Example sentences of "[noun sg] [conj] be [v-ing] [prep] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | .. Try it out when you leave here , try it out in the meetings and the presentations that you have to make I encourage you to do that , to try it out in your day to day working and for those people who have either already been on this course or are coming on this course after you that you meet encourage them to do the same , because there 's nothing like encouragement and feedback from each other to be able to use these new ideas . |
| 2 | He also loved the fear that was emanating from this girl . |
| 3 | We have great ambitions for the club and are looking to greater heights . ’ |
| 4 | The institute has denounced as ‘ absurd ’ recent government measures to centralise all sources of aid and is calling on national and international media to urge the government to lift its ban on independent aid initiatives . |
| 5 | The Tax Faculty believes that an employer should be able to negotiate a settlement that is binding on both departments . |
| 6 | The raucous croaking of the rooks amongst the tall sycamores and the ruined palaces seemed an appropriate symbol of the ugly story that was unfolding in these peaceful northern islands . |
| 7 | I paddle quickly , aware too that the Ocean 's cold has gnawed its way uncomfortably through the thin GRP of the kayak and into my poorly protected flesh Tony waits for me , to point out a small brown luck that is lurking among some rocks to our right . |
| 8 | The Home Office says it HAS acted to curb joyriding ; ’ It 's brought in a new law and is going to double sentences . ’ |
| 9 | The Home Office says it HAS acted to curb joyriding ; ’ It 's brought in a new law and is going to double sentences . ’ |
| 10 | It was a living force , unstoppable , growing like a plant through concrete if it had to , and , however desperately she had tried to trample her love down , it had finally reached the sun and was bathing in that brilliant golden warmth . |
| 11 | She , too , had suffered from Clarissa 's neighbourly concern about the behaviour of her child and was waiting with calm anticipation for the time when Clarissa 's children , who were at present eleven and twelve , should enter puberty . |
| 12 | I have been allowed to take off my shirt and am working in just shorts and plimsolls . |
| 13 | one team that is winning in 93 are the Milton Keynes Aces … they 're going for the Wheelchair Basketball championship … their latest win was over league leaders Oldham Owls … the Aces are now just one point off the top … |
| 14 | And for , our children when they grow up cos I had three children nearly every one that had come into the town had little ones so you see we were trying to build a town for our children to benefit which I do n't know whether you think that it 's a town worth living in but I think that we have done very well and it 's a town that is caring for such as the elderly they really do care ! |
| 15 | Whilst there is much truth in the view that the Tories were gaining popular support at the expense of the Whigs , care must be taken not to exaggerate the shift in public opinion that was occurring during this time . |
| 16 | Let me just , just show you a little thing here just enclosing , just linking it up there , there it is , it 's , it 's a well known little picture , it 's a picture of a wheel where there in the centre the hub is Christ , you see when the hub has got to be the centre otherwise the wheel does not run true and there with Christ is the hub , the centre of your life , the centre of my life , and you and I our lives our selves , there on the outside , were the rim and there 's those spokes that hold it together and make it run true the spoke of , of the bible , God 's word allowing him to speak to us , the spoke of prayer , our communion with God , our praying to him , the spoke of obedience following him obeying him , bringing our lives into , into line with what he says in his word , he says if you love me you will keep my commandments , that 's why we 've got to learn and get to know them from his word and then the spoke of fellowship somebody as likened them to prayer , being like air , our breath , the bible being like food , giving us nourishment and strength , fellowship , it 's the family situation and in just as in a nature family there is , that is the place for care , it 's the place for support it 's the place of sharing , it 's the place of love , where it should be , so God 's family , and then the final one their obedience like exercise , keeping fit , it 's the callisthenics , it 's keeping the muscles toned , obeying what he tells us in his word , well that 's what it means to be a Christian bringing ourselves into line with him and allowing him to re-fashion us in his image and it 's a process that 's going on all the time , Wesley and his hymn talks about us being used and the scripture being changed from glory into glory , till in heaven we take our place there , like him , John says when we see him , we shall be like him , but we shall see him as he is and that 's God 's purpose for you and for me , to be like him , and the moment we come to him and respond to him , the process starts and it goes on , day in , day out , night in , night out , week in , week out , over the years him changing and fashioning us into the image of his son , because that 's how he created us originally , he created to be like him and in this new creation , we were singing we are a new creation , it 's to be like him . |
| 17 | This is the group that are dealing with passive behaviour . |
| 18 | The treatment of these recommendations illustrated the gulf that was growing within Western Europe . |
| 19 | The girl lingered at a secondhand clothes shop and was looking at grubby petticoats displayed on iron rods by the doorway , when a young man dressed in a shabby tail coat and check trousers came along and paused beside her . |
| 20 | Police now considered the case a murder inquiry and were appealing for any information that would lead to the killer . |
| 21 | ‘ I feel this is undermining the review process and is treating with utter contempt the views of the vast majority of the people of this country who wish to see the pits remain open , ’ he added . |
| 22 | Many had no privacy and were living in filthy conditions . |
| 23 | What is likely to happen is that they will shun those centres that have a bad name or are lacking in professional infrastructure ( the two usually go together ) in favour of well-regulated , stable ones . |
| 24 | I was welcomed in through the front door almost before it was opened , and settled down in front of a Victorian stove that was brimming with hot coals . |
| 25 | ROBERT JONES has done more than enough to eclipse the new Moon that is rising in Welsh rugby . |
| 26 | Some engineering companies had experienced a decline in demand for their traditional output and were moving into new areas which , if more buoyant , did not offer the same continuity as those in which they had previously operated . |
| 27 | Over half the exhibitors were in their thirties and forties , an age that was becoming of increasing significance to the Prince . |
| 28 | We have a right to be represented in a women 's magazine that 's fighting for equal representation . |
| 29 | Many people feel a sense of overwhelming loss , loss of safety and security , perhaps , at the news that is coming from that part of the world , and yet find themselves unable to absorb the import of what is being said . |
| 30 | Actually , the speaker that was talking about this was suggesting we give them an enormous amount of real tangible assets , er without it costing us anything . |