Example sentences of "[vb -s] [prep] be [v-ing] [prep] the " in BNC.
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| 1 | However , market forces do not in themselves guarantee the success of the market , and often there needs to be fine-tuning under the exchange 's rules . |
| 2 | Beneath and down-wind of the ash cloud there is a steady rain of fine ash particles , sometimes falling so thickly that a dark curtain appears to be hanging beneath the cloud , while in and around it electrical storms rage , with lightning flickering frequently , so that the whole effect is much more dramatic than even the most ominous of thunderclouds . |
| 3 | What sort of person ( or creature ) appears to be speaking in the text ? |
| 4 | The same change appears to be happening in the UK , but there are no easily available figures . |
| 5 | Plessey and the biggest bit of Ferranti have been swallowed by GEC ; Racal appears to be retreating from the market ; Thorn EMI last year put its defence business up for sale . |
| 6 | ‘ Sorry , is it you or me , but one of us appears to be working in the first person . ’ |
| 7 | The Limavady father of five outwardly appears to be coping with the savage death of 24-year-old Ruth , but the emotional scars remain painfully close to the surface . |
| 8 | However , the trend appears to be going in the reverse direction . |
| 9 | It has emphasised its continued support for Green Belts , although much of the most controversial development is taking place in areas outside them , and appears to be responding to the fears of its backbenchers about the electoral disadvantages of apparently condoning the wholesale ‘ concreting over ’ of southern England . |
| 10 | c , Sgr A , 10pc across , is resolved into Sgr A East , a nonthermal radio source presumably powered by supernovae ( in blue ) , and Sgr , A West , a spiral-like pattern of thermal ionized gas that appears to be falling into the very centre of the Galaxy . |
| 11 | Despite this cloud that appears to be looming over the industry , it is worthwhile bearing in mind that the impact of interest rates and the poll tax is not felt uniformly across the country or among different groups . |
| 12 | It already has some reports from Ipswich as that bane of gardening life , the cabbage white butterfly , appears to be adapting to the traditional winter in the region . |
| 13 | Confidence appears to be growing in the City that Pearson is at last developing a coherent focus — on its media and entertainment interest . |
| 14 | He seems to be living in the Department of Education . |
| 15 | He seems to be living in the Department of Education . |
| 16 | And she reports that the recession seems to be easing in the area , with companies expressing renewed interest in investment and acquisitions . |
| 17 | Blackbird Leys now seems to be succeeding in the struggle to improve its image , and later in the programme Nick Clark talks to the people who live there . |
| 18 | The interior of the church — reached by going through an ornate entrance archway that seems to be competing with the presbytery doorway for the eye of the visitor — has some good frescoes , particularly the Crucifixion with the Virgin and St John the Baptist by Giovan Battista Crespi , and a canvas study of the Nativity by Marco d'Oggiono . |
| 19 | But it seems to be getting into the the the throat and and the chest . |
| 20 | There is also the consideration that she seems to be flirting with the possibility of committing herself to re-entering mainstream education locally . |
| 21 | What seems to be missing from the analysis is some measure of how much the savings plan is actually giving you over and above your initial hard earned cash . |
| 22 | They say a small amount of money is all that seems to be missing from the Springburn flat where Mrs Law 's body was discovered exactly two weeks ago . |
| 23 | At the moment he seems to be veering towards the idea that if you did more good than bad during your life you go straight to Heaven , an arrangement which at least processes the merit of simplicity ; the rest sounds like something dreamt up by a vindictive bureaucrat on acid while closely inspecting something Hieronymus Bosch painted on one of his bleak but imaginative days . |
| 24 | Like Romanshorn , Arbon , on another headland , seems to be sitting beside the lake with its big toe dipped cautiously into the water . |
| 25 | The oil seems to be coming from the transfer box , not from the main box . |
| 26 | Indeed , as number one player the market , St Louis Park , Minnesota-based Digiboard Inc , seems to be revelling in the disarray — it claims to be mopping up many of Computone and Specialix 's European deals . |
| 27 | The central charges as items is that it refers to the charges from my own department , legal department , all the other central departments and an input to er the Strategic Planning Committee operating , but it 's not items that the Strategic Planning Committee has a control over , so there 's a change , an estimated change of cost and sometimes that reflects the changes in methodology of agricultural cost and that seems to be happening at the moment . |
| 28 | Now that we 're well into the New Year and little seems to be happening on the rock , I guess it 's time for the traditional retrospective . |
| 29 | Well you see , nothing much seems to be happening in the way of actual fighting , so we try to keep them amused with sport . |
| 30 | What seems to be happening in the nineteenth century , in response to major social changes ( rapid industrialisation and urbanisation , the disruption of old class patterns and the rise of capitalist social relations , the development of new and sharp class conflicts with their related social and intellectual manifestations ) is a continuous battle over the definition of acceptable sexual behaviour within the context of changing class and power relations . |