Example sentences of "be [v-ing] [to-vb] [prep] the [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Hakim had previously acted as the equivalent of a Foreign Minister of the Democratic Arab Saharan Republic ( SADR — which the armed movement Polisario had been struggling to establish in the Western Sahara since 1976 ) . |
| 2 | While she had been speaking , the dogs had been struggling to get through the narrow crack of open door . |
| 3 | We live in a ‘ market economy ’ and many one time ‘ command economies ’ are endeavouring to change to the same arrangements . |
| 4 | The letters page contains a plea from R Scott of Doncaster : ‘ I am writing to complain about the appalling lack of sexism in Sounds . ’ |
| 5 | The letters page contains a plea from R Scott of Doncaster : ‘ I am writing to complain about the appalling lack of sexism in Sounds . ’ |
| 6 | I AM writing to comment on the amazing article by Jonathan Rice on the Sky TV coverage of the World Cup ( WCM May ) . |
| 7 | In so far as the plaintiffs are seeking to recover from the third defendant money which he has obtained for his own benefit or for the benefit of companies which are , in effect , his alter ego , I can see that the third party would have an overwhelming argument that it can not be just and equitable to require him to contribute to whatever the third defendant is ordered to pay to the plaintiffs . |
| 8 | Yes , and Ladies — are seeking to speak in the European debate . |
| 9 | Thousands of property deals are waiting to be completed because local tax offices are refusing to deal with the French equivalent of stamp duty . |
| 10 | The problem can be quite severe , er we 've had a number of penalties introduced by customs and excise over the last few years but what we 're going to see from the 1st April in this year is interest being charged on overdue moneys paid to customs and excise and also a penalty charged where people make a mistake on their VAT returns , even where they make those mistakes quite innocently . |
| 11 | And it was a ridiculous situation , so I went along and said er , look Jack er , we 're going to go into the annual palaver , I mean , you know , very high inflation . |
| 12 | All these conservatives sit at their conference saying what they 're going to do to the unemployed and the fraud and what have you ! |
| 13 | Hi I 'll just just show you what er well Kerry 'll 'll show you she knows what er what we 're what you 're going to do over the next day or so do n't you . |
| 14 | These these are a measure are n't they they 're a measure of the quality of what we 're going to do over the next two days and therefore I will come back to these tomorrow afternoon I will check through them and if everybody can say yes yes I 'm satisfied with that then we 've achieved what we set out to achieve today . |
| 15 | Okay then let me just by way of er introduction er to the concepts and the content of what we 're going to do over the next two days let me just put a very small fraction of a picture up here . |
| 16 | So , what we 're going to do for the next four months is look at the anatomy of a PC . |
| 17 | In your text book you 've got quite a lot of information in there about reinforcing , what we 're going to do in the practical session and it 's always a help I think when you have a lot of the , thrown at you to know that you can just put it up and there it is if you get a bit confusing or ca n't remember what 's what , so on page one six nine it starts telling you all about nursing and bandages and general hygiene which we 've already talked quite a lot about but it 's very useful for you to know , you can go there and look , and if you just go through the pages from there on one seventy , one seven one , one seven two , one seven three and then on one seven four it 's got the general rules for applying bandages apply bandages when the casualty is sitting or lying down , you always sit your casualty down and you work from the front of , I say why do you work from the front of the thing ? |
| 18 | I think the regrettable thing about the parking in in the town is the way that some of the disabled slots at the surgery are taken by the cars of people who are perfectly able to walk from the car park , and I think the great problem we 're going to have is we 're going to rely on the public spiritedness of our fellow townspeople and there does seem to be a fair group of people who are extremely selfish when it comes to come to parking . |
| 19 | I do believe that one of the best ways we 're going to benefit from the new circumstances I hope of economic stability of low inflation and low taxation , will be to ensure that the provision of capital is made by the principle institutions , namely the banks and the investing institutions . |
| 20 | You know when we 're going to look at the four forty five I may as well get book four two nine six seven . |
| 21 | Right Suzanne , now we 're going to look at the various parts of the Topper and how they fit together . |
| 22 | But erm I I do n't , still do n't see from this how we 're going to look at the underlying systems because it 's the system that concerns me . |
| 23 | First then , continuing our series of programmes on applications of computers , today we 're going to look at the so-called microprocessor , and to help me do this I have Doctor Fred Halsall and Doctor Paul Lister , who are engineers and specialists in this particular area . |
| 24 | Yes just before we leave however the question of what occur in my mind how you 're going to get from the present position in what appears to be a cost plus basis as we go along to a fixed cost basis and presumably the programme and I in in , are running as it were , are running effectively on the cost plus basis |
| 25 | Erm and how we would generally distribute all this stuff that we 're going to get from the respective head offices , which is now filtering into our office , we 've got leaflets er car stickers question and answer booklets , that kind of stuff . |
| 26 | You 're going to hear from the Greek government about this , sir . ’ |
| 27 | They only will stand for the same , I do n't think they 're going to stand for the same conditions |
| 28 | ‘ They 're going to laugh on the other side of their faces before they 're through . ’ |
| 29 | The sort of things that we 're going to cover during the two days are these areas . |
| 30 | Okay , so we 're going to concentrate on the left hand side for the moment . |