Example sentences of "[be] [v-ing] [adv] a [noun] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | But , er , so hopefully Michelle will get this next Tracey 's position , and obviously sort of in in the meantime and providing her position comes up they are bringing in a Telesales County Secretary , which was n't gon na come in for about a year cos they wanted to sort of like , trial it , but now they 've decided if that 's what they want the position to do erm it 'll probably happen in the next two months and they said for me to go for it from our division , so I said right , okay . |
| 2 | You 're building up a knowledge base , you 're not just building up lots of odd facts like you know , how many people live in China , or |
| 3 | But if you 're looking down a back entry or something , you ca n't always be there . |
| 4 | Lesley and Fuzz from Silverfish turn up from New York , where they 're sorting out a record deal . |
| 5 | To follow on from this month 's lucky number prize of an Edinburgh Crystal bowl , we 're giving away a £100 cash prize if you can answer the question below correctly . |
| 6 | Just a reminder of that er quiz competition we have for you at the moment , we 're giving away a Superbike video and the quiz question for you is about motorbike riders and we want you identify the nationality of these three riders please , Michael is rider A , Randy is rider B and is rider C. |
| 7 | My poor little blind garden , what 's left of it , just up over here , near the top gate — and — ’ she turned in the opposite direction ’ — down by the river , in the old primary school building , which is in fairly good nick , they 're setting up a field study centre , and strips of land for school gardens . |
| 8 | Oh they , no , sorry , , they 're offering still a mandate workshop for the group , erm , sending a trainer |
| 9 | They have a combined income of £22,000 and are paying off a £42,000 mortgage on their Baker Avenue home . |
| 10 | DONAGHADEE Sea Angling Club members are having quite a season fishing the big boat competitions on the west coast . |
| 11 | Some letters were found to be more often confused with other letters and these letters were deemed to share similar features E G , B and P were often confused whereas B and X were n't so you 'd be flashing either a series sequence of letters up , some of which shared features , some of which did n't , or we thought shared features , and then we saw whether they were confused or not , and this was taken to support the idea that features were extracted from the input , or that 's how we constructed the letters or characters that we were perceiving . |
| 12 | It strikes me , as I 'm hanging around a dressing room the size of a barn , that Carter have wound up more people again this year than any other British band in the Top 40 — with the possible exception of The Levellers . |
| 13 | You might be wondering why a word mask merely reduces rather than eliminates the word-superiority effect , since it effectively short-circuits the operation of the target word 's detector . |
| 14 | ‘ We 'd better get back or they 'll be sending out a search party , ’ she said . |
| 15 | He would prefer to see the work completed more quickly , otherwise whoever was responsible for operating services after privatisation ‘ is going to be running over a building site 400 miles long ’ for up to a decade . |
| 16 | In effect , the videoconferencer will be dialling up a video call in much the same way as an ordinary telephone call . |
| 17 | Sir Paul Girolami , chairman of Glaxo Holdings , will be handing over an £800,000 cheque today to Audry Collins , chairman of South Tees Acute Hospitals NHS Trust at a ceremony to mark the opening of a new dermatology centre at South Cleveland Hospital , Middlesbrough . |
| 18 | This evening , or over the weekend , I will be putting together a mailing list so that us train spotter type supporters do n't get in the way of the real reason for Gav 's excellent listserver. ( grovel , fawn … |
| 19 | ‘ We 'll be putting together an oversight group with the top EDS and KF people , which will determine on a regular basis the business needs of the company . |
| 20 | They are also enlisting the support of Chester MP Gyles Brandreth and will be carrying out a traffic count . |
| 21 | They were supposed to be carrying out an arms search . |
| 22 | Lemmings Bungee Club , a commercial venture which organises charity jumps , will be setting up a 150ft crane at Kings nightclub , Copford , on May 16 ready for anyone daring enough to throw themselves off . |
| 23 | If on the other hand you specify the languages in advance , you may be leaving out a language group in which there are people who want to train that you did not know of . |
| 24 | A court 's been hearing how a drink driver failed to stop after hitting a nine year old girl ; she died from her injuries . |
| 25 | An inquest has been hearing how a bomb expert and four other workers were killed as they helped to clear Gulf War debris in the Kuwaiti desert . |
| 26 | He should have been carrying out a test run but refused because the machine is blacked by the NCU . |
| 27 | I have , for the last ten years , been carrying out a research programme about organizational conditions for creativity and innovation , covering both soft aspects like values , climate and leadership styles as well as harder qualities of the organization like structure , strategies and special systems for innovation . |
| 28 | To find out what effect all this burning may be having on the upper atmosphere , particularly upon global warming , the Brazilian space institute , in collaboration with NASA from the United States , has been carrying out a research programme . |
| 29 | If you are carrying out a VOR DME , or ILS DME the distances to required positions indicated on the chart will be accurately shown on the DME . |
| 30 | Out at the line-up , the three men were climbing over a routine thirty-five-footer when they heard screaming and the toot of car horns from the beach . |