Example sentences of "[be] [v-ing] [prep] [art] [noun sg] [noun pl] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The language used to describe this is reminiscent of Harrison , as well as clearly relating to the technique of Charlie Mears , Tiresias , and the dromenon- like patterning with which Eliot had been experimenting in the quatrain poems . |
| 2 | Local authorities have been cooperating with the health authorities in the provision of community care schemes for several years under special arrangements for joint finance . |
| 3 | ‘ You 've been listening to the hoodoo doctors , ’ he says . |
| 4 | ‘ I had been looking at the world ratings and the draw certainly is n't what I had expected , ’ said Gregg . |
| 5 | How do I know that machines are communicating over the air waves ? |
| 6 | We are looking at the training arrangements and are anxious to ensure that our future forces receive the best and most relevant forms of training in the most efficient and cost-effective way . |
| 7 | The existence of these different anatomical plans , without intermediates , again raises the question of whether there are only a small number of possible body plans , represented by the existing phyla , or whether we are looking at the end results of a series of historical accidents . |
| 8 | Gullivers are looking after the travelling arrangements and the widespread tentacles of the Irish Tourist Board make it certain that golden oldies all over the world have got to hear about the festival . |
| 9 | He can be unseated by a swing of 3.6 percent to Labour — and that 's the kind of swing we 're seeing in the opinion polls at the moment . |
| 10 | ‘ Aye , we can talk about it — while we 're lookin' round the mud ruins of Chanchán . ’ |
| 11 | ‘ We 're looking at the resistance mechanisms and hope to develop technology to control insects by stopping them developing resistance . ’ |
| 12 | So you 're going for the hour slots are n't you really ? |
| 13 | No we 're going with the child minders tomorrow . |
| 14 | Wo n't belong before they 're sending in the demolition crews , no doubt . ’ |
| 15 | Oh we 're starting on the show tunes now are we ? |
| 16 | what I told Emmy though that that the other people advertising , they 're dealing in the wedding dresses , so one enquiry could pay for the whole lot , for her she 's dealing in nothing . |
| 17 | we 're making on the hand tools , things like that er , works with our account money , cos you get a thirty day account . |
| 18 | Security officials concede the enormity of their task as there are around 4,000 militants in the Valley trained in the use of arms and explosives by Pakistan while another 3,000 are waiting for the winter snows to melt so they can cross over into India from Pakistan . |
| 19 | One is a scene apparently in a vineyard , since grapes are growing on the vine stems . |
| 20 | They were standing by the desk in the library , where Theda had been going over the household accounts when the lawyer arrived , Hector , his wound still troublesome , laying at her feet . |
| 21 | The people who 've been going through the induction courses though for the last six months or so , they 're probably up , more able to speak to it , and you 're going to be better off actually than the , the old boys if you like and girls , because it 's going to be old dogs , new tricks , but as you wo n't know any different and you do this , then you 'll have an advantage over them . |
| 22 | Already we are encroaching on the specialist areas that deserve separate attention in following Chapters . |
| 23 | Doctors had been deeply worried about the 4,000 refugees from Prague , who had been camping in the embassy grounds in squalid conditions , surrounded by ankle-deep mud and sleeping in shifts on the available beds . |
| 24 | Porter , quoted by Hall , suggests that these IRCs are removing from the research councils money which should be allocated to ‘ responsive mode funding ’ ( researchers applying directly to the councils for research grants ) and basic research , because they were set up to foster research areas thought to have potential economic importance . |
| 25 | ‘ We have been co-operating with the Met police since November 30 in an effort to protect the public and prevent further bomb attacks , ’ he said . |
| 26 | More and more camcorders are coming off the production lines with this useful feature ; however , it is not a point which need concern you unduly if you happen to have one of the older machines , as the effect is noticeable only on edits where there is a big change in the character of the colours at the shot-change . |
| 27 | ‘ The errors are coming in the computer models , ’ , he said . |
| 28 | You know , if we were in Malaysia , we 'd be hanging from the light fittings for this . ’ |
| 29 | Instead you list some possible rewards he may be gaining from the phone calls : |
| 30 | Right , let's move on to the last session , where we 're going to be looking at the rate books . |