Example sentences of "[noun sg] [be] [v-ing] [prep] [det] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The musical flavour will be supplied by Edinburgh 's own Tam White and the Caledonian Brewery are laying on some of their amber liquid and pies to give you just a taste of what the atmosphere will be like during the weekend 13–15 August . |
| 2 | ‘ But my feeling is that the winds of change are blowing through this club and that the old guard 's days are numbered . ’ |
| 3 | An increasing number of people in the industry are working towards those qualifications . |
| 4 | Hope and fear were tripping over each other inside her . |
| 5 | With the aid of the LFS we were able to examine further the extent to which members of the temporary labour force in the hotel and catering industry were working on that basis because they had been unable to find permanent jobs , and to what extent they were doing so because they did not want permanent jobs . |
| 6 | A great deal is riding on those words and what they produce . |
| 7 | And the odour can be carried as much as a mile away if the wind is blowing in that direction . |
| 8 | If high unemployment continues what good is training to most people in West Belfast ? |
| 9 | The anti-dog programme is meeting with some encouraging success , using poisoned bait which is hidden under dark ledges . |
| 10 | They also believe that their programme is working as most privatized companies are reporting increased turnover , investment and profitability . |
| 11 | Outside Africa , desertification is occurring in many other arid and semi-arid regions . |
| 12 | The problems are most acute in Africa where population pressures are also greatest , though modification of South American savannas is increasing ; desertification is occurring in some areas as a result of overgrazing . |
| 13 | While your subconscious mind is searching for some final point to include in the margins , go on to the final stage . |
| 14 | The gardens outside my window are bowing down to the heat of the afternoon , but my mind is racing in this stillness , like a dust devil on the apparently windless plains . |
| 15 | On an application for renewal of registration , the Law Society may require the registered foreign lawyer to provide to the Society evidence satisfactory to the Society that the registered foreign lawyer is complying with any indemnity rules or is exempt from them . |
| 16 | My Department is writing to all those who have been registered as objectors to the applications , with details of the arrangements . |
| 17 | Here are some guidelines , derived from the New Testament 's teaching on these matters ( cf. |
| 18 | ‘ Car 's coming in half an hour , ’ he said . |
| 19 | R.5(6) provides that a shareholder shall not exercise any voting rights in respect of any share held in breach of any part of R.5 — a breach could come about either because a shareholder is not permitted to be a shareholder or because a shareholder is holding for another person who is not permitted to be a beneficial owner . |
| 20 | Benjamin Jowett ( 181793 ) , Master of Balliol College , Oxford , and one of the modernizing dons who supported endeavours to extend university education and to attract men from new social classes to Oxford , considered that " classical study is getting in some respects worn out , and the plan proposed [ the introduction of English Language and Literature at Oxford ] would breathe new life into it . |
| 21 | Do you realise the entire police force is working on this ? |
| 22 | The deliberations irritated both groups a little because they realised that the gap is growing between those who run computers and those who do n't . |
| 23 | I pay tribute to the increasing attention that the industry is giving to these aspects . |
| 24 | INDUSTRY is preparing for another assault on advance corporation tax . |
| 25 | The light 's flashing on this screen you know , |
| 26 | I am glad to say that immense capital investment is going into that , which did not happen under the last Labour Government . |
| 27 | Also , the roof is leaking in several places , there are cracks appearing on the parapet , which need , even to my eyes , need to be filled . |
| 28 | While part of friendship is caring about each other to a greater or lesser degree , caring for one another is not an element inherent in the routine organization of friendship … the majority of routine friendships are not particularly well suited for providing the sort of caring community care entails , notwithstanding the friendship ideals that might make one think they would be . |
| 29 | The decline of community and the rise of a society in which association was becoming in some sense secondary can also be seen as reflecting some of the profound social and spatial changes that were actually taking place in the nineteenth and early twentieth centuries . |
| 30 | As Butler and Stokes pointed out , the replacement of the electorate was working against this kind of ‘ cross-voting ’ as more cohorts from ‘ working class'/Labour homes entered the electorate , but evidently the Tories managed to counter this trend . |