Example sentences of "and be [v-ing] [prep] a [adj] " in BNC.

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1 Wivenhoe Town have never won the competition and are looking for a first success to complete a meteoric rise to the summit of the Essex non-league football hierarchy .
2 Apparently it 's OEMing somebody 's Mbus machine and are talking about a portable that 's not a laptop .
3 As you know , the two of them have become good friends , and are going on a long holiday together .
4 ‘ They look organised with a good defence , and are playing with a great deal of confidence . ’
5 But we 're now reasonably confident that we will continue to increase over the next few years and are budgeting for a modest growth . ’
6 Now British scientists want to test paclitaxel on early-stage cancers , when the disease is less advanced , and are embarking on a huge research programme .
7 A newspaper report that the multi-millionaire Barclay brothers had built up a 3 per cent stake in Williams and were thinking of a full bid at 300p a share sent the price soaring 58p to 283p .
8 In under a minute they 'd made two sharp lefts and a squealing right , and were roaring down a back street so narrow the least miscalculation would have taken off handles , hubs and mirrors .
9 A few minutes later they had reached the main road and were heading through a clear November evening towards the north side of the spectacular Cornish peninsula .
10 They took great care and were concentrating on a small area , trying hard not to tread on the bones .
11 My friend called me and said you 'd been to see him and were asking about a Russian cross .
12 But what he did come to recognise was the inadequacy of existing literature : ‘ I realised that the main writers on history and statistics at the time had done very little research and were relying on a few books .
13 They had sold their farm to the Mali Government and were travelling to a new life in France .
14 Kai Tak stretched ahead , runway strip in the harbour lit up in blue white and gold , and a second later they had cleared the buildings of the city and were landing with a faint jolt .
15 After an amazing cross country round yesterday with her agile horse Knockdrin Vina finished in first position with 49 points after the dressage , and is hoping for a clear round today to win the £1,500 national championship and title .
16 He dismisses fears of a second-half slowdown and is sticking with a year-end profit forecast of £417m ( £364.5m ) .
17 Jonathan also successfully attended a course at Dartmouth naval college and is competing in a national contest to be chosen for a month 's holiday in South Africa organised by the sea cadets .
18 She 's found a job and is moving into a small flat .
19 Patrick , who joins Michael and EastEnders actress mum Lizzie Power for a family holiday in Sardinia on Wish You Were Here , was born with cerebral palsy and is recovering after a major hip operation which his father describes as ‘ monstrous ’ .
20 She found him another job and is paying for a private nurse .
21 The foundation has appointed more trustees and is advertising for a new chief executive .
22 StorageTek contributes the computer front-end channel , compression and compaction technology , buffer and buffer management and is working on a new data format for helical-scan tape , which originally was designed for video .
23 She wrote a well-received history of her old school for the Essex Record Office and is working on a local history having followed up her study in this field by taking the London University Diploma in Local History .
24 If an overweight man in his fifties who is a heavy smoker , has a family history of heart disease and is working in a stressful job were to decide to ‘ get fit ’ and invite a colleague for a game of squash for the first time in twenty years , he would be doing just about the best he could to give himself a heart attack .
25 An Intel Corp observer says the company is really competing against system makers IBM Corp , Hewlett-Packard Co , Digital Equipment Corp and Sun Microsystems Inc , and maybe MIPS Technologies Inc : his point is that Intel is bound to a policy of moving more and more of the system onto its chips until all the hardware vendor will be adding is a couple of leads ; he also says Intel is very conscious of the potentials of the computer and communications tie-up and is dreaming of a worldwide network data repository under its thumb ; strategic alliances came up and so did the name AT&T Co , and the words ‘ information utility ’ .
26 The company has just cancelled its contract with BASF for chrome tape and is opting for a cheaper brand of conventional ferric oxide tape .
27 In addition TML is devoting 8.8% of its total wage bill to training and is cooperating in a major programme with the national and regional governments which has provided 2,000 to 4,000 people with new jobs or skills .
28 It has been conducting an urgent review of the way it manages its affairs and is embarking upon a further review of the number and function of its various committees .
29 A urinary catheter had been inserted and was draining into a sealed drainage system .
30 She was also very hungry and was drinking from a muddy puddle .
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