Example sentences of "[noun] and [be] [v-ing] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The workforce is currently completing work on a 32-house site off Newport Road for the Cleveland and Teeside Housing Association and is working with Middlesbrough Council to construct 60 more homes for sale on a site within the council 's City Challenge area . |
| 2 | Dr Ali had put both his index fingers in his ears and was rocking backwards and forwards in his chair . |
| 3 | Lit claims to have become chairman of four companies which control between them 45 per cent of Spectrum 's stock and is pledging to fight Harmony Investments to the end . |
| 4 | An enquiry of the publisher might furnish you with material for another item ( with another cartoon , please , e.g. of the one with the girl who has collected toadstools and is saying scornfully to her friend who has gathered mushrooms : ‘ Dump those , they 're harmless ’ ) . |
| 5 | San Jose , California-based 3C , now trafficking as Super Workstation with ex-Sony VP Mike Hilgenberg in as president , claims it is making the LSI/Sbus-based CPU and frame buffer boards for Goldstar 's Sparcettes in the US and shipping them to Korea for final assembly : it also says it 's planning a Viking-based add-in card and is designing its own Sbus/Mbus 24-bit and 32-bit graphics accelerators . |
| 6 | Jon Marchant , Granada 's sponsorship controller , was a principal negotiator on the PowerGen deal and is drawing up ITV 's plan to put next year 's World Cup sponsorship out to tender . |
| 7 | Lindner thought he was on his way to Headingley on a similar deal and was expecting a contract to be faxed to him yesterday . |
| 8 | The reason , Time explained , is that women under the age of 30 picture a feminist , to quote one college senior , as ‘ someone who does n't shave her legs and is doing everything she can to deny that she is feminine ’ . |
| 9 | The matron had told him that they had removed one of my legs and were going to have the other one off the following day . |
| 10 | Francis also plucked Penrice and Martyn from non-League football and is getting almost blase by the attention his players attract from the bigger clubs . |
| 11 | Harrison had increased speed and was edging a little to the east . |
| 12 | Despite the persistence of huge environmental problems , Western donors and lending institutions are financing only projects that give a good return on investment and are expecting Eastern European countries to pay for much of the clean-up themselves . |
| 13 | He works as a packer and is training towards becoming a final examiner . |
| 14 | When I entered our room I found Mum had down two more vases and was sorting out a pile of pawn tickets . |
| 15 | The Party had supported Labour candidates and was calling for the return of a Labour Government . |
| 16 | On the other hand , when it has passed the source of the waves and is travelling away the other side , the frequency with which it bobs up and down will obviously go down . |
| 17 | The company said its Manchester-based television firm was well placed to recapture its franchise in the coming auction and is seeking overseas TV opportunities . |
| 18 | More recently , Jourgensen himself told a journalist : ‘ I read somewhere that I had contracted AIDS and was visiting a Mexican treatment centre . ’ |
| 19 | Farmer , Robert Wallace has re-stocked a private woodland with the animals and is raising them for their meat . |
| 20 | ’ But Aunt Louise had closed her eyes and was pretending to be asleep . |
| 21 | Fitzosbert , however , had already dismissed him with a flicker of his eyes and was staring coolly at Sir John as if to prove he was not cowed by any show of authority . |
| 22 | Demobilisation intensified the overstocking of the trade , and by 1818 the depressed weavers were claiming earnings had fallen to as little as 5s ( 25p ) a week for a journeyman and were asking " whether such a paltry sum be sufficient to keep the soul and body together " . |
| 23 | The Eighth Army had suffered a crushing defeat and was digging in along the Alamein line , only sixty miles to the west of the Nile . |
| 24 | Following the debates Bush appeared to step back from further character attacks on Clinton , a development which led to speculation that he had already privately accepted the inevitability of his defeat and was seeking to preserve a degree of presidential dignity . |
| 25 | A while later Pip is told he has a mysterious benefactor and is going to be very well off , by a London Lawyer , Jaggers . |
| 26 | There was no immediate sign of an answer , but after Creggan had given up any hope of a reply and was looking at the path lights beginning to come on in the Park outside the Zoo there was a subtle shift of talons in Slorne 's cage , a gentle shift of wings , the swiftest of meek glances , and Creggan , too late to catch the look full on , yet sensed that in her mute way Slorne was saying ‘ Yes , oh yes , you were right to predict her return ’ This knowledge that another eagle there believed his prediction had been right gave Creggan comfort in those first weeks in the Cages . |
| 27 | We are very sorry we have caused any inconvenience to club and are hoping E McCormick accepts this letter of apology on our behalf club and puts it down to a mis-understanding by his supporters . |
| 28 | We have great ambitions for the club and are looking to greater heights . ’ |
| 29 | Jake had risen from his seat and was standing to face her . |
| 30 | Joseph noticed out of the corner of his eye that Khai Dinh had risen from his seat and was walking slowly in his ponderous Ming boots towards the door . |