Example sentences of "[conj] be [v-ing] [adj] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | This method involves a little bit of a cheat as the Macintosh keyboard can not access the PostScript fractions unless you either have a special fractions font or are using one of the new Adobe Expert fonts with an extended and re-mapped character set . |
| 2 | Many people , too , are in terrible financial trouble because of being caught in leasing agreements for property and other items that are ruining thousands of people . |
| 3 | They 're finished , of course , now , but there will be others — others that are lyin' low fur the moment . |
| 4 | The first pictures encountered by the youngest readers ( and the youngest readers will be very young : ‘ Ideally , a small pile of good books awaits the new baby 's arrival ’ according to Dorothy Butler , 1980 , p.27 ) will be simple , clear pictures of objects to be seen in the reader 's immediate world , objects that are becoming familiar in real life . |
| 5 | are subsidizing the rich to buy houses that are becoming cheaper onto the market |
| 6 | I thought of all the warm beds that I could have been in and I kneaded my fingers that were going numb with cold . |
| 7 | Trainer Kim Bailey has managed to keep the strapping chaser away from the coughing that is affecting some of his stable companions . |
| 8 | There is one thing , and I think I did take it with you , erm , Mr Chairman , I 'm with the erm , I 've forgotten what the question on , corporational liberties , the thing that is concentrating many of our minds quite some , but the er , would , would the Chief Fire Officer like to ? |
| 9 | In the remainder of this paper , therefore , I shall review some of the evidence that is becoming available on adults ' styles of interaction in the settings of home and school , and on the influences that these styles have on children 's learning . |
| 10 | Matsutakes and chanterelles need undisturbed forest , something that is becoming scarce in the much-logged north-west . |
| 11 | Minutes later the little five-year-old lay in agony — the latest victim of a craze that is claiming thousands of young casualties a year . |
| 12 | " If global warming occurs , the cyclone that killed 150,000 in Bangladesh will be far more devastating … and the famine that is killing millions in Africa could wipe out life itself in that region " . |
| 13 | And the next thing that 's going wrong in the bathroom will be that I 'll have to replace that central heating pump . |
| 14 | The little one that was standing next to the pram was about Oliver 's age was n't she ? |
| 15 | The difficulty was compounded by the new knowledge that was becoming available through the flowering of 17th century science . |
| 16 | It was a fiction that was becoming threadbare in the spring months of 1989 . |
| 17 | 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 . |
| 18 | They stood as symbols over the years of everything that was going wrong in the one-time fairytale marriage . |
| 19 | After all , he could have been thrown from his horse and been lying injured on the moors in the middle of a fierce storm . |
| 20 | of the bill for the most vulnerable people in our society and are causing millions of pensioners and poor people to face a cold and miserable Christmas ? |
| 21 | Many local authorities have moved ahead and are putting many of their services out to competitive tender . |
| 22 | ‘ We have a business plan as far as mid-1993 and are going professional by this Christmas . ’ |
| 23 | Responsible tour operators have recognized the problem and are doing all in their power to stop it . |
| 24 | Detectives have seized 7,000 ecstasy tablets from a flat in the North-East and are linking that to the couple' disappearance . |
| 25 | I wish you all Long Life — I 'm devastated not to be there and am scribbling this in haste in my dressing room . |
| 26 | The Cherry and Whites were on top then and were looking good for an opening win when Damien Cummins dropped a goal to make it 9-3 … |
| 27 | We had stalked around the woods practising booby traps and trip devices , using thin wire and nails , and were getting good at setting nasty ambushes . |
| 28 | Susan and David doted on Christopher and were getting ready to really spoil him this Christmas . |
| 29 | Outside in the snow two men had climbed out of a Renault van with saws and ropes and were tapping one of the trees . |
| 30 | In other words , firms prodded and assisted by governments , were becoming more productive and were making many of their workers redundant with the result that the numbers employed in manufacturing industry fell by 14 per cent between 1965 and 1975 . |