Example sentences of "[prep] be [v-ing] [prep] the [num ord] " in BNC.
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1 | But if the terminal repeats explain how wandering members of the Alu family might get into a chromosome , what can explain how they came to be wandering in the first place ? |
2 | Mitsubishi Electric Corp is said to be looking to the second source agreement with Digital Equipment Corp on the Alpha RISC to build a new base for its semiconductor business : the company gave up manufacturing its own mainframe and mid-range computers several years ago , in favour of selling IBM Corp and Hewlett-Packard Co machines on an OEM basis , and focusing its strategy on client-server systems , where it was assisted by its purchase of the Apricot Computers Ltd hardware division — but Apricot insists that it is 100% wedded to the Intel Corp iAPX-86 architecture and has no plans to build Alpha machines , although if the instruction comes in from Tokyo , it wo n't have much option ; there is an element of two-timing in Mitsubishi Electric signing up with DEC because it is already a member of the Hewlett-Packard Precision RISC Organisation . |
3 | meant to be moving onto the tenth and eleventh floor it only takes them a short time to save time on that or , or cut down on your labour as usual . |
4 | Tired and hungover as she was , she was n't going to be sleeping in the next five hours ; not until they docked at Plenty . |
5 | You do n't want to be falling at the first . ’ |
6 | I 'm supposed to be going on the third . |
7 | He hopes to be challenging for the first team by Christmas . |
8 | IBM said that first quarter revenues were down slightly in the US — where the economy was perceived to be improving until the first set of statistics in April , and in Asia , while revenues from IBM 's European operations fell by 13.8% . |
9 | IBM said that first quarter revenues were down slightly in the US — where the economy was perceived to be improving until the first set of statistics in April , and in Asia , while revenues from IBM 's European operations fell by 13.8% . |
10 | What seems to be happening in the nineteenth century , in response to major social changes ( rapid industrialisation and urbanisation , the disruption of old class patterns and the rise of capitalist social relations , the development of new and sharp class conflicts with their related social and intellectual manifestations ) is a continuous battle over the definition of acceptable sexual behaviour within the context of changing class and power relations . |
11 | Taylor will not want his former Aston Villa protege to be missing from the next World Cup qualifier against San Marino at Wembley at February 17 . |
12 | ‘ Sorry , is it you or me , but one of us appears to be working in the first person . ’ |
13 | Soon the fog of freedom is so thick that it is difficult to remember just what song they were supposed to be playing in the first place . |
14 | But shall , we 've been thinking we started last week and we 're gon na be thinking over the next few weeks , er some of the people that Jesus met , some of those who confronted him who 's lives came into contact with Jesus Christ and what difference it made to them ? |
15 | got something back from Intercity on the P S work where they 're wa wishing us to predict to certain date what we 're gon na be spending over the next six months . |