Example sentences of "[be] [v-ing] [pron] [verb] [art] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Longmans , the well-known publishers are producing something called the spoken corpus which is er a a record of the way in which English is used . |
| 2 | Bradford showed little of the enterprising approach that has been helping them shed a dour image this season , but it was not until the 64th minute that they began to slide out of the contest . |
| 3 | ‘ The Geophysical Observatory in Port Moresby have over the years provided us with very useful earthquake data and are helping us monitor the after shocks which are sill being felt in the Tari area . ’ |
| 4 | The key is that when protons are touching they feel a strong attractive force , more powerful than the electrical forces that are trying to force them apart . |
| 5 | By this time , most of us are enjoying something resembling a regular sex life . |
| 6 | So instead , they 're using them to create an exclusive new range of classic clothes . |
| 7 | When you 're revising you said the other night , you cover the answers up and try the question . |
| 8 | ‘ Then , bizarrely , we had a very good November and , although we 've not seen the figures yet , we 're expecting them to show a good December . ’ |
| 9 | Now , however , the Sun in Aries , at odds with your ruling planet Uranus , as well as Saturn and Neptune in Capricorn , the most sensitive area of your solar chart , signifies that intrigue and intimidation are forcing you to make a complete break from the past . |
| 10 | I am expecting you to do the same . ’ |
| 11 | No , what she found so overwhelmingly infuriating was that when he had enquired tactfully , some might say , whether she was tired , he clearly had been expecting her to say a polite ‘ yes ’ so that he could then suggest that she had an early night . |
| 12 | I am already aware that I am beginning myself to use the acceptable university jargon that saturates the material that is presented within these diploma courses . |
| 13 | That 's , my one , I do n't know how you 'd ever get over it , but that 's my one criticism of the thing is that sometimes when you walk in it 's the first thing that hits you and unless people are dancing it creates a cold atmosphere . |
| 14 | They are saying we have an absolute right to say what should happen . ’ |
| 15 | It will be an interim attempt to be seen to be doing something to replace the discredited poll tax . |
| 16 | She said she would be letting you have a 5-page proposal plus sample activities by July , as agreed with you . |
| 17 | The fact that they seem more willing to take a chance on change suggests that a new era may be dawning which represents a new problem for beleagured British Prime Minister John Major . |
| 18 | It must be killing him to have the Old Man expecting him to play barman to me ! |
| 19 | one is that i it may be that the old moral economy worked because the peasants recognized that , in a sense , that was the way they w well they , they could not stand up and criticize the landlord th the , the most they could do was to try and get the landlord to behave in a reasonable way , and that within that there would then be the sub-culture , the counter-culture of , of beginnings of mutual aid and what is happening in is in part that the communists are making them think the old moral economy work , but in part they are picking up on those sub- culture bits because the , the , the whole of mutual aid idea is , is coming from existing peasant cooperations . |
| 20 | ‘ When I walked into the studio Blixa had his body miked up and they were punching him to get a bass drum beat . |
| 21 | Well there seems to be a slight mismatch there , and perhaps some of this mismatch is also a part of , with the confusion I have of the various shifting policy of York , in term in terms of their requirement , there has been in the in the not too recent recent past York were saying they had an additional requirement beyond need which they termed their concealed requirement , although it might not be a concealed dwellings , as we might otherwise describe them , of one thousand six hundred , and that has progressively come down to seven hundred as presented at this enquiry . |
| 22 | ‘ We were asking them to play the main role in caring for their children , but they felt their authority was being undermined by the assessments . |
| 23 | So you 're doing exactly what we were telling you to do a few weeks ago , that you had to er take money out of reserves or you had to cut down on the level of services if you were to avoid putting that thirty four pounds on the council tax bills this year . |
| 24 | For some of these adults , aged from their twenties to forties , expert counselling on a one to one basis is helping them to go a great deal further . |
| 25 | The company is using its global broadband network to link the services and is using them to launch a Global Managed Data Service which will compete with the likes of British Telecommunications Plc 's Global Network Service and Infonet . |
| 26 | It 's helping them to understand the immense pressures on them to stay forever in the closet . |
| 27 | ‘ The hardest thing is keeping it looking the same , ’ says Mr Poole , ‘ mainly because of modern health and safety regulations . ’ |
| 28 | At this time of year , when everyone is pledging themselves to improve the sorry lot we call our lives , I have decided to give up lying . |
| 29 | If it is to put pressure on broadminded intellectuals to persuade their leaders to change their policies , it is having the opposite effect , and is causing them to support the nationalist government . |
| 30 | And finally : ‘ Do n't merely talk , like some gasbags do , about shedding the last drop of your blood for your country — the difficulty with them , when the time comes , is getting them to shed the FIRST drop of their blood . ’ |