Example sentences of "[be] [adv] [v-ing] [prep] [art] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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1 | Those on the brink of buying are mostly waiting until the election is out of the way before committing themselves to a new house , but City financier Christopher Moran thinks they are all wrong . |
2 | In sorry contrast to the Italian Village , several rows of two-storey brick houses are slowly rising from the ground . |
3 | The borings are concentrated high on the pillars but are remarkably lacking on the masonry lower down . |
4 | The Bradford City supporters are constantly writing to the rag complaining of too much coverage for Leeds ( It really does piss them off ) . |
5 | Mr Pratt , whose father Glyn was a former Merseyside County Councillor , added : ‘ We are constantly hearing about the desire to breathe new life back into New Brighton . |
6 | What 's worse is that the commentators are constantly fawning to the scum , the game against us at the pigstye being the prime example , going on the BBC coverage Leeds did n't appear to touch the ball let alone get it out of their own half . |
7 | What 's worse is that the commentators are constantly fawning to the scum , the game against us at the pigstye being the prime example , going on the BBC coverage Leeds did n't appear to touch the ball let alone get it out of their own half . |
8 | Even in the midst of " participating " we are constantly interpreting in the light of what we know and expect . |
9 | We are constantly talking to the press try and persuade them to give us more coverage . |
10 | As there are many persons of distinction in England who are pleased to honour the art of gardening by making it a considerable part of their amusement and have been greatly assisting in the introducing of large numbers of new plants , shrubs and trees into the English gardens and as some of these noble persons have studied the science of botany and are well acquainted with the characters and true names of the plants … their example will render it necessary for the professors of Gardening at least to know the plants they cultivate by their proper titles … |
11 | that and so on , erm , erm , I , it would be nice in fact if the er Ipswich evening tabloid which gave us prominence to this rule er would give just a little space to er this latest development , erm but I would like to , not being excessively caracole I mean reading this document I do feel a slight er switch on your comments on er Pipers Vale , er which you note , there are no er nationally er or er common species which sounds as though you have designs on it , erm I , I wonder if this would be the place to ask you , you know , to make some sort of statement about Pipers Vale , you know that we are basically looking for a route which does not touch on Pipers Vale |
12 | Half an hour later , Jamie Shepherd , who had been patiently waiting in the hospital foyer , drove his granddaughter home . |
13 | However , in parliamentary terms Mr Nelson has been long waiting for a call from a prime minister offering jobs . |
14 | Care in the community is a new national policy for dealing with the mentally ill , following the closure of psychiatric hospitals , but many former patients are apparently falling through the net . |
15 | Such discussions not only take an inordinate amount of time ( a subtle form of disobedience ) , but they are subversive because they are so rewarding to the child . |
16 | I am merely reporting on the fate to have befallen every other Minister for Sport you can care to mention which is one of the reasons why we are still debating the kind of football stadiums we should have for the future when every other country besides Botswana and the Cocos Islands have already built theirs . |
17 | I am merely asking for an extension of the logic which is already so well known to Marsham street . |
18 | ‘ The decision to do so was one of the hardest I have ever made : but now that I am committed ( by dint of posting the letter before I had time to change my mind ) I began to be afraid of opposite extremes — afraid that I am merely indulging in an orgy of egoism . ’ |
19 | I believe I am merely following along the path which he once trod out . |
20 | If you are manually recording in a diary a secretary should check the dates three months in advance on a daily basis . |
21 | I thus started a relationship with that country that has been constantly rewarding for the rest of my life , and indeed I now regard it almost as my second homeland . |
22 | Spokesman Sylvia Rigby said : ‘ They seem to think we are only objecting to the level of the charge but we are against it all together . ’ |
23 | It is important to bear in mind the fundamental rule of agency law , that the acts of an agent are only binding on the principal if the agent had actual or apparent authority to perform those acts . |
24 | Brown has been important to White because he provides the top-level training practice that has been so lacking in the build-up to this world championships . |
25 | This is the stage to take decisive action , because by ignoring this threat gesture , you are merely acquiescing to the dog s challenge , and adopting a subordinate position . |
26 | What is nice about the AX diesel is that you can smile smugly about the miles you are effortlessly squeezing from every gallon , in the knowledge you have sacrificed little along the way . |
27 | They are not considered to be non-viable either on the grounds of their isolation and remoteness from the communities they serve , or on the grounds that they are physically falling into a state of dilapidation . |
28 | The aim of this Lecture is to incorporate some of the important real-world features which are patently missing from the model of Lecture 6 . |
29 | ‘ I am not living in a bed of roses but in reality . ’ |
30 | ‘ I am not looking for a ghost . |