | However , once printed text has been photocopied a few times , or faxed , or degraded in some other way , the characters can become similarly indistinct . |
| 7 | Ehm is a it is n't actually a a erm a new school it 's Birchwood High School it used to be Margaret Dane which has been established a few years but Birchwood just been started for a year erm it has is some information but obviously there have n't been any feedback from the school so I starts there . |
| 8 | But the White Paper has been give a less than enthusiastic welcome in some quarters , Liberal Democrat spokesman Simon Hughes says he 's worried that the Environment Secretary 's announcements may be full of good intentions which wo n't be carried out . |
| 9 | She 'd been spending a few days ' holiday in Sicily , with her friends Penny and Devlin . |
| 10 | It 'd been taken a few years earlier at a family Christmas party when we were playing Musical Chairs . |
| 11 | One of the worst things you can do is to invite a few friends round who then chat in the background so that there is a continuous hubbub . |
| 12 | The least we can do is plant a few trees in return . |
| 13 | Brewing up was easy — all that had to be done was to shift a few boulders to reach a hot spot lower down , and pop a billy-can of snow into the hole . |
| 14 | With the Charter and the political precepts of the paper firmly in place , all that was needed was to drag a few journalists out of the pubs and set them to work . |
| 15 | Here 's the bank — see the queue along the street from the cash point — people who 've got pots of money in that bank and all they 've got to do is press a few buttons and it 'll spew out a wad of crisp notes into their delicately manicured hand . |
| 16 | All I have to do is get a few facts , give them some colourful detail and write the script . |
| 17 | All we have to do is to propose a few initial targets , and guidelines , to get it launched . |
| 18 | The grandparent could have been living a few houses away . |
| 19 | It must have been mailed a few days ago , with a second class stamp . |
| 20 | Greek Intelligence must have been taking a more than passing interest in the activities of our friend Andropulos over a long period , years I would think . |
| 21 | So your ideal system would have been to have a few strategic Cabinet committees beneath the Cabinet that would have done all the most controversial business ? |
| 22 | Over ninety states have accepted the obligation not to acquire nuclear arms under the 1968 Non-Proliferation Treaty ; although this treaty has not prevented the detonation of a nuclear device by India and the covert acquisition of nuclear capacity also by Israel and South Africa , the total list of nuclear powers is relatively small , and perhaps less than may have been predicted a few years ago . |
| 23 | At first the glare from Lucifer — extending beyond Moloch 's ice-locked horizon , and reflecting from Belial high above — turned the depths of space into a flat black backdrop that could just as well have been suspended a few feet in front of her eyes . |
| 24 | Before going ahead and mixing a perfume as directed in the ‘ Aromatic Concoctions ’ section , the easiest and perhaps the most economical way to experiment is to put a few drops on a damp cotton wool stick . |
| 25 | The last time he had prayed he appeared to have been granted a few more minutes before termination . |
| 26 | Susan had been taking a few items of clothing from a chest of drawers to a suitcase open on the bed . |
| 27 | The hay had been cut a few days before and dried in the sun and Frederick made light work of heaving it up to Albert on the cart . |
| 28 | It prowled across the lower slopes of the Pennine Hills which had been formed a few million years earlier and along the coast of the seas which covered what now are the lowlands on either side of the Pennines ( Diagram 4 ) . |
| 29 | Ruth had decided to say she 'd been unwell , and had been given a few days off to recover her strength . |
| 30 | But then came the news his immigration application had been delayed a few weeks because he 's a diabetic . |