Example sentences of "[subord] [pron] [be] [v-ing] in [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | To allow them to flourish could lead only to pain — even greater pain than she was feeling in this moment , though she could hardly imagine anything could be greater . |
| 2 | Everything was family-centred , see , so you were living in little towns , little plantation villages , just like the black folks in the South . |
| 3 | Stars near the sun have both well some have blue shifts and some have red shifts , so they 're moving in all directions relative to the sun . |
| 4 | Just as the old order has fallen in eastern Europe , so it is falling in educational establishment circles in Britain . |
| 5 | My feet almost disappeared in it ; it looked as if I were paddling in muddy water . |
| 6 | Well fuck you , if I 'm travelling in this car there is no way I 'm taking this . |
| 7 | Fand looked stranger than ever , her face fixed and old as if she were withering in this icy fire . |
| 8 | If you are scratching in weak lift , you may be able to see which way you have drifted after a few circles . |
| 9 | But they should be aimed at if you are writing in short story form the equivalent of the crime novel . |
| 10 | The turbulent wind behind a sail extends about five boards length downwind and if you are sailing in this area your speed can be as much as halved . |
| 11 | If you are sailing in this curved air flow you can not sail as close to the wind as you could if you had been in clear wind . |
| 12 | There are some balloons available to be given away at suitable events ( not for sale ) — let me know if you are participating in any public event and would like some . |
| 13 | If you are competing in general obedience , or in trials , the advantages of joining a club are many . |
| 14 | Think , too , about flexibility — especially if you are putting in permanent garden lights . |
| 15 | Finally on the subject of exposure , if your camcorder has a gain-up switch , you can use this if you are working in poor light to further increase the exposure electronically . |
| 16 | In general , hardware requirements are lower , print quality is more consistent and with the plentiful availability of clip-art , it 's relatively easy to create an attractive image , even if you 're lacking in artistic talent . |
| 17 | If you 're lacking in self- confidence you may , do n't want , you do n't wan na get other people 's views and meekness impose them . |
| 18 | But just as often it 's too subtle for you to pinpoint , especially if you 're working in liberal organizations with well-intentioned colleagues . |
| 19 | You can not walk past them if you 're going in that way . |
| 20 | If you 're going in er if you 're going in that direction hmm ? |
| 21 | If you 're putting in new pipework , it might be easier to make all the holes before the cistern is taken up to the loft ; with a replacement cistern , it is important to make the holes in the correct position to take the existing pipes . |
| 22 | Even if they do get a job on a scheme , it 's very , very difficult if you 're sleeping in different places every night , or in a hostel , to get to the job on time . |
| 23 | You will be called upon to use your professional training and ability in much the same way as if you were working in private practice . |
| 24 | At first glance , you may not notice any obvious differences , but if you look more closely you may spot a slight increase in the graininess of the picture at the LP speed , especially in the darker areas or if you were shooting in poor light . |
| 25 | You 're classed , you 're classed as a reject sort of thing cos you 're living in these flats . |
| 26 | Right , four threes are twelve , you do n't need twelve fingers for that count each finger as three cos you 're counting in threes . |
| 27 | Well you just mix it together , it looks like something 's floating in some clear a clear water , really rough and you just knock it back . |
| 28 | If we get it wrong in year two , it will be even more wrong in year three , because the distribution is n't going to alter dramatically in our favour , so if there is under-funding in ninety four , ninety five that we manage , it will present itself as a larger problem in ninety five , six , and an even larger problem in ninety s six , seven , so that needs to be borne in mind . |
| 29 | It 's wrong , Mr Deputy Speaker , if they 're living in this country erm on a semi-permanent basis and happen to have been here last October they 'll have a vote so will any everybody else who 's a citizen of the European union , so will peers of the realm who happen to be living elsewhere whether they 're in this country or outside this country under these regulations and previous regulations , have a vote in the European elections and I think it 's wholly wrong that erm citizens of other European countries namely France because that 's the one and it 's remarkable is it not that France is the one that 's gon na be the cause of this whole edifice collapsing if we do n't submit to their extra demands but citizens of France who are citizens living in their colonies , as I 've said in South America , the West Indies and the Pacific , will have a vote in the European elections on June the ninth and yet we have got citizens for whom we are responsible for in this house , we can not shirk it onto anyone else , we deny them the responsibility and I think it 's about time the house addressed this matter . |
| 30 | Well I think one of the advantages of a nursery schooling is certainly a considerable amount of social interaction for the children , which very often they wo n't be obtaining , either if they 're living in high rise flats , or at the other end of the social spectrum if they 're parents are living in large houses with large gardens and no other children within the vicinity . |