Example sentences of "[verb] [noun] [modal v] be [v-ing] " in BNC.
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| 1 | When you so eagerly accepted your first-ever part did you think Mowgli would be wearing a kaftan ? |
| 2 | And by now , the tabloid writers were switching their attention to other male members of the Neighbours cast , and hinting Kylie may be dating them too . |
| 3 | If it is as good as you say employers would be queuing up to get in ! |
| 4 | Starting on Monday April 26 , informed sources say DEC will be laying off 40% of its US sales force , 2,500 people . |
| 5 | @FIRSTPARA = Black children acquiring Creole may be going through a process not of second language acquisition but of new dialect acquisition . |
| 6 | ‘ Jim Mangold will be feeding them now , ’ said Daisy Pettigrew comfortingly , ‘ and I expect Faustina will be getting her share . |
| 7 | I would doubt Ruth will be going . |
| 8 | At such times the special needs teacher will be mediating the tasks , helping the pupils to benefit from the experience and at the same time observing their performance . |
| 9 | I expect Hamish will be writing again pretty soon again too , but here I am sitting at the computer anyway , putting off writing a series of begging letters to friends and connections in various educational and other institutions and organizations asking them to submit to Chambers Harrap ( as we now are ) all partable-with unpublished bumf ( memos , minutes , notices , reports , etc , etc ) to swell the ‘ ephemera ’ ( new stretched meaning ) content of the British National Corpus of English . |
| 10 | the safe , the safety aspect of it and I do n't think you 'll get a true representation of the traffic flows if you did it both together cos like you say people will be diverting |
| 11 | The Greens say BR should be grasping the advantage offered by the expected award of extra European Community cash . |
| 12 | Bolted climbing venues are massively popular , and if Land 's End was bolted-up then climbers and climbing courses would be falling over themselves to get down there . |
| 13 | I expect restaurateurs will be itching to copy Jean-Paul Gaultier 's extraordinary staff uniform with the fork epaulette , but the rest of the details are ingredients for thought only . |
| 14 | An imaginative PRO or press officer will be thinking up new and useful angles for in-depth feature material suitable for specific programmes or publications and will be spending a good proportion of his or her time selling them . |
| 15 | For years to come India will be buying spare parts from abroad . |
| 16 | ‘ So Jozef Taczek will be waiting at seven o'clock for the exercise book and photo , will he ? ’ she asked finally . |
| 17 | THEY are the picture cards wrestling fans will be grappling to get their hands on — and they can be yours absolutely FREE . |
| 18 | Close observers of Microsoft say that what really interest it is the licensing fees it says Sun should be paying . |
| 19 | The latter is an evocative nature ballad and a poignant portrait of the artist at sunset but the forecast says Cash will be mining riches and holding back the black night for many years to come . |
| 20 | As a result , experiments with unsettling implications may be going on behind everyone 's backs . |
| 21 | The Pantasaph Conservation Group says Delyn would be breaking its own policies . |
| 22 | The escape tunnels still exist but the British developers hope people will be queuing to get in , not out . |
| 23 | And when the Ewood Park boss returns to face the Kop with his new club for the first time , Rush says Dalglish will be trying hard to hide his regret . |
| 24 | If that happens Lonrho may be gambling on picking up the betting shop part of the operation for the proverbial song . |
| 25 | The Heritage Secretary Peter Brooke says Britain will be creating millionaires every week when the national lottery starts at the end of next year . |
| 26 | When he came out of the prison-camp at the end of the war , he believed Rosie would be waiting for him and when he could not find her , I think it broke his heart . ’ |
| 27 | He says time may be running out — it has run out for alot … this may go on for several more years — we have n't go several more years . |
| 28 | He worries that as a result the net effect of propagating WABI will be damaging to the whole Unix business . |
| 29 | Movement and Dance organisations will be putting on an interesting weekend of comparative movements on the 19th and 20th October when to celebrate this occasion the City of Westminster is placing the Seymour Halls at their disposal for Medau , Keep Fit , yoga , Swimming etc . |
| 30 | It 's become a preservation tank for Britain 's myriad wildflowers and a model for the way the Prince thinks farming should be going . |