Example sentences of "[be] [v-ing] [det] [prep] the [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The main reason people have been wearing Adidas Shell-toes and Puma States in the past year or so is because Nike , Adidas , Troop , Converse , British Knights , Travel Fox , Reebok , LA Gear , Hi-Tec , Jordache , etc , are producing some of the silliest , shittiest trainers known to man ( and woman ) . |
| 2 | The suddenness of the increased use of artillery in the third quarter of the fourteenth century is evidenced by the fact that when Gaston Fébus , vicomte of Béarn in the Pyrenees , had a network of fortifications constructed between 1365 and 1380 ( a period during which many castles were built in France ) he must have been building some of the last fortifications to take no account of artillery , which was very soon to compel important developments in the art of defence . |
| 3 | Other engineering and light industries are filling many of the old mills and clothing factories . |
| 4 | I am addressing this to the Chief Executive as I am uncertain which department deals with matters of building safety . |
| 5 | Institute Council member Douglas Llambias said the fine ‘ was out of all proportion to a guilty verdict ’ , and added that if the fines were capped , ‘ we should have been publicising that for the last 12 months . |
| 6 | ‘ I wonder if we 're handling this in the right way , ’ he said cautiously . |
| 7 | ‘ At least we 're getting some of the loose ends tied up . ’ |
| 8 | You 're cutting more at the same time . |
| 9 | When we 're away though next week , I think they 'll do quite a lot of stuff inside and But they 're doing some for The same team are doing some friends of ours on Main Road and of course most of the people are down there . |
| 10 | Detectives hunting the rapist who attacked a young woman at a Nottingham f music festival at the weekend , have been interviewing some of the thousands of people who attended the event . |
| 11 | ‘ I gather you 've been interviewing some of the well-known faces down at TVL , Superintendent — like David Parkin and Jane Pargeter . |
| 12 | Detectives investigating the rape of a young woman at a rock festival in Nottingham are interviewing some of the thousands of people who attended the event . |
| 13 | Had he been facing any of the big cat family , with their formidable armoury of fang , claw , power and speed , he would , for all his martial arts training , have been in with very little chance of survival , let alone victory . |
| 14 | Detectives have seized 7,000 ecstasy tablets from a flat in the North-East and are linking that to the couple' disappearance . |
| 15 | I thought you 'd been doing that for the thirty whatsit of July . |
| 16 | A fairly successful artist — he makes abstract expressionist constructions which borrow motifs from primitive ritual — Hopkins has been doing this since the mid-Seventies . |
| 17 | I have been doing this for the past 15 years . |
| 18 | As the Russian-Cuban and Chinese plans develop for Southern Africa , I have been spending much of the past four weeks working with a man who played a part twenty years ago in developing these plans . |
| 19 | We are running this in the off season , which means that only the Park Department is running motorized rigs and that there are only 25 launches a day . |
| 20 | We are doing this for the right reasons . ’ |
| 21 | ‘ They are doing this by the usual process of blaming the Unionists for it all and insinuating that if only the Unionists would talk to the SDLP and through them to Dublin , then everything would calm down and peace and good would reign supreme . ’ |
| 22 | They 've been threatening that for the last fifteen minutes or so . |
| 23 | I 'm sure we 'll be seeing more of the same to follow , down the road at . |
| 24 | I 'll be keeping this for the next few days with me looking after it . |
| 25 | Norwich have now replaced Nottingham Forest as a model of entertaining , educated football and good sportsmanship , and at last seem to be acquiring some of the defensive solidity that Forest had in their glory years . |
| 26 | I happen to drive a very small car er a Fiat one , two , six and you ca n't get much smaller than that and I am much more aggressive when I 'm driving that for the simple reason I think its this sort of principle although I 'm nearly six foot in that I 'm a small person and the small person mentality comes out because I get cut up continuously , they do n't do that when I 'm driving my husband 's car which is a Volvo , er they will cut in front of me , I do n't think they , if they knew what my brakes were like they would n't do it . |
| 27 | The Banco Popolare di Bergamo , one of Italy 's oldest banks , will be replacing all of the character-based OA software used in its 240 branches with Applix 's Aster*x on Sparcstations and link to Oracle 's RDMS : the $18m deal is reportedly worth $1m-plus to Applix which has to convert the software to Italian . |
| 28 | AND speaking of thespians , the magnificent Bill Owen will be downing some of the first of the summer wine in a York pub tonight in support of Labour candidate Hugh Bayley . |
| 29 | In this chapter I shall be considering some of the great historical Western moral philosophers of the past , confining myself , however , to the period of modern philosophy , which is usually conceived of as starting in the seventeenth century . |
| 30 | As with the discussion of ethology and sociobiology , however , we shall simply be considering some of the main themes in this area ( especially those deriving from Freud ) and their possible links to the biological work we have just discussed . |