Example sentences of "[n mass] [modal v] be [v-ing] " in BNC.
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| 1 | It is feared that the walrus may be replacing the elephant as a source of black market ivory , since the trade in elephant tusks comes under tighter international control . |
| 2 | Some of the world 's finest vintage aircraft will be taking to the skies at a display this weekend . |
| 3 | Four hundred aircraft will be flying in for the International Air Tattoo at R-A-F Fairford , the biggest airshow in the world . |
| 4 | Each aircraft will be acting as an extra set of eyes for the other in an attempt to see before being seen . |
| 5 | FLIGHT attendants on some US passenger aircraft will be sitting pretty this summer — on new lightweight seats supplied by Courtaulds and McDonnell Douglas . |
| 6 | The data can be revealing : one technique which has been used by HMI is to follow two classes in a given year group : the one with the highest attendance and the one with the lowest . |
| 7 | In an environment where the data can be coming from ATs , PCs or portables the DaynaFile is obviously going to be the better solution and it has the added benefit of being portable between systems which is not true for the Apple unit . |
| 8 | ‘ I guess these folk must be dying for a cool drink and some cookies , right ? ’ |
| 9 | what other types of folk would be coming up Glen Ayloch |
| 10 | ‘ The river folk will be expecting much of you . ’ |
| 11 | Its American offspring will be recruiting distributors and resellers . |
| 12 | Also , he attests , the cost of running Unix systems increases year by year — although the price of MIPS may be going down , users need more MIPS to perform more sophisticated jobs . |
| 13 | It was also announced that volunteers from the US Peace Corps would be going to the Baltic states . |
| 14 | $4m will be going into the Columbian world fair at Seville ; the Dominican Republic is hoping to build a 390-foot lighthouse for $10m ; 12 full-size replica ships will be setting sail for America ( presumably from their commissioning countries ) , and the fifth Genovese Columbian conference will be exhibiting every plant of the New World . |
| 15 | On mild autumn days , pond fish will be feeding enthusiastically , building up their fat reserves . |
| 16 | Not only is the water cloudy from dirt , but the fish will be excreting ammonia which is poisoning them . |
| 17 | By the sheer variety of ‘ food material ’ it is logical to conclude that in a natural ( and unpolluted ) environment a fish will be gaining all the benefits of a ‘ balanced diet ’ . |
| 18 | So your fish will be dashing towards us and our fish will be dashing towards you . |
| 19 | So your fish will be dashing towards us and our fish will be dashing towards you . |
| 20 | As fish are sinking back through the surface , other fish will be appearing through it , so that there is constant activity . |
| 21 | They 're asked to make two still images showing what the townspeople might be feeling at this moment — first , about their success in getting the railway to the town , and secondly , about what they have done to the old man , who is now homeless . |
| 22 | I wondered for a moment about this strange near-miss , and what a trout might be doing crossing the road , until I saw a fisherman standing aside , who can only have dropped his slippery catch on the roadway and was waiting to recapture it . |
| 23 | The Japanese with just under 30% will be chasing the lead hard , but above average growth in Germany , helped by the stimulus of unification , will keep Europe in the lead . |
| 24 | The counsellor of older people may be bringing together several of these open family systems ; the system formed by the older person , and the systems formed by one or more of their children . |
| 25 | The predominance of secure full-time jobs gave way under pressure of high unemployment , weakened trade unions , rising female employment , and the removal of labour market restrictions , to a more flexible workforce , which we can categorize as comprising part-time workers ( conventionally defined as undertaking less than 30 hours per week ) , home workers or home-based workers , temporary staff , and the self-employed ( frequently undertaking work sub-contracted from normal employers ) ; some of these people may be undertaking a ‘ second job ’ in addition to their main one . |
| 26 | There is one community that is chortling to itself over IBM Corp 's worldwide shredding of its mainframe price list , and that is the big leasing companies : while any prudent data processing manager has to call in Amdahl Corp , Hitachi Data Systems Ltd and Comparex Informationssysteme GmbH to be sure that the bid is n't a rip-off , there is still the nagging doubt that other people may be getting much better deals from IBM , and the only community that sees a wide variety of deals going down is the leasing fraternity , and the big ones say their people have n't been so busy in ages ; the effect of all this is to stretch out the buying process by weeks , to the likely detriment of the IBM first quarter figures . |
| 27 | In Great Britain 50,000 people use sign language as their main language , but as many as half a million people may be hearing impaired . |
| 28 | People may be projecting the present into the past , re-evaluating the past on the basis of the present , or being influenced by some broader underlying general forces of optimism and pessimism . |
| 29 | Phillipson summarises American research which indicates that elderly people may be turning away from informal care based on kinship towards formal professional support . |
| 30 | It is hard to disregard the problem in light of the 1992 OPCS national research findings that up to 400,000 elderly people may be suffering from this type of abuse , and the stress in the community care legislation on maintaining elderly people in their own homes . |