Example sentences of "[be] [v-ing] [adv prt] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | 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 . |
| 2 | 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 . |
| 3 | 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 . |
| 4 | People will have been queueing up this morning to buy these stamps . |
| 5 | The management has , very decently , been slapping up borrowed works of art . |
| 6 | As for ‘ de-Sovietising ’ their armed forces , the three are drawing up new tous-azimuths defence policies , which identify no single enemy . |
| 7 | We are drawing up another list which includes ICL and Sun . ’ |
| 8 | The pressure which had been building up all weekend was nearing some sort of explosion . |
| 9 | Although some have done this display before , the tension 's been building up all week . |
| 10 | Tension 's been building up all week . |
| 11 | Andrew Holden , joint secretary of the Northern Examining Association , said : ‘ We will be looking at the position and seeing whether we think it is worthwhile to offer a similar scheme or whether we would prefer to cut the general level of fees so that we are competing on even terms . ’ |
| 12 | The North Down skipper reports no new arrivals on the scene and , although Colin Mockford has left to join Holywood , the Harp Senior League champions will have a significant input as Paul Johnston and Kyle Thompson have both been helping out first XI coach Austin Hunter . |
| 13 | Following Rayner 's discovery of such scandals as the laboratory with a 20-year supply of embossing tape , administrators all over the country are rooting out uneconomic practices . |
| 14 | they said they had been bringing in one of their nets , which had seemed very heavy . |
| 15 | ‘ When you are sucking up all that filthy water from the River Orne into your tank , I shall be further along the river bank playing the bagpipes . ’ |
| 16 | So the pair of them have probably been mulling over all the old grievances — in their minds , if not openly . ’ |
| 17 | The Euge boys are whipping up considerable consternation over here largely because , as every single Atlantic Records ' employee is wont to point out , the fella from Nirvana likes ‘ em . |
| 18 | I know Harrods have a good selection and now McCormicks are bringing out many of the American seasonings in their range of spices . |
| 19 | The Yugoslavs are bringing in considerable numbers — partly regulars and partly irregular forces — and repeating the Venezia Giulia tactics . |
| 20 | Whereas now we have put in a culture of performance , measuring against standards , and this year are bringing in performance-related pay . |
| 21 | In consequence , hitherto untouched lands are now being exploited ; and more intense land-use pressures coupled with an increased demand for fuelwood are bringing about environmental change at an unprecedented rate . |
| 22 | Some say it is they who are bringing about these times that are upon us . |
| 23 | ECMT papers report that existing and planned emission controls are bringing about significant reductions in air and noise pollution levels . |
| 24 | Here again , developments in computers are bringing about rapid changes . |
| 25 | recent Government White Papers are bringing about fundamental changes in many areas of further education , the most obvious being the upgrading of polytechnics to university status , together with the disbandment of the Council for National Academic Awards through which polytechnics awarded their degrees . |
| 26 | Falling rolls and rapid technological and social change are bringing about constant adjustments and shifts in the secondary school curriculum , demanding in turn a degree of flexibility and adaptability on the part of the teaching force . |
| 27 | ‘ We 've been walking around all night . |
| 28 | ‘ But if you look at their records they have been knocking over leading Test match sides in this way for years . |
| 29 | I 've actually read it three timesThe idea was born in an Oxford workshop where David Pollard and Susan Nelson have been knocking out printed copies and computer discs since April . |
| 30 | Who 's been tearing up all the newspaper that the wet wellies were on ? |