Example sentences of "[be] [v-ing] [prep] a [noun] [adv] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Closed Circuit Television cameras are appearing at a location near you — or , at least at the east end of Princes Street , Tollcross , Haymarket , St. John 's Road , Leith Walk and Quality Street . |
| 2 | Now you are walking by a field where the corn has just been cut , and you see the stubble left . |
| 3 | But few critics are laughing at a time when ex-Klansman David Duke is able seriously to contend the governorship of Louisiana . |
| 4 | Consequently , many people who are ageing with a disability simply fall through the net . |
| 5 | It has been operating for a year now , with the aim of showing researchers both the benefits of massively parallel computers and how to use them . |
| 6 | We are living at a time when everyone is forced to adopt a political position : one day it will become clear that 6 February 1934 marked a dividing point in literature as well as in politics . |
| 7 | All of us are living in a diaspora twice removed — that is , our ancestors were already immigrants when we were born , and we , or our families , have repeated it again , going this time to the country of our past colonial masters . |
| 8 | We are , we are living in a world , we are living in a world where constantly there 's violence , does that happen in the animal world ! |
| 9 | Instead we are living in a time when we can watch a TV ad which tells us that cars which are way beyond the range of most people 's pockets are being ‘ handbuilt ( somewhere else ) by robots ’ . |
| 10 | ‘ I have been saving for a while now , ’ Yanto began , ‘ and by tonight I shall have a hundred and fifty . |
| 11 | Chris had insisted that if he was going to go out there , then so was I. I 'd been searching for a way out all night , but nothing convincing came to mind . |
| 12 | He has been swimming in a pool somewhere , I said to myself . |
| 13 | If you are acting for a mortgagee as well as for a buyer or borrower , then you prepare the mortgage deed at the same time as the transfer deed . |
| 14 | ( h ) Special arrangements for a mortgagee company This is a reminder when you are acting for a mortgagor as well as for the buyer-borrower . |
| 15 | He sighed , ‘ Robyn , you 're acting like a juvenile again . |
| 16 | So , if you 're looking for a mortgage now or in the future , go ahead and make your move — speak to any of our staff today . |
| 17 | ‘ You 're looking for a maternity home ? ’ |
| 18 | Apparently they 're looking for a house now . |
| 19 | All of us , including the critics , have got to sit down and read three hundred pages line by line , to make final judgments , but we 're looking at a programme there of the next decade . |
| 20 | Oh wanted a word with you see how much money you 've been putting in my , and we 're going for a mortgage now . |
| 21 | So you 're paying for a service really are n't you ? |
| 22 | No the , we 're moving about a bit now , there 'll be an element of long-line but there is er I know a lot of ladies will be relieved to know , there is a shorter length coming back in . |
| 23 | Oh they might they 're coming for a swim now look . |
| 24 | You 're coming for a drink up there ? |
| 25 | But erm you 're voting for a party not for a character . |
| 26 | ‘ But we 're talking about a generation much more computer-literate than the last and today 's children are very unlikely to react badly . ’ |
| 27 | So we 'll find out together whether you 're sitting on a fortune tomorrow morning . |
| 28 | Statistics show that three out of four carers are women — and most of the remaining twenty-five per cent who are men are caring for a wife rather than a parent . |
| 29 | ‘ Oh , me and Joanie are going to a party tonight . ’ |
| 30 | ‘ Some parents assume their daughters are going through a phase when the harsh reality is both bulimia and anorexia can lead to long-lasting damage . |