Example sentences of "[be] [v-ing] [prep] a [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
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1 | You react like one when you burn the toast , so why should n't you react like one when you are pitching for a new account ? |
2 | ‘ Care managers are stepping into a different world , managing budgets and telling clients when they ca n't do something because there is no more money . |
3 | With the threat of relegation looming again , the loss of the ground , and the millstone around my neck of a team of asthmatic pine martens with the collective brain power of a kiwi fruit , the pressures on me are building to a frightening pitch . |
4 | Eminent scientists are clamouring for an outright ban on all chlorine substances . |
5 | Stars from the National English Opera , Janice Cairns ( soprano ) and Anthony Mee ( tenor ) are singing in a Grand Opera Gala with full orchestra and chorus at Sunderland Empire at 7.30pm , Saturday March 28 . |
6 | Coupled with this , however , we have to remember the huge concentration of such sediment in deltas such as that of the Mississippi , where it has been accumulating at a fantastic rate ( perhaps 10 000 feet in the same period of time ) . |
7 | It moves the word you are typing to a new line when it enters an invisible margin running down the right-hand side of the screen . |
8 | Universities and colleges are looking to expand their intakes , but are drawing on a shrinking population of 18-year-olds . |
9 | The fiscal argument is that welfare state benefits for the poor cost relatively less in the more affluent States , because they are drawing on a larger tax base ; the higher the average income in a State , the smaller the effort required to finance a programme at a given level of payments ( because presumably there will be both fewer recipients plus more rich people to tax than in States with low average incomes ) . |
10 | Second , the fall in unemployment adds something to the theory that the economy has in fact been recovering for a good deal longer than generally realised . |
11 | Through it , Palestinians are struggling on a daily basis to shake off Israel 's authority and to construct their own . |
12 | The sightseers on the banks of the river , who , sensing something afoot , had been gathering for a few hours , dodged about , seeking a view between bushes . |
13 | Dr Hadley , who had asked the questions , ceased to play with the two-toned ball pen he had been using as a remote muscle of his tongue . |
14 | Pels-Leusden in Berlin , and Wolfgang Werner 's Berlin and Bremen galleries and Edwin Vömel in Düsseldorf are collaborating on a large-scale project designed as a tribute to a largely undiscovered sculptor , Hermann Blumenthal ( 1905–42 ) . |
15 | Rotosound have been experimenting with a new type of nickel plating which gives an exceptionally bright sound thanks to increased magnetic response . |
16 | Tony was supposed to have been singing in a Black Sabbath ‘ reunion ’ in the States , which did n't happen for him in the end , but that gave us some breathing space . |
17 | But other places are experimenting with a different mechanism : controlling the market . |
18 | I had been walking towards a closed door , and by a sudden magic its impenetrable wood became glass , through which I saw myself coming from the other direction , the future . |
19 | Wait until your baby has been walking for a few weeks before taking her for the first shoe fitting , as toes are crucial in gripping the floor while learning to toddle . |
20 | However much the family cling to their culture and security , the younger generation at work and school are grappling with a different set of realities ; the wisdom of the older family member may be less acceptable . |
21 | Hamlet the out-of-work thespian pig has been appearing in a weekly strip in ‘ The Stage ’ since 1988 . |
22 | Again the doors closed tightly initially , but , praise God , they are opening in a big way . |
23 | The Director of the State Historical Library , Mikhail Afanas'yev , has confessed in an interview with the newspaper Kuranty that , ‘ Books from captured German holdings are perishing to a limited extent ’ . |
24 | SKIERS from the Middle East are praying to a new Mecca , the holy shrine of — Inverness . |
25 | the election for which you are applying for an absent vote ; |
26 | Priests inside Malawi are pressing for a new statement from the bishops . |
27 | ALMOST four years after the 1985 crash of an airliner in Gander , Newfoundland , in which 248 US servicemen were killed , a group of congressmen are pressing for a new inquiry into the disaster . |
28 | It is significant that it is the Africans who are pressing for a partial lifting of the ban and the maligned fur trade has made no move in that direction . |
29 | The puppet pigs with the squeaky voices who captured the imagination of a generation of youngsters are appearing in a new ITV children 's series on puppetry . |
30 | BIZARRE stories about Princess Diana receiving psychic messages from her dead father are appearing in an American magazine . |