Example sentences of "[be] [v-ing] [adj] [prep] [det] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Of claims that the relationship was one of passionate intimacy , the brigadier said : ‘ They have been suggesting that for some time . |
| 2 | In general old people who are becoming vulnerable in some way , are left to carry on coping with the assistance of family , friends , or neighbours , and most receive minimal help from outside welfare agencies . |
| 3 | Now we 're playing all on this side without getting across . |
| 4 | ‘ We have a business plan as far as mid-1993 and are going professional by this Christmas . ’ |
| 5 | Because of pressure from the business community in the US , many local governments are providing more of this kind of information ; indeed there are examples of reports including a set of fund accounts and a set of accounts based on a proprietary view . |
| 6 | People are getting desperate at this time of year . |
| 7 | I had just asked butterfly ecologist Marney Hall whether , since butterflies are getting scarce in this country , a garden like this would really work . |
| 8 | The French and the US National Science Foundation have been doing this for some time . ’ |
| 9 | They have apparently been doing this for some time . |
| 10 | She did not go into details : that she found herself so physically revolted by the process that she had begun to retch , nor despite being warned that all new mothers had a fit of the blues after giving birth , she had been crying most of that day . |
| 11 | We shall be seeing more of this yacht , which has already been chosen as the class for the Tour de France à la Voile race in 1992/93 . |
| 12 | the fuller report and the contact with the parents should be happening prior to that stage . |
| 13 | I 'm writing this without any knowledge of the Leeds line-up other than that Mac and Strach played . |
| 14 | It might be condensation , right , now you 're aware of these things , cos if you 're really working professionally , your head 's supposed to be running all across this stuff while you 're in there , in there with the punters |
| 15 | We shall be examining this in another chapter . |
| 16 | But of course you should n't be doing any of this kind of thing with human beings … |
| 17 | As an intermediate skier I found some of the information ( eg buying skis and the extensive section on snowboarding ) irrelevant as I will not be doing this for some time . |
| 18 | Would you and Nicole be doing this to each other right now ? ’ |
| 19 | We have a different role , but nevertheless and even , an important one is perhaps in even looking further ahead than the Emergency Planning and therefore I would support er in being brief I would support very much erm Mr 's er motion if you can call it a motion which has been seconded and I hope that other members will will agree that erm we can pass this on to the Chief Executive who obviously will be doing this in any case , but it would give er a a an added er measure if you like er I 'm talking in terms of member involvement in pressing for er a wider look of what has happened after this sad flood has been dealt with . |
| 20 | So I can still hear him talking to me when I 'm doing some of this stuff , especially when I 'm trying to sing — which has not been easy . |
| 21 | Dr Robert Spink , Tory MP for Castle Point , said that Charles should be defending those in this country having to pay out an extra £16 a week per family to subsidise the French farmers . |
| 22 | Attaboy , I thought , you show her otherwise she 'll be making free with this bit as well . |
| 23 | I ca n't imagine for a moment that they will be sitting unwatched in some archive . |
| 24 | Er and you have n't been taking any of those Diazepam at all ? |
| 25 | One family tea-time , when Auntie had been sitting silent for some time , she said : " It 's lucky there 's never anyone left in those offices at night . " |
| 26 | The shop had been standing empty for some time , and needed a great deal of work . |
| 27 | Anyway , he thought they would be drifting apart a bit now , perversely but predictably because they were seeing more of each other , not just weekends ; Stock stayed the night at the horrible little place in Islington quite often , but Slater thought Sara might be getting bored with the black-leather macho man . |
| 28 | Clinical measurements were becoming popular about this time , and many interesting things were being discovered as a result of this more quantitative approach . |
| 29 | I thought you said you were going easy on that seed ? |
| 30 | There they were sitting next to each other on the sofa . |