Example sentences of "[be] [v-ing] [adv] [noun] [noun sg] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | PLANNERS are paying only lip service to new Government initiatives to keep young people on the land and in countryside jobs , according to the Farmers Union of Wales . |
| 2 | To celebrate the release of The Terminator video game we are giving away £5,500 worth of prizes . |
| 3 | It 's such a waste of time when they could be tracking down criminals amount of time . |
| 4 | The organiser of a Kurdish refugee charity who 's at the centre of a fraud squad investigation is reported to be carrying out relief work in Turkey . |
| 5 | Its major shareholders , J Lister and J Carlson , are taking over management control of the Nottingham knitter and dyer , whose turnover rose to £11.1million from £10.5million . |
| 6 | Men were bellowing fortissimo women screaming in order to be heard but Charity 's voice was cutting through the uproar effortlessly . |
| 7 | Some companies , he claimed , were paying only lip service to environmental improvements and pollution safeguards . |
| 8 | Some hours later , under a dull red sunset , they were creeping up Kentra Bay in the shadow of Beinn Bhreac , past the bay where they 'd stopped too short the first raid , through the narrow channel to the sheltered pool behind . |
| 9 | The hole 's gravity is stripping away surface material from its companion star to create a typical accretion disc . |
| 10 | There are signs too , that the distilling industry is cutting back whisky production from recent high levels , all of which will reduce sales opportunities in the UK . |
| 11 | IPL Systems Inc , Waltham , Massachusetts is taking on IBM Corp with what it claims is the first 9337-compatible disk array subsystem for AS/400 users . |
| 12 | Except for the need to make the prescribed disclosure ( see page 41 above ) , the retained marketing rules that non-UK offices have to comply with despite the foreign business carve-out apply only where the firm is carrying on investment business in the UK . |
| 13 | The UN Development Programme has paid for tests on existing photovoltaic systems , and a British consultancy , Sir William Halcrow and Partners is carrying out field work in Sudan , the Philippines and Egypt . |
| 14 | William Oliver , who was sixty seven , was carrying out maintenance work to a water pump in a well at his farm at Bisley , near Stroud , when the accident happened . |