Example sentences of "be [v-ing] [adv] the [noun] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | POLICE in County Durham are stepping up the fight against crime after a wide ranging shake-up in senior personnel . |
| 2 | Civil war has been eating up the country for five years . |
| 3 | He is the former production manager of British Die Casting which in 1973 employed 143 at Chirton and was quoted in The shields News Guardian on 26 May 1988 as saying : ‘ We are producing double the output of the old British Die Casting with half the work force . ’ |
| 4 | We also pledge that when we are drawing up the membership of the commission we shall take into account his earlier suggestions about widening the membership . |
| 5 | What is a good average for two-colour work , will be hopelessly wrong for four-colour , because we are knitting double the number of rows to obtain the correct pattern , so the additional rows knitted will change the measurement of 40 rows in millimetres . |
| 6 | He handed her her jacket , which had been hanging on the back of her chair . |
| 7 | De Burgh is speaking us very fairly and friendly , but both his hands are gathering up the borders round us . |
| 8 | Gallimard , meanwhile , are bringing out the correspondence between Picasso and Apollinaire , a monograph on Masson by Bernard Noël , and a study of Leonardo and Titian by David Rosand , provisionally entitled La trace de l'artiste . |
| 9 | Hundreds of kites have been brightening up the skies at a national kite festival . |
| 10 | Fran Bennett , CPAG director , suggests both major parties are softening up the public for more means-testing and fewer rights to universal benefits . |
| 11 | Discs advance on alarming quantities of Austrian ice cream , back home Madness are dusting away the cobwebs in Finsbury Park . |
| 12 | So that was why he 'd been in the club so often over the past few weeks — he 'd been checking out the lie of the land , assessing the place as a possible investment . |
| 13 | He had been seeking out the spot on which his little brother was strangled and we had encountered the murderer there . |
| 14 | And Swindon are bouncing up the table into third now . |
| 15 | THIS is the most advanced operating theatre in Europe , equipped with life-saving devices that are pushing back the frontiers of medical science . |
| 16 | Increasingly , however , bankers are pushing back the limits of technology-inspired redesign . |
| 17 | Governments are picking out the bits of the plan they do not like . |
| 18 | I despise the stupidity of those painters who defended the removal of ‘ Guernica ’ to its new air-conditioned penthouse because , in setting such a precedent , they are passing up the opportunity of bequeathing their own works to the Prado . |
| 19 | ‘ You 're bringing out the mule in me , Victor . |
| 20 | LIE BACK AND THINK OF … well , certainly not England when you 're soaking up the sun in St Tropez . |
| 21 | When I look at these shabby partygoers waving their coffee-cups and leaning on metal-frame chairs , it 's like the plague has settled on them , and they 're twitching out the rest of their time . |
| 22 | Make a comment on stage even , for Christ 's sake , about how sad it is that we 're staring down the barrel of a gun at a fuck of a lot of young corpses , widowed wives and fatherless children ? |
| 23 | Make a comment on stage even , for Christ 's sake , about how sad it is that we 're staring down the barrel of a gun at a fuck of a lot of young corpses , widowed wives and fatherless children ? |
| 24 | I know that the summaries of guidance is is in that list , and from the brief discussion we had at the careers officer 's meeting this week about summaries of guidance , I know we 're starting off the process by having representatives come to a meeting on the eleventh of May . |
| 25 | I think Berkshire had a very rough ride and others too and they 're saying exactly the sorts of things that are being said in this county and it may be the last strategic plan on the county too , so it 's a very important document . |
| 26 | ‘ We 're vacuuming up the debris on the land and mulching it again , ’ Hawtree explains . |
| 27 | ‘ They 're putting down the foundations for the bar today , Paul , ’ she told him . |
| 28 | They 've got all this digital equipment and yet they 're standing down the end of a corridor … |
| 29 | They 're laying down the footings for houses and then just leaving them . |
| 30 | and secondly we say that er we 're setting aside the question of discrimination primary basis section fourteen is an absolute block on it and you ca n't have it more complete er , er undermining of article eighty five and again even if the bad faith point arises , er simply makes it and we say quite clearly excessively difficult to enforce article eighty five |