Example sentences of "be [v-ing] [noun] for [art] [num ord] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Are building programmes for the next financial year drawn up in time to be available to managers before holidays are allocated ? |
| 2 | Derek says … they 've broken a few boats in testing … they 've been building prototypes for the last six months and have been putting in hours at sea to make sure everything is right |
| 3 | Or suppose that I am eating escargots for the first time and can not bring myself to forget the disgustingly slimy look and feel of snails in the garden . |
| 4 | Sheila and Jim Smith from Abingdon have been fostering children for the last twenty-five years . |
| 5 | ‘ Its combination of performance , quality engineering , specification and economy will win customers away from competitive models and attract buyers who are considering diesel for the first time , ’ he said . |
| 6 | These are the children who sometimes crack at university level because they are facing challenge for the first time in their lives . ’ |
| 7 | If you are installing LIFESPAN for the first time , then it is recommended that you create up to three LIFESPAN Processes , as described below . |
| 8 | You should read this section if you are installing FMS for the first time , or are not sure if you have sufficient global sections and global pages available . |
| 9 | McEvoy , 39 , is back on the amateur circuit after being chosen as England captain , and has been having lessons for the first time ‘ to stimulate my game . ’ |
| 10 | Will he confirm that most of them are tourists , many of whom are travelling north for a last glimpse of a rare species on the point of extinction in Scotland — Scottish Tory Members ? |
| 11 | When they had finished unloading , Therese said , ‘ My coco , I shall be helping Loulou for the next week or two , I do n't like leaving him much when he 's working on those big things . |
| 12 | Art 93 , which is , with the collapse of the rival attraction formerly held at Olympia , now London 's only fair for contemporary art , will be taking place for the fifth consecutive year at Islington 's Business Design Centre ( 21–24 January ) . |
| 13 | In fact , we in methodism we 've been ordaining women for the last twenty-five years , and it has become as natural as breathing to us . |
| 14 | ‘ She 'd been taking hush-money for the last ten years . ’ |
| 15 | Get Ready ! is a lively two-level course for children who are learning English for the first time . |
| 16 | Although I have n't been making records for the last six years , I have been working behind the scenes at Artists Against Apartheid , and me the Mandela concert last month , seeing that speech go out live on the BBC to all those people , was a culmination of all that work . |
| 17 | And yet , as er as Linda said women have been playing football for the last seventy , and before that , I mean op , throughout the century women have been playing football ! |
| 18 | ‘ Father Tom , ’ he said , as if he were meeting Carey for the first time for a long time . |
| 19 | Helen felt as if she were hearing Nicola for the first time . |
| 20 | Many of the cast were discovering Dickens for the first time . |
| 21 | Melanie , their new PR , has been watching proceedings for the last few minutes . |
| 22 | A public inquiry is considering plans for a third supermarket — opponents say it 's the last thing the town needs . |
| 23 | This month she is visiting Britain for the first time in years . |
| 24 | Neighbours and business people , many of whom are confronting disability for the first time , have yet to work out ways of behaving with respect towards them and ways of making links which are welcome and helpful . |
| 25 | And I was eating steak for the second time in less than fifteen hours . |
| 26 | Some of the singers knew their place in that production — almost miraculously , Gergiev had coaxed Sergei Leiferkus away from a couple of London Fiery Angels to sing Tomsky for old times ' sake — but one of Gergiev 's protégés , Gegam Gregorian , was tackling Hermann for the first time , and Maria Guleghina had flown in for Lisa . |
| 27 | Bully Boy 's owner , Ron Taylor , who is involved in various interests in Lambourn , admitted to having ‘ a nice punt ’ on the six-year-old , who was tackling fences for the first time . |
| 28 | Kit had learned how to grow certain lucrative crops on the mainland , when he served with Roger Pole and the local Indians had been drafted to instruct them ; but he was cultivating indigo for the first time , in Sycorax 's former enclave , and he found the plant tricky and demanding and considered its production women 's work . |
| 29 | In the 1950s , when the late Heinz Under was presenting Torontonians for the first time with the symphonies of Gustav Mahler in the York Concert Society series in Massey Hall , I will never forget the ecstatic moment , after a dozen tumultuous curtain calls at the end of the Resurrection Symphony , when the elderly maestro lifted the heavy score off the stand — and shook it as vigorously and as high as he was able , in homage to the great composer . |
| 30 | It was getting time for the last bus across London Bridge for the District Line . |