Example sentences of "[noun] [be] [adv] [v-ing] [prep] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The former cabinet minister says Neil Kinnock is trying to convince voters he 's brushed aside Socialism , while left-wing policies are still lurking beneath Labour 's new tablets of stone . |
| 2 | … the ‘ brake shop ’ , into which coaches are continually coming for repair . |
| 3 | I mean is it going to be a case that market values are actually going to work to our advantage ? |
| 4 | Now his younger brother and sister are also studying at home . |
| 5 | Mutations are continually occurring in nature and are the basis for breeding — indeed they are a prerequisite for the evolutionary process of natural selection . |
| 6 | The studies used as a basis for judgement are generally lacking in control because of the finality of educational decision making and placement ( in the sense that we can not return the child to an original or alternative placement a year later and be able to start from the same point again ) . |
| 7 | Below the surface , other animals are also tuning into water movements . |
| 8 | Legal and General Insurance transport and equipment manager Peter Fenton runs a 1,500-strong user-chooser fleet ; around 12–15 per cent of drivers are currently opting for diesel . |
| 9 | and she said er , and I said , I said Dave said you were a bloody fool to go up there , you let mother talk you into going , Terry had a job here , he , alright you had your house , you had your ups and downs , it was a bit small , you persevere with it , I said your kids are nearly going to school all of them , so I said , you do n't need a big house |
| 10 | Hungarian shops are not bulging with consumer goods like TV 's and so on , but there are excellent clothing and accessory shops with bargain prices . |
| 11 | He will probably find his Treasury advisers are far less sanguine : the Treasury believes that the same factors which produced the late 1980s ' consumer boom are now working in reverse , with falling confidence and asset values undermining consumption though incomes are relatively buoyant . |
| 12 | They are pushing at an open door , we in the industry are already working for change . |
| 13 | Books are also coming under pressure from Christians objecting to witches and magic , and Muslims objecting to the use of pigs as characters . |
| 14 | PRIMARY schools are increasingly relying on money from parents for a decent stock of books , according to government inspectors . |
| 15 | Schools are increasingly relying on money from parents to provide decent stocks of books , government inspectors report today . |
| 16 | And erm , whilst those schools are still suffering from under-funding , at least they can er gain some erm solace , consolation from the fact that er the Tories seem to be able to replace their chairs , opposition spokespersons of education almost at will . |
| 17 | And that 's beginning to show er up in the chemistry of the lakes and streams , some recovery of some lakes are already recovering in response to that reduction of emissions , but not all by any means . |
| 18 | However , according to many suppliers , pasta shapes are rapidly increasing in popularity . |
| 19 | SEVEN Newcastle United fans were still recovering in hospital last night after a double fatal accident on the A66 trans-Pennine road . |
| 20 | He might have bullied her mother into submission , but those tactics were n't going to work on her any more . |
| 21 | His mouth was wet and his eyes were still flicking from side to side . |
| 22 | Yet even in those halcyon days the signs of trouble were there for those with the will to see them : the multi-media and multi-disciplinary avant-gardes were beginning to show up every NEA programme area ; the clamour for the funding of life-styles rather than art as traditionally defined was becoming louder , and the accepted definitions of art and the arts were everywhere coming under attack in grant applications as well as in panels . |
| 23 | He stepped back onto the concrete and came round to the front of the building where the flowering cherries were just coming into bud on the lawn . |
| 24 | Meanwhile Malta 's reconnaissance aircraft were out looking for Axis convoys bound for Tripoli or Benghazi so that the island 's bombers might strike at them and disrupt the flow of supplies and reinforcements to Rommel 's command . |
| 25 | At a time when standards of living were rapidly rising at home , our goods abroad , manufactured with the disproportionate vulnerability of too many man-hours at high wage rates , became unattractively priced . |
| 26 | Yet to do this was proving increasingly expensive , for articles of luxury were fast rising in price . |
| 27 | Desertification is also occurring in South America and is most extensive in Argentina where the severest cases are recorded . |
| 28 | Nixdorf is also co-operating with Pyramid Technology , whose technology is used in Nixdorf 's Targon/35 . |
| 29 | Ensure that the boom is always pointing into wind . |
| 30 | But even though the river 's dry a nearby training stables is now applying for permission to drill a bore hole and pump up to £10m gallons out of the ground to water horse gallops like this . |