Example sentences of "be [v-ing] [prep] a [noun] [conj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | but soon it will be appearing in a dictionary as , A bit over-formal , a bit archaic , use it if you like in a business letter but most people would prefer |
| 2 | Right great and what happens what seems to be happening with a base and an acid or an acid and a base ? |
| 3 | ‘ Well , ’ Athelstan replied , ‘ we should be looking for a man or woman with no background , someone who has suddenly appeared on the scene , but everyone we have talked to has their own little niche . ’ |
| 4 | Yes I would expect you to be looking for a salary and wherever |
| 5 | yes so will this be right , that somebody towards the end of the sale period er might be looking at a brochure that was printed at least eighteen months ago and maybe longer ? |
| 6 | I would be sitting in the car looking out at the fascinating scenery , my mum and my brother would be doing the same , my sister would be looking at a book and my dad would be driving . |
| 7 | By the end of the century , the Chinese government hopes that every peasant family will be living in a brick and tile house with its own toilet and water supply : a dream that at the moment looks impossible . |
| 8 | At all ages above 75 years women are more likely to be living in an institution than their male contemporaries . |
| 9 | You know I mean you er er it 's al I , I think the same would happen if you put a five note in inside it would get thrown out with the rubbish but erm the thing is that obviously some , some early day , if one can say in inverted commas early day publicity erm from the Northumberland side of things could a and I mean my view when , when Ros was telling me what happened at the last meeting erm was that was gon na be acting as an icebreaker as opposed waiting till the last minute somebody 's gon na and they think erm as it were , a and build up from , from that because there 's obviously gon na be one or two other things coming directly from national level . |
| 10 | You will either be lying on a couch or sitting in a comfortable chair with a back high enough to support your head . |
| 11 | Nicholson 's close friend Bruce Dern saw this as one of the developing problems with what seemed to be heading towards a husband and wife relationship ; with two people in the same business — as had been the case with Sandra and Mimi — the pressures on their life together were aggravated by the success of one member of the partnership , while the other was still struggling . |
| 12 | Rather than , sort of , go from Manchester by plane what , they decided they 'd drive down and take the car over so we were supposed to be going for a meal and they said , where shall we go for a meal ? |
| 13 | Even if a human pilot could get those birds up there , he 'd be flying on a kiss and a promise . |
| 14 | I may be getting on a bit but I still know a thing or two . ’ |
| 15 | But you might be talking to a client , says , but at the moment , I 've got no need , erm , or I 've got n no intention of buying now , but I might be buying in a year or two year 's time . |
| 16 | And that means you should be aiming for an outfit that suggests smartness and efficiency rather than one that screams ‘ sack me ’ . |
| 17 | They might be moving into a premises that 's already er , there now . |
| 18 | But what I 'm wearing now I 'll be wearing in a year or eighteen months , it does n't chop and change like a fashion ; the meaning it has now is the same one it will have in eighteen months ' time . |
| 19 | One PC complained at length to a sergeant that the ‘ ground ’ where they both worked had become much quieter ; he looked back with nostalgia to the old days when the ground was much ‘ harder ’ and ‘ you could literally be strolling past a pub and a bloke would come staggering out with a knife in his back … ’ |
| 20 | ( Yeah — and i just called our national football association and called for tickets to USA'94 — no problemo — so i guess i will be travelling with a friend or three … ) |
| 21 | But at least I 'm staying in Bushmills , so I may be diving into a vat before the week 's out . ’ |
| 22 | Why would the Complete Golfer be skulking in a dell while the most dramatic tournament ever staged was reaching its climax ? |
| 23 | But as Shaffer remembers : ‘ He could be talking about a death and get himself very worked up about what he was saying , very passionate about whatever made him worried or angry . |
| 24 | She had just bought ( in anticipation of her legacy ) a new Sony portable ( ‘ I 'll be sitting about a lot when I get very big ’ . |
| 25 | Now , I 'd rather be sitting in a car than standing on a crowded platform , but there was n't much in the way of light relief on the radio . |
| 26 | She went on excitedly to explain how her canoe would be arriving in a week or two and she would then telephone the harbour master at Sharpness to find out when the next big bore was due . |
| 27 | My time is extremely valuable , and I am not going to be kept waiting here while people like patients take up five or 10 minutes when I shall not be earning at a rate that would put the salary of Members of Parliament to shame . |
| 28 | The erm , the the nature of the erm the fourteenth of June , the the the Total Quality minute , the it seems to be referring to a document that sets out various phases of the er Total Quality programme . |
| 29 | It seems to be referring to a document that that that sets out the whole total quality process as far as the commission is concerned . |
| 30 | Think about it : if marriage is a partnership , the fact that one may be functioning in a responsibility that provides the income does not entitle that partner to sole ownership . |