Example sentences of "[noun sg] [be] [v-ing] [adv prt] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Appeals over the nurses ' regrading are coming through with no extra cash to pay for them , and , ironically , in the Thames regions the slump in house prices has slowed staff turnover ; vacancy levels , which helped balance the books at the cost of quality and volume of service , are lower . |
| 2 | ‘ Dad 's coming over here and he and Mum are going down to Cornwall . |
| 3 | Twenty students from the University are coming in as extras . ’ |
| 4 | ASIANS in the West are moving in on Hollywood . |
| 5 | Schemes similar to Horse Watch are springing up around the country , initiated originally by the British Horse Society . |
| 6 | Now that interest rates are at historically low levels , considerable sums of money are moving out of the banks and building societies into equity based investments , the equity message seems to be getting home . |
| 7 | Andesite lavas are characteristic of destructive plate margins , where the rocks of the oceanic crust are diving down beneath a continental plate . |
| 8 | The arrows in the drawing are moving back from the boundary of the information field to the centre . |
| 9 | Twenty-eight per cent — nearly one in three — of primary schools in the study are shaving up to one hour a week off teaching time . |
| 10 | They 're occupying themselves writing out an account of their movements since Lorrimer was last seen alive and the local force are getting on with the preliminary checking of alibis . |
| 11 | The techniques of the coffee table brigade were seeping through into academia , which was no bad thing . |
| 12 | At other places people have often sought to reduce casualties by carrying the toads across the road and putting them into the breeding pond , but as often as not the toads they put into the pond were moving out of it rather than in , so the toads have to run the gauntlet of the road a second time . |
| 13 | The professionals who had survived the cut were teeing off from 8 till 11 . |
| 14 | Small flakes of rock were dropping out of the roof around the ring pitons . |
| 15 | Relegation followed , and the hopelessly over-stretched club were sliding back towards the Fourth Division when Toshack resigned in 1984 . |
| 16 | A huge land-grab is going on in Bosnia-Herzegovina today as Serbs and Croats fight to divide up the country . |
| 17 | This kind of thinking is leading on from the question of analysis to that of evaluation . |
| 18 | If at the moment he speaks he thinks he is meeting his child in a land of real stones and tree-stumps , he is sadly mistaken ; if he realises he is not , then already a touch of grief is creeping back into consolation . |
| 19 | ‘ It 's no use telling you disbelieving bastards anything , but I will tell you this : The Brigade is moving out of this place tomorrow . ’ |
| 20 | A great deal is going on in those regions , and people in the south who have not been north of Watford Gap for a few years should go and see what is happening there . |
| 21 | A CRICKET club is biting back at persistent raiders and vandals by covering the roof of its pavilion with razor-sharp security wire . |
| 22 | An ’ you know , little pigs have got big ears and this little pig is looking up at me . ’ |
| 23 | My mind is going round in circles . ’ |
| 24 | THE Royal Mail is gearing up for the General Election . |
| 25 | The ghost of christmas future is catching up with Scrooge , and the news is grave . |
| 26 | Mummy 's coming back for you two . |
| 27 | Yes , mummy 's coming back from Scotland , but who 's she bringing with her ? |
| 28 | And mummy 's smiling in at him from the outside , look she 's hanging the washing out pretending not to notice what 's going on . |
| 29 | Research is spilling out of the broking houses by the shovelful , but often straight into the fund manager 's bin . |
| 30 | Impact Approaching impact , the body weight is surging through to the left side but the see-saw has n't hit the ground . |