Example sentences of "[vb mod] [be] [v-ing] [n mass] " in BNC.
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| 1 | He feels that the church should be helping people overcome problems rather than making money through showing the church to tourists or buying paintings . |
| 2 | Instead we should be giving people information so they can make their own decisions ’ . |
| 3 | We do feel that erm as a City Councillor we should be enabling people to find the homes of their choice . |
| 4 | Important , but hardly the mass-market product IBM must be hoping for . |
| 5 | After all , the present recession must be driving people to drink . ’ |
| 6 | In an economy where manufacturing accounts for less and less employment , ‘ post-industrial ’ values might be raising people 's hopes for fulfilling work . |
| 7 | In no time at all , I was saying ‘ Around 5ft 10in ’ and , if I do n't put a halt to it , by Easter I 'll be topping 6ft and playing basketball . |
| 8 | Experienced sailors enjoy the persistence of the winds , but most of the time they 'll be using 6m sails . |
| 9 | Billy Crystal has a perfect wife and beautiful daughter but feels rattrapped trying to support them , Daniel Stern is having an affair with a teenage supermarket assistant and has been reduced to pretending to sleep at social gatherings in order to avoid his nagging wife , and womanising Bruno Kirby has finally tied the knot with a glamorous bimbo half his age ( ‘ soon he 'll be dating sperm ’ , observes Crystal ) and agonises over whether he can stay faithful to her . |
| 10 | I do n't think I 'll be eating fish much longer . |
| 11 | Well the farmers for the last couple of years have been arguing that they want this green rate devalued er to try and bring it line more with the market rate er and what this would do would er increase our guaranteed prices in this country and in fact on Friday this happened er the green rate was devalued by 60%. er and so I 've done a few calculations er and for the farmers that are listening and er may understand this er if he was selling his grain in November 89 he would be getting about £99 a ton , whilst if he sells it in November this year he 'll be getting £110 a ton . |
| 12 | I worked it out — I 'd be receiving £21 a week , a living wage . |
| 13 | It is certainly impossible to describe with any confidence developments that may be affecting multimedia information systems by the turn of the century . |
| 14 | Some hospital trusts in the inner cities may be shedding staff , but others in the suburbs and the shires are recruiting new staff and cutting waiting-lists . |
| 15 | For instance , the keyboard player may be using £5,000 worth of state-of-the-art technology while the bass guitarist is playing through a tired old AC30 . |
| 16 | Alix Parlour , chief lawyer in Asia for Microsoft , a computer software company , thinks her company may be losing $150m a year in potential sales in Asia . |
| 17 | But it is well known that the provision of advice services nationally is uneven and as the best.known generalist advice agency , the CAB feels that it would be failing the wider community if it did not consider what barriers may be preventing people from approaching a CAB for advice . |
| 18 | Acting US Secretary of State Lawrence Eagleburger said that the USA would be sending $274 million in food and medical aid to the former Soviet Union to help the countries through the winter , with a further $138 million promised in other loans and assistance programmes . |
| 19 | The Secretary of State is aware that had the Government not broken the link between the rise in pensions and the rise in earnings , the single pensioner would be receiving £14 more a week and a couple £24 more a week . |
| 20 | Building societies in particular have been reluctant to contribute , though I was delighted to see that the Nationwide Building Society recently announced that it would be donating £345,000 to the London Money Support Unit . ’ |
| 21 | It remains the situation that if we had not altered the income tax regime that we inherited when we came to office , and if we had merely indexed the rates and allowances , the average family would be paying £1,200 more in income tax . |
| 22 | Well , I would have thought Traidcraft would be paying people would n't you ? |
| 23 | It 's hard to see what on earth the Ingard group would be paying £300,000 to Osnafeld for . |
| 24 | SDLP councillor Dermot Curran , disagreeing with the idea of a barricade , commented : ‘ We would be imprisoning people which would be the wrong thing to do . ’ |
| 25 | In any case , the price of food in that year , in the aftermath of a very bad harvest , had soared abruptly : Charles Titford , your friendly butcher and cheesemonger , would be charging 7d. per pound for pork in March , 1800 , as against 4½d. in January ; his cheese would now cost you 7d. per pound , against 5d. in January . |
| 26 | The cashier eventually broke down and confessed that he had accidentally killed Mr Dwerringhouse knowing that he would be carrying £70,000 . |
| 27 | You will be buying fish that have been fully acclimatised to the British seasons , and which are long past the ailments associated with new imports . |
| 28 | Sequent Computer Systems Inc figures it will be seeing $30m over the next eight years from selling its Symmetry 2000/750 and 450 machines to the US Department of Veteran Affairs as part of a multi-vendor team led by systems integrator Federal Data Corporation . |
| 29 | And too often erm you know when you 're dealing with , with other companies , cos remember the people you 're seeing will be seeing people from other companies , they will overlook it as well whereas if you take it into account they will be impressed . |
| 30 | To that end we will be providing staff with up to date factual information , often through managers , who can keep staff briefed and explain the implications of the changes , not only for their hospital but for them individually . |