Example sentences of "[am/are] [verb] a [det] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The Regional Council Highways Department is to install a kerb at this corner and the Community Council are to plant a few trees . |
| 2 | The task the reader is set is rather like that of completing a jigsaw puzzle , where we are given a few pieces at a time , and have to keep guessing what the rest of the picture will be like . |
| 3 | The part is specified to dissipate a hot 175 watts at 4.5 volts so Western Research Labs engineers are rigging a little water cooling system sealed inside a low-pressure cylinder . |
| 4 | If at any point you come into contact with it you lose a life immediately and are moved a few steps back . |
| 5 | If you are replacing a few boards in an existing floor , and have brought them from a timber yard , do n't come home and fit the boards straight away . |
| 6 | Er we 're getting a few bodies back into the team emptying the treatment room and and things are looking a lot better . |
| 7 | so if you 're staying a few nights some get some saved up do n't you ? |
| 8 | ‘ We both know the gentleman concerned and we 're not very happy about the way things are going so we 're making a few enquiries of our own . ’ |
| 9 | Great that we 're making a few bob at last ; I 've bunged down a few more ideas for old Clash songs we could flog to various fee-paying customers . |
| 10 | Its twenty five years since the folk rock band Fairport Convention first got together and this year they 're planning a few suprises , but one of the stars will be missing . |
| 11 | Many of the houses bear handwritten notices offering manicure/pedicure , basic literacy , hairdressing ; some are selling a few tins of Coca-Cola , candy , combs and trinkets . |
| 12 | It is not easy to grasp the financial significance of organisations diluting their products , for instance , so that many millions of customers are paying a few pence extra for their goods . |
| 13 | QUEEN Elizabeth Country Park are presenting an all day lecture on the Attractions of East Hampshire . |
| 14 | In a statement , the company said : All Meon Villas are inspected a few weeks prior to the start of each letting season , with particular emphasis on safety . |
| 15 | The ones I 've got at the moment are having a little difficulty in working things out , one does n't realise that it 's not best to try to head the ball back to the goalie when there 's a man breathing down the back of his neck , the other has n't been able to find his brain and the oldest one of the lot is always injured . |
| 16 | My brother and I are having a few people in for a drink before lunch on Sunday . |
| 17 | ‘ Obviously I 'm pleased that I 'm getting a few winners , ’ he told me , ‘ but I would still like to have more mounts . |
| 18 | ‘ I 'm having a little rest after all the hard work . |
| 19 | Just say , ‘ I 'm having a few friends round to dinner . |
| 20 | I 'm having a few friends in on Saturday evening , along with some new acquaintances , and I 'd like you all to come . ’ |
| 21 | But if you can tolerate company , I 'm having a few people , mostly colleagues of Alex from the power station , to dinner on Thursday night . |
| 22 | You got it right and you stuck to your guns and cos I 'm put a little doubt in your mind you changed . |
| 23 | But if you are charged a few pounds , you 'll soon make up the difference once you 're filling up with cheaper , lead-free petrol . |
| 24 | They are left a few millimetres thick and lapped flat or polished , using a lapping compound with paraffin oil lubricant . |
| 25 | ‘ The players here are leaking a few goals and losing faith in themselves but there might not be a lot wrong . |
| 26 | Unknown to the Princess , the Queen had already summoned Fleet Street newspaper editors to Buckingham Palace where her press secretary requested that Diana be given a little peace and privacy . |
| 27 | Newcastle Tory councillors are backing an all party call for more cash after hearing the Government 's extra grant of £309,000 still leaves a £1m shortfall . |