Example sentences of "[be] [v-ing] [prep] [art] [num ord] " in BNC.
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| 1 | They have n't noticed the so-called economic boom Chile 's been enjoying for the last twenty years . |
| 2 | He himself says in his 2nd Edition of the Perambulation of Kent , which he revised whilst living here , " At this place of the Bishop in Halling I am drawing on the last scene of my life , where God has given me Liberorum Ouadrigam , all the fruit that I ever had " . |
| 3 | Dictating condolences to the mother of a murdered husband whom you 've been cuckolding for the last three years would take more than his limited social vocabulary . |
| 4 | I 've been farming for the last 70 years and never seen anything like it . ’ |
| 5 | British firms have been struggling with the first of these for the past 18 months , and for the past six or so have also suffered from the second . |
| 6 | You 've all got friends and relations in er other jobs and they 've all been struggling for the last two or three years have n't they ? |
| 7 | MAGAZINES are bidding for the first photos of five-day-old Louis , son of Princess Stephanie of Monaco , right . |
| 8 | Although they have only been trading for the last ten years , they continue the tradition of using a water powered mill which started in the 1800s . |
| 9 | Well , no what I 'm , what I 'm denying is I 'm questioning your assertion on what 's been happening in the last couple of weeks that we should react to that on a pa on er er report that has n't been released , right ? |
| 10 | Returning to our historical outline and intimately connected with this new notion of female impurity , was the development of an increased rigidity in attitude toward and definition of function within the family group — something which had gradually been happening before the sixth century but which was accelerated and refined by the experience of the exile . |
| 11 | Thank you Chairman erm I would like I know that you 've been listening to the first er part of our session this afternoon , erm and I 'd like to ask you to discuss with us one of the questions that we asked the group the Pension Fund erm and that 's to discuss the balance of power that exists between the employer and the various groups and classes of pensioner . |
| 12 | IN view of all the talk about a resumption of political talks , I 've been looking at the last word of the Ulster Unionists on the subject , delivered just before the plug was pulled last October . |
| 13 | It could be the day you deleted the thesis you 'd been writing for the last year , or the time the system crashed while you were giving a presentation in front of a thousand people . |
| 14 | ‘ Now I have got that first win I am looking for the second . ’ |
| 15 | It appears that two campaigning groups against genital mutilation have been developing in the last ten years within and outside Africa . |
| 16 | DAVID ANDERSON , chairman of Australian Mutual Provident , Australia 's biggest life insurer , and Einion Holland , chairman of Pearl Group , the British life insurance company , are meeting over the next few days amid speculation that the Australian group is poised to mount a takeover bid for Pearl worth at least £1bn . |
| 17 | Establishing rapport is the process of getting on the right wavelength with someone — usually , but not inevitably , with someone you are meeting for the first time . |
| 18 | and Q acted upon by unc and unc are essentially the same , we are meeting for the first time a concept of prime importance in algebra , namely that of isomorphism . |
| 19 | Now they are searching for the fourth sister Pamela , who walked out at the age of 15 after a row with her father . |
| 20 | One try resulted in a pregnancy which ended in a miscarriage , but the couple are saving for a second try . |
| 21 | Soccer : Border League Wormingford FC are looking for a first team manager for next season . |
| 22 | Wivenhoe Town have never won the competition and are looking for a first success to complete a meteoric rise to the summit of the Essex non-league football hierarchy . |
| 23 | But if you are looking for a 21st century Polo , you will have to wait at least three years until the genuinely all-new one . |
| 24 | Each year the amount has gone up by inflation , and yet we see something approaching thirty thousand underspent on previous years , and here we are looking in the first year of this council to a , a , at least a five percent overspend and er , I wonder if we 've erm , excluded the time when there were n't many meetings at the beginning if we would n't have seen a considerably larger overspend . |
| 25 | In the first place it is a single system of examinations in place of the dual system that has been operating for the last twenty-two years . |
| 26 | Now , so far er , the acquisitions that have come onto the market have n't really reflected er , the trading conditions in which all companies in this country have been operating for the last eighteen months . |
| 27 | Many see their condition as a sign that the realms of men are about to collapse , that they are living in the last days of a dying world . |
| 28 | They 've been living for the last ten years in an environment where they expect there to be a high level of occult activity in society . |
| 29 | The fact was that Algy had been living for the last year with a working-class architect called Len in a basement flat in Maida Vale . |
| 30 | Her East Coast American accent deceived most people , it was so like , and yet in some ways so unlike , that of the society in which she had been living for the last six months . |