Example sentences of "be [v-ing] [noun sg] for [art] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Rising costs and growing demand means the group must expand to survive , but church elders are refusing permission for an extra day . |
| 2 | ‘ 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 . |
| 3 | Also , when families are providing care for a disabled relative they usually want to continue to do so if this is at all possible . |
| 4 | Following this the Colonel is to visit Dhekelia , where the two other subunits which form the other half of the battalion are providing security for the British Garvison . |
| 5 | There were 23 other pairs — all younger and all seeming to possess the speed of Linford Christie around the court — and , when my partner greeted me with the news that he had been undergoing physiotherapy for a dodgy back all week , I felt that our interest would be peripheral , to say the least . |
| 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 | 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 ? |
| 9 | Some people may suggest that the absence of Ireland 's top three drivers might actually be a good thing for Cork , making it a much more competitive event , but it will do little to improve the profile of a rally that has been losing ground for the past few years . |
| 10 | Those people who have the record sheets from last week , ten , ten people that are doing work for the British National Corpus . |
| 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 | So lest any misunderstandings arrive that this is some thin end of some wedge , I should also add that the restriction we 're proposing only applies to national committees , does n't apply to any other office anywhere in the union and to reinforce that point the C E C will be recommending support for a general motion underlining the rights of people who are unemployed or retired to hold office throughout the G M B. |
| 13 | I 'm taking Fido for a nice walkie because it 's such a nice day . |
| 14 | 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 ) . |
| 15 | ‘ I 'm still stiff and sore and I 'm receiving treatment for an injured shoulder ’ he said . |
| 16 | ‘ She 'd been taking hush-money for the last ten years . ’ |
| 17 | Such a process has been taking place for a long time . |
| 18 | ‘ Timothy , four , has been learning cello for a few months and loves it . ’ |
| 19 | Get Ready ! is a lively two-level course for children who are learning English for the first time . |
| 20 | All the major export credit agencies are reviewing cover for the Soviet Union . |
| 21 | A quarter of a century since the first Star Trek , these oldies are making way for the New Generation . |
| 22 | 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 ! |
| 23 | Police are claiming success for a new campaign to tackle crime in the countryside . |
| 24 | Shinjuro Yamamura , the chairman of the Diet budget committee , was stabbed to death on April 12 by his own daughter , who had reportedly been receiving treatment for a psychiatric condition . |
| 25 | Denied the opportunity of supervising a major programme of construction in New York , where the Whitney Museum 's trustees have been unable to agree Michael Graves 's proposal for an extension , he is taking responsibility for the final stages of the conversion , now estimated to cost $35 million , of an ornamental warehouse located on Pittsburgh 's North Side , which will accommodate the museum . |
| 26 | She is receiving treatment for the weight-loss disorder anorexia nervosa at Rampton top security hospital . |
| 27 | They have allowed just over 100 days for the whole journey , which is raising money for the Multiple Sclerosis Society . |
| 28 | Perhaps that means it 's raising money for a loony bin . |
| 29 | 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 . |
| 30 | In 1981 Israeli aircraft nevertheless destroyed Iraq 's big Osirak nuclear reactor , near Baghdad , on the grounds that Iraq was producing material for an atomic bomb there . |