Example sentences of "[be] [v-ing] [adv] [prep] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | NEW Yorkers are stepping out to weird Foot Friend parties to meet the partner of their dreams . |
| 2 | If we are using up to five times the energy that we really need to move , then it is hardly surprising that , after a long day , all we can do is ‘ collapse in a heap ’ ! |
| 3 | Toleration as wide-ranging as this would not have been acceptable in England , where hostility to Roman Catholicism had been building up for seventy years since Mary Tudor 's attempt to wipe out Protestantism . |
| 4 | It 's been building up for some time , I think . ’ |
| 5 | ‘ It 's been building up to this . |
| 6 | After behaving with notable restraint during the election , she had been building up to this . |
| 7 | Cos they 've been building up like that and they 're bound to fall down . |
| 8 | The discontent with de Gaulle 's policies , which had been building steadily since 1958 , suddenly burst into the open . |
| 9 | They are competing vigorously with each other to be last . |
| 10 | Peterborough are jogging along in midtable while United are slipping down … |
| 11 | If this is indeed so , and if it is true that the latency period is in decline as an important cultural phenomenon , then it seems difficult not to conclude that in some very significant respects modern Western child-rearing practices are approximating more to those of pre-Neolithic , pre-agricultural societies like those of the Australian aborigines than to modern industrial ones . |
| 12 | This fits in with the general tendency among much of the elite population in Shetland ( and Dunrossness ) to avoid raising ‘ issues ’ ( this has obviously happy consequences for those who are benefitting most from oil-related developments ) . |
| 13 | Well that 's the been the problem issue we 've been struggling through on that basis |
| 14 | Another typical resistance is met when it becomes clear that despite everything that is being achieved in terms of family understanding and awareness , individuals are sticking rigidly to old patterns of interaction and behaviour . |
| 15 | Conservationists say otters are recovering well from near extinction throughout England . |
| 16 | The Chinese have been inching back towards economic reform . |
| 17 | If he had been walking out with any other girl in service in the town they could have stayed in on a wet night and talked by the kitchen range , but with the Hogans hovering around he had to bring Patsy out into the rain . |
| 18 | ‘ I saw that sort you 've been knocking about with last night . |
| 19 | She went humming upstairs to clean the bathroom , while Winnie turned over in her mind a plan which had been lurking there for some time . |
| 20 | Will he also confirm that the fact that those bankruptcies and liquidations are occurring now in high-tech industries is a particularly worrying aspect ? |
| 21 | Thames valley police are cracking down on bad driving . |
| 22 | Instead , large corporations are becoming more like living organisms , continually changing and adapting . |
| 23 | Some are rowing about in spindly black rowing-boats in the graceful standing posture that is the classic Venetian stance , while others are darting around in speedboats . |
| 24 | Large numbers of British birds are nesting up to 22 days earlier than normal , possibly reflecting changes in climate as a result of global warming , according to a report by the British Trust for Ornithology . |
| 25 | David Beskine of the RA said ‘ The Hot Spots represent a small sample of the problems which the Ramblers are tackling head-on during Forbidden Britain Day ’ . |
| 26 | MARKETS in the Far East and Middle East are opening up for hi-tech heat-beating textile produced by Performance Fabrics . |
| 27 | I would like to announce that from now certain major sponsorship opportunities are opening up on this page . |
| 28 | One obvious conclusion that could be drawn from the review is that the Japanese are steaming ahead with welldefined information technology plans . |
| 29 | Similarly , organisations of adults with disabilities , such as the British Council of Organisations for Disabled People , are pressing hard for better quality , integrated education , given their own personal experiences of segregated provision . |
| 30 | That is certainly the case , but the Government are walking away from that fact by encouraging imports of coal to destroy the fabric of our communities . |