Example sentences of "[be] [v-ing] [pron] [adj] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Imagine how it feels ( if you are the incumbent MP ) to know that , that very morning , thousands of people are devoting their whole attention to getting rid of you . |
| 2 | I think it is a pity that so many anglers are devoting their whole fishing careers to the one species . |
| 3 | ‘ We are building our own garden , thanks to a grant from the Merseyside Environmental Trust . |
| 4 | You 've been seeing your social worker regularly , have you , Vernon ? |
| 5 | He said I bet it 's that that 's been , oh and then it jumped down and ran corner at g where ch caravan is , he said I bet that 's what 's been eating your bloody daffodil bulbs and that . |
| 6 | Retailers at the Lakeside Shopping Centre in Thurrock in Essex are seeing their best business for many months . |
| 7 | Ever seeking perfection , Oxford this year are using their new training centre . |
| 8 | We can infer from this that when the authors concerned start out to describe the institutions of an alien exotic social system they are using their own society as a model of normality . |
| 9 | It will also help you to keep track of how they are using their free time |
| 10 | The series was scheduled before the current ‘ Cop Killer ’ controversy , and once again Warners are using their considerable muscle to promote their man : HBO is owned by Time-Warner . |
| 11 | For the bride , particularly if they are using her old bedroom , this probably means throwing out her posters of Mel Gibson et al , consigning her huge collection of cuddly toys to the attic and getting rid of the pink frilly duvet . |
| 12 | If you are using your own office rather than an interview room , arrange for telephone calls to be intercepted and make sure you are not disturbed or distracted while interviewing . |
| 13 | The children are producing their own spelling dictionary which is freely available to the whole class . |
| 14 | The HDZ government of Croatia had been building its own army : it had 35,000 police units of which 25,000 were in the reserves and 10,000 belong to special units . |
| 15 | That 's you know it was all purely hypothetical the figures they produced but er they were comparing it to what we had pr previously been producing we all sort of realized that for a set production figure we could have been up to forty pound worse off , per week . |
| 16 | As well as fine-tuning his own stamina and fitness by clocking up to 70 miles in training each week , Paul has been helping his 12-year-old daughter Sacha in her bid to compete her first four-mile London mini-marathon . |
| 17 | If your father dies and you are helping your widowed mother with these matters , you can assure her that not only will she not lose her own retirement pension , but that it may be paid at an increased rate after her husband 's death . |
| 18 | I am enjoying my own attention ; a carpenter in a large mustard sweater , and a sweet-faced young lad with glasses . |
| 19 | Valerie Eliot was also his protector — as a secretary she had for a long time been organizing his daily life and guarding him from the world , and it was probably the calm assurance of her presence which first drew him towards her . |
| 20 | We are maintaining our successful record of licensing modern technology to other companies around the world . |
| 21 | Individualists who deny that these claims explain anything at all are , in effect , simply reasserting the hegemony of the interest from which individualism draws its life , while holists are pursuing their own concern with the constraining power of society . |
| 22 | Despite the defeat , Coventry can be satisfied with their form against the League champions , who are enjoying their best spell of the season — unbeaten in 11 games . |
| 23 | The couple are enjoying their first holiday together travelling around California in a caravan , according to German newspaper Bild . |
| 24 | Businessmen are enjoying their first boom for ten years . |
| 25 | While the adults are enjoying their special Christmas drinks with the celebration meal , you could be drinking delicious Louisiana Lemonade , made with frozen raspberries . |
| 26 | ‘ You are enjoying our Russian winter ? ’ |
| 27 | If we go back to the private 's utterance ‘ I 've been scrubbing them all morning and they wo n't come any cleaner ’ , we can relate it to these three layers as follows : |
| 28 | ‘ Sales are holding up extremely well and people are realising what good value the product is , ’ added Mr Sabini . |
| 29 | Four hundred soldiers are completing their final training before a six month tour of duty in Bosnia and Croatia . |
| 30 | I 'm not sure that withholding diplomatic recognition is the best way to approach that , after all diplomatic recognition is concerned really with the effective control of territory and things like that rather than with moral principles , however , I think that er , when the Soviet Republics are signing their new Union Treaty or Commonwealth Treaty or whatever it 's going to be called by that time , this question should be amongst the most important to be tackled there , that 's to say the rights of ethnic minorities living in Republican Territories , that they should have the right to educate their children in their own language , that they should have the right to their own religion and so on and so forth . |