Example sentences of "[be] [adv] [v-ing] [prep] the [adj] " in BNC.
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1 | Amid all this turmoil and red ink , the aircraft manufacturers ( America 's Boeing and McDonnell Douglas , and the European consortium , Airbus Industrie ) together with the jet-engine makers ( America 's General Electric and Pratt & Whitney , and Britain 's Rolls-Royce ) are nervously sitting on the biggest backlog of orders in their history . |
2 | In the unlikely setting of an industrial estate near Stroud in Gloucestershire , the elephant , cast in bronze , has been slowly growing for the past year . |
3 | In the unlikely setting of an industrial estate near Stroud in Gloucestershire , the elephant , cast in bronze , has been slowly growing for the past year . |
4 | Unfortunately , in modern society , our ‘ own ’ are rarely living in the same town or even in the same county as us , which makes the ideal situation very difficult to achieve . |
5 | The consequence of this is that we are constantly hypothesizing about the possible significance of each event , and often discovering that we are wrong . |
6 | The desperate or the disillusioned have poor vantage points on society ; their view is continually obscured , and they are constantly peering through the clouded lenses of a camera lacking high-quality focusing mechanisms . |
7 | The words written by Hinrich Medau in 1933 continue to guide our work today : ‘ The all-important inspiration of Medau work still remains the close connection between movement and music and we are constantly working at the deepening and widening of our knowledge in this as in other spheres ’ . |
8 | Calera are obviously aiming for the mass market . |
9 | Look out , all those companies that are eagerly playing in the digital cellular telephony market with Time Division Multiple Access technology : the King of Prussia , Pennsylvania-based InterDigital Patents Corp unit of InterDigital Communications Corp says it has engaged the law firm of Dickstein Shapiro & Morin to represent it in connection with possible patent infringement litigation to enforce its portfolio of 32 US patents on the technology . |
10 | The point of introducing this distinction between determination in the last instance and the structure in dominance is to combine the idea that the practices of which society is made up are mutually determining with the ultimate dominance of the economy . |
11 | I am only talking about the next hundred years , he wrote , perhaps even only the next decade . |
12 | It is up to each one of us , he wrote , at every point in our lives , to decide how much order and how much disorder , how much discipline and how much freedom we need for the best realization of our project of the moment , even though that project may turn out to be flawed or even utterly mistaken in the short run , of course I am only talking about the short run , he wrote , in the long run , as I have already said , both success and failure are quite without meaning , the notion of meaning is quite without meaning . |
13 | There has been much muttering among the aggrieved franchisees about the possibility of legal action . |
14 | During this period Churchill took over the coal negotiations and displayed a vigour for settlement which had been entirely lacking in the Prime Minister . |
15 | You are only catering for the mindless buffoons who find Simon Fanshawe a greater stimulus than Shakespeare . |
16 | However , an Asian community worker in North London told me ‘ West Indian children are only reacting to the insufferable cultural superiority that Asians feel . |
17 | ‘ But in these hard times , cars are only selling at the right price . |
18 | ‘ Happened to me once , ’ said the man sitting next to her , the one who had been so understanding about the malfunctioning photocopier . |
19 | I am not referring to the conservative perspective which condemns sexual deviance per se , but to another viewpoint , one which might actually endorse deviance in principle , at least if it were seen as a quest for authentic selfhood of the kind explored in Chapter 3 . |
20 | I am not talking about the ongoing struggle towards black liberation , for there is much more to the emancipation of blacks than opposition to racism . |
21 | I am not talking about the long run , he wrote . |
22 | And I am not talking about the drunken louts who beat their wives to death in a cellar . |
23 | It is heading for a thumping loss of more than FF700m ( about £85m ) this year and if you believe all the doomsters and gloomsters , the vultures are already circling over the lovable animated characters created by the legendary Walt Disney . |
24 | ‘ More than 3,700 pubs are already operating under the new leases , which provide maximum opportunity to develop the full commercial potential of the pub . |
25 | I should also say that these are already selling like the proverbial hot cakes , so maybe I should move swiftly on to the ME-10 … |
26 | ‘ It appears that consumers are already returning to the high street and are also beginning to consider major financial decisions which were postponed in the uncertain period before the election , ’ said Dr Brian Bailey , Infolink chairman . |
27 | ‘ It appears that consumers are already returning to the high street and are beginning to consider major financial decisions , which were postponed in the uncertain period before the election , ’ he said . |
28 | Although winter is still firmly in control in the far northern regions of the Arctic , birds are already preparing for the coming season by moulting into fresh breeding plumage . |
29 | Such arguments are even more potent in the case of the peripheral regions of Britain which are already suffering from the alleged North-South divide and fear a haemorrhage of business and skilled labour to the South East when the Tunnel is opened . |
30 | This book will be of great use as a reference text , both to students studying aspects of drug analysis and toxicology , as well ass scientists who are already working within the pharmaceutical and healthcare industries . |