Example sentences of "be [v-ing] [prep] the [adj] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 31 | You 'll be returning to the glamorous world of rock as soon as he returns . |
| 32 | JAMES BOND soon be returning to the big screen for his first film since 1989 . |
| 33 | Preoccupation : The family member 's life is haunted day and night by thoughts on what might be happening to the primary sufferer and what action might or might not be taken to help . |
| 34 | However , it should be emphasised that the Family Fellowships exist for the benefit of the family member , regardless of what may be happening to the primary sufferer . |
| 35 | What seems to be happening in the nineteenth century , in response to major social changes ( rapid industrialisation and urbanisation , the disruption of old class patterns and the rise of capitalist social relations , the development of new and sharp class conflicts with their related social and intellectual manifestations ) is a continuous battle over the definition of acceptable sexual behaviour within the context of changing class and power relations . |
| 36 | Though I think that that will be happening in the next cycle . |
| 37 | No doubt he will be booking for the 30th Anniversary Tour in 1994 . |
| 38 | Such triumphalist narratives can be empowering in the symbolic sense that they invest ethnic minorities with special powers of knowledge and action . |
| 39 | The statements on the left may be contributing to the adverse behaviour but your chances of confirming it are limited . |
| 40 | In the tropics , however , environmental change is occurring at an unprecedented rate where deforestation is creating local and , in all probability , global environmental problems since the demise of tropical rainforests in particular may well be contributing to the enhanced greenhouse effect ( section 5.3.1 ) . |
| 41 | Thirdly , just as cross-linguistic comparisons can reveal general functions of language by contrasts between what is encoded in one language and not in another , so comparisons across stages of acquisition can be revealing in the same way ( Ochs , 1979a ) . |
| 42 | As it was , I felt thrilled to be walking on the same ground that young Thomson had trodden long before . |
| 43 | In one respect it is superior , as by staying lower down you will be constantly amazed by the ever changing scenery — higher up the views give you a good idea of the terrain you 'll be walking through the next day . |
| 44 | He hopes to be challenging for the first team by Christmas . |
| 45 | So , when an Ikhwan ( widely understood to be fronting for the Amiri secretary ) proposed to make a grant to a Tibbu , ‘ all Zuwaya ’ , including at least some Awlad Amira , protested . |
| 46 | Moreover , on some occasions ( and the present scenario could well be one ) the economic and social pressures may be pushing in the same direction as educational forces . |
| 47 | The subtle , instinctive mind pattern of an insect may be looking for the particular infrared , pheromone emission which signifies the presence of his lady-love . |
| 48 | We had discussed this business of how people 's appearance literally alters in the eyes of their lovers , and suddenly I blushed , for it seemed to me he must be remembering this too , and that we must be looking for the same thing , as one might take down an old book in a moment of hungry nostalgia and start to re-read , hoping it may provide the same remembered enchantment as before . |
| 49 | Later , we shall be looking at the actual transfer of the pattern , which is relatively simple . |
| 50 | You will now be looking at the actual design which is to be etched into the copper foil . |
| 51 | Perhaps we should be looking at the mental state not of individuals but of society as a whole . |
| 52 | Nigel Rolnis found out … and in April he 'll be looking at the other end of the market , £6,000 . |
| 53 | If you 're looking for faster , purer isolation , you ought to be looking at the Nycomed range — as detailed in our brand new Separation Products literature . |
| 54 | So over the next few months we 'll be looking at the underlying organization of Windows from a practical point of view ; showing you exactly how to install , run and remove applications ( and other things , like printer drivers ) from Windows . |
| 55 | I shall be looking at the relative learnability of conjunctive and disjunctive concepts across age , using block-sorting and discrimination-learning tasks . |
| 56 | An artist , an art historian and a tourist may all be looking at the same painting but their perceptions would be different . |
| 57 | As a result , I shall experience a succession of different " complexes of qualities " but I shall still be looking at the same bunch of flowers . |
| 58 | So they 'll be looking at the same information as we are . |
| 59 | Bearing in mind that the new Speaker served as a deputy before being elected to her new post we could be looking at the next Speaker of the House of Commons . |
| 60 | Bearing in mind that the new Speaker served as a deputy before being elected to her new post we could be looking at the next Speaker of the House of Commons . |