Example sentences of "[be] [v-ing] [verb] [adv] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | It 's got nothing to do with the fact that he got bent out of shape at an early age and has been shaping laughs out of the kinks ever since . |
| 2 | Ever since the Seven Planets had become an independent Federation , the smaller planets had been struggling to break away from Nicaea . |
| 3 | ‘ We 've been using Dream On as a kind of practical research , testing the possibilities . |
| 4 | This was the sight that Bill Brice saw when he smilingly turned round , holding the fresh bottle of sherry which he had been kneeling to get out from under the window-seat . |
| 5 | turn to Mr Potter I think he 's been dying to get back on this so |
| 6 | At the beginning of book in , when describing the revolt of Lesbos in 427 , Thucydides says that the Lesbians ‘ had been wanting to revolt even before the war , but the Spartans had been unwilling to receive them into alliance ’ . |
| 7 | ‘ Are y'going to stand there like Lot 's wife , Phoebe ? |
| 8 | I would say to you that the history of North Yorkshire County is that the house house builders have built , more or less the building rate of planning policy , whatever that has been , and that is a matter of fact , and if and if and if we are in a situation where the market is being fettered , as is the policy , and it 's not a policy which we are seeking to go away from specifically , and it is inevitable that the house builders will build to whatever the policy building rate is , and comparisons of one building rate with another are simply telling you what 's happened in the past , not what needs to happen in the future er in terms of meeting the housing requirement , and quite clearly in any area where you are introducing a new settlement , if indeed that 's the conclusion we come to , er late later on , erm and I hope we do , but if we are introducing a new settlement you are bound to skew the building rates , and the more and more you reduce the area in which you consider what the building rate effect is the more and more that it actually gets skewed , er and erm you know , quite frankly , when the developers built a new estate at the end of my particular street the building rate went up alarmingly in my area , er and er you know , we can go on forever like that , I just think it 's very misleading to just deal with the judgement of building rates . |
| 9 | In the face of an economic climate characterised by a higher degree of " uncertainty " , a greater volatility in demand for their output and increased pressure to reduce labour costs to a minimum , employers are seeking to build in to their workforces an element of " numerical flexibility " . |
| 10 | However , for a very reasonable price this book will be helpful to many enthusiasts who are seeking to learn more about their hobby . |
| 11 | Scotland have been drawn in the same section as Ireland and Wales and are looking to go forward to a promotion play-off with the winners of a section involving Germany , Austria and Norway . |
| 12 | And they are refusing to pay out on the late flood of bets until the official inquiry is complete . |
| 13 | ‘ That Lilith 's a good guesser and we 're goin' to keep away from her and her funny religion , are n't we ? ’ |
| 14 | ‘ I know you 're wanting to get back to the hacienda . ’ |
| 15 | and erm I went to a youth club and I I was speaking to eight year olds and they 're asking about condoms cos they 've seen them in the street , so it 's obviously they 're wanting to find out about it cos it 's everywhere around them even , does n't matter what age . |
| 16 | I need to put the date in my diary cos they 're going to fill up during the summer so you |
| 17 | When you 're giving feedback to people , yes , there were going to bad things about what they 've done , yes , there 's going to be good things , but if you can catch the bad things between two good things , even if the good things are just saying thank you , they 're going to go away with a bigger smile on their face , and probably feel more motivated for the next time they do that task . |
| 18 | And all these Russian scientists with , you know , sending up these rockets in the air , they 're going to go over to Iraq . |
| 19 | So , so there are two bits , there 's , one is th that you need the the , the , the evidence from the north is that you need mobilization in order to get land reform and the way to get mobilization is rent reduction , interest rate reduction and then sort of the , the struggle meetings and that provides the activism to go to land reforms and the other bit is , is the military one , th that you 've learned that if you 're going to go through with land reform and keep the support , you 've got to make sure you 've got your military security first . |
| 20 | We 're going to go on to the effects of chilling and what damage does that do ? |
| 21 | We 're going to go on to what used to be called club foot which is a fairly gross word word Right |
| 22 | If you come out to nothing like I did and you 've been a prostitute and know it 's easy money — well you 're going to go straight to it again . |
| 23 | Yeah we 're going to go up to two thousand eight hundred are n't we so we 're going up in |
| 24 | Here we go and that is that , up to now , erm we 've only made six beams , we 've got to reach , for these tanks , we want to make sixty and the problem is we 're on stop now redesign the whole thing and going on the present rate of production we 're going to go up to about week twenty-eight . |
| 25 | ‘ We 're going to go round to Mackenzie 's house and we 're going to ask his daughter what she thinks of this and we 're going to take pictures of him and we 're going to run our own front page with a picture of him and a bloody great headline which says RACIST ! ’ |
| 26 | Mm , er what to think , oh I ca n't think of any words , oh we 're going to go off for an interview now anyway . |
| 27 | ‘ For once in your life , Adam , you 're going to go along with what someone else wants . |
| 28 | We 're going to go down to the travel agents |
| 29 | And when the wedding 's gon na be and what you 're gon na wear and what you 're going to go there in and how many children you 're gon na have and how many years you 're gon na be married . |
| 30 | And we 're going to go out for lunch . |