Example sentences of "[prep] [noun] be [v-ing] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | But both Dr Kohl and Mr Modrow , aware that the hopes of many for reunification are growing by the day , and more quickly than the politicians can accommodate , tried to cool expectations . |
| 2 | Such for instance is correcting on the stone . |
| 3 | One of the heaviest performers at the seaside track , Between Times was floundering after a slow start . |
| 4 | By the second decade of the new century instrumental music in general had developed special properties rendering obsolescent the concept of composition ‘ da cantare et sonare per ogni instrumento ’ or ‘ apt both for viols and voices ’ , while at the same time concerted secular music for voices was beginning to be overtaken in popularity by the vocal solo or duet . |
| 5 | The indications for TIPSS were bleeding from gastric varices ( six patients ) or recurrent bleeding from oesophageal varices that had not responded to repeated injection sclerotherapy ( 10 patients , number of bleeds two to more than 10 before TIPSS ) . |
| 6 | The problem for IBM is going to be how to sell it . |
| 7 | EVERYTHING IS VOLUNTARY Everyone who wanted to continue working for IBM is working for IBM . |
| 8 | The most common reason for testing was screening for , say , those students who need remedial help . |
| 9 | A mother and daughter in the Forest of Dean are writing to more than fifty prisoners in America … including convicted killers on death row . |
| 10 | Hundreds of ramblers from the Forest of Dean are campaigning against the governments proposals . |
| 11 | Beads of moisture were forming on his forehead . |
| 12 | This type of assessment is demanding for teachers , who need to observe pupils ' strategies carefully . |
| 13 | ‘ Any use ? ’ she asked , but waves of tiredness were sweeping over her and she found herself hoping that his answer would be no . |
| 14 | A fundamental process of change is occurring within society both in the UK and certain other richer nations : this has been termed the emergence of ‘ post-industrial society ’ ( Bell , 1973 ) . |
| 15 | ‘ But my feeling is that the winds of change are blowing through this club and that the old guard 's days are numbered . ’ |
| 16 | The purpose of the remainder of this chapter is to analyse the changing structure and composition of the national population , assess the principal dimensions of population redistribution , and examine the impact which both these sources of change are having on the geography of Britain . |
| 17 | By 1978 , the wind of change was freshening to a full gale in the cutter service . |
| 18 | Six teams of experts are going to Russia and two to Ukraine for placements of six months to a year ; each team consists of between four and six engineers , who will install computerised protection systems and leak detection devices . |
| 19 | In 1980 rates of smoking were increasing in Australian young adult women . |
| 20 | THE sun 's out and hundreds of Merseysiders are flocking into their gardens for a good old barbie . |
| 21 | You should then decide which area of parcel is going to be decorated with the pressed flowers and foliage . |
| 22 | I know those offices in Northumberland Avenue — I have been involved in submitting evidence to two separate Royal Commissions there — and I do not believe this proposed tour of inspection is going to be a very joyous occasion . |
| 23 | They had no security classification and related , not to naval operations , but to how the Ministry of Defence were dealing with parliamentary questions about the incident . |
| 24 | Long before the Gulf crisis , American , British and French ministries of defence were warning about the new threat from the South — the increase in missiles and chemical weapons , the danger of fanatics , fundamentalists , drug traffickers and so forth . |
| 25 | Steel-casting companies in Spain which in Britain would have been bankrupted are continuing to offer steel-castings at artificially low prices , and indeed inefficient capacity and production is not only being maintained but is even being purposely created ; while in France the producers of steel-castings are benefiting from soft loans from mostly state-owned banks . |
| 26 | Eight days later the first Duke of Wellington was calling on her with reports of a coming clash : the king 's desired divorce from Queen Caroline . |
| 27 | The other type of damage is chipping of the salient angles of microtine teeth , where whole corners of the tooth are broken away ( Fig. 1.5D ) . |
| 28 | I am delighted to see that lots of improvements are happening within the business and that people are not waiting for ‘ Felcourt ’ to make things happen — the best initiatives start in the field and are developed by enthusiastic individuals and long may this continue . |
| 29 | However an alarming argument which crept in , and seems here to stay , was that the ‘ cream ’ ( so called ) in terms of personnel was going to private industry . |
| 30 | So , because of the fierce competition , a number of houses are looking at gimmicks to try to bring their new authors to the fore . |