Example sentences of "[noun] that [be] [v-ing] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | If we continue to ignore these people , especially the young , we may be fighting them in the near fu future as they are actively being targeted by the far right British National Party and other fascist organizations that are using this sense of desertion . |
| 2 | We 've done a profile of the courses and guess what they all happen in the school holidays , so this is n't , this is n't over yet in fact for all the user groups , for you , the clubs and the organizations , it really does need a push from you , you must by and large are the deci decision makers , the club officers and I would ask you urgently whether or whether or not your clubs already got its name on the list , to actually support the people within your club that are laying these things on . |
| 3 | Such an aspiration prevailed among some geographers at least partly unaware of first , the revival of interest in human activity ; secondly , the focus in physical geography research upon the magnitude of human impact ; and thirdly , the hazard research that was facilitating closer links between physical and human geography although these links did not impress Johnston ( 1983c ) . |
| 4 | Trainer Kim Bailey has managed to keep the strapping chaser away from the coughing that is affecting some of his stable companions . |
| 5 | Nought but a rabble he had gathered together on the fair island that lies to the east — of buccaneers and booty hunters and ruffianly runaways from the slaveships that are plying these waters most usefully . |
| 6 | The sight of another horse , especially a friend , will calm and reassure a horse that is feeling anxious or frightened . |
| 7 | And I would have thought us giving five percent and , and there are other provinces that are giving more will ensure at least the the on twelve thousand we pay next year and therefore , starting with eleven and half thousand we paid this year and that provinces and in ourselves went further than that it is possible . |
| 8 | In sectors that are suffering long-term or cyclical decline , arguments are often made for ‘ crisis ’ or ‘ recession ’ cartels , to prevent the scrapping of capacity that will remain viable in the longer term , and to ensure that contraction of the industry occurs in an orderly manner . |
| 9 | It was a fiction that was becoming threadbare in the spring months of 1989 . |
| 10 | So far , the Saudi government has invested £10 billion through an oil-for-arms linked payment arrangement for a contract that is protecting 30,000 defence jobs in Britain . |
| 11 | The first area , which will be no surprise to readers of The Bookseller , is the mind-boggling rate of change that is affecting all businesses at the present time . |
| 12 | I thought of all the warm beds that I could have been in and I kneaded my fingers that were going numb with cold . |
| 13 | Or perhaps it was his fingers that were having that effect . |
| 14 | are subsidizing the rich to buy houses that are becoming cheaper onto the market |
| 15 | Is it simply a transfer from the customer 's bank account to building society account of money that was lying idle ? |
| 16 | We are participating in a number of oil and motor industry programmes that are addressing key environmental issues in our markets . |
| 17 | Once she had thought he was coming in her direction and her heart had begun to pump with excitement but he had walked straight past , heading for the bar that was selling soft drinks only ( with a crate of beer hidden under the counter for the benefit of the band ) . |
| 18 | Over the years indiscriminate dumping has resulted in a large number of environmentally dangerous sites that are leaking toxic and hazardous chemicals . |
| 19 | Stuck in the middle of some crazy loser 's dream that 's coming true . ’ |
| 20 | Estimates of the extent of desertification vary ; the Gaia atlas of planet management ( Myers 1985 ) , for example , suggests that c. 10 per cent of the 700 million people that inhabit the arid and semi-arid zones are living in areas that are becoming impoverished and that c. 12 million ha of land are degraded annually to such an extent that they are agriculturally unproductive . |
| 21 | Again , this is no great surprise , as many countries that are enjoying politically-based rejuvenation perform miracles : Germany , Japan and South Korea are three prime examples ; two are currently the most successful economies in the world . |
| 22 | But there are very real changes in attitude that are compounding this change of approach . |
| 23 | The idea , he says , is to buy American companies that are going bankrupt because their competitors are in Asia . |
| 24 | DEC will target Japan as a growing market for networked computer systems and a source of strategic alliances , Reuter reports from Tokyo : ‘ Japan is a critically important market to Digital Equipment , ’ president and chief executive Robert Palmer said at an exposition of DEC products in the city ; Kubota Corp has already said it will use DEC 's Alpha chip in its workstations and rumours naming Japanese companies that are planning Alpha-based links with DEC have appeared in the Japanese business press . |
| 25 | Whether we could look at our contract and see if this could be because mentioned about grass on the pavements , not only is it the machine that 's doing that , but there 's a danger to young children from the machines they 're using and elderly people with pavements being very very slippery once they 're doing the grass if it 's raining . |
| 26 | Well as I say I went out and erm I thought , well Jill phoned and she said at the time my mum had got a boy that was sleeping rough down the sandpits . |
| 27 | This was the same youngsters that were playing two years ago . |
| 28 | Oh , I was n't and erm , the next thing I know I 've nearly fucking been bowled over , sort of the bags in fucking look behind me , so those two fucking bought the bags back down fucking legs and I 've just caught this like running round another , another thing , I thought oh fucking little kid , the next thing I know there 's another one gone pass me like , taken the bags , the handles out of the plastic bags , fucking and it was a girl that was going first this time , so I and sure enough there was a little fucking brat boy coming again , so I just went flying he sort of looked up at me and rubbed his eye like that and carried on running after the . |
| 29 | I was left on a piece of ice that was becoming smaller all the time . |
| 30 | Being a member of the senior team that 's addressing those issues I think gives me a much broader job than I would otherwise have continued to enjoy . ’ |