Example sentences of "[be] [adv] [v-ing] [prep] [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Amid all this turmoil and red ink , the aircraft manufacturers ( America 's Boeing and McDonnell Douglas , and the European consortium , Airbus Industrie ) together with the jet-engine makers ( America 's General Electric and Pratt & Whitney , and Britain 's Rolls-Royce ) are nervously sitting on the biggest backlog of orders in their history . |
| 2 | Instead we are arguing that all academic texts are effectively working with a particular brief and it is important that this be either spelled out in the production of academic texts or taken apart systematically by the readership . |
| 3 | The House will understand that , although we prefer these matters to be resolved by competitive tendering , in this case we are effectively talking about a single supplier , so it is vital to get the contract right . |
| 4 | Those on the brink of buying are mostly waiting until the election is out of the way before committing themselves to a new house , but City financier Christopher Moran thinks they are all wrong . |
| 5 | In the unlikely setting of an industrial estate near Stroud in Gloucestershire , the elephant , cast in bronze , has been slowly growing for the past year . |
| 6 | In the unlikely setting of an industrial estate near Stroud in Gloucestershire , the elephant , cast in bronze , has been slowly growing for the past year . |
| 7 | Unfortunately , in modern society , our ‘ own ’ are rarely living in the same town or even in the same county as us , which makes the ideal situation very difficult to achieve . |
| 8 | In sorry contrast to the Italian Village , several rows of two-storey brick houses are slowly rising from the ground . |
| 9 | The borings are concentrated high on the pillars but are remarkably lacking on the masonry lower down . |
| 10 | The Bradford City supporters are constantly writing to the rag complaining of too much coverage for Leeds ( It really does piss them off ) . |
| 11 | The consequence of this is that we are constantly hypothesizing about the possible significance of each event , and often discovering that we are wrong . |
| 12 | Mr Pratt , whose father Glyn was a former Merseyside County Councillor , added : ‘ We are constantly hearing about the desire to breathe new life back into New Brighton . |
| 13 | This is an expanding market of course and potential sponsors are constantly searching for an appropriate product on which they can lavish their money . |
| 14 | The desperate or the disillusioned have poor vantage points on society ; their view is continually obscured , and they are constantly peering through the clouded lenses of a camera lacking high-quality focusing mechanisms . |
| 15 | What 's worse is that the commentators are constantly fawning to the scum , the game against us at the pigstye being the prime example , going on the BBC coverage Leeds did n't appear to touch the ball let alone get it out of their own half . |
| 16 | What 's worse is that the commentators are constantly fawning to the scum , the game against us at the pigstye being the prime example , going on the BBC coverage Leeds did n't appear to touch the ball let alone get it out of their own half . |
| 17 | Even in the midst of " participating " we are constantly interpreting in the light of what we know and expect . |
| 18 | We are constantly talking to the press try and persuade them to give us more coverage . |
| 19 | The words written by Hinrich Medau in 1933 continue to guide our work today : ‘ The all-important inspiration of Medau work still remains the close connection between movement and music and we are constantly working at the deepening and widening of our knowledge in this as in other spheres ’ . |
| 20 | As there are many persons of distinction in England who are pleased to honour the art of gardening by making it a considerable part of their amusement and have been greatly assisting in the introducing of large numbers of new plants , shrubs and trees into the English gardens and as some of these noble persons have studied the science of botany and are well acquainted with the characters and true names of the plants … their example will render it necessary for the professors of Gardening at least to know the plants they cultivate by their proper titles … |
| 21 | Ever since Vogue homed in on it last December , the Wonderbra has been literally bouncing off the shelves . |
| 22 | Calera are obviously aiming for the mass market . |
| 23 | that and so on , erm , erm , I , it would be nice in fact if the er Ipswich evening tabloid which gave us prominence to this rule er would give just a little space to er this latest development , erm but I would like to , not being excessively caracole I mean reading this document I do feel a slight er switch on your comments on er Pipers Vale , er which you note , there are no er nationally er or er common species which sounds as though you have designs on it , erm I , I wonder if this would be the place to ask you , you know , to make some sort of statement about Pipers Vale , you know that we are basically looking for a route which does not touch on Pipers Vale |
| 24 | The new knowledge is acquired through changes in the prices of resources and of products , brought about by the bids and offers of the entrepreneur-producers who are eagerly competing for the profits to be won by discovering where resource owners and consumers have ( in effect ) underestimated each other 's eagerness to buy or to sell . |
| 25 | Look out , all those companies that are eagerly playing in the digital cellular telephony market with Time Division Multiple Access technology : the King of Prussia , Pennsylvania-based InterDigital Patents Corp unit of InterDigital Communications Corp says it has engaged the law firm of Dickstein Shapiro & Morin to represent it in connection with possible patent infringement litigation to enforce its portfolio of 32 US patents on the technology . |
| 26 | Half an hour later , Jamie Shepherd , who had been patiently waiting in the hospital foyer , drove his granddaughter home . |
| 27 | Peter Noonan has been patiently waiting in the wings for six years , and finally , whether it was seeing Terry so happy , realising that she was n't getting any younger , or the fact that I told her I was thinking of getting married , sh — ’ |
| 28 | However , in parliamentary terms Mr Nelson has been long waiting for a call from a prime minister offering jobs . |
| 29 | The point of introducing this distinction between determination in the last instance and the structure in dominance is to combine the idea that the practices of which society is made up are mutually determining with the ultimate dominance of the economy . |
| 30 | Raised variants of /Ε/; are apparently spreading in a linguistically ordered way , with ‘ long ’ environments affected first . |