Example sentences of "be [verb] a [noun] " in BNC.
Next page| No | Sentence |
|---|---|
| 1 | His wife might even be sparing a thought for the murdered women 's families , never guessing that the man she was married to had been the perpetrator . |
| 2 | Faced with the choice of reinventing itself or hanging up its boots , 88open , the supporters club for Motorola Inc 88000 RISC vendors , is said to be finalising a plan to offer its conformance testing expertise to the industry at large , via a separate organisation that will develop and implement test suites for suppliers of other RISC architectures and consortia like PowerOpen or Sparc International it sees as potential customers . |
| 3 | Although we are dot going to be hobbling a horse by three legs and tethering it all day out in the sun , we will need a tolerant horse if we wish it to do boring or repetitious work . |
| 4 | Trapped in a cost-cutting spiral , Computone and Specialix — plus Chase Research Inc which is rumoured to be courting a buyer — are being forced to streamline their organisations . |
| 5 | Sports officer Ian Gardiner said : ‘ We will be submitting a bid for funds to put on a new series of Champion Coaching based on the popularity of the last course . |
| 6 | Examples are provided of the use of medication , including stopping such treatment when it does not appear to be helping a patient . |
| 7 | The Party leader , Mr Jacques Chirac , said he regretted that reaction in France to events in East Germany were often cool because of the fear of difficult consequences for France , but the priority should be to support a victory of democracy over communism . |
| 8 | The group would also be using a base in Perth as a central point for sending cranes all over the country . |
| 9 | The idea is that all meta data should be available to developers — who may be using a variety of tools — via a single , logical dictionary . |
| 10 | Richard Durrant is a local classical guitar player , he will be using a variety of instruments to play a varied programme of contemporary and other music . |
| 11 | Since rhetoric involves argumentation , then a basic question should be asked of any political discourse which appears to be using a rhetoric traditionally associated with the critics , rather than supporters , of the discourse : is the speaker or writer actually arguing against their own ideological tradition , or are they using a complex rhetoric to conduct an argument within their own tradition ? |
| 12 | An expanding body of work does provide evidence of racial discrimination in medicine , and St George 's Hospital Medical School was found to be using a computer program to shortlist applicants that downgraded those with non-English names . |
| 13 | With the same 14 mm bait I will now be using a size 4 and possibly a size 2 . |
| 14 | Next time you see him , he 'll be using a knife and fork like the rest of us . |
| 15 | And UTV 's Gerry will be using a satellite dish to do interviews from across the province live on the show . |
| 16 | Some decide that their child should be using a teacher beaker by the age of 6 months while others will happily breastfeed until the age of 3 years . |
| 17 | He must have supposed himself to be using a language absolutely purged of metaphor when he wrote at the grand climax of the Discourse on method |
| 18 | You 're not supposed to be using a ruler Emmy . |
| 19 | Charles Cockell ( PRO : COE-KELL ) will be using a device invented by Barnes Wallis to collect moths from his microlight plane . |
| 20 | one or two odd things that you get wrong sometimes like when you should be using a C or a K or a C K or |
| 21 | This last point does not necessarily mean that you have to be using a page description language but , for the moment at least , it amounts to the same thing . |
| 22 | If you 'll be using a wheelbarrow frequently , then make risers low and treads deep , to make is easier to manoeuvre — or build a separate ramp for it . |
| 23 | Marketing director Tony Gledhill says the company will not be using an ad agency to launch the range but will stay below the line with recently appointed PR agency Smart Communications . |
| 24 | And he 'll be using an invention from the great wartime aircraft designer Barnes Wallis . |
| 25 | They will probably be using an agency . |
| 26 | HaL will be using an SCD 2.0-compliant version of SVR4 . |
| 27 | To close the eyes should be to see a carnival amongst friends . |
| 28 | My advice would be to see a solicitor immediately as your case needs very careful investigation and consideration . |
| 29 | My advice would be to see a solicitor immediately as your case needs very careful investigation and consideration . |
| 30 | We may be handling a horse and get a feeling that we are in tune with the horse and that it is accepting and even anticipating whatever we want to do : we are in rapport with the horse , and are communicating with the horse but in a way that is not through the other senses . |