Example sentences of "be [v-ing] a [num ord] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Classic movie-star style also crops up at Hope And Glory , who are opening a second shop in the new Thomas Neal development in Covent Garden at the end of September . |
| 2 | The adoption of standards by TDWG networking and the first steps towards ‘ taxonomically intelligent ’ integrity checking are enabling a second generation to appear . |
| 3 | Another Harlequin , Everton Davis , has been seeking a second opinion on the knee injury that forced him out of last month 's England training session . |
| 4 | So Dr Palcic and his team are developing a second test to help decide who might benefit from their first test — they are trying to determine whether a patient might have signs of lung cancer by looking at cells coughed up in his sputum . |
| 5 | The event , which has been one of the most successful new launches in recent years , is now in jeopardy for the coming season , although both the RYA and James Capel are seeking a last minute sponsor . |
| 6 | When we 're doing first aid incidents erm the standard thing we 're doing for adults when they 're doing a first aid exam is we 'll give present them with a casualty with perhaps a cut hand or something like that and they 'll actually have a black eye . |
| 7 | So , you know , they 're taking a second mortgage , not a first mortgage , because we 've already mortgaged it . |
| 8 | I remind him that it hit Grimsby bitterly between 1979 and 1981 , and now we are having a second dose of it , with the loss of Findus Ltd. and 900 jobs , and the shrinking of labour forces by major employers . |
| 9 | Gloucester are giving a first team debut to new winger Mark Nicholson . |
| 10 | Two Oxfam workers have been giving a first hand account of conditions in Cambodia , where they claim millions of lives are at risk . |
| 11 | But in competitive equilibrium prices are performing a second role . |
| 12 | Juron almost seemed to be enjoying a second adolescence in company with his Scouts , while yet remaining devoutly responsible . |
| 13 | In his post match press conference Tony Jacklin also chose to stress the marvellous atmosphere the match had been held in before going on to reiterate that he would n't be serving a fifth term as Captain . |
| 14 | After four and a quarter years , some firms will already have had at least two visits and many in category 1 will be facing a second visit in the near future . |
| 15 | During the summer the Red Cross will be providing a first aid service at Durham County Cricket ground . |
| 16 | He must be in his early forties , Belinda decided , while Faye , she knew was thirty-eight — fairly old to be having a first child , which added a greater sense of urgency and importance to the task of keeping her pregnancy on track . |
| 17 | The sitting-room , then ; he would be having a last brandy in the sitting-room … |
| 18 | I 'm doing a third year I 'll be twenty four |
| 19 | The two counties also happened to be playing a 2nd XI match at Stratford , where Cranmer made both his first and last appearance as a Warwickshire 2nd XI player . |
| 20 | After all , here you are in Nicole 's hotel bedroom , obviously believing that you were n't going to be finding a third party here as well . |
| 21 | Now we are entering a third period of change : the shift from the command-and-control organization , the organization of departments and divisions , to the information-based organization , the organization of knowledge specialists . |
| 22 | Historically , world society has become a believable idea only in the last few hundred years , and science , technology , industry , and universal values are creating a twentieth century world that is different from any past age . |
| 23 | Welcome back:Speedway fans are making a last ditch attempt tonight to save one of the sport 's most influential clubs . |
| 24 | This is particularly likely to occur if you are introducing a second dog alongside an existing pet . |
| 25 | What they were told was that erm a number of , a a short , short list would be made up , erm , with the possibility of them having a second interview , and they would be told one way or another whether or not they were getting a second interview , because we were n't in a position to say whether we were or were not appointing . |
| 26 | Now let's say we 've done that we thought there were three people here so you though you were getting a third right . |
| 27 | We left 406 in October 1943 , and that was the last I heard of them until I received my Spring 1991 issue of Air Mail when I spotted that 406 Sqn were having a 50th Anniversary Celebration and Reunion in earlyh May at Shearwater Forces Base , Dartmouth , Nova Scotia . |
| 28 | On June 9 a bomb placed on the roof of the headquarters of the Honourable Artillery Company in London injured 17 civilians , mainly students , who were attending a 21st birthday party there . |
| 29 | Three men held last weekend in the city were making a second appearance before magistrates in Middleton in Manchester today on charges involving procuring firearms . |
| 30 | SQUEAKY voiced Lene Lovich , who hit the pop charts 13 years ago with a bizarre song called Lucky Number and whose dancing debut three years later , as Mata Hari , was received less kindly , is pursuing a third career — as a novelist . |