Example sentences of "[conj] [noun] [be] [v-ing] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | You say that the chief character in your joke or story was wearing such and such a hat or pair of shoes . |
| 2 | Halifax Building Society , the nation 's biggest mortgage lender , and Bradford & Bingley are offering new buyers of repossessed homes a rock-bottom mortgage rate of 4.99% . |
| 3 | Safeway , Asda and the Co-op have responded to the EIA 's call , while Sainsbury and Marks & Spencer are labelling all Faroese fish . |
| 4 | Nobody knows why , any more than anyone knows why amphibians are disappearing , dolphins are dying or coral is turning white . |
| 5 | Where data are missing this will , of course , be indicated in the presentation of findings . |
| 6 | In the tropics , however , environmental change is occurring at an unprecedented rate where deforestation is creating local and , in all probability , global environmental problems since the demise of tropical rainforests in particular may well be contributing to the enhanced greenhouse effect ( section 5.3.1 ) . |
| 7 | True , too , Bosnia 's Serbs have won as much land as they want ( though in the territories they control ethnic cleansing continues : about 1,000 Muslims or Croats are leaving northern Bosnia every week , it is reported , after signing papers to say they are going voluntarily ) . |
| 8 | In Third World countries , in particular , where governments are seeking efficient ways of adopting scientific and technological know-how , the characteristics of English as an international language already give it considerable advantage over others in the commercial competition to ‘ sell ’ such language training . |
| 9 | Coal mining or farming is using natural resources . |
| 10 | Cantini & C. are offering I Della Robbia . |
| 11 | But you know what I mean ; when a marriage or relationship is going wrong and it 's like everything that one person says or does n't say , or does or does n't do , seems to rub the other one up the wrong way . |
| 12 | Just days after paying out $400m in a record settlement , Ernst & Young is facing another claim , this time for $55m . |
| 13 | Five minutes after entering his office Zen reappeared in the inspectors ' room , where Geraci was watching Chiodini fill in a coupon for a competition promising the winner a lifetime supply of tomato concentrate . |
| 14 | Suddenly Lomax caught a suggestion of movement on the fire escape platform , directly above where Foster was standing straddle-legged facing the alley wall . |
| 15 | The small town cafe which finds Kentucky Fried Chicken or McDonald 's producing crippling competition in its own area , is just as much a victim of these trends as ICI , Shell or Unilever . |
| 16 | Lord James Douglas-Hamilton , the education minister , emphasised yesterday that opting-out was not an escape route from closure threats , where councils were spending millions of pounds maintaining empty seats in empty classrooms . |
| 17 | Because the merchant bank or sub-underwriters are buying existing shares there will normally be a charge to stamp duty or stamp duty reserve tax ( SDRT ) on the sale . |
| 18 | The reference to a proposed parachute operation is strange , because there is no evidence that Stirling was planning any such thing at the time , yet the correspondence is dated 30 and 31 December 1941 , when Stirling was in the desert . |
| 19 | It is clear that LRT is planning regular increases above the rate of inflation for at least the next five years . |
| 20 | At Rass he heard that Ibrahim was evacuating all but the Hijaz and had withdrawn to Medina . |
| 21 | Carl from upstairs got arrested too , and he said that Ibrahim was screaming all night in the room next to him in the prison , and when they opened the door in the morning , he 'd scratched all the skin off of his face . |
| 22 | Digital Equipment Corp was the most obvious absentee from the Common Open Software Environment jamboree last week ( CI No 2,130 ) : was it , as some have said , that DEC was steering clear of anything that might damage Microsoft 's Windows NT ? — apparently not — DEC says it was simply that no one invited to join until the day before the launch . |
| 23 | Thus far there 's very little evidence that employers are taking this on board . |
| 24 | Moore does not suggest that employers are wholly blinkered : it might be , for example , that employers are finding increased educational and job opportunities have meant a less able body of pupils are applying for apprenticeships . |
| 25 | She would worry that Kelly was becoming involved in the sleazy aftermath of her father 's death . |
| 26 | When the band sensed that Harvey was growing tired they moved him towards a finale and spread a musical carpet and drew a musical curtain and the trumpet milked the applause . |
| 27 | He noticed that Jim was wearing some very expensive-looking clothes , and feared he might be spending all Bella 's earnings on his own back . |
| 28 | Then I found out that Jim was making all the original pedals as well , so I decided to get rid of all the stuff I 'd been trying to make all these sounds with and just use the original things . |
| 29 | That was before he came to recognize that Karnstein was using this by-the-book method of criticism to show displeasure at the nature of their business . |
| 30 | Then she began to feel anxious , for she could sense that Fontana was getting set to make the same impossible leap . |