Example sentences of "[be] [v-ing] [adv] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | It does seem an anachronism that the Australian government could in theory be sacked by the Queen in London , particularly as both countries are devoting much greater attention to their regional interests . |
| 2 | Companies are devoting very low attention — at least in terms of money — to controlling investment ’ . |
| 3 | That is one reason why companies like ICI and IBM are building up comprehensive communications programmes , internal as well as external which involve listening just as much as talking . |
| 4 | By the stage we define broadly as intermediate , learners are some way towards developing control of the language they are learning : their store of language has grown to a point where they can adapt , adjust and add to it with some facility ; they can transfer language use from one context to another ; they are building up more complex networks of language and the work we do in the classroom at this level is similarly more complex and less controlled . |
| 5 | Perhaps it is because the fishermen have been demonstrating so much recently that they have not been catching so much fish . ’ |
| 6 | Industrial and commercial groups are also paying dearly for their rash incursion into property , futures and other financial instruments during the late 1980s : the banks that advised and funded them are faring even worse . |
| 7 | You 've just been seeing too many films . |
| 8 | These are proving particularly popular with younger disabled people , and a special hoist is available to lift people from wheelchair into boat if needed . |
| 9 | One species with whom CAD systems from Random Access are proving particularly popular is the ‘ Architectus Progressus ’ . |
| 10 | This information suggests Clios are proving particularly popular with women and professional people . |
| 11 | OATS ' two LOFT ( Line Orientated Flight Training ) simulators are proving increasingly popular with airlines . |
| 12 | Even though they may only flower once a century , these plants are proving increasingly popular with gardeners and landscapers throughout Europe . |
| 13 | Its reforms have not failed , but they are proving terribly painful . |
| 14 | Combinations of polymeric bisguanide and benzalkonium chloride , with the synergistic effect of an organic sequestering agent EDTA , are proving highly effective when used bonded onto a non woven applicator . |
| 15 | ESSEX University 's first day schools this month are proving highly popular . |
| 16 | And , as the Canadian writer Eric Downton put it in 1986 , ‘ societies with Confucian-Buddhist roots are proving more effective in coping with the industrial and technological challenges on the eve of the twenty-first century than [ are those countries with a ] predominantly Christian-Hebraic heritage . ’ |
| 17 | I hope that even at this late stage Labour will support the GPs ' contract , GP fundholding and NHS trust status for hospitals , all of which are proving so successful . |
| 18 | Such technology , coupled to advances such as ‘ embryo sexing ’ and ‘ embryo splitting ’ which are proving so useful in cattle breeding could bring livestock prices down and encourage the adoption of these majestic mammals . |
| 19 | Being screened in Barcelona five days a week — in Catalan — the old Street shows are proving so popular that Granada are now hoping to sell further programmes to the rest of Spain . |
| 20 | One response to this affront is to erect an alternative system of belief ; to fabricate another , esoteric world of ideas that seems to challenge and in turn to trivialise the ideas that are proving so bothersome . |
| 21 | Brewery leases are proving extremely popular , according to agent Christie & Co It has revealed around 850 applications for new leases over the last two months and according to Paul Newman of the company 's leasing division ‘ unlike other business sectors there is a strong demand for them . ’ |
| 22 | Cost-improvement programmes , which are meant to generate internal savings , are proving far harder to deliver , finance officers say . |
| 23 | In some cases joint ventures between the private sector and the NHS are succeeding in taking on areas which are proving too costly or cumbersome for the NHS alone . |
| 24 | . with a little help from her new friends who are proving very protective towards the brave youngster . |
| 25 | Panchromatic and false-colour infrared images , registered to the British National Grid , are proving very effective for the interpretation of both regional structures and geomorphology ( see frontispiece ) . |
| 26 | The lessons are proving very popular , especially with business men and women who say it 's the ideal way to relieve tension after a hard day in the office . |
| 27 | The tours are proving very popular . |
| 28 | Future generations are likely to deplore the way current societies are allowing so much of their heritage to be destroyed without record . |
| 29 | When they have been eating out all the time they have been away , and are longing for an evening at home , the suggestion does not go down well . |
| 30 | During the 20th century the average person in Western society has been eating too much fat and too little fibre . |