Example sentences of "[art] [noun sg] [noun] be [v-ing] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Here the whole of the site was lightly cordoned off , and one of the Park Attendants was talking to ( the newly promoted ) Sergeant Dixon as Morse and Lewis moved alongside . |
| 2 | The fur coat was hanging under a cotton cover . |
| 3 | Only come closer if you are anxious , because the base leg is going to be rather low . |
| 4 | This should preferably be a fairly recent period of relative stability : since the base period is acting as a point of reference , it would be inappropriate to choose a period in which the price level was affected by any abnormal events , such as a war or a long dock strike which created a serious shortage of imported goods . |
| 5 | It 's hardly more noticeable than the fact that , as the Swedish director Ingmar Bergman likes to point out , the cinema audience is sitting in total darkness for 50 minutes of that time , while the projector beam is masked during the change of frame — the indispensable ‘ intermittent movement ’ of movie film as it goes through the projector 's gate . |
| 6 | Indoors , the afternoon post was waiting for her . |
| 7 | Is what , is where the money thing is coming in not , how much he saves on the level of service . |
| 8 | At that rate the flow of bank lending is , and the money supply is expanding at a corresponding rate . |
| 9 | It could , however , be argued that the Watch Committee was acting in an executive or administrative capacity rather than judicially . |
| 10 | The re-contra commanders were returning from talks in Managua with President Violeta Barrios de Chamorro concerning the continued violence between re-contras and re-compas . |
| 11 | The couple rent a home in the resort Joe is appearing for the summer . |
| 12 | The field Taff was referring to certainly had animals in it , but they were all lying on their backs , their legs in the air , dead for at least three or four days . |
| 13 | Two NCO drivers from the Field Ambulance were passing through the assembled ranks selling chocolates , buns and cold drinks . |
| 14 | In the kitchen Jos was listening to the wireless while he filled in his pools coupons . |
| 15 | In the kitchen Tristan was lying on his back amid a litter of pans and dishes . |
| 16 | ‘ In the first split second you experience a feeling of numbness , of complete collapse within your chest and a cold wave of fright … the needles of the automatic printer drums and the monitoring instruments are swinging in all directions . ’ |
| 17 | But it is a measure of the difficulty Galileo was working under that , despite several audiences with the new pope , he was unable to ease the ban . |
| 18 | In a night of frantic desperation , rumours of the drug scandal were leaking by the hour . |
| 19 | One of the electronics companies was staying In a declining market and trying to increase its share by increasing its competitiveness . |
| 20 | In every way , the submarine cable was proving to be ‘ … one of the great technical adventures of the 19th century , something akin to exploration of space today ’ .9 |
| 21 | The son of the man who designed the Spitfire fighter is campaigning for a new stamp to be issued in recognition of his father 's achievement . |
| 22 | LOOKING BACK , it s now possible to see that well before the Chernobyl accident in the Soviet Union the storm clouds were gathering for the nuclear dream . |
| 23 | The budget deficit is running at 10 per cent of GDP , reflecting the Gorbachev administration 's inability to resist the demands of special interest groups . |
| 24 | The London governors were by now contemplating extreme measures but they could not persuade the Royal Agricultural Society of England to provide support of the kind Dick was getting in Scotland and their veiled threats in the petition were likewise unsuccessful . |
| 25 | The Toxoplasmosis Trust is campaigning for doctors to be more aware of the dangers of infection . |
| 26 | And erm not only er do I think that er she 'll probably be reasonably good with , with finals I 'm absolutely sure that her course reports from , you know , all the places where she 's been will be better than most of the other candidates , you know , because she brings home these , the these reports , you know , and she says it looks alright , you know , beginning of the course Nurse is lacking in this or has not got that or is not , you know , you think mm pretty the end of the course Nurse got the hang of , is very good , has done this , has done that , has supported this and you think mm pretty , well that 's lovely you know but she did n't have the experience during the whatever , she had been given the experience and the end of it brilliant |
| 27 | The wedding day was hurtling towards us , and still you seemed crazy about Radcliffe . |
| 28 | Thus , when in Trusthouse Forte Albany Hotels Ltd v Daejan Investments Ltd ( No 1 ) [ 1980 ] 256 EG 915 the lease under which the rent reviewer was acting as an expert did not provide for interest to compensate the landlord for the tenant 's delay in paying the increased rent , the court refused to imply the missing term . |
| 29 | So it 's quite simple there 's no as far as my bit goes it is erm erm it 's just really the as I say , the roof design 's going to be used to design the roof for us . |
| 30 | Sometimes the maintenance engineer is dealing with a type of failure he has never had before . |