Example sentences of "[be] [v-ing] [adv] [noun] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | As yet you are using only variations of the first fifty millesimal potency with which you began , and this way you derive the maximum benefit from each potency in turn . |
| 2 | So far in this chapter I have been gathering together pieces of analysis . |
| 3 | Local authorities and the Tyne and Wear Passenger Transport Executive are contributing around £2m to the £20m investment by BR 's Regional Railways division in new rolling stock and track . |
| 4 | When Britons are saving just 6% of their post-tax income , surely everybody agrees that they should be encouraged to do more . |
| 5 | The USS Chemicals company in Ironton , Ohio has been saving around $100,000 in raw-material costs through reducing air emissions by 100,000 lbs per year . |
| 6 | They 're going away Saturday for a week or something . |
| 7 | But again , you know , you 're paying here premiums for twenty thousand pound , but you 're only getting ten . |
| 8 | There was no choice and you 're taking away rights in that . |
| 9 | Erm we 're finding basically area under a curve or volume of revolution |
| 10 | Well yes , but there is a limit , which you hit when you find you are paying about £80 for two , excluding drinks . |
| 11 | I am involved in two national activities which are moving forward programmes in this field . |
| 12 | Department 's tend , eh , the actual service department are very much what I would call practitioner lead , you 've got just people there doing there job and there 've been doing there job for years , and that 's you know , there not , the very rare thing today , erm , thinking of policy sense about the way in which they could change that service , you just get on and do what they 've always been doing . |
| 13 | And Spurs , owned by Amstrad chief Alan Sugar , are giving away £600,000 of discount vouchers towards the cost of dishes at tomorrow 's match with Crystal Palace , worth £20 per fan . |
| 14 | Elton has been giving away royalties from singles including his hit , Sacrifice and his duet with George Michael , Please Do n't Let the Sun Go Down On Me . |
| 15 | When we are spending about 6% of our gross national product on health services we have a right to expect improvements in the public health from them , both directly and through the influence of health service staff on health policy . |
| 16 | Single students sharing a University-controlled flat will be paying approximately £40 per week , exclusive of the cost of heating , lighting , telephone , food etc .. |
| 17 | Single students sharing a University-controlled flat will be paying approximately £40 per week , exclusive of the cost of heating , lighting , telephone and food , etc . |
| 18 | Students with Aficionado tickets for Code C performances will be paying only £4–40 for each performance . |
| 19 | She was going to bed she had a paper under her arm and her and her bag and she 's off and she got up out of , so my mum said right I 'm going now sort of , goodnight ! |
| 20 | We will also be giving away sets of Jaguar luggage . |
| 21 | We have contributed to numerous guidance notes on new regulations across a wide range of industrial , service and commercial sections through Steven we have submitted a draft proposal on a directive covering upper limb disorders to the European Commission we 'll be putting further proposals for the establishment of a European work environment fund to assist workplace activity , workplace research on health and safety and environmental issues . |
| 22 | Suddenly the people , his people , were expressing only loathing for all that he had achieved in his thirty-seven years on the throne . |
| 23 | Alfred was waving a white-stockinged leg in the air , Heinrich experimentally bending over in his black knee breeches ; James was pulling at his skimpy short jacket , puffing out his chest like Beerbohm Tree as d'Artagnan , Algernon was dancing a Highland fling showing off his black slipper shoes , and Alice and Emily were swishing merrily arm in arm through the kitchen in their huge , gathered black skirts covered with large , bibbed , lacy aprons . |
| 24 | They were dozing happily side by side on the sands , when a jet plane roared overhead , waking them with a start . |
| 25 | She had advanced a step further towards him until now they were standing almost breast to breast . |
| 26 | In the green half-light , at the mouth of one of these holes , two rabbits were sitting together side by side . |
| 27 | Although the French right-wing armies held their stations , those of the centre and left , including the BEF ( shortly to comprise five divisions ) were retreating steadily south toward Paris . |
| 28 | Indeed , once families were earning over £3 per week in the Midlands and the South East , where the car industry and the new consumer industries were developing , they had the prospect of a much improved standard of living and a significant improvement in their life opportunities . |
| 29 | ‘ He said Tottenham were receiving over £1m for Lineker . |
| 30 | This time he is the target of their action , while the miners are repeating virtually word for word the demands Mr Yeltsin made in a television broadcast two weeks before the strike began . |