Example sentences of "be [v-ing] [conj] [adv] the [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Chairman I think I have to offer an apology to members and Mr in particular and the town of Bungay with a rather erm over which sentence expressing the press release , I mean we are continually trying to issue news items , press releases , progress reports and anything we 're doing and usually the press are very good and quoted for a basis , sometimes they get it wrong and mangle it up with some bits of disaster , on this occasion that is not the case , the , the actual press report did determine the phraseology used in my in lease them so I have to accept the responsibility for the phrase to act of your recommended this morning so it down sake , could abandon ideas which they can buy it , of course those crazy ideas used in and out of the court is what matters . |
| 2 | This is not only because quotation contributes to an appropriate " literary critical " register ( for this dubious reason , quotations are often believed to be " compulsory in essays " ) ; it is also because your essays are largely about language ( both the language of the literary texts you are analysing and also the language of critical works about them ) , so quotation is the main way of presenting essential data . |
| 3 | We know how long we were travelling and roughly the speed we were going . |
| 4 | Autoclaves are functioning but neither the pressure gauge , thermometer , nor the timer are working . |
| 5 | I mean we we had a definite offer and it 's all paid much later , that the money is coming and then the committee will get the money back . |
| 6 | Assessment is not just carried out when a patient is admitted to the ward but is a continuous process because the condition of the patient is altering and therefore the care required may change rapidly . |
| 7 | However , the light was fading and so the presentation was made . |
| 8 | But all the while he was learning and soon the time had come when he was no longer satisfied to design for others . |
| 9 | There as you probably know are various groups who feel that they , ought to erm , they ought to take a stand because they felt that Port Meadow actually the character of Port Meadow was changing and ultimately the Council I think agreed with them , that something should be done and this was the action that was taken . |