Example sentences of "[coord] [noun sg] [be] [v-ing] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Nobody knows why , any more than anyone knows why amphibians are disappearing , dolphins are dying or coral is turning white . |
| 2 | Coal mining or farming is using natural resources . |
| 3 | But you know what I mean ; when a marriage or relationship is going wrong and it 's like everything that one person says or does n't say , or does or does n't do , seems to rub the other one up the wrong way . |
| 4 | Saskia and Mogul were standing close behind her , embracing each other tightly and whispering . |
| 5 | ‘ Throughout the world customers in medicine , industry and research are facing increasing environmental and regulatory pressure , ’ added Philip . |
| 6 | The workshop identified key areas where lack of knowledge and research are hindering effective and speedy action to combat global warming . |
| 7 | ‘ It is absolutely staggering that while the Ministry of Defence was deploying soldiers in the Gulf , the Department of Trade and Industry was allowing British companies to supply equipment that could be used for munitions to the enemy , ’ he said . |
| 8 | But he insisted : ‘ Taken together , the National Curriculum and testing are helping open schools to public scrutiny and improve standards . ’ |
| 9 | In addition to their list of French phrases and advice , National Tyre and Autocare is offering free holiday safety checks at all of their branches . |
| 10 | The Aerosols were almost impossible to stop , and the soldiers and their weapons and equipment were getting burned and melted all over the place until one brave soldier who had clung on to one of the Aerosols as it flew back to its base came back ( after many adventures ) with the news that their base was a breadboard moored under an overhang on an inland creek . |
| 11 | A major programme of renewal and modernisation is transforming public transport in London — including the biggest expansion of London 's rail network since the 1930s . |
| 12 | Up in Sheffield a protest rally against police provocation and brutality was turning ugly . |
| 13 | And penitence is buying green ; buying green is their prayer for grace . |
| 14 | When demand and conflict are running high , therefore , the phenomena of overload and pressure are not optional . |
| 15 | Sweep was found dead 20ft down the hole and Red was lying hungry and weak tethered to a tree . |
| 16 | Her army and navy were becoming antiquated . |
| 17 | As a result those areas , notably the paramos plains and intermontane valleys , which are suitable for herding and crop-growing are experiencing environmental problems due not simply to over-exploitation , but to poor management such as the lack of rotational grazing and the replacement of traditional crops with cash crops . |
| 18 | Selection for resistance to mastitis and good fertility at the same time as selection for milk yield and quality is proving effective in the dairy cattle population of Norway . |
| 19 | Measures introduced since the 1970s to clean up industrial pollution have reduced levels of aerial deposits of sulphur — a trace element which plants need to grow — to such an extent that crop yields and quality are becoming affected , according to a British scientist . |
| 20 | A new collection of 19 papers published by the Brookings Institution ( ‘ The Urban Underclass ’ , edited by Christopher Jencks and Paul Peterson ) has arrived when both the administration and Congress are discussing anti-poverty policy . |
| 21 | On 28 February , the President of the College Art Association sent a letter to the NEA chairman expressing concern with ‘ allegations that a conservative staff with ties to the White House and Congress is asserting bureaucratic control of policy and process in contravention of NEA mandate ’ . |
| 22 | As we have observed , distinctions between education and training are becoming blurred and look increasingly artificial . |
| 23 | Almost every high street building society and bank is offering fixed-rate deals in the ten to eleven per cent band ( the APR is slightly higher ) which offer borrowers anything from five years to 25 years of stability . |
| 24 | It was n't long before a guard opened the door to admit a well-built black man with an unreadable face , and an aging , overweight black man whose hair and moustache were going grey . |
| 25 | Intasun and Horizon are taking backward integration even further by not only operating their own airlines but also developing or buying up hotels and holiday centres in the Mediterranean area . |
| 26 | Meanwhile , providing bindings between C++ and SQL3 ( SQL3 does not exist but is a label for the ANSI SQL standard that will emerge in 1995/6 ) is one of Beech 's chief interests and Oracle is investigating various styles of binding between the two languages . |
| 27 | Their bread and butter is reporting local events and local people and in a small community they are n't out to offend readers or cause major upset through distortion or misrepresentation . |
| 28 | The blossom buds on the apples , Victoria plum and quince are showing pink . |
| 29 | But patience is becoming hard to sustain . |