Example sentences of "[subord] [noun sg] be [v-ing] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Mohammed has expanded his trade into other Arab countries , notably Saudi Arabia , where business is booming for middlemen . |
| 2 | She seemed to stand staring at the two of them , and they at her , for a long time , while outside , where night was making of the road a strange country , the vegetation grew black and monstrous . |
| 3 | They married in 1910 and she came to live at West park , where Father was farming with his sister , Hannah . |
| 4 | Are soaps in a sense the subconscious of patriarchy — where patriarchy is reflecting on itself via these various problematic issues which are unresolvable within the terms that patriarchy sets ? |
| 5 | Although Mum was working at the fish shop she did n't get much for her labours , sometimes only some fish and chips . |
| 6 | Although curling is booming as a sport , the increased number of players is not reflected directly in the number of stones required , as very few curlers have their own stones . |
| 7 | Thus , it is not surprising that interaction between the two can result in cumulative movements in income for example , if income is rising at an increasing rate , both investment and consumption will be rising , causing further rises in income in the next period . |
| 8 | I determined to discover if Mum was going to Miss Louise like the rest . |
| 9 | If light is moving in the direction labelled z in the figure , it has two distinct possibilities of polarisation , corresponding to oscillations in the two mutually perpendicular directions x and y respectively . |
| 10 | If empiricism is claiming to be the study of the observable and explicable , then it is no more than behaviourism returned , vampire-like , to seek new life in the fear-ridden haunted village of modern academia . |
| 11 | Shareholders are right to wonder whether , if business is going to be that good , it should be they rather than their managers who make the killing . |
| 12 | Water lilies do not grow well if water is falling onto their leaves . |
| 13 | If penicillin was going to be tried in man , how on earth was enough going to be made ? |
| 14 | If television is going to be with you , you will need to arrange stronger lights on the key focal points — you would do well to get a set of four ‘ redheads ’ ( 800 watt TV lights ) . |
| 15 | if dad 's going to or something or drove something down |
| 16 | We will establish when and how often the baby checks to see if mother is attending to the pointing gesture . |
| 17 | The argument is that if Target is acting as agent for Newco , then Newco is carrying on a trade as principal through the agency of Target . |
| 18 | Unless toplessness is going to be the next feature of your act . ’ |
| 19 | As before , the gravitational effect tends to increase the wavelength , because light is passing from a region of strong gravity near B to a region of weak gravity near A . |
| 20 | ‘ Those who had followed Peel with open eyes ( to abolish protection and destroy his own party ) … had done so because population was growing at the rate of 300,000 per annum . |
| 21 | Virgin offered to improve the deal still further to a 75–25 split , but Miles Copeland , Sting 's manager , flatly refused , ostensibly because Virgin were asking for the length of the contract to be extended to include the publishing rights to more albums . |
| 22 | It also said that while it was committed to the IBMulator business , it plans to expand its open systems products line because demand is increasing in that field . |
| 23 | Amdahl Corp is not known as an IBMulator for nothing : it too is cutting its dividend — to five cents a share this year from a dime last year , in an effort to conserve its capital base : the company , which reported a first quarter $240m loss after a $243m restructuring charge — figures , page seven — said its revenues were lower than expected because of soft economic conditions and competitive pressure on prices ; it also said that while it was committed to the IBMulator business , it plans to expand its open systems products line because demand is increasing in that field ; it is also enhancing our Huron applications development and production system , which creates applications that run without change in both proprietary and open environments and on both large and desktop systems , the company added , saying that its objective is to turn Huron into an industry standard and to develop a growing business in open systems for large-scale computing . |
| 24 | Verdun is terrible … because man is fighting against material , with the sensation of striking out at empty air … |
| 25 | The first thing was to find a school for you three — for six months you had had no teaching , except what I could give you , and then kind Miss Budden , the headmistress at Auckland House school , Simla , said she could take you if I could come too and help her nurse about twenty children down with measles in the san. , because Matron was coping with some children with suspected diphtheria in another block . |
| 26 | Since daylight was flooding into the world , I was able to stay at a distance and keep him in sight . |
| 27 | Excessive water break from a surface while water is draining from it . |
| 28 | While King is looking for a repeat performance , club officials are hoping for a repeat of Friday 's biggest gate of the season . |
| 29 | While King is looking for a repeat performance , club officials are hoping for a repeat of Friday 's biggest gate of the season . |
| 30 | In this new church , on 30 December 1485 , while plague was sweeping through the city , a crowd gathered at the church to ask help of the Madonna . |