Example sentences of "be [v-ing] [adv] [prep] the [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Wales welcome their arch-humiliators with open jaws , the scent of an overdue kill growing in nostrils that are flaring again under the inspirational coaching of Alan Davies . |
| 2 | We are touching here on the sensitive area of competitive tendering and of privatisation . |
| 3 | Neil Kinnock said last night that the rise in interest rates was ‘ a shattering blow both to households right across Britain and also to industries , and it 's even worse because it 's a blow that has been gathering ever since the first day that this Government decided its one and only economic policy would be a reliance on interest rates ’ . |
| 4 | But in the past year German authorities withdrew approval for certain components which Cameron and some other hot-air balloon manufacturers have been using worldwide for the past 20 years . |
| 5 | Hardly had the Padre finished saying the Nunc Dimittis when the Doctor , who had been kneeling innocently in the front row , sprang to his feet . |
| 6 | It might be that your ambitions are seriously flawed and you are preaching only to the converted . |
| 7 | Developing countries have been climbing hard throughout the 1980s , only to see the summit receding farther up beyond the clouds . |
| 8 | I 'm 32 and have been climbing seriously for the last 18 years , which helped me get accepted . |
| 9 | Zapp is the supreme professional , who embodies , albeit comically , those ideals of professionalism that have long been dominant in the North American academy and are becoming so in the British . |
| 10 | The stolen cars have been occurring now over the last year . |
| 11 | But nowhere were they more pronounced , and rather than fading as the economy developed they appear to have been becoming deeper in the immediate pre-war years . |
| 12 | What had been happening financially over the last five or six years is unclear but in 1932 the situation was regarded as ‘ serious ’ and it was to continue so ( as with other Clubs in the Depression ) until the late 1930's . |
| 13 | ‘ Danny 's really been looking forward to the fair , ’ explained Rachel to Jimmy who had pitched in and was helping the driver to lift a wheelchair from the minibus . |
| 14 | As we near the end of the 20th century our horizons must extend well beyond our own national frontiers , to our new relationships which are developing fast in the European Community and to our obligations and opportunities in the exciting , but often perilous circumstances of the post Cold War world . |
| 15 | , Small birds , including great tits and bluetits , are unable to rear so many young because the caterpillars on which they depend are developing faster in the warmer summers . |
| 16 | But I am looking forward to the first leg . |
| 17 | I am looking forward to the usual summer visitors . |
| 18 | He continued : ‘ I am looking forward to the next Labour government throwing out the Tory anti-union laws and giving working people the protection that they need to conduct legitimate industrial action . |
| 19 | I am looking forward to the next stage of Tencel and we are already working with Fibers and Research to set up the teams for a new project . |
| 20 | SIR — As director of a company which supplies market research data to the pharmaceutical industry in the Republic of Ireland , I am looking forward to the forthcoming explanations from United Kingdom opinion poll organisations . |
| 21 | It says two Darlington pubs the Hole in the Wall and Lascelles Park are operating well under the new leases and that they are a unique way of putting pubs on a proper commercial footing . |
| 22 | I'Anson Cup champions Churt CC are looking forward to the new season , having wintered well at the Bohunt School indoor nets . |
| 23 | SUPER SMILE Mum Fran and brave little Laura are looking forward to the new Christmas baby . |
| 24 | ‘ Now we are looking forward to the new season and despite the difficult climate we are hoping membership holds steady . |
| 25 | ‘ We are looking forward to the entire programme following a format the ELCA helped pioneer , ’ said John L Peterson , ELCA Director for Public Media . |
| 26 | As one motor racing season comes to an end , a Banbury engineering company are looking forward to the next . |
| 27 | Liphook & Ripsley Cricket Club are looking forward to the coming season with great expectation . |
| 28 | Harris and his colleagues are looking specifically at the charred remains of cereal grains , identifying the different characteristics of wild and cultivated grains . |
| 29 | DALLAS COWBOYS , the youngest team in the NFL , are looking more like the best in the league every week . |
| 30 | But perhaps we are looking entirely in the wrong place for any significant employment gains in industry . |