Example sentences of "[conj] [indef pn] be [v-ing] [prep] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | or somebody 's looking for this or somebody 's looking for that |
| 2 | or somebody 's looking for this or somebody 's looking for that |
| 3 | When he passed the churchyard , and the ancient trees around it , he noticed that someone was standing behind one of the trees . |
| 4 | Imagine yourself being in a crowd where English is being spoken , but suddenly you sense that somebody is talking in another language . |
| 5 | Suppose that one is choosing between two actions , both of which produce either no pain or the same amount , while one produces more pleasure . |
| 6 | In other words , awareness that something was happening at national level did not provide workable lines along which local managers could shape their own efforts . |
| 7 | Not that anyone is listening to seasoned campaigners like Reece these days . |
| 8 | A band was playing and everyone was talking at increased volume to make themselves heard above it . |
| 9 | Let's now come back to this quiff analysis where John was confused and everyone was explaining to each other . |
| 10 | Cos everyone was crying at that bit in the in the cinema , were n't they ? |
| 11 | Well you just mix it together , it looks like something 's floating in some clear a clear water , really rough and you just knock it back . |
| 12 | And something was happening to that door ; something that he could n't make out , because it was screened by their bodies . |
| 13 | In this calculus one combines functions as if one is dealing with algebraic quantities . |
| 14 | Behaviour which is hard to explain , if one is looking for moral consistency , makes underlying sense , if one thinks in terms of power . |
| 15 | A black hole is a region of space from which it is impossible to escape if one is traveling at less than the speed of light . |
| 16 | If one is talking about second adult rebates , of course it is true that we need to try to simplify the proposals , to overcome the administrative difficulties brought to our attention by local authority associations . |
| 17 | I mean if one was talking about great tits in China , you 'd have to say there are two kinds of great tits . |
| 18 | I mean and everybody 's looking for that dream amount are n't they . |
| 19 | The evening was drawing to a close and everybody was dancing with new-found friends . |
| 20 | ‘ If anyone 's going to corrupt you , it 's going to be me . ’ |
| 21 | Took a walk in the fields saw an old wood stile taken away from a favourite spot which it had occupied all my life the posts were overgrown with Ivy & it seemed so akin to nature & the spot where it stood as tho it had taken it on lease for an undisturbed existance it hurt me to see it was gone for my affections claims a friendship with such things but nothing is lasting in this world last year Langley Bush was destroyd an old white thorn that had stood for more than a century full of fame the gipsies shepherds & herdmen all had their tales of its history & it will be long ere its memory is forgotten . |
| 22 | Then under her breath , ‘ But nothing 's going to gentle Angel ! ’ |
| 23 | I am not convinced that what is going on is a ‘ compensatory ’ secondary circuit of capital parallel to industrial production , but something is happening with residential and retail land development which appears to be separate from industrial production . |
| 24 | But something is happening in that upper panel . |
| 25 | In the light of their two powerful flashlights visibility was all that could be wished for and it took them only two minutes to carry out their examination : unless one is looking for some obscure mechanical fault there is very little to look for in an engine-room . |
| 26 | We were just drunk as usual , but everybody was arguing with each other and it came to a head and we had a fight . |
| 27 | Unless one has data from repeated surveys across time , there is no way of telling whether one is dealing with pure age effects , pure period effects or an interaction between the two , termed generation or cohort effects . |
| 28 | Worse still , the new skiers — beginners — who should have been making up for those who stop because old age or the arrival of infants stops ski holidays — were simply not attracted to a sport when everyone was complaining about bad conditions . |
| 29 | I like it when you 've got the FX actually going through the amplifier , rather than adding it at the desk , because there 's a certain quality and tonality when everything 's going through that guitar speaker . |
| 30 | The buyer naturally has the opposite concern and , in the absence of a formal back to back contract , when one is dealing with standard conditions of purchase the best that can be accomplished is to incorporate a provision like cl 1.3 of Precedent 2 , which notifies the seller of the possibility of prime contracts , and attempts to impose their terms upon the seller , coupled with an opportunity for the seller to examine them and a warning that they will apply , even if not examined . |