Example sentences of "be [v-ing] [adj] [prep] the [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | This method involves a little bit of a cheat as the Macintosh keyboard can not access the PostScript fractions unless you either have a special fractions font or are using one of the new Adobe Expert fonts with an extended and re-mapped character set . |
| 2 | The main reason people have been wearing Adidas Shell-toes and Puma States in the past year or so is because Nike , Adidas , Troop , Converse , British Knights , Travel Fox , Reebok , LA Gear , Hi-Tec , Jordache , etc , are producing some of the silliest , shittiest trainers known to man ( and woman ) . |
| 3 | The suddenness of the increased use of artillery in the third quarter of the fourteenth century is evidenced by the fact that when Gaston Fébus , vicomte of Béarn in the Pyrenees , had a network of fortifications constructed between 1365 and 1380 ( a period during which many castles were built in France ) he must have been building some of the last fortifications to take no account of artillery , which was very soon to compel important developments in the art of defence . |
| 4 | TEENAGE vandals are targeting one of the few leisure facilities in north Belfast . |
| 5 | Ironically , such speedups are becoming limited by the fastest thing in the universe : the speed of light . |
| 6 | Even your supporters are becoming alarmed by the destabilising effect of general practitioner fundholding , as you top slice cash from the central reserve and ensure that it can be spent only on the limited number of services that general practitioners are allowed to purchase directly . |
| 7 | Preventive health measures which tackle the cause of why people are becoming sick in the first place could save vast sums of public money which are being wasted by the National Health Service treating the symptoms . |
| 8 | When peers are becoming absorbed by the new life-style that a baby brings , a couple may feel left behind if they do not embark on this too . |
| 9 | Ironically , Mr Jenkin added , more companies are becoming disillusioned with the Big Six ( although one , Arthur Andersen , comes out of the survey well ) , and would be willing to move to a middle tier firm . |
| 10 | The officers believe Elizabeth and Julie had been sunbathing naked on the remote beach , confident they would not be seen . |
| 11 | Other engineering and light industries are filling many of the old mills and clothing factories . |
| 12 | I am addressing this to the Chief Executive as I am uncertain which department deals with matters of building safety . |
| 13 | Finally , especially if you are living alone for the first time , invest in some small cooking dishes and fridge/freezer containers . |
| 14 | Pilar has been living alone in the huge house and has struggled to maintain it with four staff . |
| 15 | Institute Council member Douglas Llambias said the fine ‘ was out of all proportion to a guilty verdict ’ , and added that if the fines were capped , ‘ we should have been publicising that for the last 12 months . |
| 16 | ‘ I wonder if we 're handling this in the right way , ’ he said cautiously . |
| 17 | Vast as I 'm feeling : like in a dream when you 're walking naked down the High Street . |
| 18 | Erm so I all we 're trying to do now at the moment though is , is to , to operate from the point of view of saying look , if you actually take all these things into account , we should n't be worse than we were ultimately , once these systems have bedded in , we 're doing more checking on letters for example th than , than we w we wo n't have to once we 've checked through the first two months of auto-offs , and we 're getting used to the new reports and so on and that sort of stuff , so we expect there to be a blip , but you would expect a learning curve in anyway . |
| 19 | ‘ I think they 're getting ready for the Second Front , ’ Sarah told Maureen , ‘ although Joe did n't say so . ’ |
| 20 | ‘ At least we 're getting some of the loose ends tied up . ’ |
| 21 | And the new chip is good news if you 're considering one of the slower 20MHz or 25MHz versions , as these have been forced down in price . |
| 22 | Many existing systems which do n't already heat the hot water can be adapted to do so , but if yours ca n't ( an early warm air system , say ) or if you 're installing one of the few types of system that does n't also heat the hot water ( such as electric storage radiators ) , you will have to choose the hot water system . |
| 23 | You 're cutting more at the same time . |
| 24 | When we 're away though next week , I think they 'll do quite a lot of stuff inside and But they 're doing some for The same team are doing some friends of ours on Main Road and of course most of the people are down there . |
| 25 | They 're all great ; one star is completely acceptable ; you 're comparing five of the best dinghy sailing centres in the Mediterranean ! |
| 26 | One star is fine ; you 're comparing seven of the best centres in the Mediterranean ! |
| 27 | Last one of the , but they 're showing one of the old ones and we , I have n't seen it , so |
| 28 | They 're hoping one of the big fashion houses might buy them … ’ |
| 29 | I do hope your plans to move are developing smoothly and that you 're feeling happy at the whole prospect . |
| 30 | Detectives hunting the rapist who attacked a young woman at a Nottingham f music festival at the weekend , have been interviewing some of the thousands of people who attended the event . |