Example sentences of "[be] [v-ing] [prep] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | It will be drawing on sale catalogues , periodicals and modern books on English furniture . |
| 2 | I shall be suggesting in Part Two that the basic idea of ‘ good ’ and ‘ bad ’ , and of all value , arises similarly from what feels good or bad to us , and that here again this good and bad which is demoted to the role of what only feels so is ultimately the value which is really there in the world , besides which the good and bad of our social construction of reality is only a kind of useful fiction . |
| 3 | It should also be helping with care for pre-school children . |
| 4 | It will be helping with localisation and pushing it on Apple Computer Inc 's Power Book line . |
| 5 | It would actually be competing for development that Selby wants for its own population . |
| 6 | More than a museum devoted to one artist 's work ( like the Museum Picasso , or the Fundació Joan Miró ) , it will be competing for income and audiences with an increasing number of new museums in Barcelona : the stylish Centre d'Art Santa Mònica which cuts a dash on the tourist drag of the Ramblas ; a museum of contemporary art being designed by Richard Meier , to be squeezed into the dense Barri Gotic , as well as the National Museum of Catalan Art up on Montjuic , remodelled by Gae Aulenti , and currently under construction . |
| 7 | Inglewood , California-based Locus Computing Corp , has introduced Transparent Network Computing environment , TNC , the latest incarnation of its transport-independent distributed systems architecture ( UX No 271 ) , which will be competing for space with similar technologies from NobleNet Inc and Covia Technologies Inc ( UX No 395 ) . |
| 8 | You wo n't be competing with video and music stores , but you will be a part of the information base of the high street . |
| 9 | Members of the British sand yachting team will be competing in craft capable of reaching speeds of 80mph . |
| 10 | York residents would be competing against West Yorkshire residents . |
| 11 | If he is and if he can prove that Luke and Sonny and the other three were the guilty ones , then he wo n't be goin' to prison alone . |
| 12 | The tombs of Tuna- el-Gebel , the ancient necropolis of Hermopolis a few miles to the west , appeared to be drowning in desert . |
| 13 | Surely , I thought , he can not be reflecting with pleasure on days of danger and incarceration ? |
| 14 | I conceive that the promise would not be binding for want of a previous request by the testator . |
| 15 | Although verbal agreements can be binding in law , they can be difficult to prove in later years , particularly when a new not so friendly neighbour comes on the scene . |
| 16 | The arbitrator 's decision will be given to everyone involved , and will be binding in law . |
| 17 | The arbitrator 's decision will be given to everyone involved and will be binding in law . |
| 18 | Purely procedural rules may be binding by reference to the rules in force at the time when the procedure is applied . |
| 19 | There 's fresh water , and I found some fishing tackle , so with a bit of luck we could be eating in style tonight . ’ |
| 20 | EVERY YEAR the British Film Institute issues a package of British short films by up-and-coming movie-makers , giving you a chance to read for the first time the credits you 'll be seeing on Channel 4 in the next couple of years . |
| 21 | Alice 's heart seemed to be thumping in time with the train wheels as she looked at Harry 's glowing face opposite her . |
| 22 | Jackson , currently embroiled in a child sex scandal in the US , was said to be recovering from dehydration , suffered in the intense heat of Bangkok , his last stop . |
| 23 | Her mam would be singing with tea on the table . |
| 24 | The trunks of the gum trees soared bright pink , the tack room windows flared crimson and all the birds in the world seemed to be singing for joy . |
| 25 | The words of the songs , even given the fact that much is lost in translation , are disappointing ; such is the passion and power of the voices that you feel they must be singing about life and death matters . |
| 26 | The blood in her veins seemed to be singing in fury . |
| 27 | According to the script , after an initial twenty minutes of Anglo-Saxon bombardment , the Turks would be weeping with fear and humiliation , and devoting much of their on-field activities to figuring out ways of being granted political asylum , rather than returning home to their doubtless murderous regime , where they would be summarily sent to work down the sewers for ten years . |
| 28 | ‘ I would n't expect her to be cheering for marriage , ’ Joe said . |
| 29 | He told me he would be phoning in copy to the Sun although , having no sex angle , they might not be interested . |
| 30 | Yet guerrillas fighting in ambush one moment could within the hour be kneeling in church , and the story of these operations , as with all guerrilla campaigns , evolved around the Independent Company 's relationships with the indigenous population . |