Example sentences of "[noun] be [v-ing] [adv prt] [art] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | So Dreadco 's physiologists are setting up a variable-pressure metabolic laboratory to study the matter . |
| 2 | It appears that the German Infantry facing the Marines has surrendered , and now No. 4 Commando Brigade are following up the retreating Germans . |
| 3 | While the BARB meters can record whether the VCR or an on-air programme is being watched , there is no way of telling whether people watching a time-shifted programme are cutting out the commercial breaks — or , indeed , what programme they are watching . |
| 4 | The popular budget and mid-priced range from EB seems not to be with us any more , alas , but the importers are bringing in a good looking range from Gravity which they hope will take over from where EB left off — prices from about £45 to £55 . |
| 5 | More designers are going down the locking tuner route and it 's something which I personally welcome ; it does away with that lumpiness at the nut end of the fingerboard and offers up a more traditional look into the bargain . |
| 6 | More interested in the style than the fashion , Huggy Bear are carrying on the feminist tradition of punk bands like The Slits and X-Ray Spex with all the musicality of Pete Duel & The Shit or Alien Sex Fiend . |
| 7 | MOTORISTS in the North-East are snapping up a new device in the battle to beat car crime . |
| 8 | His green eyes were taking on a bluish tinge and hers were going green with so much exchanging of deep looks . |
| 9 | DURING THE UUAC GENERAL STRIKE THESE AIRCRAFT WERE TOUCHING DOWN EVERY FEW MINUTES AT ALDERGROVE AIRPORT IN THE LARGEST AIR AND SEA MOVEMENT OF TROOPS UNDERTAKEN BY THE BRITISH GOVERNMENT SINCE THE SUEZ OPERATION TWENTY-ONE YEARS EARLIER . |
| 10 | SUNDERLAND manager Malcolm Crosby is lining up a late assault on the promotion play-off places in the New Year . |
| 11 | Barcelona-based multimedia developer BSI Multimedia SA is setting up a new division to specialise in Unix and OS/2 products . |
| 12 | The club is revving up a grand welcome for four-wheel fans from all over Britain . |
| 13 | The club is taking over a second-floor suite of offices on a short-term lease , but it is to continue searching for new premises , almost certainly still in Edinburgh . |
| 14 | — BLACKHALL Royal British Legion 's 100 Club is putting on a special show on Monday May 25 , featuring comedy hypnotist Tony Sands and singer Suzanne Preston . |
| 15 | Here Barnett is opening up a whole store of perceptions , aims , and criticisms which marked out important features of the class relationship in the period ( and which were also relevant to age relations ) , such as the alleged pauperization of self-respect among the poor ; their grasping of excitement ; and the superiority of middle-class culture which made contact between the classes so crucial . |
| 16 | Fairfax is driving down the same track in the opposite direction . |
| 17 | Trimdon Village WMC is putting on a super show with no cover charge on Tuesday March 31 with top comedian Bob Ritchie and award winning duo Inseparable . |
| 18 | His agent was sorting out the fine print . |
| 19 | She was having to repeat herself , and even then Lucy was picking up the wrong costume or completely mistaking what had been said . |
| 20 | As Hennessy was opening up the grey lockers at the end of the room , Donaldson spelt Bobo again . |
| 21 | One figure was letting off a Roman candle . |
| 22 | Eleven laboratories in eight countries are carrying out the first stage , synthesising new compounds for tests . |
| 23 | The Conservatives are putting up a big fight . |
| 24 | Desert Orchid was beaten , but ahead of him two brave steeplechasers were fighting out a stirring finish , and fifty yards from the line the no-hoper , the candidate for last place rather than first , stuck his plain-looking chestnut head in front and kept it there . |
| 25 | The mischievous side of the bright-eyed youngster 's character certainly came through when the English Opera Group recorded an LP of the production ; he munched nuts , not realizing that the microphones were picking up every tiny sound . |
| 26 | Sun is chuckling over a recent robbery in Silicon Valley : seems the thieves broke into a place and ripped off five Sun workstation , bypassing the new HP 700s and using a 705 as a door stop . |
| 27 | A 15-YEAR campaign to have a new civic centre built in Lisburn is taking on a new urgency . |
| 28 | So when my parent is handing out the parental investment , I will be selected to want the parent to give the investment to my sibling if the benefit is twice as great as it would be to myself . |
| 29 | The club sacked chief executive Terry Cassidy and the Bank of Scotland is taking over the Celtic ground as a security to cover their £5 m overdraft . |
| 30 | Across the Estuary , two miles away , the sun was lighting up a narrow strip of sand on the Yorkshire coast . |