Example sentences of "[be] [v-ing] the [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ The two I particularly remember are building the new stand at Ascot and the construction of Central Point in London . ’ |
| 2 | Just in case they 'd forgotten , Town Crier Willium Chapman 's been reminding the good people of Newent what day it is . |
| 3 | THE FRIENDS of John McCarthy have been reminding the Foreign Office that the British Government is the only government without a single success in efforts to achieve the release of any of its hostages . |
| 4 | He will tell you if you are rotating the left forearm properly on the backswing . |
| 5 | You are poisoning the very sources of order and happiness and virtue ; you are tearing up root and branch all relations of families to each other ; you are annulling , as it were , the institution of domestic life decreed by Providence Himself , the wisest and kindest of earthly ordinances , the mainstay of social peace and virtue and therein of national security . |
| 6 | For example , Fielding ( 1982 ) takes the best elements of the three main models : ( a ) the desire to live in a more rural setting ; ( b ) the availability of new jobs in the sunrise industries of the rural areas ; and ( c ) regional planning by governments to argue that the two main factors are first , the development of a post-industrial society where the mobile middle classes are relocating the new industries , and second , the rise of service employment , particularly in the more attractive rural areas of each country . |
| 7 | PS I am attaching the relevant sections of the script |
| 8 | If food 's got anything to do with it then I must have been eating the wrong way for the last 40 years . |
| 9 | The owners are not seeing guilty behaviour when Rover slinks across the floor , they are seeing the submissive behaviour Rover displays in anticipation of the aggression , however mild , the owners are about to use in attempt to reprimand him . |
| 10 | It is only that by doing so , the accounts are reflecting the economic reality more closely . |
| 11 | You can only turn properly if you are using the gybing straps . |
| 12 | In truth the change to the game is subtle rather than sensational and too much fuss has been made when , in fact , some folk are using the new laws as an excuse to disguise their weaknesses . |
| 13 | Your are using the correct oil in the gearboxes . |
| 14 | Most items can be sent in sealed envelopes or packages , but if you are using the Printed Papers service please remember that the packaging needs to be easy to open for Customs examination and to be able to be repacked without additional packaging — the best solution is to use string or plastic tags . |
| 15 | ‘ It worries me that impresarios are using the Russian label to make money at the expense of companies like us , like the Scottish and Northern Ballet . |
| 16 | I think really what we want to do is to decide whether or not we are using the annual report as a a list of jobs that we did last year . |
| 17 | In a survey of 450 top UK companies last year , Touche Ross discovered that although the efficiency of financial consolidation is of key importance to senior management , few finance departments have any objective measure of their performance and know whether they are using the right tools . |
| 18 | We are using the additional resources to excellent effect . |
| 19 | If this does not cut cleanly , never use excessive force — you are using the wrong tool . |
| 20 | er but if you are actually swimming and you are using the different strokes and so forth , it does use power-wise all the main muscles of the body . |
| 21 | If you are using the pregenerated characters , Dunderl Goldhand will want to destroy the shrine to Slaanesh here ; in this case , a Daemonette will arrive to attack him . |
| 22 | If you are using the pregenerated characters , Erszebet Lauschenberg will receive a sign from Verena that one of these is the brain of the High Priestess she seeks . |
| 23 | If — and only if — you are using the pregenerated characters , then there will be two additional Grimoires here with gold and silver banding . |
| 24 | If you are using the pregenerated player characters , then Erszebet Lauschenberg will receive a sign from Verena that one of the jars has the heart of the High Priestess which she seeks . |
| 25 | Selected branches of travel agents Thomas Cook and AT May are using the computerised system , with the details of about 100 selected hotels . |
| 26 | True , there is growing evidence that higher interest rates , combined with stiff controls on bank lending , are producing the desired effect . |
| 27 | Staff at Corin Medical in Cirencester are producing the different pieces of the artificial hip joint which like lego can be made up in 120 combinations . |
| 28 | The fact that nationalized industries make losses is not sufficient to prove that they are not minimizing costs or that they are producing the wrong output from society 's view-point . |
| 29 | Eliot had long been accumulating the anthropological knowledge which would affect the literature of his own future . |
| 30 | But shares have been reflecting the new-found confidence for some time . |