Example sentences of "[v-ing] be [verb] a [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The best way to understand what is happening is to make a manual slip pattern on the machine , before we move on to electronic patterning . |
| 2 | One of the basic problems in surveying is to obtain a good response from one 's informants . |
| 3 | On one level you may be preoccupied with establishing greater financial stability but what may be equally as pressing is finding a real sense of belonging and a deep emotional rapport with a partner . |
| 4 | The normal method of securing is to drive a long nail through the end of the sleeper at an angle into the one beneath . |
| 5 | To their creaking and grumbling was added a new note , comparable to music . |
| 6 | Duncan 's small room , with a metal-framed cot , small table and two chairs , was one of the best in the hotel , having been repainted a sickly pale green only six months earlier . |
| 7 | Everyone in France fervently hoped that , having been denied a grand finale on the Paris stage by a bunch of mean Englishmen in the World Cup , Blanco would get a second chance . |
| 8 | Léonie had discovered that , without ever having been taught a single rule of grammar , she spoke the language perfectly . |
| 9 | Having been given a perfect platform to put Sri Lanka under severe pressure by their openers , the middle order yesterday slumped from 316 for three to 380 all out . |
| 10 | Its Dominican monastery is where the Czech protestant reformer John Huss was imprisoned in 1415 , despite having been given a safe conduct to appear before the Council of Konstanz . |
| 11 | JIMMY CONNORS , who beat John McEnroe in a bitter final eight years ago , returns to Wembley next month , having been given a wild card for the tournament which begins on 7 November , when the 37-year-old faces McEnroe again . |
| 12 | In the five years between then and mid-October 1992 , it has grown to 543 billion , having been given a significant fillip by sterling 's withdrawal from the ERM on 16 September 1992 . |
| 13 | Er I was fully aware of the fact that er you know , some people say , particularly in the fitting departments where experience had taught the fitters , having been given a free hand , er that they accumulated all the parts for a job , or even part of the job , they did certain assemblies you know , until they got all the part pieces assembled ready to combine it into the main unit , erm that experience er was being overtaken by an introduction of smaller units being assembled you know , bit by bit as they were being produced in the machine shop . |
| 14 | The 26-year-old was a free agent having been given a free transfer by the Scottish Premier League club , and flew to Belfast on Friday to complete the deal . |
| 15 | Having been born a socialist |
| 16 | See what I 'm saying is ask a nice open question an easy one at the beginning that you know most people are bound to understand you get a lot of participation and then start building it up . |
| 17 | That is what 's happening now but what I 'm saying is put a new chiller in |
| 18 | What you are doing is taking a mature view of the situation . |
| 19 | What you are doing is taking a mature view of the situation . |
| 20 | However , what we can do immediately and are in the process of doing is to introduce a statutory instrument to increase the grant level to 90 per cent . |
| 21 | Losing is becoming a depressing habit and under-pressure Gooch now with 15 one-day innings without a fifty behind him will need no reminding that England have also lost their last five Tests . |
| 22 | As competent , adult readers we are sometimes aware that something we are reading is having a considerable effect upon us . |
| 23 | ‘ Competing is becoming a specialised line but , if it went , it would be a sad demise . |