Example sentences of "be [v-ing] [pron] [adj] [noun] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | I think it is a pity that so many anglers are devoting their whole fishing careers to the one species . |
| 2 | He said I bet it 's that that 's been , oh and then it jumped down and ran corner at g where ch caravan is , he said I bet that 's what 's been eating your bloody daffodil bulbs and that . |
| 3 | Ever seeking perfection , Oxford this year are using their new training centre . |
| 4 | The children are producing their own spelling dictionary which is freely available to the whole class . |
| 5 | The cider and wine company has been building its soft drinks portfolio with the acquisitions of the Piermont and Sorelle brands earlier this year . |
| 6 | As well as fine-tuning his own stamina and fitness by clocking up to 70 miles in training each week , Paul has been helping his 12-year-old daughter Sacha in her bid to compete her first four-mile London mini-marathon . |
| 7 | Police believe Mr McEvoy had been using his blue Ford Sierra car , registered D234 HAJ , on Saturday evening . |
| 8 | While the adults are enjoying their special Christmas drinks with the celebration meal , you could be drinking delicious Louisiana Lemonade , made with frozen raspberries . |
| 9 | I 'm not sure that withholding diplomatic recognition is the best way to approach that , after all diplomatic recognition is concerned really with the effective control of territory and things like that rather than with moral principles , however , I think that er , when the Soviet Republics are signing their new Union Treaty or Commonwealth Treaty or whatever it 's going to be called by that time , this question should be amongst the most important to be tackled there , that 's to say the rights of ethnic minorities living in Republican Territories , that they should have the right to educate their children in their own language , that they should have the right to their own religion and so on and so forth . |
| 10 | According to yesterday 's report , the man has decided to come forward because the gang has told him they are ending his regular cash payments , which he used to collect in London . |
| 11 | Amperif , a long-time player in the Unisys Corp storage subsystems business — it has not always enjoyed an easy relationship with Unisys — has been developing its own disk array product under the code-name Viking . |
| 12 | But certainly , equal opportunities as as a part of the integral working of N C V O and we do regularly review , how we , as an organisation , are meeting our equal opportunities requirements across the board , that 's race , sex , disability , er , in involving the the staff who are at lower levels and so on . |
| 13 | And while it is BPX-GOM 's first third-party agreement to remotely operate and produce from a subsea gas well , the Offshore Division has been operating its own satellite gas well , High Island A-587 , since 1991 . |
| 14 | I stopped playing and tossed my trumpet to Kim who had been showering our remaining advertising leaflets on to the melee . |
| 15 | They 're celebrating their twentieth birthday celebrations . |
| 16 | On March 28 , we 're holding our next coffee morning at Branksome Hall . |
| 17 | I know you 're doing your French work sheet but turn round and put that down now . |
| 18 | Yeah we 're giving them three months notice , if we can do that quickly |
| 19 | But when he gets round to it , I think he 'll control them a bit more closely , now you can invest in that sort of fund quite safely , and although it wo n't give you any capital growth , because if they 're giving you ten percent income , obviously the capital growth 's going to be limited , but er if it 's the income that you 're after , not a bad thing to do , so I mean at the moment I may actually combine one income-type er P E P with one growth and income , where the , where the , perhaps the yield is about five percent . |
| 20 | Gavin had been celebrating his first wage packet after being out of work for 9 months . |
| 21 | In the intervening years , Doctor Ross has been perfecting his left-handed guitar technique , and writing his own songs , the best known being ‘ Cat Squirrel ’ , recorded by Cream on their first album . |
| 22 | In between work on these sessions — and having just failed to squeeze in the Charlatans and Bob Geldof — he 's been releasing his own dance records under an assumed name and running his own record label , Foundation , for two years . |
| 23 | Now we are considering our own Shell suit with a small logo on the front . |
| 24 | Darlington Brown Trout AA are holding their annual presentation night on Friday April 3 at the Rolling Mills Club . |
| 25 | MONTGOMERYSHIRE Liberal Democrats are holding their annual county fete at Leighton Community Centre on Saturday . |
| 26 | THE North West deaf association are holding their 15th anniversary dinner dance at the Broomhill Hotel , Derry , on September 18 at 8pm . |
| 27 | He had been wearing his turned-down wellington boots and long rubber apron , and the gold in his teeth had flashed with reflected sunlight . |
| 28 | President Gorbachev 's been facing his worst Mayday parade and the first one not to be completely controlled by the communist party . |
| 29 | A Whipsnade spokesman said : ‘ I think a lot of people are buying our half-size £3.50 tubs as an original gift for their friends . |
| 30 | Youngsters at a Middlesbrough school are getting their own Football Association coaching . |