Example sentences of "[conj] be [v-ing] [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Many head teachers are embarking on marketing courses , in the hope that they can learn the skills required to ‘ sell ’ their schools to parents , or are persuading governing bodies to co-opt persons with this area of expertise . |
| 2 | This means any class taken on a voluntary basics , classes paid for by a private concern , ( W.I. T.W.G. sports sections of firms etc. ) , are hiring your own premises and running a class , or are coaching any display team . |
| 3 | If readers have any knowledge of good practice , or are undertaking similar research I would be glad to hear . |
| 4 | Do n't be too quick to condemn or criticise people you think are up to no good or are getting special treatment for one reason or another . |
| 5 | Do n't be too quick to condemn or criticise people you think are up to no good or are getting special treatment for one reason or another . |
| 6 | Often in life we are prevented from realising our true potential because we feel restricted , or are harbouring some feelings that we would love to share . |
| 7 | where the goods are perishable or are doing considerable damage to the land and it is impossible to communicate speedily enough with the occupier or his agent ) . |
| 8 | In Britain surgeons and theatre staff rarely wear eye protection unless they wear glasses for their eyesight or are treating high risk patients . |
| 9 | None of the patients , however , were overtly diabetic , had clinical steatorrhoea , or were taking pancreatic enzyme supplements . |
| 10 | Patients who had undergone previous gastric surgery , or were taking cytotoxic drugs or prednisolone at a dose greater than 5 mg each day were excluded . |
| 11 | These women were either married , cohabiting or were having some form of a relationship with these men . |
| 12 | The main problems seem to come when the foreground application program has control over the keyboard or is using large chunks of memory to mimic the screen . |
| 13 | Fielding Goodney , with all kinds of developments : a " dream script " had come through from Doris Arthur , Caduta Mass and Butch Beausoleil had put their signatures on the line , Spunk wanted in , Lorne wanted out — Lorne Guyland was going crazy , or was staying that way . |
| 14 | So , for instance at this point we 've reached a stage where we 've got very important solidarity action in our favour including the fact that there are four main education unions , for instance , that are boycotting all Maxwell products which is a tremendous thing for an educational publisher to have . |
| 15 | It is their actions , and reports like this , that are discouraging new business and investment in our town . ’ |
| 16 | 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 . |
| 17 | Sometimes it 's because it 's so many people that are using this method that the importance of what you 're trying to say tends to be dismissed and therefore . |
| 18 | A further reason for the name change noted in the annual report is that it ‘ acknowledges the growing relationship between entertainment and publishing , both highly creative businesses that are forming closer links because of converging technologies and markets ’ . |
| 19 | 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 . |
| 20 | 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 . |
| 21 | As a works convenor , I work along twenty shop stewards , and I can tell this Congress that the message that they 've given to me from the people from the people that have elected them , is that they 're sick and tired of the perpetual bleating of the T U C about how they have to abide by the laws , when the only laws that are there are the laws that are bringing this movement down . |
| 22 | Not least , they serve as a warning to firms that are building dominant positions in markets that their conduct is likely to be scrutinized if their market share crosses a given threshold . |
| 23 | You should see the ramshackle buses with boiling radiators that are tackling private road traffic . |
| 24 | They have access to the villages that have been bombed and can see that civilian targets have been hit by Turkish air force planes that are bombing northern Iraq . |
| 25 | On the other hand we know there are some churches that are finding great difficulty in meeting er , what they 've said they can |
| 26 | Some , moreover , will have their roots in changes in the world upon which existing policies operate , changes that are making those policies unsuccessful or irrelevant . |
| 27 | 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 . |
| 28 | Surely , in this country we have to obey the laws that are there , not the laws that are going some day to be passed . |
| 29 | 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 . |
| 30 | But there are very real changes in attitude that are compounding this change of approach . |