Example sentences of "be [verb] [adv prt] [art] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | POLICE in County Durham are stepping up the fight against crime after a wide ranging shake-up in senior personnel . |
| 2 | Gradually they are building up a resistance to a sting that could otherwise kill them . |
| 3 | Here we reckon we are building up a specialisation in this aspect of human development . |
| 4 | They already have a children 's play room , an art room , conference space and are building up a library . |
| 5 | But , if you plan your planting , and especially if you are building up a garden from scratch , it pays to think in terms of shape , colour and texture , and then arrange the plants with these factors in mind . |
| 6 | ‘ She has only been flown back a month ago from the near east . |
| 7 | You are to search out the traitor Raphael and , when you find him , kill him or bring him back for me . ’ |
| 8 | Civil war has been eating up the country for five years . |
| 9 | He was told this had been to drive off an attack by the dog pack . |
| 10 | . You 'd you 'd probably come in the daytime , and you 'd find some of the tin 's been ripped off a bit , you might find a find a corner 's been ripped off . |
| 11 | Well , she says that the boatmen and wharfers are drawing up a petition which they would like you to look at . |
| 12 | Customs are drawing up a paper to assist the Commission , in consultation with the Royal Yachting Association , the British Marine Industries Federation and others . |
| 13 | We also pledge that when we are drawing up the membership of the commission we shall take into account his earlier suggestions about widening the membership . |
| 14 | While men have been destroying life , women have been building up a system that will diminish suffering and save life . |
| 15 | Siban commands , and I am to carry out the reconnaissance . ’ |
| 16 | Better decisions result when the task and maintenance leadership roles are filled in a way that leads to coordination , thus overcoming the slowness , tangential discussion , loss of focus and other inefficiencies of groups . |
| 17 | When a whole number of Landau levels are filled in a MOSFET , the Fermi energy , EF , lies in a mobility gap . |
| 18 | The usual south-east Londoners are hanging about the bus stop . |
| 19 | He handed her her jacket , which had been hanging on the back of her chair . |
| 20 | The person who is out in the front teaching the class , or directing the piece of work they 're doing , they do , and everybody in it does … the kind of work we do is to do with a group of people … getting into a drama studio , and you know the set-up here ; there 's no uniform , there 's no ‘ Sir ’ or ‘ Miss ’ , it 's all Christian names , and that means that the holds are broken down a lot , so what is done in the end is to produce work which we hope makes statements which come from the pre-occupations , the beliefs , the honestly held beliefs of the people involved , whether they 're working from a text , an interpretation of a text , or whether they 're working from improvisation , doing their own work … so they get constant assessment from that . |
| 21 | GOVERNMENT health watchdogs are to carry out a survey of women working in computer microchip factories amid fears they may suffer a higher risk of miscarriage . |
| 22 | Four hospitals in the central south area are to carry out a pilot study in running their own affairs , a first step towards opting out of the National Health Service . |
| 23 | ‘ I say , ’ he said jovially , ‘ I see my mama 's been lashing out a bit . ’ |
| 24 | The programme is open to people who have been mulling over an idea for some time and experts will give it the commercial analysis it needs and , if it stands up , the business planning and search for funding that it merits . |
| 25 | Ratners marketing director Simon de Mille says : ‘ We are speeding up the process . |
| 26 | Touchmaster are bringing out a range of software designed specifically for use with their tablet ; games and educational programs in the main but the real proof of success will come if independent software houses decide to support it . |
| 27 | Gallimard , meanwhile , are bringing out the correspondence between Picasso and Apollinaire , a monograph on Masson by Bernard Noël , and a study of Leonardo and Titian by David Rosand , provisionally entitled La trace de l'artiste . |
| 28 | The British Horse Society , too , are bringing out an update on their Bed and Breakfast for Horses booklet . |
| 29 | Frances had been walking along a pavement in Oxford when she was hit from behind . |
| 30 | ‘ The Klans are toning down the rhetoric to make themselves more palatable to Americans . |