Example sentences of "be [adv] [v-ing] [noun] of [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | It is plain from Locke 's examples that they ( or , strictly , the things of which they are ideas ) are naturally occurring kinds of material thing or stuff . |
| 2 | Several young whites are already serving terms of imprisonment for refusing to serve . |
| 3 | Several young whites are already serving terms of imprisonment for refusing to serve . |
| 4 | The new regimes of Fansidar ( pyrimethamine + sulphadoxine ) and Maloprim ( pyrimethamine + dapsone ) are already showing signs of failure and virtually only one new synthetic drug , mefloquine ( structurally related to quinine ) remains . |
| 5 | In most towns , however , the factory system was hardly evident and many urban workers seem to have been still keeping hold of Saint Monday as , almost , an accepted holiday in 1815 . |
| 6 | Unless a union is negotiating with a monopoly corporation or with companies which are collectively violating standards of decency and justice in their own employment practices , the outcome of such a bargain must of necessity be unjust . |
| 7 | Detectives are also viewing hours of video tape from cameras covering the grounds of the four offices involved . |
| 8 | All the C&P businesses are now using Cost of Quality as one of their criteria of success . |
| 9 | Rod , yes I agree with Don , I think if you look at er what the work has gone in er in the fifth year for the last two or three years and the way that subject teachers are now approaching ranks of achievement I do n't see yes it 's . |
| 10 | ‘ All mom and dad talk about is politics , I 'm already getting kind of sick of it , ’ she said . |
| 11 | Those curtains are called ‘ precipitation ’ by meteorologists and are fast falling products of condensation in the atmosphere of rain , hail or snow . |
| 12 | Both are today showing signs of weakness , but they are still far short of the east-coast mess . |
| 13 | We constantly come across situations where colleagues treat us as if we were just raising points of sexuality to be difficult , or as a piece of axe-grinding . |
| 14 | The time was 6.30 a.m. , the bunks on either side of the hut were now showing signs of life and the Sergeant made his noisy way towards the door at the far end of the hut , banging on each bed with his stick as he went . |
| 15 | I was there recently and the spectacular cliffs are a wonderful place to see seabirds from close up , but the paths were definitely showing signs of erosion . |
| 16 | It 's already causing howls of outrage from the industry . |
| 17 | This female mallard was brought into Slimbridge yesterday totally paralysed and she 's already showing signs of recovery . |
| 18 | The vast middle class seems bored with the notion of taking to the streets when the government is still offering gestures of conciliation . |
| 19 | One of them landed in a field next to Bruce Arkell 's house , and he 's still finding pieces of wreckage . |
| 20 | Er I do n't know if you 've experience of steel but when you feel the handles of a , a lathe first thing in a morning it 's like lifting pieces of ice and er the heating arrangement took about four hours before it built up you know , to a reasonable working degree . |
| 21 | He is busily carving slices of meat from the carcass of a multi-legged Chaos Spawn . |
| 22 | Here , the mare is clearly showing signs of irritation while the youngster is mouthing in a gesture of submission . |
| 23 | I would like to record my thanks to the members of all sites who have given such enthusiasm and interest to this problem , this topic and that the erm County Council is now resourcing rights of way in a way which we felt was necessary and I would thank our staff for their persistence , patience and their continuing efforts with great er verseatue we I am grateful Chairman . |
| 24 | At this time of my life I was eagerly reading books of travel and adventure such as Luigi Barzini 's Peking to Paris by Motor Car , but my favourite writer was Salgari , who was a sort of Italian Jules Verne . |
| 25 | They had been accepted for admission before the onset of dementia ( most sheltered housing associations would not accept a new tenant who was already showing evidence of dementia ) , but with increasing age in the sheltered housing population cases are likely to occur more frequently . |
| 26 | Down three times in the first , his eyes fused and shiney , he was already showing signs of wear and tear . |
| 27 | Picking himself up , he threw his arms around the yeoman who was still plucking shreds of apple off his jerkin . |
| 28 | Carol 's dancing and her sister Suzette 's acting provided the inspiration for the Minogue sisters — Danielle or Dannii as she was known in the clan was also showing signs of talent — and the pair loved nothing better than play acting at home . |
| 29 | ‘ Survivors , but embattled , ’ said Theodora to Cranmer who had got his head down and was experimentally working tufts of bracken into either side of his bit . |
| 30 | Although it was their wood , a place where they often came , Libby felt herself to be an intruder , she did not want to disturb the figure by the water , who was now breaking pieces of stick and dropping them at his feet . |