Example sentences of "[pron] [be] [v-ing] in [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Assistant Chief Environmental Health Officer , John Copley , says people in Oxford have much less of a chance of receiving help than those in other cities , even though some of them are living in appalling conditions . |
| 2 | I am thinking in particular of the spirit that came upon Saul and drove him mad ( 1 Sam 16:14–23 ) . |
| 3 | I am thinking in particular of the return of those who have been forced to flee abroad , such as Mr. Oginga Odinga , free access to the press , access to the media generally during the campaign , and some form of international supervision by monitors such as those under the auspices of the Commonwealth Parliamentary Association . |
| 4 | I am thinking in particular of disabled students and students with children . |
| 5 | But whereas Eleanor Bowen once used drawing as a means of recording for posterity what was immediately in front of her eyes , I am thinking in particular of those powerfully smudged charcoal drawings of the interior of Darlington Railway Station nowadays she goes far beyond this to evoke the feelings of considerable ill and unease . |
| 6 | I 'm thinking in particular about the end of the solo on Do n't Stop and the solo on The Chain , both from ‘ Rumours ’ . |
| 7 | I mean I think that it 's erm a good idea for members to see what firemen and I 'm thinking in particular really of fire fight fighters I should n't say firemen , fire fighters , we 've got ladies , erm , who are retained and can be at their du place of work one minute , and twenty minutes afterwards they 've got to face up to ho horrendous sights , erm , it must have a tr traumatic effect on them . |
| 8 | I 'm prowling in other words , by using a lot of words ! |
| 9 | ‘ No , except that I 'm engaging in prurient speculation about Gooseneck and Sunil and whether they 're having an affair . |
| 10 | My legs have split wide open and I 'm paddling in warm liquid … sweet Jesus ! my trainers are full of blood . |
| 11 | By Manchester Monday I 'm sitting in Dry surprised to discover that that was only their second gig , and there are only five of them — Tony , Phil and Richard , who are mostly responsible for the music , guitarist Paul , and vocalist Theresa — when live it sounds like at least 20 keyboards going down at once . |
| 12 | My feet almost disappeared in it ; it looked as if I were paddling in muddy water . |
| 13 | On one occasion I was breaking in new territory in Lincolnshire and my fellow ‘ artiste ’ — a male singer who shall remain nameless — moved in on me . |
| 14 | I was growing in emotional courage , and I had the rather wry thought that Leslie would have been proud of me . |
| 15 | And that was I it was , as I was saying in early January . |
| 16 | I was climbing in low gear , my eyes searching the vehicle and the bank behind it for any sign of movement . |
| 17 | The anguish of American astronomers reflects the two current trends in space science which are pulling in opposite directions . |
| 18 | Some of those held on remand will be found not guilty and a significant proportion do not receive custodial sentences when their case is finally heard — points not lost on the government , which is investing in additional bail hostels , special bail information schemes run by the probation service and , more controversially , pilot schemes malting use of electronic ‘ tagging ’ equipment ; these are all ways , it is hoped , to reduce what many see as an unnecessary and wasteful use of prison resources . |
| 19 | It is precisely this sense of legitimacy which is lacking in capitalist societies today . |
| 20 | It is precisely this which is lacking in normal mourning , which is otherwise the closest approximation to clinical depression , and , as we can now see , constitutes the central pathological process both in the latter and in its collective , externalized equivalent , the melancholy of socialism : |
| 21 | ‘ More quantifiably , there 's been a significant improvement in productivity and activity out of a budget which is increasing in real terms but not by much . |
| 22 | Yeah but I agree totally with what , and the other lady has just said , but the other thing is is the amount of money that is spent when , you know , someone royal is coming for a visit because all of a sudden , you know , you have people in this country who are living in absolute poverty and yet because the royal sort of erm limousine is going past erm , for a few seconds where they stay all of a sudden the front of the house is painted ! |
| 23 | For now , many companies are offering optional metering and some — those who are living in high ratable properties and do n't use much water , for example — this can be a way to cut down costs . |
| 24 | Whether this policy can be continued for much longer in the face of the decline in scruples shown by the large drug syndicates who are raking in huge profits from sales of cannabis , heroin and cocaine , remains to be seen . |
| 25 | This assumption , although seemingly suboptimal , is consistent with the behaviour of individuals who are searching in static and stationary environment but are revising their reservation wages in the light of unanticipated changes ( see van den Berg , 1990b ) . |
| 26 | We want to stress that the term ’ minority ’ is in no way a reference to the importance of the work carried out by health visitors and nurses in the community , such as district nurses , community psychiatric nurses , school nurses , residential care nurses , occupational health nurses , practice nurses , nurse practitioners as well as those nurses who are working in terminal care . |
| 27 | How can we appeal to part time workers and convince them that we can change things for the better , many of whom are home workers who are working in appalling conditions and often for less than fifty pence an hour ? |
| 28 | we pray for those who are working in other churches in other parts of the world today . |
| 29 | While I have deliberately exaggerated this example to illustrate the emergence of a pattern or theme , there are a large number of people in our society who would satisfy two-thirds of these items and who are working in large structured organizations in which their search for predictability is reinforced on a daily basis . |
| 30 | If you are scratching in weak lift , you may be able to see which way you have drifted after a few circles . |