Example sentences of "[noun] [be] [v-ing] [prep] [adv] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Prospective employers are looking for suitably qualified people , normally graduates — not necessarily law graduates — who show the kind of skills needed to make a successful contribution as a solicitor to the work of a local authority : the ability to analyse a problem and to communicate effectively , flexibility , and the ability to get on well with other members of a team . |
| 2 | Now with the monsoon season over , and several more boatloads of Cambodians reported on their way by Indonesian officials , Australian immigration authorities are preparing for yet another major influx of refugees . |
| 3 | Is it any wonder then , that fusion researchers are looking for more efficient fusion machines ? |
| 4 | The wind is gusting to about fifty knots . ’ |
| 5 | The car is travelling at about 100 mph on the straights and braking hard before corners ; but it is stable enough for me to make notes and so quiet in the leather and teak-lined cabin that we can easily hear each other through out helmets . |
| 6 | It 's very difficult to speak with any degree of accuracy , but there is at least 1,500 known viruses at large and this figure is increasing by around 100 per month . |
| 7 | Bernice was gazing at yet another painting in yet another curving corridor . |
| 8 | By this time CBR was originating at least half a dozen full-orchestra shows to the national network weekly and we were coming into ‘ the golden era ’ of Canadian radio network production . |
| 9 | However , whilst asserting that the reporting accountant should already as part of his or her duties be auditing at least two reconciliations in detail they also argued that the process was ‘ highly unlikely to reveal a great deal that the reporting accountant would not otherwise pick up during the year-end work ’ . |
| 10 | The iceberg is moving at about five miles a day , said Principal Met Officer Ken Ingermalls . |
| 11 | A reflection of this is the way they are all trying to develop their lager interests in a market where lager is growing at nearly 10 per cent per annum and is likely to command over 40 per cent of all sales this year . |
| 12 | when the child is wetting at least three times a week |
| 13 | Perhaps Webern was aiming at just such a lack of definition , and certainly many composers have been attracted by this very quality , as well as by his intellectualism , over the last thirty years . |
| 14 | Now trade officials are talking about yet another deadline in mid-December , it seems as if the EC may at last be ready to play a more active role in liberalising world trade , thanks largely to goading from its energetic new trade commissioner , Sir Leon Brittan . |
| 15 | The health and beauty business is flourishing with more sophisticated products than ever before . |
| 16 | Although some farmers are adopting more intensive systems of production this is not yet at a fast enough rate to generate the large increases in marketed output necessary to feed the towns , where the population is growing at over 6 per cent per year . |
| 17 | The rural population is growing at over 2 per cent per year and densities are increasing . |
| 18 | He makes up for the boredom and emptiness of his own life by creating a dramatic emotional triangle for these puppets of his imagination , only to realise finally that his puppets are dancing to quite another tune . |
| 19 | Within an hour hundreds of spadefoot males were bobbing like so many light balloons on the pool 's surface , each every second or less giving voice to a single loud ‘ Wah ! ’ . |
| 20 | In 1984,20 per cent of all establishments were using at least one fixed-term contract worker , and a third of these ( seven per cent ) were using a number equivalent to at least five per cent of their labour force . |
| 21 | This was a very useful corrective to the hyperbole of the trade papers but on occasions even they expressed surprise at the popularity of their industry and were happy to concede that movies were succeeding for very basic reasons . |
| 22 | The Royal Navy is evaluating at least four types of missile for this role . |
| 23 | The reason for this difference is probably that the one wishes to justify cuts in welfare expenditure whereas the other is aiming for more direct state control of industry . |
| 24 | I think you have to look after people both at work and when they retire and we inflation-proofed our pension scheme during the whole of that pretty dreadful time when inflation was running at over twenty per cent . |
| 25 | For example , when price inflation was running at about 12 per cent last summer , buying on HP would have meant monthly payments about 10 per cent higher than those needed to save up and buy the same thing later . |
| 26 | LIKE the fox and the hedgehog , two of the world 's great museums are resorting to strikingly different tactics to shake off unwelcome predators . |
| 27 | My experience in workshops is that people are dying for more honest forms of communication . |
| 28 | ‘ People are dying from too much sunbathing , ’ said Dr Judy Evans , who is heading the project . |
| 29 | Lots of people are talking about far better results than that — and we have had a good start — but we have to keep our feet firmly on the ground . ’ |
| 30 | Body Count are playing at least five shows with the rock bands . |