Example sentences of "[noun] [pron] [be] [v-ing] [prep] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The debt counsellor said that as long as I paid all the money I was getting from Social Security for the house , they could n't take it away from us . |
| 2 | Anyway , just at present I 'm thinking about disembodied laughter . ’ |
| 3 | I 'm going , for work experience I 'm going to Saxted Ministry up there hopefully to see what it 's like looking after children you know , like a nursery and everything . |
| 4 | A seventeen year old girl was seriously injured when the stolen car she was riding in crashed into a tree . |
| 5 | The value to a company of an experienced press officer is being able to distinguish between journalists who are looking for free samples and those who are serious about their work . |
| 6 | While the purpose of creating commodity organisations was neither to escape liability nor to create profits for the organisation itself , but to control dealings in the commodity for the benefit of member States , the consequence has been to deprive third parties who were dealing in good faith with the organisation of a domestic judicial remedy . |
| 7 | The aim of this guidance , which will be available in the summer , is to enable candidates who are working towards Standard Grades to achieve general SVQs without duplication of effort . |
| 8 | After keeping an eye on several possible candidates who were working in local shops , I finally selected a young man who was an assistant at a fruiterer 's in Kensington . |
| 9 | But can I just make the point that we have been investing a great deal in British Rail , and the idea that er all over the piece we 're talking about non-modernized railways simply not true . |
| 10 | Third , and of more practical importance , we now knew where to look for any further changes ; by being able to concentrate on IMHV and LPO and discard ‘ irrelevant ’ tissue we might hope to magnify any effect we were studying by diminishing background noise . |
| 11 | Two people were taken to hospital with cuts and facial bruises after the car they were travelling in smashed into a road sign on the A1 western bypass at Lobley Hill , Gateshead , yesterday . |
| 12 | Second , there are the cash resources available from the Training Agency , for those Compacts it is funding in Urban Programme Areas . |
| 13 | Last summer , Romania reportedly warned neighbouring Hungary it was working on nuclear weapons and a ballistic missile system . |
| 14 | At 21 Henry Skelton had his life before him … a brilliant artist and musician he was studying at New College , Oxford . |
| 15 | We rode off to the field which was bursting with beautiful yellow melons , my favourite sort . |
| 16 | ‘ More quantifiably , there 's been a significant improvement in productivity and activity out of a budget which is increasing in real terms but not by much . |
| 17 | It is precisely this sense of legitimacy which is lacking in capitalist societies today . |
| 18 | Hence the cusp was on field lines which were convecting with similar velocity to the closed field lines equatorward of the cusp . |
| 19 | The problems experienced by foster- and adoptive parents who are caring for black children are qualitatively similar . |
| 20 | Whether this policy can be continued for much longer in the face of the decline in scruples shown by the large drug syndicates who are raking in huge profits from sales of cannabis , heroin and cocaine , remains to be seen . |
| 21 | In this mode of organising an essay , you divide the issue you are addressing into conflicting positions , or points of view , or sides of an argument . |
| 22 | All surrendered personnel of established Yugoslav nationality who were serving in German forces should be disarmed and handed over to local Jugoslav forces . " |
| 23 | ( iii ) The third paragraph of Robertson 's signal directed that " all surrendered personnel of established Jugoslav nationality who were serving in German forces should be disarmed and handed over to local Jugoslav forces ! |
| 24 | And this might help to explain why Gen Robertson devoted such a significant part of his signal to the order that " all surrendered personnel of established Jugoslav nationality who were serving in German forces should be disarmed and handed over to local Jugoslav forces " . |
| 25 | This closely corresponds to the wording of Robertson 's order the previous day referring to " all surrendered personnel of established Yugoslav nationality who were serving in German forces " . |
| 26 | He speaks only of " surrendered personnel of Yugoslav nationality who were serving in German forces " . |
| 27 | This implies that Robertson 's response to Kirk 's querying of the definition of " Chetniks " had been to remove the term altogether , and simply to word his instruction in general terms that " all surrendered personnel of established Yugoslav nationality who were serving in German forces should be disarmed and handed over to local Yugoslav forces . " |
| 28 | Fifty three women were on a WI outing to Denman College at Abingdon in Oxfordshire when the coach they were travelling in crashed into the back of a truck . |
| 29 | By July they were objecting to overseas service at all . |
| 30 | I became very much more conscious of people , because when you 're a scientist you 're dealing with inanimate matter , unless you 're a biologist . |