Example sentences of "[prep] [be] [v-ing] the [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | And yet few voters appear to be heeding the dire warnings from the conservationists … the party is trailing in the polls at around two per cent . |
| 2 | When Speelman seemed to be getting the better of it , Timman suddenly sacrificed two pieces to expose his opponent 's king . |
| 3 | The Germans , he reckoned , were trying to wipe out the docks , yet somehow the city centre seemed to be getting the worst of it — and all the shops and offices and streets of little houses . |
| 4 | A group of ragged children and some idle women were watching him with amusement rather than disapproval , half applauding him with their cruel laughter , and although one woman boldly cried , ‘ Shame , ’ most seemed to be enjoying the unequal struggle . |
| 5 | There were a few startled shrieks , but for the most part the patrons seemed to be enjoying the sudden element of adventure that had been added to their evening . |
| 6 | Well you 're supposed to be wearing the black one Jack |
| 7 | Combined anti-terrorist units of troops , gendarmes and police officers were reported to be patrolling the main towns . |
| 8 | Sales of mainframe systems are still thought to be earning the biggest profit . |
| 9 | The hon. Lady seems to be confusing the regulatory record of my Department with the regulators outside my Department , who were deliberately set up as independent regulators as a result of legislation passed by the House . |
| 10 | If I may start excuse me , my Lord Mayor , by answering something that appears to be confusing the Conservative benches . |
| 11 | If a patient returns after a prolonged course of antibiotic therapy and is still found to be harbouring the ubiquitous pus cell in the urethra , then it may well be that he has reinfected himself from his , as yet untreated , sexual partner . |
| 12 | President Abulfez Elchibey , elected in June [ see p. 38976 ] , was said to be reorganizing the Azerbaijani army . |
| 13 | The behaviour of the crowds — vulgar , noisy and violent — immediately excited considerable apprehension , and the excesses of the transfer market and professionalism were thought to be ruining the native traditions of ‘ fair play ’ and sportsmanship . |
| 14 | Today , with the weakening of religious feelings , the intolerance is not so marked , but another group tie seems to be replacing the religious one : the socialist one . |
| 15 | One of the most disgraceful international aspects of what is going on in Bosnia is that Western leaders , including our own , seem to be accepting the escalating Serbian brutality , and its consequences of carnage , rape , starvation and terror as if it were inevitable and beyond their combined capacities for effective reaction or remedy . |
| 16 | Are we supposed to be using the pre-course questionnaires that I 've seen a couple of times , on all course ? |
| 17 | Yeah , were going to be using the first plane on Hong Kong on February the first |
| 18 | In conversations which involve speakers of both the first and second generations it is mainly the behaviour of the second generation speakers which is of interest , for it is these individuals who have " stylistic mobility " between London English and Creole and can be assumed to be using the two codes differentially ( though not necessarily consciously ) in a strategic way . |
| 19 | Despite Herbert 's claim to be using the plain saying of direct felt expression and humility towards addressing the divine , he is also demonstrating his poetic standing . |
| 20 | At first , no doubt , it was in the nature of an exercise just to see if he could still write : he was working very closely to the structure of " Burnt Norton " and seemed to be using the earlier poem as a model from which to draw inspiration . |
| 21 | Last month more than a thousand women in Birmingham were recalled after a nurse was said to be using the wrong type of spatula . |
| 22 | So I think we ought to be considering the entire sum of money but we ought also to be looking for ways in which we could be maximising the total impact . |
| 23 | Well certainly not in the period during which we 're going to be discussing the various submissions , er un un at the E I P , now Mr Heselton , erm in a way your comments yesterday would probably be taken that Selby could cope , or would be prepared to cope , even with additional development , now you better sa tell me whether that 's true or false , and I 'm thinking particularly of that element of Greater Sel , of Selby which is in Greater York . |
| 24 | This seems to be pushing the linguistic analogy too far , and to be taking too literally the structuralist tenet that literature is ‘ the essential manifestation ’ of language , and that ‘ the writer does nothing more than read language ’ ( p.84 ) . |
| 25 | The most favourable attitudes were found amongst those subordinates who perceived their boss to be exercising the consultative style . |
| 26 | According to Foster , in the cotton districts of south-west Lancashire union leadership fell into the hands of political radicals who were reported to be drinking the prime minister 's health in consequence ! |
| 27 | What was feasible general practice , and whether that was the best place to be contacting the local people . |
| 28 | That is to say , each dug-in group of British soldiers could expect to be facing the same dug-in group of Germans for many months . |
| 29 | I if I could just come in there you mentioned this er if you changed your mind on goods , and you seemed to be defining the legal position . |
| 30 | Although such a statement might seem to be stating the obvious , apparently a number of mutual insurance companies and other regulated enterprises , whose financial statements are prepared on the basis of statutory accounting rules , have been stating that they conform with GAAP even though the statutory rules and GAAP differ . |