Example sentences of "[conj] [noun] [be] [v-ing] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | 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% . |
| 2 | Nobody knows why , any more than anyone knows why amphibians are disappearing , dolphins are dying or coral is turning white . |
| 3 | 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 ) . |
| 4 | 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 ) . |
| 5 | 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 . |
| 6 | Coal mining or farming is using natural resources . |
| 7 | 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 . |
| 8 | 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 . |
| 9 | Suddenly Lomax caught a suggestion of movement on the fire escape platform , directly above where Foster was standing straddle-legged facing the alley wall . |
| 10 | 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 . |
| 11 | 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 . |
| 12 | It is clear that LRT is planning regular increases above the rate of inflation for at least the next five years . |
| 13 | 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 . |
| 14 | 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 . |
| 15 | She would worry that Kelly was becoming involved in the sleazy aftermath of her father 's death . |
| 16 | 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 . |
| 17 | Then she began to feel anxious , for she could sense that Fontana was getting set to make the same impossible leap . |
| 18 | It is to emphasise that Papert is fighting major battles over the nature of the relationship between computers and education . |
| 19 | ‘ My husband has looked into Nahum 's affairs , as there was no one else to do it , and has been shocked to find that debts were mounting weekly . ’ |
| 20 | He said that David was getting ready to tour America , but he did n't want normal rock and roll people — he wanted weird , crazy people to be his staff and he asked whether we 'd do it . |
| 21 | At 1334 hours , the GCA final controller noted that aircraft was going low in the glide path at 7 miles . |
| 22 | There is no sign that silver was running short by 864 , as it should have done had tribute-payments made huge inroads into the total supply . |
| 23 | Any mental picture will require interpretation , and this interpretation will be another mental operation , which , on the view that thinking is having mental pictures , will be another picture , which itself will require interpretation , and so on and so on . |
| 24 | Like most British national trails , many continental distance routes assume that walkers are travelling light and seeking a roof over their heads each night . |
| 25 | Relations had deteriorated in 1989 following accusations that Uganda was supporting Kenyan dissidents [ see p. 36918 ] . |
| 26 | The children 's charity , Barnardos , says that poverty in Britain is so bad that parents are going hungry so that the children can eat . |
| 27 | We find that parents are going hungry in order to leave food for their children . |
| 28 | Best of all , there was the news that England were getting gubbed . |
| 29 | As a result both agencies have to continue claiming that Russia is facing terrible threats from the West and therefore that their existence is essential despite the fact that Gorbachev is busily telling the Russian people that co-existence is not only possible but desirable as are many aspects of capitalist society . |
| 30 | It also dampened recent speculation that Tabai was seeking lucrative jobs outside Kiribati . |