Example sentences of "[noun prp] [pron] [be] [v-ing] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | I refer to the lively campaign being waged in the United States which is affecting many of their best-known golf clubs . |
| 2 | Senna was third — just ahead of Briton Martin Brundle who was driving half blinded by oil spray over his visor . |
| 3 | She glanced sideways at Nevil who was sitting entranced . |
| 4 | Mitchum and Ford were greeted by Lila who was wearing white shorts and a bathrobe . |
| 5 | This time his powers of concentration were not helped by the fact that on a hot and humid Sunday afternoon in the Bois de Boulogne he was feeling awful : he had been wasting in order to ride Beaver II at nine stone ten pounds later in the afternoon , and was severely debilitated by a stomach upset which had kept him up all night . |
| 6 | The international landscape with which we began 1989 — the old , familiar structures of the two alliances , the Anglo-American special relationship , the European Community 's halting progress toward greater unity , and the newer but also beginning to be familiar element of reform in the Soviet Union — is being transformed , and it is Germany which is leading that transformation . |
| 7 | There are many quality initiatives already under way in Scotland which are proving effective at local level . |
| 8 | It was approached by the UAE which is offering tax-free salaries of up to £80,000 and free accommodation . |
| 9 | The man given the task of bringing the legend to life is Chelmsford-born Alex Bourne who is relishing this unabashed , foot-stomping , hand-clapping piece of rock and roll history . |
| 10 | For those students resident in England , Wales and Northern Ireland who are taking first degrees ( including teacher training ) or certain diploma courses , the usual grant-awarding body is the local education authority . |
| 11 | Then there is Test no.8 Tim Gavin who is making slow progress after being ruled out of last year 's World Cup because of damaged knee ligaments . |
| 12 | I shuffled towards Mick who was standing twenty yards off the road by the rear of the Land Rover . |
| 13 | But applicants from England who are contemplating other careers , such as banking , industry or the civil service , will not be disadvantaged by having taken an LLB degree in Scotland rather than England . |
| 14 | The year 1962 had not been a good one for Macmillan : his domestic policies had started to go awry ; the application to join the EEC was unpopular ; his showing in the opinion polls had slumped to 36 per cent ; in July he had sacked one-third of his cabinet , fearing a revolt against his leadership ; in October he was seen to play little part in the Cuban missile crisis , in which Kennedy alone took the decisions that could have drawn Britain , whether she liked it or not , into nuclear war between the superpowers ; and in December it was becoming clear that de Gaulle was blocking the EEC entry negotiations . |
| 15 | Nineteenth-century specialist François Perreau-Saussine of Galerie du Carrousel has dropped in , together with Nicolas Joly from Galerie Yves Mikaeloff who is presenting ten pre-cubist and cubist drawings by Andre Mare alongside seventeenth- and eighteenth-century works , including an early La Hyre and one of the few Nicolas Mignards still to be found outside the Louvre . |
| 16 | However , it does seem to be Malden Mills who are putting most money into research and development . |
| 17 | Given the comments of the right hon. Member for Bath ( Mr. Patten ) , when he was Secretary of State for the Environment , that national parks were the jewels in the crown , does the Minister not think it fair that that should apply to the entire United Kingdom , not least to my constituency which contains Loch Lomond which is facing ecological disaster as a result of the political intransigence of the blockheads in the Scottish Office in Edinburgh ? |
| 18 | Their hired Vauxhall Astra which was travelling thirty miles an hour crashed into the back of an army convoy and caught fire . |
| 19 | We were like , these geeks from Oldham who were doing psychedelic stuff . |
| 20 | Freddie advised Mickey who was lying flat on his face in a clump of nettles . |
| 21 | Whereas mental handicap had revolutionized fairly quickly , for Friern and Claybury we were breaking this ground before the consensus had been reached . |
| 22 | to help the funds , a tin of something , er your attendance draw goes to Mrs I was praying that you know |
| 23 | But Willie I 'm rubbing these down . |
| 24 | This created an awkward situation , since Waismann was expounding some of Wittgenstein 's earlier ideas while Wittgenstein himself was developing later ideas in his own classes . |
| 25 | When she met us off the train in Paris she was living alone . |
| 26 | Well Mrs you 're pleading guilty for these offenses and we 've listened to what Mr has said on your behalf and we 're going to be as lenient as we can in the circumstances . |
| 27 | He 's joining thousands of other people across the UK who are considering legal action against the pharmacutical company Glaxo . |
| 28 | But erm no I think we should take full advantage of it we we 're sitting on erm you know good minerals because as the minerals of the world getting erm shorter in 'sit erm in Africa they 're getting all the copper its getting , well now they 're shifting their interest slowly into Anglesey . |
| 29 | I mean they really think I mean it 's like Lee he 's doing this work experience an yes it 's great an it 's a bit boring , mum and Dave said Lee , you know wake up ! |
| 30 | But thank God someone 's doing some classy work in this crumby country , eh ? ’ |