Example sentences of "[be] [v-ing] [adv prt] [prep] the [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | 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 . |
| 2 | 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 . |
| 3 | 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 . |
| 4 | 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 . |
| 5 | New opportunities are opening up in the near future which you must be calm enough to accept . |
| 6 | 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 . |
| 7 | 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 . |
| 8 | 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 . |
| 9 | ‘ 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 . |
| 10 | The twins , David and Michael , had been prowling about in the front garden waiting for the sight of Belinda 's car , and as soon as she stepped out into the driveway and came up the path to the house they raced ahead of her inside to relay the news of her arrival , without even saying hello to her . |
| 11 | ‘ Other members of the herd are swimming around in the blood-red sea as this killing continues . |
| 12 | No-one 's wanted to have a punt and we 've been scrambling about for the odd winner . |
| 13 | MORE people are looking in at the local , if figures from West Country brewer Devenish are any guide . |
| 14 | Tutor Viv Shelley will look at whether manufacturing industries are living up to the green images they promote , the adequacy of monitoring processes and ask what responsibility lies with the public . |
| 15 | To most people the term Gatt means very little but the General Agreement on Tariffs and Trade which 108 countries have been wrestling over for the past six years is vital to fair trading throughout the world . |
| 16 | I mean if you , you 're the burglar now and you 're planning to break in a house , and you 're looking around at the different houses and you 're trying to , one of the many things you 're trying to do is to establish whether they 're in or out . |
| 17 | ‘ You 're going back on the defensive , Mark . |
| 18 | But see we 're going back to the old seasons now . |
| 19 | You 're going back after the normal four days , are n't you , Taff ? ’ |
| 20 | Right , that 's why you 're going out for the whole evening , for the water eh ? |
| 21 | Hello there … this week summer sport has brought us to the south coast to take a look at a sailing revolution that 's being pioneered from the heartland of Central South … we 're going out on the solent to sea test a boat which is reckoned to be the formula one of the water |
| 22 | ‘ So you 're going out with the black kid , the messenger ? ’ |
| 23 | Johnson , just debating , we 're getting on to the whole idea of Johnson 's world and the link though it worked out the same I 'd say . |
| 24 | ‘ We 're getting down to the real stuff — mosaics , some wall plaster , animal bones and there are signs of a hypocaust . ’ |
| 25 | Would you please go to tag L two , six , six to begin with just to lead you into the chronology , you have told us that in August nineteen eighty seven , er there was really no interest in national budgeting , er national advertising budget , we can see this is a memorandum from you Kevin dated the fourth of August and you 're sending out to the regional marketing executives , there 's no national advertising next year which would be eighty eight . |
| 26 | Especially when you 're starting off on the right foot like you and Marilyn . |
| 27 | Mm , what gets me is how Creda they 're gon na , they 're , they 're coming up in the pink and |
| 28 | And because pollarding has not been carried out , tall , heavy shoots are growing up from the ancient trunks , which are usually rotten and hollow inside , and these too often either split or simply collapse " . |
| 29 | No-one can deny that being pretty helps — no female on breakfast television would have a career otherwise — but I can not believe that we are turning back to the dark days when it was deemed the most important thing of all . |
| 30 | The Greek revolts which had been going on since the early eighteen twenties . |