Example sentences of "[verb] be [verb] a [noun] " 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 | Fenella Wojnarowska has been elected a Council Member , Royal Society of Medicine , section of Dermatology . |
| 6 | Former BAIE national chairman Bob Gooding has been elected a Fellow of the Association . |
| 7 | Helen Hughes ( Mrs Brock ) has been elected a Fellow of the Society of Antiquaries . |
| 8 | 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 . |
| 9 | The style of the Victorian era has been enjoying a revival , first with the conservatory and now reproduction cloches . |
| 10 | One of the largest Polish communities in Britain has been enjoying a style of dancing seldom seen outside its homeland . |
| 11 | 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 . |
| 12 | 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 . |
| 13 | Safety Officer , Dave Johnson , who has been promoting a number of initiatives , commented : ‘ It reflects the workforce 's commitment to better safety standards . ’ |
| 14 | 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 . |
| 15 | John Akast , an assistant recorder from the same East Anglian chambers and based in Ipswich , has been appointed a Recorder to the South Eastern Circuit . |
| 16 | John Devaux , who became a Recorder and head of chambers in 1989 , has been appointed a circuit judge . |
| 17 | Sir Adrian Cadbury , who has just stepped down as chairman of Cadbury Schweppes , has been appointed a member of the Takeover and Mergers Panel . |
| 18 | Alan Armstrong , Senior Professional Technical Officer , has been appointed a Member of the Royal Victorian Order ( MVO ) . |
| 19 | Mrs Ann M Vinton , the chairman and co-founder of The Reject Shop plc , has been appointed a member of the Covent Garden Market Authority . |
| 20 | JIM WELLS , who recently retired as training director of the North West Training Council has been appointed a director of their main board . |
| 21 | Mark Wood has been appointed a partner at Newcastle-based law firm Wilkinson Maughan 's commercial litigation department . |
| 22 | A former inmate at Gloucester jail has been telling a jury how a senior prison officer beat him across the back . |
| 23 | A man has been telling a court how he tried to save the life of his brother . |
| 24 | A beautician has been telling a court she thinks Olympic javelin thrower , Tessa Sanderson , is a bitch for stealing her husband . |
| 25 | The nut appears to be plastic and , if I were to be really picky , has been cut a hair on the high side . |
| 26 | Monetary targets have been extended with the narrow money supply target remaining at zero to 4 per cent while the broad money target range has been widened a point on either side to between 3 and 9 per cent . |
| 27 | In the latest in our occasional series , Inside the Globe , Wesley Smith has been taking a look behind the scenes at the Weather Department . |
| 28 | Kim Barnes has been taking a look at what went wrong , and at the hopes for the New Year . |
| 29 | Foreign Secretary Douglas Hurd has been taking a break from the Bosnian crisis , to tackle less troubled waters closer to home . |
| 30 | The solution therefore has been to agree a change of use for the Wilkins building — to a hotel — with an office development behind . |