Example sentences of "be [verb] [v-ing] a [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Since the demise of the punch-card system for entering commands this has normally been undertaken using a keyboard and a screen driven by a cathode ray tube ( CRT ) or liquid crystal display ( LCD ) , although voice entry of data and touch screens have also been used . |
| 2 | The cleaning posts are to go following a fall in revenue of three hundred thousand pounds and a fundamental review of domestic services . |
| 3 | According to the NRA , the net present value of the damage that would be caused by flooding , and hence the benefit accruing , has been calculated using a number of variables , and generally lies between £41 million and £69 million . |
| 4 | Since April 1988 the size of the budget for each school has been calculated using a formula ( based mainly on age-weighted pupil units ) rather than the use of historical costs . |
| 5 | What users see on their machines is trending towards Graphical User Interfaces ( GUIs ) , where icons representing programs , and pull-down menus within programs , are manipulated using a mouse . |
| 6 | Like some naughty child who 's been caught playing a prank she just kept her head low , staring at the floor . |
| 7 | In the past , samples of children 's language have been collected using a diary approach where examples of children 's utterances , together with a description of the surrounding context , were simply written down over a period of weeks or months ( Miller 1981a ) . |
| 8 | By a series of Acts ranging from 1907 to 1960 exceptions had already been made permitting a man to marry his deceased or divorced wife 's sister or half-sister , his niece by marriage or his aunt by marriage ; and a woman may marry her deceased or divorced husband 's brother or half-brother . |
| 9 | The man had been seen firing a rifle in his back garden and through his letter box . |
| 10 | She was sent the script for one of the episodes — she has never said by whom — and was so enraged by one scene in which the councillor was to have been seen leaving a prostitute 's room doing up his trousers , that she sent it straight to the Postmaster General , the Minister responsible . |
| 11 | Potato washing was an entirely new pattern of behaviour ; no macaque had ever been seen washing a potato before . |
| 12 | The calculations are made using a spreadsheet so that alterations in data can be quickly incorporated . |
| 13 | These are made using a dough moulding process , rather than injection moulding , in which powdered poly-(methylmethacrylate) , obtained by emulsion polymerisation , is mixed with the methyl methacrylate monomer and cross-linking agents . |
| 14 | reckon if you 're seen carrying a knife again , then there 's only one clear alternative for you and you 've got to know what that is . |
| 15 | Frequently catalogues are supplied giving a range of merchandise for the salesman or his family to choose from . |
| 16 | Erm just to say that , just to confirm the note sent round that erm we will only pay for any photographic services by Intercity East Coast if it has been procured using a task request form in accordance with the same way we procure any other internal B R er service . |
| 17 | His last two years had been spent taking a master 's degree in political science at Queen 's University , Kingston . |
| 18 | A great deal of money has been spent conserving a block of less-than-distinguished Victorian slums and warehouses . |
| 19 | SURGEONS are to start testing a technique which could cure short-sightedness in just 15 minutes . |
| 20 | This becomes more important when new products are introduced bearing a brand name normally associated with dissimilar products . |
| 21 | On Sundays the ‘ psalm children ’ came from the villages to be heard reciting a psalm which they had learnt by heart during the week . |
| 22 | Among the Great and Good , scarcely a voice could be heard supporting a proposal which the BBC 's founding father , Lord Reith , had said would prove as beneficial as dog-racing , smallpox or the bubonic plague . |
| 23 | Whatever curves I specified had to be made using a bandsaw , a drum-sander , spokeshave and scraper . |
| 24 | Seen in her latest movie ‘ Indecent Proposal ’ she can be seen wearing a tee-shirt with the sole word LINFIELD in large letters emblazed across it ! |
| 25 | The new entrepreneur in Russia wants to be seen driving a performance car , but one which is tough enough for the conditions there . |
| 26 | But I 'd be surprised if they had n't a front-runner in mind , because there will be a lot of hard work to be done getting a replacement this summer . |
| 27 | This may be done using a frequency distribution from a domain corpus . |
| 28 | This can be done using a number of different comparisons : |
| 29 | If these reactions are carried out at constant volume changes in number of moles of gas with change in gas pressure which can be measured using a manometer . |
| 30 | At one end of the spectrum a work will be produced using a computer as a tool , just as a writer uses a pen or a typewriter , whilst at the other end the computer will produce its works with little or no direct human effort . |