Example sentences of "be [adv] [v-ing] [conj] [noun] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Increasingly with voluntary bodies , and I know that this was discussed at length in the P A G , but will be of interest to members , increasingly with voluntary bodies , we are moving towards er , jointly providing services with them , in a partnership arrangement where we are effectively purchasing and commissioning services from them , and that is the way we would wish the policy to go . |
| 2 | I am not stating that Lord Armstrong was obeying government instructions over this much ridiculed staff restructuring : I am asking if he was . |
| 3 | But I am not saying that Dr. Briant should necessarily be stopped from making his scientific searches , for his ability to do so is as God-given as that warning . |
| 4 | The TECs ' chairmen are already warning that budget cuts are forcing them to concentrate on alleviating the worst excesses of the training shortage , rather than on instigating innovative schemes . |
| 5 | But the graduates are already finding that publicity stunts are n't that easy , picking grapes in a gown and mortar board does have it 's problems . |
| 6 | Tory MPs have reported that rank and file members are openly questioning whether Mr Major should remain as Prime Minister . |
| 7 | Tory MPs have reported that rank and file members are openly questioning whether Mr Major should remain as Prime Minister . |
| 8 | Some Tory MPs are also hoping that Chancellor Kenneth Clarke will decide to limit the VAT levy to just 8pc and ditch the second stage rise to 17.5pc . |
| 9 | MPs are now wondering if Mr Major can survive . |
| 10 | I 'm not suggesting that Paul Rideout , Tony Cottee , Maurice Johnston and Stuart Barlow are all bad players , but they do not give Everton that extra option someone like - dare I say it again - Graeme Sharp would offer . |
| 11 | I 'm not saying that P P G twelve does not apply . |
| 12 | The Spider Software unit of Spider Systems Ltd up in Edinburgh will be quietly cheering as Microsoft Corp launches Windows NT at Comdex this week : its SpiderTCP TCP/IP protocol is included in NT and Microsoft is also using SpiderStreams as the environment for running parallel protocol drivers ; the Scottish firm says it won the contract after Microsoft put the communications work out to international tender . |
| 13 | We are simply questioning whether building operatives are doing the job properly and whether quality control is high enough . |
| 14 | Purplish patches were already forming and Miss Fogerty knew from her first-aid classes that she should really be applying hot and cold water in turn to the damaged joint . |
| 15 | Although some of its own experiments were now showing that air pollution in southern England damaged leaves and made them fall early from trees , it could not bring itself to say as much . |
| 16 | The Chinese whispers the next day were even claiming that Paul Smith stormed out of the awards in disgust . |
| 17 | I remember , vividly , the winter of discontent when the trains were never running and hospital workers were dealing only with emergencies , and mountains of rubbish were subsiding into the streets . |
| 18 | He 's better looking than Dot Cotton |
| 19 | It is entirely fitting that Dawn Run should share the statuary honours with the other two Cheltenham legends , for she was the first — and to date the only — horse to win both the Champion Hurdle and the Cheltenham Gold Cup . |
| 20 | As far as the Channel Tunnel is concerned it has reluctantly accepted the need for on-train immigration checks but is still insisting that customs checks must be carried out at the terminals , against the advice of commercial interests who see such checks as detrimental to the ‘ user friendliness ’ of the Tunnel . |
| 21 | United is also arguing that employee concessions in the deal should be considered ‘ sweat equity ’ , reducing BA 's contribution to 35 per cent . |
| 22 | Unix System Laboratories Inc is now alleging that Berkeley Software Design Inc , the start-up it 's suing for copyright infringement and misappropriating trade secrets ( UX No 392 , 396 , 413 ) , plagiarised Unix line-for-line in portions of its BSD/386 operating system and attempted to cover up some of the copying . |
| 23 | Bonn is now hoping that Mr Gorbachev 's publicly cautious , but presumably privately firm pressure on the East German leaders to reform will produce results and doing their best to reinforce it . |
| 24 | He is now investigating if leukaemia cases rose in Orkney and Shetland due to wartime incomers and is also looking at the effects of large construction projects in Britain in the post-war period . |
| 25 | Boxtree is now claiming that Mr Bean 's Diary has sold so well ( over 314,000 copies when I last spoke to them ) because it is being bought by , and given to , children and teenagers . |
| 26 | John , in his Gospel , seems to be following the date set by the Sadducees and is therefore saying that Passover day was on the Sabbath , the day after the crucifixion . |
| 27 | Gramsci is therefore arguing that class cleavages can and do take spatial forms , such as urban capitalist middle-class versus rural semi-feudal peasantry . |
| 28 | The look that McAllister gave him when she said this was so killing that Dr Neil decided to remove temptation by removing himself . |
| 29 | As usual , pace dominated the bowling , both in the Cup and in the A team series , and it was only fitting that Kenneth Benjamin should have been the latest addition to the Test attack . |
| 30 | Bates was only playing because £100,000 signing Shane Westley was cup-tied after playing for Wolves . |