Example sentences of "[prep] [be] [v-ing] [prep] the [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | As I understand the Leeds position , they want what they call a lev a level playing field , or to be aiming at the same goalposts that they 've been aiming at for the last number of years . |
| 2 | Some of Weiss ’ processes appear to be operating in the hard-science fields also , but there are differences . |
| 3 | It seemed to be operating from the back room of a house . |
| 4 | The important objects of study were assumed , in an a priori manner , to be operating around the formal institutions of local government and its electoral process . |
| 5 | But if the terminal repeats explain how wandering members of the Alu family might get into a chromosome , what can explain how they came to be wandering in the first place ? |
| 6 | I see Blackburn 's £3.6million man Alan Shearer again being part of Graham 's thoughts , which at the moment seem to be pointing towards the long ball game . |
| 7 | Was this was ‘ a good example to be setting to the Chinese Government ’ ? |
| 8 | He had always claimed to be acting for the best ; not selfishly , but for all men , as the great sage Confucius had said a ruler should act . |
| 9 | One could argue that since the Institute has to be seen to be acting in the public interest , complete openness along these lines is the only alternative . |
| 10 | Such acrimony has often been exacerbated , moreover , because of the tendency since the 1974 reorganization for authorities ‘ to view the relationship between the tiers as an adversary one ’ ( Alexander , 1982a , p. 65 ) ; and also because of the problem of ‘ competing mandates ’ ( Alexander , 1982b , p. 54 ) where authorities at different levels in an area pursuing different policies ( and often controlled by different parties ) both claim to be acting in the local interest . |
| 11 | ‘ We happen to be staying in the same place , and I 'm damned if I 'm keeping awake waiting for you to turn up . |
| 12 | Now there is to be twinning between the two regions , to be followed by exchanges of students and younger architects . |
| 13 | They seemed to be pandering to the silliest stereotypes . |
| 14 | The consequent adverse publicity was widely held to be damaging to the Labour cause . |
| 15 | It is vital , however , that they are able to compete on equal terms , and to achieve this there will need to be funding for the extra costs of clinical research . |
| 16 | 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 . |
| 17 | Mitsubishi Electric Corp is said to be looking to the second source agreement with Digital Equipment Corp on the Alpha RISC to build a new base for its semiconductor business : the company gave up manufacturing its own mainframe and mid-range computers several years ago , in favour of selling IBM Corp and Hewlett-Packard Co machines on an OEM basis , and focusing its strategy on client-server systems , where it was assisted by its purchase of the Apricot Computers Ltd hardware division — but Apricot insists that it is 100% wedded to the Intel Corp iAPX-86 architecture and has no plans to build Alpha machines , although if the instruction comes in from Tokyo , it wo n't have much option ; there is an element of two-timing in Mitsubishi Electric signing up with DEC because it is already a member of the Hewlett-Packard Precision RISC Organisation . |
| 18 | If you 're looking for faster , purer isolation , you ought to be looking at the Nycomed range — as detailed in our brand new Separation Products literature . |
| 19 | 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 . |
| 20 | The whole incident was triggered off when the local electricity board disconnected the power supply to the empty shop , without realising what was soon to be swimming in the melted ice ! |
| 21 | Mrs Padmore , as we know from the memorandum at the front of the file , is going to be transferring to the Economic Secretariat in a few weeks ' time . |
| 22 | On this point , however , he did not follow her , for he clearly took her to be complaining of the endemic tediousness of all lectures , rather than of the inadequacy of this particular lot : he equally clearly did not wholly concede the point , for he said , faintly , falsely , without enthusiasm , " Oh yes , I suppose they were . |
| 23 | 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 . |
| 24 | It is a great selling point for a house to be hanging in the National Gallery . |
| 25 | Key Sun employees in the areas of programming and signal processing are said to be moving to the new company , which is claimed to have made breakthroughs in security and ease of use . |
| 26 | meant to be moving onto the tenth and eleventh floor it only takes them a short time to save time on that or , or cut down on your labour as usual . |
| 27 | After 1937 the centre of power in the Party appeared to be moving towards the individual membership , but in 1939 the union leaders showed their strength in ensuring the expulsion of Sir Stafford Cripps and his supporters . |
| 28 | The CNAA has always embodied a mixed , bureaucratic-collegial model of regulation , but the emphasis seems now to be moving towards the latter as its validation role declines . |
| 29 | Opposition from vested interests will be intense , but no one should underestimate the power of the goodwill that survives to be tapped as soon as politicians are seen to be moving in the right direction . |
| 30 | There are , however , a number of areas in which casualties appear to be moving against the downward trend . |