Example sentences of "[adj] [be] [v-ing] [prep] the [det] " in BNC.

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1 This is occurring at the same time as the Commission is using the single market as an excuse to augment its power for political means .
2 He has two kinds of Test performance — five for very few , and none for a lot , and this was looking like the latter .
3 This suggests that certain groups and individuals will be ‘ stronger ’ and better placed to obtain the housing they want , although this is something of an oversimplification since it implies that all are competing for the same types of house .
4 Though all are feeding from the same source , and to some degree feed on whatever is most plentiful , competition is minimized by selective feeding ; Croxall and Lishman ( 1987 ) and Prince and Morgan ( 1987 ) summarize methods of feeding respectively among penguins and petrels in southern waters .
5 As a result of this FRG project leaders are able to predict and influence reactions in other departments because all are working to the same well-developed system .
6 An artist , an art historian and a tourist may all be looking at the same painting but their perceptions would be different .
7 If a school is to be effective , the staff should all be working in the same direction , rather than pursuing conflicting goals .
8 The main disadvantage is that there is a possibility , with large customers in particular , that several different representatives from the organization will each be calling on the same customer .
9 And again that 's looking at the same time in nineteen seventy se seventy seven , seventy eight time , it 's looking back into that er er driveway , and if you can remember the sort of the Victorian or Edwardian er photograph that er I showed you before , of er virtually that er that view .
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