Example sentences of "[adj] be [v-ing] [art] [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | This week , Zoe Muir has been updating us on the progress of our five Lunchtime dieters who have each been trying a different method of losing weight . |
| 2 | The Posh are making a strong promotion challenge and their experienced , hard-running side knocked Liverpool out of the Rumbelows League Cup and impressed in defeat against Middlesbrough . |
| 3 | Many of the houses bear handwritten notices offering manicure/pedicure , basic literacy , hairdressing ; some are selling a few tins of Coca-Cola , candy , combs and trinkets . |
| 4 | I now enhance and accentuate this be establishing the light tones of background wall and the luminosity of the foliage created by the back-lighting . |
| 5 | I now enhance and accentuate this be establishing the light tones of background wall and the luminosity of the foliage created by the back-lighting . |
| 6 | As Baddam indicates , the French were translating the Philosophical Transactions simultaneously ( de Brémond , and then Demours , for the 1731–40 period ) . |
| 7 | The French were preparing a great attack on the heights of the Aisne for the end of the month , and so it was , he claimed , essential to keep the Germans occupied in Flanders . |
| 8 | Meanwhile , the French were mounting a major attack on Boulogne . |
| 9 | This time the flood tide of ‘ forward and backward Cs in which the French so much delight ’ was flowing inexplicably at a time when we and the French were fighting the Seven Years War and French fashions , like French bottle makers and garlic , were desperately unpopular . |
| 10 | Whilst this is expecting a great deal for such groups , a measure of personal ministry to the individual plus group ministry to one another would seem to preserve the right balance . |
| 11 | This is taking a long time . |
| 12 | This is taking a long time . |
| 13 | As regards the distribution of lands between the districts , erm if I can refer to Mr Curtis 's comments first , the Greater York study never anticipated that the distribution of housing around the Greater York the districts would be based around the percentage of population within those districts , but purely on capacity of sites within those districts to accommodate future housing growth without compromising greenbelt objectives , Ryedale , as I 've said before , has taken the largest proportion of recent housing in the Greater York area , and has identified a substantial amount of new land for housing within its Southern Ryedale local plan , what the District Council is concerned about is that within the local , Southern Ryedale local plans , this is taking a large proportion of its district wide total plans , yet the District Council from the structure plan figure given is unable to calculate the remainder of housing that should be allocated in the remainder of its district . |
| 14 | In the absence of adequate police action , this is producing a growing number of self-defence and monitoring groups among black minorities ( Gordon , 1990 ) . |
| 15 | This is creating a vital staging post between expensive hotels and permanent rehousing for the homeless . |
| 16 | This is using the cancelling method in reverse . |
| 17 | But this is looking a long way ahead . |
| 18 | This is proving a vintage year for Cumbrian trainer , Gordon Richards , whose Clever Folly was winning for the fourth time . |
| 19 | As we have seen , this optimism is already justified on the theoretical side , and this is providing a fruitful stimulus to the experimentalists . |
| 20 | The present drop in overseas students on top of this is having a devastating effect on the school 's finances . |
| 21 | Other community teams dealt with all their reviews in one regular weekly meeting which had been set up to meet the requirements of the care programme approach , evidence that this is having a considerable impact on the organization of services in the places where it has been implemented . |
| 22 | Much of this is having a deleterious effect on British industry and jobs . |
| 23 | I realise that this is asking a great deal , but it would help our strained finances if copies of these sections can be made within each institution . |
| 24 | This is asking a great deal . |
| 25 | This is becoming a standard practice among many community groups throughout the USA who have property to protect . |
| 26 | In areas such as northern Argentina , central Chile , Peru , various regions of Brazil and Mexico , this is becoming a basic element in the subsistence of the economy . |
| 27 | Basically this is updating the original COSHE , COSHE re register . |
| 28 | If you 're going to keep up the same pattern of commitments the answer is that the army is already stretched as it clan be and so are the other two services and this is putting a terrific strain on the individual servicemen and their families . |
| 29 | This is putting a great strain on doctors , ’ he said . |
| 30 | The moderate section of the FLNC , which announced on Jan. 8 that it was freezing all military action because this was alienating the Corsican people , attributed these murders to Mafia-style property speculators . |