Example sentences of "[be] [v-ing] [adv] [prep] [art] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Railway enthusiasts are queueing up for a nostalgic trip on a steam train . |
| 2 | The staff and students are quickly getting to know each other and are shaping up into a hardworking and enthusiastic team . |
| 3 | Wales welcome their arch-humiliators with open jaws , the scent of an overdue kill growing in nostrils that are flaring again under the inspirational coaching of Alan Davies . |
| 4 | Telling you , I thought we 'd of been clomping around on the bare floor-boards and sitting on orange-boxes watching a wee black-and-white portable for ever . |
| 5 | Tonight was just the culmination of what 's been building up for a long time . ’ |
| 6 | Fortunately , some experience had been building up on the European continent , in Holland in particular , with DMUs which had very reliable and cost-effective engines and transmissions . |
| 7 | The two of them had been at daggers drawn ever since 1183 , and in recent months , as incident followed incident , tension had been building up to a new peak . |
| 8 | ‘ It was heat-of-the-moment stuff but it 's been building up over a little while . |
| 9 | Kurdish people are hanging on in the northern part of Iraq , desperately in need of support and aid that must come to them before a harsh winter sets in . |
| 10 | We are touching here on the sensitive area of competitive tendering and of privatisation . |
| 11 | This has been hanging about for a long , long time while I 've been on this and these people and they 're very special people I 've got this sword of hanging over my head . |
| 12 | But in the past year German authorities withdrew approval for certain components which Cameron and some other hot-air balloon manufacturers have been using worldwide for the past 20 years . |
| 13 | Hardly had the Padre finished saying the Nunc Dimittis when the Doctor , who had been kneeling innocently in the front row , sprang to his feet . |
| 14 | The greatest human impact has been in Uruguay , where 600–2000 franciscanas have been drowning annually in a gill-net fishery for sharks in recent years . |
| 15 | It might be that your ambitions are seriously flawed and you are preaching only to the converted . |
| 16 | The growing demands and applications being made of plastics are filtering through to the additive market , requiring them to be constantly updated and made more efficient , and thus leading to higher prices , explained the report . |
| 17 | Zapp is the supreme professional , who embodies , albeit comically , those ideals of professionalism that have long been dominant in the North American academy and are becoming so in the British . |
| 18 | He accepts that his input into the group is still the largest but believes the other members are contributing more on a growing basis . |
| 19 | New opportunities are opening up in the near future which you must be calm enough to accept . |
| 20 | These people are going into the familiar local stores where they shop and are walking out with the American dream they could never afford on a minimum wage . |
| 21 | This allowance is very limited — it is available only for married women whose child/children are over four years of age and who have been signing on for the previous six months . |
| 22 | The traditional multilateral institutions , IMF and World Bank , are gearing up for a major contribution . |
| 23 | Greece and Cyprus stay hot and dry , but the Balkans and Turkey are cooling off to a nice temperature for hikers . |
| 24 | As the prospects of a Tory victory recedes , the likes of Sunderland car magnate Sir Tom Cowie and Tyneside bus burgher Martin Ballinger have been banging on about the Tory cause . |
| 25 | ‘ There are thousands , maybe tens of thousands , who are dying out in the rural areas , or as they make their way to the towns to get help . |
| 26 | But nowhere were they more pronounced , and rather than fading as the economy developed they appear to have been becoming deeper in the immediate pre-war years . |
| 27 | They are mopping up in a southerly direction . |
| 28 | He knew this was something that had been happening slowly for a long time , something that had to happen or he was lost , but it was such a brittle structure they were building , one word would topple it , shatter it , one word would be enough to jerk them back into that ordinary daylight where nothing could be changed or righted , nothing could unravel . |
| 29 | 30 staff and friends from Earlys Blankets in Witney had been looking forward to a 3-day holiday at EuroDisney . |
| 30 | 30 staff and friends from Earlys Blankets in Witney had been looking forward to a 3-day holiday at EuroDisney . |