Example sentences of "[vb -s] [prep] be [v-ing] [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Mr Bailey has been very much a front of house man at Hatchards and well known to many of the bookshop 's most distinguished customers , but Dillons is understood to be reorganising the store 's management structure under its new general manager , Roger Katz , and , with the recent appointment of Duncan Goldie-Scot , looks to be putting greater emphasis on direct marketing . |
| 2 | But Col Garang appears to be evacuating more towns than his troops are fighting to retain . |
| 3 | But it is an aspect that appears to be undergoing significant change . |
| 4 | Abel Goumba of the Front patriotique oubanguien — Parti du travail said that the " regime appears to be using stalling tactics to push it back as far as possible " and that the opposition would increase its activities to press for the conference to be convened earlier . |
| 5 | With the growing concern with debt problems , and the difficulties of dealing with new forms of over-borrowing and multiple debt , the credit industry appears to be accepting more responsibility for encouraging and funding money advice services . |
| 6 | If the bookie appears to be offering unfavourable odds , then a gambler will tend not to bet , whereas if the bookie appears to have made a mistake by offering , say , odds of five to one on a horse that you think is a sure thing , then you 'll place your money there . |
| 7 | ‘ On the face of it , the Government appears to be putting more money into education through higher pay for teachers , but in reality looks set to claw it back by making education authorities find that cash from within their existing budgets . ’ |
| 8 | The PLO leader , Mr Yasser Arafat , who was in Cairo earlier this week , appears to be giving tacit support to the Egyptian strategy . |
| 9 | The PLO leader , Mr Yasser Arafat , who was in Cairo earlier this week , appears to be giving tacit support to the Egyptian strategy . |
| 10 | A boy or girl who appears to be rejecting parental values may be developing in a more healthy and normal way than one who follows the parent 's party line and gives no trouble . |
| 11 | It is rather sad to note that the main objective of these Committees these days seems to be enforcing petty rules and regulations whereby , possibly by accident , a secretary may have incorrectly banked a cheque in the office account rather than the client 's account . |
| 12 | Two kilometres north of the Sixmilewater Fault the Lower Permian Sandstone event at about 0.75 sec seems to be truncating deeper reflectors that again may be Carboniferous or older . |
| 13 | ( a ) Ignore it if the program seems to be producing consistent results . |
| 14 | True , Novell seems to be promising that life will go on much as usual . |
| 15 | Moreover , even when Coward seems to be advocating sexual experimentation , he stops far short of specific details . |
| 16 | On April 2 , the US State Department confirmed that " the [ Iraqi ] government seems to be levelling substantial portions of the Turkoman town of Tuz Khurmatu , 40 miles south of Kirkuk " . |
| 17 | Ian 's temperament is something he is working on and we 've been working on all the time , but he just seems to be getting maximum publicity at the moment . ’ |
| 18 | Yet Congress seems to be getting little thanks for this from the voters . |
| 19 | However , in those situations where professionals and paraprofessionals are working alongside each other , the team approach seems to be gaining wider acceptance as its potential for making optimum use of available personnel resources is being recognized . |
| 20 | But try and get them to change now , in fact York seems to be finding more excuses for closing off streets all the time . |
| 21 | ‘ Buckmaster seems to be running this outfit these days , ’ Newman snapped . |
| 22 | Everything seems to be happening some way off , as if behind glass . |
| 23 | He seems to be heading this way . |
| 24 | 24 April : The Sun seems to be having second thoughts about Ken Livingstone : ‘ If the Labour Party had been led by John Smith over the last nine years , perhaps it would have been in power today , ’ says an editorial . |
| 25 | The growing use of serum screening and ultrasound examination seems to be improving prenatal screening for Down 's syndrome . |
| 26 | Lastly , there seems to be growing general acceptance that improvements in the quality of service to clients , to say nothing of reductions in the cost of indemnity insurance , require the Law Society to lay down standards of practice , practice management and client service for the profession . |
| 27 | One 's doing his pulse and the other 's doing heart massage but nothing seems to be making any difference . |
| 28 | Mm , and I do n't think bodging it up it seems to be doing the seems to be doing any good . |
| 29 | Work is still going on to raise team support for Peter , and he hopes to be making more visits to churches . |
| 30 | The new company , headquartered in Paris , expects to be employing 100 people within three years . |