Example sentences of "[be] [v-ing] [prep] [det] " in BNC.
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| 1 | We are building on this . |
| 2 | Two developments are , firstly , that we are adopting a modular system , which we feel gives our students greater flexibility and , secondly , that through the Enterprise in Higher Education Initiative , we are building into all our modules transferable skills such as team building and presentation . |
| 3 | So we , we are not just creating capitalism per se we are building in that direction er but there will be elements of socialism there which we can then build on and take us forward . |
| 4 | Ferrin , the Northern Ireland 10,000 metres champion , has been impressing in half marathons recently and although he only finished third at Ballyclare he has the pedigree to sustain a challenge from early in the race . |
| 5 | In an editorial statement later this morning , Akira Kobayashi , the Chief Executive Officer of GenTech East , will explain how unreasonable and inefficient the Soviets are proving on this issue . |
| 6 | He is perfectly right that in recent years we have been eating into that principle , but if we continue to do so , the principle will go , and that is the civil liberties issue which the system of justice has always been anxious to maintain . |
| 7 | ‘ So many runners are depending on this race to qualify for the Olympics , especially the Portuguese , who have been in invincible form in half-marathons , and I would not be surprised if the winner is someone no one has heard of . ’ |
| 8 | As a director of public health , and having been chief officer to a health authority for some 17 years and having experienced more reorganisations than I care to remember , I can see the career turbulence that the current reforms are producing for some senior doctors in public health medicine . |
| 9 | I am convinced that stuff had been accumulating for many years in this cellar and that Ernest Griffiths had no idea what was in there . |
| 10 | Indications of Mr Mandela 's growing political stature in the eyes of the government have been accumulating for some time . |
| 11 | Many of them are farming for little more than the subsidies . |
| 12 | We have been forecasting for some time that the future of applications development would become the linking of objects , and that the keys to the kingdom would be held by the companies that sold the best objects , and Novell Inc seems to think so too . |
| 13 | We have been forecasting for some time that the future of applications development would become the linking of objects , and that the keys to the kingdom would be held by the companies that sold the best objects , and Novell Inc seems to think so too . |
| 14 | This was the moment Lynch had been building for all his life . |
| 15 | In his own way , Ted had been building for this moment too . |
| 16 | In his search he was aided by a number of new roads which the Mexican government has been building in this area to open up new regions to cultivation . |
| 17 | It makes it easier , in principle , to ‘ see ’ how many hypotheses are competing for some portion of an utterance , for example , and to decide which are the most promising given the evidence . |
| 18 | The gap in the ESP market has always been at the lower end , and a number of other publishers are catering for this . |
| 19 | Bernard and Laura escaped on to their sailing boat for much of the summer , a yacht they had been enjoying for some years now , and they pottered around Mykonos in Greece . |
| 20 | Nurses who have been nursing for some time are likely to have reached the stage where much of what they do has become automatic , that is , carried out without conscious thought or awareness . |
| 21 | We are helping with some specific problems that will occur in the run-down , such as the expansion of the former military hospital at Dharan . |
| 22 | They have prepared me well , supported me through university , taught me the difference between right and wrong , so that I know which I am enjoying at any given time ! |
| 23 | Where the tucks occur , the stitches that are knitting on each side are pulled upwards , out of shape . |
| 24 | It is thus possible that , just as we are suggesting for some of the other finds at Mycenae , it was taken from Knossos : if so , the implication is that other pieces of statuary and relief carving from Minoan Knossos were also removed — by some Mycenean equivalent of Lord Elgin , perhaps . |
| 25 | Now are you seeing the increase that the national statistics are suggesting in this area ? |
| 26 | Children who are struggling at this level will also have problems in grasping more complex aspects of text construction , such as the shifts of voice studied in this paper . |
| 27 | But they know they are struggling for both Wimbledon stars and now Ferguson has become their top target . |
| 28 | ‘ We know that hospital caterers are struggling with some severe economic constraints , ’ says Roden . |
| 29 | But although it had now been raining for several hours , there was not the least damp or cold either in the deep runs or in the many burrows that they passed . |
| 30 | One indication of that was that at the request of the British , both sides agreed to stop the radio propaganda campaigns they have been waging against each other . |