Example sentences of "[adv] the [noun] be [v-ing] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The following morning , a peerless sunny Sunday , incredibly the larks were singing on the Mort Homme and it seemed quite impossible that there could be an attack that day Suddenly , a single shell landed , and the tornado descended . |
| 2 | There was a pause — presumably the phone was ringing at the other end . |
| 3 | But perhaps more importantly the transvestite was contributing to a knowledge and a culture which undermined the discursive formations of authority itself , doing so through her perverse reinscription within those formations . |
| 4 | In making these statements the church is not standing aloof from the unconverted instructing them on how they ought to live their lives rather the church is speaking to itself , holding before all its members the id the ideal of what we believe God has taught in his word about the way in which people ought to live . |
| 5 | The criteria for inclusion are complicated , but basically the doctors were looking for men in the top 10 per cent of overall risk . |
| 6 | The only thing I 'd say , I , I would have expected perhaps I missed out on , on yesterday 's course , but I would perhaps have expected more emphasis to have been given to something that you mentioned , right at the end , was ‘ Find out how long the interview 's going to be ’ . |
| 7 | It was virtually a hundred-and-eighty-degree turn and very sharp , the culvert blocked with stone and the remains of a small tree , so that the full volume of the water coming down the gully was swirling across the track to disappear over the edge , thundering down into the main gorge of the Jequetepeque . |
| 8 | Perhaps the Greeks are emerging from the long , mesmerising spell that history has cast upon them ; perhaps they are coming out of their corner . |
| 9 | Perhaps the SNP is moving in the same direction as its Welsh colleagues and is preparing to become a ‘ post nationalist party ’ that fully embraces the concept of Europe of the regions . |
| 10 | I mean if obviously the child is reacting in some way or feels that they ca n't even relax when they 're at home , erm then someone 's overstepped the mark . |
| 11 | Yes , erm , and , and we , were prepared to subsidise as far as our finances would allow , you know people who are going , but Ex Exeter is quite a long way , so the travel is going to be something is n't it ? |
| 12 | So the output is going to be a hundred and fifty percent of what is was last year . |
| 13 | So the man 's walking down the street and this little Chinese kid comes up to him , man , Hello . |
| 14 | The return departure from the Harbour will be quite late so the organisers are asking for intermediate stops at Guildford , Woking and Clapham Junction on the return run to enable passengers to detrain and catch the last suburban services home . |
| 15 | So the girls are going to Penny 's and they ai n't coming back . |
| 16 | That would usually be called an engine , and in a car the engine just burns petrol and produces the mechanical energy in the shaft which turns the wheels , so the course is learning about the nature of mechanical forces and energy , thermal forces and energy and of the conversion of one form of energy to another , and in the process you learn that there are fundamental scientific laws — in particular the second law of thermo-dynamics — which says that you ca n't necessarily go form energy in one form with a hundred percent efficiency to getting it out in another form , so this limitation on your ability to convert from one form into another without waste in fact comes into many , many processes and every day processes . |
| 17 | But e So the conveyor 's going on on the line on Friday afternoon |
| 18 | from two , nine is two and that number is a minus so the answer 's going to be a minus , so it 's gon na be ? |
| 19 | So the answer is going to be four times a hundred , four hundred . |
| 20 | So the average is going to be ? |
| 21 | So the motorbikes are going like hotcakes — but there are people who prefer something a little more sedate . |
| 22 | So the fire is burning round the clock seven days a week as the women and their children do the family baking . |
| 23 | So the stores are letting off work for us then , are they ? |
| 24 | So the difference is going to be |
| 25 | erm there it is very difficult , all the cases we work with are fairly miscellaneous , so therefore have very individual problems , you know , that are different every time , so the anger is going to be different , but we come down to a lot of fundamental erm similarities erm often to do with bureaucracy and structures erm which people just do n't fit into , you ca n't force people to fit into boxes . |
| 26 | Only the title was missing from this story about life in a music academy — perhaps that was the reason ; ‘ Carry On Student ’ or even ‘ Carry On Musician ’ was n't guaranteed to have the customers rolling in . |
| 27 | The song reminded me of my ex-wife , only the group were trying for wistful melancholy and my associations were screaming nightmare . |
| 28 | Only the people were paying for it off of taxes . |
| 29 | Often in my progress I have had faint glimpses of the Absolute Truth , God , and daily the conviction is growing on me that He alone is real and all else is unreal . ’ |
| 30 | Soon the milk was bubbling above the flame . |