Example sentences of "[conj] [be] [v-ing] [adj] " in BNC.
Next page| No | Sentence |
|---|---|
| 1 | Many head teachers are embarking on marketing courses , in the hope that they can learn the skills required to ‘ sell ’ their schools to parents , or are persuading governing bodies to co-opt persons with this area of expertise . |
| 2 | If readers have any knowledge of good practice , or are undertaking similar research I would be glad to hear . |
| 3 | Do n't be too quick to condemn or criticise people you think are up to no good or are getting special treatment for one reason or another . |
| 4 | Do n't be too quick to condemn or criticise people you think are up to no good or are getting special treatment for one reason or another . |
| 5 | where the goods are perishable or are doing considerable damage to the land and it is impossible to communicate speedily enough with the occupier or his agent ) . |
| 6 | There is nothing more galling , if you care passionately about something or are feeling angry or upset , to be told to ‘ Be reasonable . ’ |
| 7 | In Britain surgeons and theatre staff rarely wear eye protection unless they wear glasses for their eyesight or are treating high risk patients . |
| 8 | None of the patients , however , were overtly diabetic , had clinical steatorrhoea , or were taking pancreatic enzyme supplements . |
| 9 | Patients who had undergone previous gastric surgery , or were taking cytotoxic drugs or prednisolone at a dose greater than 5 mg each day were excluded . |
| 10 | Many of the rebels , after a planned night attack had been called off at the last minute , had gone off into Inverness in search of food or were sleeping exhausted , unwilling to be roused , when news arrived of Cumberland 's approach . |
| 11 | The main problems seem to come when the foreground application program has control over the keyboard or is using large chunks of memory to mimic the screen . |
| 12 | It is their actions , and reports like this , that are discouraging new business and investment in our town . ’ |
| 13 | No but I mean , the there 's but there 's a lot of people , you see when you say they 're not easily persuaded that are working class that are voting Tory and they 're not easily persuaded they cha |
| 14 | Now 's the time to lift , divide and replant overgrown pond plants that are looking unhealthy . |
| 15 | Over the years indiscriminate dumping has resulted in a large number of environmentally dangerous sites that are leaking toxic and hazardous chemicals . |
| 16 | The aim of the project is to identify and analyse , in case study form , certain significant contemporary developments that are affecting plant-level industrial relations in the engineering industry . |
| 17 | Again , this is no great surprise , as many countries that are enjoying politically-based rejuvenation perform miracles : Germany , Japan and South Korea are three prime examples ; two are currently the most successful economies in the world . |
| 18 | Not least , they serve as a warning to firms that are building dominant positions in markets that their conduct is likely to be scrutinized if their market share crosses a given threshold . |
| 19 | We are participating in a number of oil and motor industry programmes that are addressing key environmental issues in our markets . |
| 20 | You should see the ramshackle buses with boiling radiators that are tackling private road traffic . |
| 21 | They have access to the villages that have been bombed and can see that civilian targets have been hit by Turkish air force planes that are bombing northern Iraq . |
| 22 | On the other hand we know there are some churches that are finding great difficulty in meeting er , what they 've said they can |
| 23 | They 're finished , of course , now , but there will be others — others that are lyin' low fur the moment . |
| 24 | I would like to ask , why , when there co-operation at the , the Strathclyde bus company they have buses that are running choc-a-block constantly full , but then again suddenly a bus that does n't pay its full way is taken off and people that are dependant on that bus are left without any transport , why ca n't the busy bus subsidise the bus that is n't ? , because after it its public transport , so is it a complete and utter profit that the buses are running for or is it for the convenience of the public ? because it is |
| 25 | In sectors that are suffering long-term or cyclical decline , arguments are often made for ‘ crisis ’ or ‘ recession ’ cartels , to prevent the scrapping of capacity that will remain viable in the longer term , and to ensure that contraction of the industry occurs in an orderly manner . |
| 26 | The first pictures encountered by the youngest readers ( and the youngest readers will be very young : ‘ Ideally , a small pile of good books awaits the new baby 's arrival ’ according to Dorothy Butler , 1980 , p.27 ) will be simple , clear pictures of objects to be seen in the reader 's immediate world , objects that are becoming familiar in real life . |
| 27 | Estimates of the extent of desertification vary ; the Gaia atlas of planet management ( Myers 1985 ) , for example , suggests that c. 10 per cent of the 700 million people that inhabit the arid and semi-arid zones are living in areas that are becoming impoverished and that c. 12 million ha of land are degraded annually to such an extent that they are agriculturally unproductive . |
| 28 | The idea , he says , is to buy American companies that are going bankrupt because their competitors are in Asia . |
| 29 | DEC will target Japan as a growing market for networked computer systems and a source of strategic alliances , Reuter reports from Tokyo : ‘ Japan is a critically important market to Digital Equipment , ’ president and chief executive Robert Palmer said at an exposition of DEC products in the city ; Kubota Corp has already said it will use DEC 's Alpha chip in its workstations and rumours naming Japanese companies that are planning Alpha-based links with DEC have appeared in the Japanese business press . |
| 30 | Er , it does n't mean that we 're wrong , there are some categories of advertising er , that are showing slight signs and others that are not . |