Example sentences of "be [adv] [v-ing] [prep] [noun sg] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | That is especially so at this time , when we are effectively handing from Parliament to Ministers the right to decide , on private Bills , to lay orders . |
| 2 | This has been greatly increasing in popularity in recent years and , according to all the forecasts , looks set to become even more widespread . |
| 3 | If all that does n't stop the person , they are obviously looking for trouble of some sort and you must quickly decide whether to lash out first or run for safety . |
| 4 | Thus Anderson may have been more prophetic than was realized at the time ( Earley 1988:61 ) : Parents are basically looking for reassurance about their children 's schools and teachers . |
| 5 | Yeah but effectively the customers are only dealing with plastic of |
| 6 | ‘ It is an achievement to play games at the moment , as we are literally living from hand to mouth . |
| 7 | According to this understanding , people who make vows of celibacy are somehow standing in judgement over those who do not . |
| 8 | I think , to come back to ‘ where does knowledge come from ? ’ , just how can you produce work that actually counters that weight of belief in the invincibility of people who are patently failing in front of your eyes ! |
| 9 | And that 's beginning to show er up in the chemistry of the lakes and streams , some recovery of some lakes are already recovering in response to that reduction of emissions , but not all by any means . |
| 10 | Bankers and others are already campaigning for relaxation of this law , to allow foreign investment in such Swiss companies . |
| 11 | People are already querying from time to time the de decision judges make . |
| 12 | Only a very few of the many references in the bibliography are earlier than 1979 yet undergraduates are already arriving at university with first-hand experience of videotext and expect their lecturers to know more ! |
| 13 | En route , however , these gases that are just passing through can in various ways be enormously influential , as we will see . |
| 14 | Ride are just going from strength to strength — one of the bands that are really cutting through at the moment . |
| 15 | We are just asking for knowledge of the Minister 's attitude to a funding council . |
| 16 | But anyway , the whole problem we face now is how to do more samples because we 're only looking at intercourse in the cores of , say , a thousand or two thousand year spacing , we 've got to get down to a few hundred year spacing to really see some of the changes in climate that we know have gone on . |
| 17 | Only er , only , they 're only paying for lunch for those that they have to pay for lunch . |
| 18 | It 's a very difficult time , we 're just living from day to day . |
| 19 | We have n't set up a company , we 're just going to work on each other 's customer base and then take the value proposition to the market . |
| 20 | It 's interesting though , that after all this aggravation , the fact that er the Prime Minister nearly lost his job , er there was nearly another election erm there 's going to be no celebrations , no fireworks , no balloons , no huge dinners on Monday we 're just going to sort of peter into the Maastricht treaty coming into effect . |
| 21 | Originally formed ‘ sort of as a joke ’ , Love Child sound like they 're still grinning from ear to ear . |
| 22 | You 're also looking for value for money . |
| 23 | so they 're probably trying to muscle into the er that niche you see , but er brown bottle you find the critics ? |
| 24 | Presumably if we 're now looking at commitment in the wider area of search which would draw in many additional parishes , I think in the Harrogate case er something like seven to eight additional parishes , er if we look at commitments there would we also need to revise the housing need figure as well ? |
| 25 | Catching a roof early could add 20 years to its effective life , so you 're really investing in peace of mind in the future . |
| 26 | That 's our problem , that , that 's what we 're really going to home on first of all . |
| 27 | They 're really going to town on these pavements are n't they ? |
| 28 | In the long term , yes , but what we 're currently doing as part of the assessment of the Finmere application is just checking the resources that do exist in those four areas , to , to make sure that we 're still able to meet our targets . |
| 29 | These days we are always talking about safety as if being safe is a virtue . |
| 30 | Before leaving this interesting adjective behind , we may note that it introduces a minor discrepancy from a rather general tendency of qualification which has been gradually emerging by implication in the text so far . |