Example sentences of "be [verb] [adv] a " in BNC.
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| 1 | One of devices recovered after the second tip-off had been hidden only a short distance from Shell offices at Hill of Rubislaw , sealed off after the morning bomb scare . |
| 2 | 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 . |
| 3 | Gradually they are building up a resistance to a sting that could otherwise kill them . |
| 4 | PA are building up a definitive database of companies and contacts interested in ESPRIT CIME . |
| 5 | Here we reckon we are building up a specialisation in this aspect of human development . |
| 6 | They already have a children 's play room , an art room , conference space and are building up a library . |
| 7 | We are gathered here a little before Christmas to perform our annual fishing industry pre-ministerial Council season 's service — that litany of woe from every corner of the kingdom — telling of sad tidings of discomfort and no joy in the industry . |
| 8 | ‘ She has only been flown back a month ago from the near east . |
| 9 | If the need for more labour intensive economic activities is recognised , and if the full social costs of continuing rural decline and urban expansion are calculated then a strong case can be made for more determined political action and considerably increased government investment in many DRAs . |
| 10 | His chief backer is Roy Hattersley , whom he has been seeing quite a bit lately . |
| 11 | ‘ I learned from her diary that she had been seeing quite a lot of — of a man . |
| 12 | I understand from Valerie — I 've been seeing quite a lot of Valerie , as I think she 's indicated — that you were visiting your husband today . |
| 13 | PLAYER : Between " just deserts " and " tragic irony " we are given quite a lot of scope for our particular talent . |
| 14 | Once more , we are given only a masculine point of view . |
| 15 | Those who saw him freeze into immobility against Mike Tyson before crashing to the canvas in the first round in July 1990 believe they are seeing now a repeat of the same symptoms . |
| 16 | If the district registry had appreciated the urgency and the short period of the order without doubt they would have sought directions and the result would certainly have been that the appeal would have been set down at some other convenient centre or , as happened , in London at or before the beginning of this term and would have been heard within a few days , that is , the appeal would have been heard approximately a month ago . |
| 17 | . 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 . |
| 18 | ‘ We need to consider how the economy of the West Bank can one day be integrated with that of the East Bank ’ , declared Jordan 's minister for the occupied territories , ‘ We are drawing up a West Bank five year development plan aimed at integrating what we do there with what we have here . |
| 19 | Customs are drawing up a paper to assist the Commission , in consultation with the Royal Yachting Association , the British Marine Industries Federation and others . |
| 20 | Well , she says that the boatmen and wharfers are drawing up a petition which they would like you to look at . |
| 21 | While men have been destroying life , women have been building up a system that will diminish suffering and save life . |
| 22 | By the way , this was the period when I could to a milk shop for a hape'orth of milk , but it 's not the halfpenny that people think now , cos the currency 's been altered quite a lot , it was very trifling , but it 's true . |
| 23 | Er this has been altered quite a lot since then , but you can still see the er gate that was er to the yard of the station . |
| 24 | The party had been roping down a hanging glacier . |
| 25 | When a whole number of Landau levels are filled in a MOSFET , the Fermi energy , EF , lies in a mobility gap . |
| 26 | 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 . |
| 27 | 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 . |
| 28 | Any daily spread , you 've been given here a two page per day dairy . |
| 29 | The latter had been given only a month previously to John lord Dudley , and its transfer suggests that Gloucester 's role in Wales was still evolving . |
| 30 | The latter had been given only a month previously to John lord Dudley , and its transfer suggests that Gloucester 's role in Wales was still evolving . |