Example sentences of "[be] [v-ing] [noun sg] [noun] [prep] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | At the same time , scientists are building computer models of ocean circulation but full three-dimensional models must wait for the next generation of powerful computers . |
| 2 | Richard Ellis are handling Minster Court on behalf of the Prudential . |
| 3 | So they 've learnt that they ca n't implement land reform unless they 've got the support of the popular masses and it 's got to come from them cos ultimately they , they 're pursuing land reform in order to get the peasant support and if that 's not what they want there 's no point in just erm imposing it on them . |
| 4 | There 's no point buying a bag intended for expedition use if you 're going family camping in summer . |
| 5 | ‘ I intend to find out just why we 're selling room rates to Travel Enterprise for less than they are worth , ’ he said slowly . |
| 6 | He says they 're advising housing authorities to fite them and he would be concerned if that advice was ignored . |
| 7 | Burglar alarms are being installed in almost every home in the road , and some residents are installing steel grills over ground floor windows . |
| 8 | So erm , if you 're looking , if you 're looking for semantic structure , which is any structure such as and you then provide interpretations for parts of sentences and rules are getting sentence meaning from word meaning in the structure , you can get by with crude structures that do n't discriminate very much and the same applies to logic . |
| 9 | There are prescribing interface issues between primary and secondary care which may best be resolved by the development of purchasers |
| 10 | He has been doing weight work at home . |
| 11 | A number of rare animals in the wild are joining waiting lists for zoo cages , and like hospital administrators , zoo directors are having to make tough decisions about who gets the places . |
| 12 | ‘ Besides , ’ he added ill-advisedly , ‘ banks have been losing money hand over fist to the Third World . ’ |
| 13 | Microsoft has been demonstrating prototype versions of Word and Excel that exploit OLE 2.0 , leading many third parties to believe that it has a substantial advantage . |
| 14 | In one area of Isabela Island the donkeys seem to be keeping goat numbers in check , while cats , wherever they occur , tend to keep down the rats . |
| 15 | I was n't sure how long a day was on Fraxilly — and I did n't want to be wandering Rat City after dark . |
| 16 | I drive home , the rain pelting through the window , depressed and angry ; musing on what other professional would be doing emergency night-work without uniform , driver , radio or specialist vehicle . |
| 17 | I I 'll do that , if I 'm doing plastic bags at charity shops I 'll check |
| 18 | But once he 's , once he 's resigned himself to that , he 's then got ta look at that operation next door and he must be losing money hand over fist for the amount of space it is . |
| 19 | I 'm having lamb stew with sweetcorn and baked potato . |
| 20 | On operating systems we wanted to be as truly hardware independent as we can , so we have chosen to operate potentially under any Posix-compliant operating system , so that gives us all the flavours or brands of Unix and a number of proprietary mid-range operating systems which are achieving Posix compliance as time goes by . |
| 21 | Sharon has been taking evening classes at college for the past two years . |
| 22 | But a bar owner said : ‘ Since this all began the town has been making money hand over fist . |
| 23 | Following the success of the Bristol-made Byline series , poets such as Adrian Mitchell and Douglas Dunn have been making half-hour documentaries in verse , Words on Film . |
| 24 | The hon. Member for Kingston upon Hull , West ( Mr. Randall ) assumes that I have been sitting drinking cups of coffee and not talking to people about the issues . |
| 25 | It is as if the Poet were tackling time face to face , confronting , wrestling with time , with his Friend standing apart as the prize in the competition . |
| 26 | And David Gardner 's defence of processed hops does remind the listener powerfully of the arguments advanced by the brewers in the 1960s when they were replacing cask ale with keg beer . |
| 27 | After all we were all leading aircraftsmen on the course and the officer element were acting pilot officers on probation who generally referred to themselves as the lowest form of animal life within the RAF . |
| 28 | Over 40 per cent were serving life sentences for murder , while at the same time , almost as many were serving very short sentences . |
| 29 | Your pension will automatically be permanently increased if you were getting invalidity allowance with invalidity benefit within eight weeks before reaching retirement age . |
| 30 | She said that mortgage lenders and advice centres were reporting record levels of problem debts . |