Example sentences of "[conj] be [v-ing] [art] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | If you are in your late teens or are doing a further education course and you are extremely worried about examinations , you are going to have to find a way to tackle academic stress that does not involve eating and drinking too much . |
| 2 | People only go to hospital when they are sick or are visiting the sick . |
| 3 | Thus , while the professional group was almost four times as likely to own or be buying a house as the unskilled group , it was almost nine times as likely to own or be buying a detached house as the unskilled group in 1971 . |
| 4 | Yeah I mean the part about the er about the savings erm if you 'd 've done or were doing a complete fact find that , that would come up anyway would n't it ? |
| 5 | Impetus given from or with any part of the body must coincide with the musical phrasing fur it indicates the performer is to make or is making an important statement . |
| 6 | She often made me feel vaguely guilty , as if I 'd forgotten to clean my teeth or was wearing a grubby shirt . |
| 7 | It is just the latest of many ignorant assaults that are damaging a national asset envied around the world . |
| 8 | The two luxury cars that are capturing the German imagination . |
| 9 | But these services are not among those that are experiencing the highest growth rates in the 1980s . |
| 10 | States that are exploring a tough policy which borders upon coercion like Kenya will either find that open political protest will challenge the power of the state , or that like family planning in India , an onslaught upon the least economically and politically powerful is only temporarily feasible . |
| 11 | This will try to find markets for products and services coming from Montpellier and the other three European facilities in Havant , Valencia , Jrflla that are undergoing a similar process . |
| 12 | He says ’ I think that for everyone who is objecting to the festival locally there are a lot more who are happy to see it go on and see the space used properly and there are twenty five thousand people here from all over the country that are loving the three days . ’ |
| 13 | Well I think if you look at the main jobs in Britain , all the managers are male , and I think it 's , it 's gon na change when we do have females and males in all these erm , these jobs that are managing the main N H S , social work |
| 14 | They not only face the dangers of living in a war-torn society , but also risk torture or death for wanting to tell the truth as they see it and for refusing to be a part of the various propaganda machines that are fuelling the present conflict . |
| 15 | So it is possible to kill large numbers of rabbits that are doing a massive amount of crop damage by this method and by no other . |
| 16 | And she 's just like , this really officious and then , she just said , everybody goes round , and they try and get the cheapest price and they go back to the place that are giving the cheapest price , whatever . |
| 17 | United States climatologists are discussing preliminary evidence that sulphur dioxide — a major pollutant and contributor to acid rain — may be inducing localised cooling effects that are countering the warming influences of greenhouse gases . |
| 18 | I found one of those plastic and formica Little Chefs that were replacing the old greasy spoon eateries and went straight into the Gents . |
| 19 | The central party leadership , in fact , went so far as to issue a formal statement on the Baltic situation in late August 1989 , warning against the activities of ‘ extremist ’ and ‘ anti-socialist ’ forces that were pursuing a separatist line with ‘ growing persistence and aggressiveness ’ . |
| 20 | There she bargained with the Queen , and in return for not harrying the English ships that were pursuing the Spanish Armada , O'Malley was allowed a free hand in Connaught . |
| 21 | One or two instances that were favouring the fifty percent . |
| 22 | Nor could capitalist or socialist states deal by themselves with the threat of a nuclear catastrophe , or the difficulties that were facing the developing countries . |
| 23 | The sturdily independent high tech sector had naught for the comfort of either major party in the run-up to today 's by-election in Newbury , Berkshire when the big guns from party headquarters showed up for photocalls during the build-up : Labour chose Vodafone Group Plc and tried to commiserate about the recession , only to be told that business had been going gangbusters for several months , the Tories went looking for green shoots at Micro Focus Plc , only to be told that the UK market was flat on its back , and that it was only foreign sales that were keeping the old Coboller busy . |
| 24 | This , he said , helped to evoke and release suppressed memories and emotions that were having a detrimental effect on the health of these people . |
| 25 | Nor is coaching the same as either counselling or formal appraisal . |
| 26 | Nor is shooting the only manner of the birds ' destruction , because they are also trapped , by being driven into defiles and then caught in nets stretched between the trees . |
| 27 | But flooring need not cost the earth ; nor is carpeting the only solution . |
| 28 | But in these circumstances , claim Keynesians , it is fiscal policy that is causing the resulting increase in aggregate demand through its effect on people 's real incomes . |
| 29 | Nadine Meisner visits a Royal Ballet project that is encouraging a different sort of child to put on pointed shoes |
| 30 | Nobody wants to close any bed that is offering a good quality service , that is wanted and being used . |