Example sentences of "be [v-ing] a [adj -er] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Overall , teachers are using a greater mix of materials , including library books , computer software and interactive video . |
| 2 | If you are using a thicker yarn , particularly a fancy one , then some of the nicest fabrics I 've seen were ones where you 'd hardly suspect the presence of a punchcard . |
| 3 | Incidentally , I 've been using a better copy of PagePlus 2 ( due to be launched in March ) and I have to say I 'm very impressed . |
| 4 | Monitoring of people moved from Friern Hospital in north London and Claybury Hospital in Essex shows that they are not slipping out of the system and are enjoying a better quality of life with greater independence and a more varied social life . |
| 5 | People moved from Friern Hospital in north London are enjoying a better quality of life with greater independence and a more varied social life |
| 6 | Governors at Bowesfield Lane Primary , Stockton , are demanding a better service after repeatedly complaining to Cleveland County Council Education Authority about the standard of cleanliness at the school . |
| 7 | ‘ I have been proud of the way we have played in England and believe we are becoming a better team with every game . |
| 8 | When you are tackling a larger area — a whole wall , or perhaps even a complete room — you use exactly the same techniques ; the big difference is the sheer scale of the job , which makes the preliminary setting-out by far the most important part . |
| 9 | This was achieved after a similar increase in 1991 , and we are seeking a further improvement in 1993 . |
| 10 | If you 're using an earlier version of DOS , EDIT alone is worth the cost of updating to version 5 . |
| 11 | Now we 've got the technology from the violin string department to wind the string and polish it all in one operation and we 're getting a brighter-sounding string than before , so we 've started marketing them again . |
| 12 | Just to go back a stage , to a comment you made there , you you did say that the inner relief road on one of the routes , on one of those routes , would in fact enable environmental benefits to be felt elsewhere in the town , simply because you 're getting a better distribution of the traffic . |
| 13 | It is embarrassing being young and wanting to be more liberated than you are , yet not being , and pretending to be more liberated than you are , or that you 're having a racier time . |
| 14 | With both types , the lenders have your new home as security , but since they 're taking a bigger risk than normal , you can expect to be charged a higher rate of interest . |
| 15 | okay you 're erm you 're getting rid of your communist ideas you 're finding a smoother way to getting erm to achieving a similar sorts of effects |
| 16 | the United fans enjoyed this game … they should have been celebrating a bigger win too … |
| 17 | The simplistic assumption underlying this suggestion is that hospitals with high readmission rates are providing a poorer quality of care than hospitals with lower readmission rates . |
| 18 | The weekend announcement that the Saudis are providing a further £1½ billion for orders tied to the vast Al Yamamah programme provided welcome relief for the company and the Government . |
| 19 | But if they are experiencing on average a smaller rise , you would want to raise output , taking advantage of the high relative price on your island ; and if they are experiencing a larger rise you would want to reduce supply . |
| 20 | Since 1974 not only have the absolute numbers being sent to prison increased but the courts have become more punitive in the sense that they are sending a higher proportion of those convicted to prison . |
| 21 | ‘ We are facing a greater distribution of a slightly reduced number of offences . |
| 22 | The Financial Times of April 2 also quoted a DPK spokesman as alleging that " we are facing a worse genocide than Halabja " , a reference to the use in 1988 of poison gas by the Iraqi army in the town of Halabja which killed an estimated 5,000-6,000 people [ see pp. 36168-69 ] . |
| 23 | Erm , now as as this so called generous funding in fact , the police authority are facing a straight deficit of three hundred and twenty-eight thousand , they are facing a further deficit of four hundred and twenty-five thousand because they have only been given one and a half percent for pay , where all the information we have been given from the Home Office , you can shake your head as much as you like Chairman , it is in fact true , and in fact , in fact as reported in the Guardian , on , only the day before yesterday , yet again the police bill is to be , almost certainly four percent , not one and a half . |
| 24 | Er the , the children are getting a better chance . |
| 25 | Maudie had been expecting a better response from her friends , or at the very least a little sympathy , but they seemed not to care . |
| 26 | Back on his farm a few miles from a crash site , Mr Hayton said he 'd been expecting a longer sentence . |
| 27 | He had perhaps been expecting a tougher comment and he hunched his shoulders , muttering suspiciously , ‘ I have n't got no religion . ’ |
| 28 | Unashamedly blowing his own trumpet , he also considers that many of the people he selected for management roles in Esso are doing a better job than the people before them . |
| 29 | Frankly I do n't believe that households in which one parent spends all his waking moments either out of the house or refitting the patio doors or under the bonnet of a car are doing a better job than I am , where the kids are concerned , but I have n't got any statistics to prove it . |
| 30 | If you are in your late teens or are doing a further education course and you are extremely worried about examinations , you are going to have to find a way to tackle academic stress that does not involve eating and drinking too much . |