Example sentences of "[be] [v-ing] [adv] [prep] [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | NEW Yorkers are stepping out to weird Foot Friend parties to meet the partner of their dreams . |
| 2 | If we are using up to five times the energy that we really need to move , then it is hardly surprising that , after a long day , all we can do is ‘ collapse in a heap ’ ! |
| 3 | Toleration as wide-ranging as this would not have been acceptable in England , where hostility to Roman Catholicism had been building up for seventy years since Mary Tudor 's attempt to wipe out Protestantism . |
| 4 | It 's been building up for some time , I think . ’ |
| 5 | They are competing vigorously with each other to be last . |
| 6 | This fits in with the general tendency among much of the elite population in Shetland ( and Dunrossness ) to avoid raising ‘ issues ’ ( this has obviously happy consequences for those who are benefitting most from oil-related developments ) . |
| 7 | Well that 's the been the problem issue we 've been struggling through on that basis |
| 8 | Another typical resistance is met when it becomes clear that despite everything that is being achieved in terms of family understanding and awareness , individuals are sticking rigidly to old patterns of interaction and behaviour . |
| 9 | Conservationists say otters are recovering well from near extinction throughout England . |
| 10 | The Chinese have been inching back towards economic reform . |
| 11 | ‘ I saw that sort you 've been knocking about with last night . |
| 12 | She went humming upstairs to clean the bathroom , while Winnie turned over in her mind a plan which had been lurking there for some time . |
| 13 | Will he also confirm that the fact that those bankruptcies and liquidations are occurring now in high-tech industries is a particularly worrying aspect ? |
| 14 | Instead , large corporations are becoming more like living organisms , continually changing and adapting . |
| 15 | Large numbers of British birds are nesting up to 22 days earlier than normal , possibly reflecting changes in climate as a result of global warming , according to a report by the British Trust for Ornithology . |
| 16 | David Beskine of the RA said ‘ The Hot Spots represent a small sample of the problems which the Ramblers are tackling head-on during Forbidden Britain Day ’ . |
| 17 | I would like to announce that from now certain major sponsorship opportunities are opening up on this page . |
| 18 | One obvious conclusion that could be drawn from the review is that the Japanese are steaming ahead with welldefined information technology plans . |
| 19 | Similarly , organisations of adults with disabilities , such as the British Council of Organisations for Disabled People , are pressing hard for better quality , integrated education , given their own personal experiences of segregated provision . |
| 20 | That is certainly the case , but the Government are walking away from that fact by encouraging imports of coal to destroy the fabric of our communities . |
| 21 | are walking round with flared trousers and things ! |
| 22 | I work at a distribution centre , where there is continuous shiftwork , which means that women and men are walking home at all hours of day and night often taking short-cuts across playing fields and waste land , totally unaware of the potential dangers . |
| 23 | The store had not been trading profitably for some time indicating there simply is not enough money circulating in the area to sustain it . |
| 24 | Since then , various voluntary groups throughout the campus , the UK and abroad have come forward with names and addresses of active alumni , some of whom have been networking enthusiastically for many years outwith the official organisation of either the Graduates Association of the University . |
| 25 | CYCLING organisations in Wales are gearing up for National Bike Week , which begins on Saturday . |
| 26 | Today , more than 100 million Europeans are gearing up for this winter 's invasion of the ski-slopes . |
| 27 | ‘ Got to observe strict ARP , you see , Miss , though here we are gettin' on for five months of war and not a peep out of a Jerry plane . |
| 28 | When he 'd been banging on for several minutes about immigration , infiltration , dilution of the great Anglo-Saxon race and a lot more of the same , I seized the opportunity , rather neatly I thought , to observe that indeed things had come to a pretty pass when the name Patel was as common as Smith in England . |
| 29 | If you are keeping strictly to 1,000 calories a day and not shedding surplus fat … then the chances are you are NOT keeping strictly to 1,000 calories a day . |
| 30 | Proteon 's announcement that it is splitting its business into two divisions ( one for adaptor boards and wiring centres ; the other for internetworking and intelligent hub systems ) is in line with what has been happening internally for some time , says Swan . |