Example sentences of "[vb mod] [be] [v-ing] [prep] [adv] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Thank you Mr Mayor I just wanted t to come in with two fairly quick points er as to why I will not be able to support this amendment , but the first is that the leader of the council has indicated that the efficiency savings erm has got as far as it can go and that , you know , we have been trimming at the margins and there is no more margin left and that leads you to believe that perhaps one should be looking at somewhat more er root and branch type of pruning in the spending that that the labour group want to actually erm deal with , er and the second point I would like to make , and er I thank councillor for giving us a a a a new word tonight obfuscation because that describes exactly what I think the labour group are trying to do by bringing this figure down it removes the embarrassment they would have from having to add on a substantial sum of money f due to the failure to collect the cou er the community charge in previous years and I think that they are trying by by this amendment with some very quick foot work to try and delude the people of this city . |
| 2 | Fibre helps you slim ; and we should be eating at least 30 grams a day of it . |
| 3 | Yes , yes I do n't think that on our next buy , what with the next year I would be a bit better off in the sense that I should have sold my house , bought something cheaper and have some capital invested so I have a little extra monthly income , I should be living in somewhere that 's cheaper to run |
| 4 | Ideally , you should be cycling at least two or three times a week . |
| 5 | The inflation in the early stages of the universe , which the no boundary proposal predicts , means that the universe must be expanding at very close to the critical rate at which it would just avoid recollapse , and so will not recollapse for a very long time . |
| 6 | Investors provide the cash expecting high returns ; to get the money , a firm must be looking at pretty profitable investment opportunities . |
| 7 | This unit has a depth of sound that is difficult to describe , indicating that those nine 12AX7s must be cooking to very good effect indeed . |
| 8 | Night after night , all over the country , ordinary married couples must be wrestling with exactly this sort of knotty problem . |
| 9 | If bound in our Galaxy they must be travelling at around 0.1 per cent the speed of light ; if bound within the Solar System ( as Earth is ) their velocity must be nearer 0–01 per cent that of light . |
| 10 | A variety of investigations conducted within the USSR itself also suggested that Soviet nationalities policy might be achieving at least some of its objectives . |
| 11 | You know I 'll be leaving at about half five . |
| 12 | You 'll be moving into largely featureless moorland here so compass skills are necessary as you make your way up to the Teifi pools which feed the Teifi river . |
| 13 | But erm , that one you 'll be looking for about five hundred for the ways |
| 14 | Well I 'll be staying over there some of the time , but then I 'll be travelling every day |
| 15 | It 's much tougher than amateur golf and even if you shoot a good round , you could be lying in only 10th or 12th place . ’ |
| 16 | I think something like that one could be going for about eighty five thousand . |
| 17 | er we 'd have to insist upon a extensive landscaping compensations , erm er to in order for it to be to go ahead , er so I think the increase we would be looking at environmentally sensitive site . |
| 18 | There was only one person to whom Jerome would be reporting with so much fervour ; Bénezet , naturally curious about anything that might serve his turn or redound to his profit , was not averse to picking up a few crumbs of useful information by the way . |
| 19 | Most people Ernie 's age would be thinking of more sedate exercise ; WALKING the dogs perhaps , but this is far more exciting . |
| 20 | Nearly everyone in town would be attending at least one service there . |
| 21 | In 1993/94 we shall be looking for more specific ways of measuring the performance of the Society towards its members . |
| 22 | The Prime Minister , in a series of confidential meetings with party activists , will be appealing for more local donations to replace the gap . |
| 23 | You will be buying at far less than it will be worth in 1996 or 1997 , when the inevitable upturn means you will see a big capital appreciation . ’ |
| 24 | We will be dealing with more chromatic harmony later on , in Chapter 10 . |
| 25 | Robert Layton will be flying at about 2,000 feet to stay below commercial flight routes , low enough to run into bad weather , or his worst nightmare , fog as he crosses the Channel . |
| 26 | Charity takes the form of talented young illustrator David Hughes who will be touring at least some of the 17 showrooms on Saturday ( 9.30-10am Baumann Kendix ; 10.30-11.30am , Herman Miller ; 12-1pm OMK Design , 2.30-3.30pm Vitra , 4-5pm Erco Lighting ) and offering to draw gently satirical on-the-spot portraits at £25 a throw . |
| 27 | So , Knitmaster and Silver Reed owners , beware When you drop the ribber , do be careful not to also drop the pile levers into the ‘ closed ’ position or you will be knitting with too big a gap between the beds . |
| 28 | Some of chef/owner Melvin Rhodes ' recipes are included in the Les Routiers Cook Book and he will be cooking at least one of these for the lunch . |
| 29 | We will be menstruating for about 30 years of our lives . |