Example sentences of "[be] [v-ing] [prep] the [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | I have no doubt that there will be special preparations and allowances made by police and spectators for the Marathon , in which I will be competing for the first time tomorrow . |
| 2 | SOUTH AFRICA , who will be competing for the first time , are to stage the 1995 Rugby World Cup . |
| 3 | CHRISTO VAN RENSBURG , one of the world 's leading doubles players , went on court at the Albert Hall yesterday believing he would be competing for the last time in the official season-ending doubles championship . |
| 4 | CHRISTO VAN RENSBURG , one of the world 's leading doubles players , went on court at the Albert Hall yesterday believing he would be competing for the last time in the official season-ending doubles championship . |
| 5 | It wo n't be competing for the same resources . |
| 6 | my Lord I , I think it takes the view and probably not unreasonably that assuming good faith on the part of the disciplinary tribunal and assuming that there is er review by the courts , you will have complete objectivity and someone who has been excluded for a good reason , maybe fraud or something of that nature should not be competing in the first place , but he will not be excluded unreasonably and therefore if he was excluded unreasonably erm the fact of he 's exclusion could be anti competitive because it takes out of the market a player |
| 7 | It seemed to be competing in the age-old quest for the secret of perpetual motion and drove everyone bananas . |
| 8 | David and Scott Lloyd are just two of the father/son partnerships who will be competing in the national finals at Quietwaters Hotel , Golf and Country Club later this month ( 24th–28th Feb ) . |
| 9 | For the remaining resources that will be needed , the trust will be competing in the national pool of capital resources that are available to NHS trusts . |
| 10 | Promoted by Rhyl Town Council , the festival has attracted leading London band Hillingdon , who will be competing in the top section along with a record 140 soloists . |
| 11 | Twice within 10 days Northern Ireland ‘ s 17-strong squad will be competing in the independent Baltic States . |
| 12 | But what , I think we do need to have is quite a a a a a we 've not a no solution body who would agree with me , er you know , some of the things that have gone on within the er er agricultural industry in terms of gang masters , which is if if surely if if if we had been more clearly defined if would enforce probably the whole industry into disrepute , and I feel that we do need a a a a a a a framework , with a with a supply into Europe , because in the end we will not just be competing against other European countries we will be competing against the third world and some producers that are producing very different situations , so , I I think er , and and I 'm concerned that it is the , it is that delegation , and it is the interpretation that our own government will put on it , because there 's been so much mythology surrounding Europe . |
| 13 | Trafalgar House , BR 's favoured partner , is reliably understood to have rejected the idea of building a terminal at Stratford and to be sticking to the final route chosen by BR . |
| 14 | To date I have found both tools perfectly safe , used with care , and though there are rare occasions when I might choose the SuperCut , for the moment I 'll be sticking with the real thing , which remains in a class of its own . |
| 15 | That 52–17 victory for Dallas will be sticking in the collective craws of a Buffalo side that has been so close , but never close enough . |
| 16 | We 're going to erm , item three , the supermarket applications , now under youth grants , you remember that we advertised , this is the money we precepted , which we wo n't be using for the detached youth work workers ' scheme . |
| 17 | At the start of each session you can place all the programs you will be using in the Active Task List . |
| 18 | The future exhibitions programme of the ICA supplies something of a guide to the sorts of significances that a critically-minded culture of a post-modernist kind will be pursuing in the next year or two . |
| 19 | It was unclear , however , whether this decision would be binding on the military authorities which carried out the tests . |
| 20 | Where the departure follows upon some dispute , on the other hand , there will be a natural inclination to enforce the restrictions in full , but it should be remembered that they will only be binding upon the outgoing partner himself , not on third parties . |
| 21 | They seemed to be pandering to the silliest stereotypes . |
| 22 | What we might be seeing on the extreme right is not the last stages of antisemitism , but its continuation in a climate without Jewish issues , or , to be precise , without the son of Jewish issues which can mobilize the support which the extreme right seeks . |
| 23 | ‘ I never thought I 'd be seeing in the New Year with Will Carling and company in Lanzarote . |
| 24 | Even now the police might be looking for it , might even have found it , might be fumbling over the wet bundle , opening it out , fingering the name-tape … |
| 25 | The overall award went to the Chesham Building Society but because the awards were based on performance over the last 10 years , the Royal Bank should soon be pitching for the top spot . |
| 26 | The Edinburgh student appeared too consistent and resilient for Miss Topper who seemed to be struggling with the slippery court , and she triumphed 3–6 6–1 6–3 an impressive achievement for a No. 7 seed . |
| 27 | Dark clouds seem to be hanging over the intelligent input/output board manufacturing crowd , as the strain of an overcrowded marketplace begins to take its toll . |
| 28 | It is a great selling point for a house to be hanging in the National Gallery . |
| 29 | This summer he will be holidaying with the same friends with whom he shared his Holiday in Hell ( page 50 ) , although their destination this time is in the South of France . |
| 30 | It is possible that they were taken to northern France ( Brittany ) by Cornish refugees about 1,500 years ago and that there continued to be trading between the two regions for several hundred years ; there is certainly a theory that the Breton cattle originated largely in Cornwall . |