Example sentences of "[adj] [be] a [noun sg] [v-ing] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Rosemary Cargill ( Mrs Raza ) has since 1986 been a journalist writing for a current affairs publication . |
| 2 | This is a specialisation according to the use to be made of the language by the learner . |
| 3 | And all of this is a problem facing the new actor coming out of training . |
| 4 | This is a solder attaching two discs of silver foil cupped around the copper core like the foil wrappers around a chocolate penny . |
| 5 | On one level a site guide , on another this is a mini-textbook describing changing society at one place over four thousand years . |
| 6 | But does not Dr. Jackson have a powerful point when he says that the new system — This is a man working in the system . |
| 7 | This is a device consisting of a slice of insulator sandwiched between a piece of metal , known as the ‘ gate ’ , and a semiconductor . |
| 8 | It is perhaps significant that stretching of the vortex tubes in Fig. 21.11 could be produced by the structure in Fig. 21.10 as well as by the mean flow , but this is a matter requiring further investigation . |
| 9 | This is a condition affecting the events which trigger the operation and will enable the triggering of that operation . |
| 10 | ‘ This is a video-tape showing the marketing strategy of the Bolt Head Corporation — our principal competitor , as you are aware . |
| 11 | ‘ This is a disaster waiting to happen , ’ he added , in a prophecy that would come back to haunt him . |
| 12 | It begins to sound from this description that it 's I twelve which is a bit of a dinosaur , a a dodo , that this is a county trying to carry on a thing which has probably passed its sell by date , that er it is n't fair to say that I five is primarily for industry , erm that is n't what the law says it is . |
| 13 | This is a booklet providing information on all types of breaks , both at home and away from home . |
| 14 | ‘ This is a thinly veiled attempt to disguise the characters , and a court will decide whether to the average reader this is a book dealing with Donald and Ivana , despite the fact that she changed the names , ’ he said . |
| 15 | Planned for 1993 is a monograph reviewing the complete works of Jusepe de Ribera by Nicola Spinosa . |
| 16 | Particularly interesting is a cameo depicting a cupid 's head and wings which he gave to his wife , Fanny Waugh , whom he married in 1865 . |
| 17 | One modern example is a space capsule in orbit around the earth ; another is a capsule falling radially toward the Earth . |
| 18 | With hindsight one can see that this was a CD crying out to be made ; four of Villa-Lobo 's magnificent nature pieces make obvious companions . |
| 19 | For the Home Secretary this was a fact finding visit . |
| 20 | Below this was a scroll carrying the regimental title . |
| 21 | Wanting very much to hear ( because he was sure that this was a lover calling , from the voice ) , the man used the boxing match as an excuse , and he came and stood in the kitchen doorway with a wet plate and the cloth in his hands , and looked at the television . |
| 22 | But even these are a trifle accommodating : ‘ not on age alone ’ or ‘ provided that the member is still able to grasp and contribute to meetings ’ are riders that have an odd air about them . |
| 23 | I tell what is urgent is a message coming down to you , you 've had a delivery team , they 're going to destroy cases of whatever , so that 's urgent , that has to be done there and then because it 's a danger to the public or whatever . |
| 24 | Could that be a lorry reversing in to tip sand and grits in it ? |
| 25 | The first was a treaty incorporating the minimum of enforcement provisions to be accompanied by a separate section whereby as many FEC countries as possible would sign a treaty with each other and with Japan , the purpose being to prevent aggression and to afford protection to Japan . |
| 26 | This is above all a narrative role , a role within a storyline which is unfolded as a teleology , that is a narrative moving towards a preordained conclusion , which structures the logic of preceding events . |
| 27 | THIS IS the London Planetarium , that is a waitress dishing out freebie glasses of wine , and over there is a Zoo TV camera crew interviewing tall men in suits . |
| 28 | That 's a man sitting there . |
| 29 | There you are well you stand there that 's a person standing there . |
| 30 | That 's a bit fucking off is n't it ? |