Example sentences of "[am/are] [verb] [prep] a [adj] " in BNC.

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1 You react like one when you burn the toast , so why should n't you react like one when you are pitching for a new account ?
2 ‘ Care managers are stepping into a different world , managing budgets and telling clients when they ca n't do something because there is no more money .
3 John Nicholson wafted in and out of their lives and Jack 's recollections of the man he imagined was his father are tinged with a certain sorrow that he had become an alcoholic , with memories of scenes on the home front , and of the young Jack cooling his heels outside one bar or another with a fizzy drink while his ‘ father ’ stood inside drinking neat brandies .
4 With the threat of relegation looming again , the loss of the ground , and the millstone around my neck of a team of asthmatic pine martens with the collective brain power of a kiwi fruit , the pressures on me are building to a frightening pitch .
5 Kevin Scully , senior vice-president of Global Systems and Technology , says : ‘ What we have can be described as a centralised database with applications that are decentralised on a global basis .
6 I am stopped by an unstable-looking scree slope .
7 These , again , are pre-set to a small selection , but , noticeably , they include only those colours that normally print well with a three colour ribbon , which , given the price and target audience of the program , is a sensible move .
8 All 133 bedrooms are furnished to a high standard with en-suite bathroom .
9 The palazzo now offers five lovely apartments all of which are furnished to a high standard some with antiques — and of individual character and charm .
10 The bedrooms are furnished in a traditional style and have air-conditioning .
11 The bedrooms are furnished in a traditional style and have double glazing .
12 A lift serves the roomy bedrooms which are furnished in a simple , modern style with balcony .
13 The bar and lounges are furnished in a refined and contemporary style and the charming restaurant spills out onto the terrace under a canopy of trees .
14 All the room are furnished in a comfortable , rustic style and have a private bathroom , telephone and radio .
15 Where parasites are congregated within a small area , erosion of the mucosal surface is apparent ( P1.II ) .
16 MORRISSEY and organisers of the ill-fated Madstock Finsbury Park concerts are embroiled in a legal battle , with both parties threatening to sue each other over Morrissey 's non-appearance on the Sunday bill .
17 The guerrillas are embroiled in a civil war against an alliance of rival Tamil groups , the Tamil National Army , in areas from which the Indian Peace-keeping Force has withdrawn .
18 Earnings can fluctuate quite widely from one year to the next , but if long-run earnings are calculated as a moving average of short-run earnings , this will be a much more stable measure .
19 Redundancy payments are calculated on a sliding-scale according to age , so the cheapest workers to dismiss are the youngest workers and/or those with the shortest service .
20 NI contributions are calculated on a payment-by-payment basis according to the earnings period .
21 The figures are calculated on an assumed growth rate of 10.75% and are therefore not guaranteed , as unit prices can fall as well as rise .
22 The solid curved lines are calculated from a sigmoidal binding isotherm using the indicated K m and Hill coefficients .
23 Taxable profits , which are calculated in a similar way to companies ' taxable profits , are treated as personal income to the sole trader , or split between partners in proportion to their share of profits in the year of assessment .
24 STORM HAVOC : Two camper vans are overturned at a shattered campsite in Vaison-la-Romaine
25 All enrolling students are assigned to a personal tutor , normally an academic teaching in one of their fields , who has responsibility for a total of about a dozen students in various years of the Course .
26 Controlled indexing languages or assigned-term systems are indexing languages in which a person both controls the terms that are used to represent subjects and executes the process whereby terms are assigned to a particular document .
27 However , in broad terms , one credit is assigned to one 40-hour module ; two credits are assigned to an 80-hour module , etc .
28 ROADS : Almost every week traffic restrictions are placed on a new section of the motorway network , reducing the number of lanes open to traffic from three , to two , or even one .
29 Water drops are placed on a thin piece of polished silicone pointing slightly uphill and coated with a water repellent of increasingly lessening effect as the coating goes uphill .
30 Often the squares are placed in a central position and enclose a figured medallion .
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