Example sentences of "[be] [v-ing] the [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | On the other hand , the person who discovers a lump under their skin but is too frightened to go to the doctor lest he diagnose cancer will be perpetuating the threatening situation — and this would hold even if the lump was in fact benign . |
| 2 | What was feasible general practice , and whether that was the best place to be contacting the local people . |
| 3 | Next week , in recognition of this magnificent feat , Public NME will be devoting the entire page to care of your dust mask . |
| 4 | The AA says fourteen thousand extra drivers a day will be using the existing motorway and its link roads by 1991 . |
| 5 | It will , in that sense , be using the existing form of uneven development to its maximum advantage . |
| 6 | Are we supposed to be using the pre-course questionnaires that I 've seen a couple of times , on all course ? |
| 7 | The remaining locations should be using the new system by October this year which will then see the completion of a major personnel and data processing project which will have taken two and a half years to plan and implement . |
| 8 | Can he tell us whether and how he will be using the new marketing initiative of his Ministry to assist exports in the industry ? |
| 9 | 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 . |
| 10 | Yeah , were going to be using the first plane on Hong Kong on February the first |
| 11 | 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 . |
| 12 | 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 . |
| 13 | Last month more than a thousand women in Birmingham were recalled after a nurse was said to be using the wrong type of spatula . |
| 14 | If you are properly set up under Windows then you should have the ANSI.SYS driver in your CONFIG.SYS file , if not then it may well be worth installing it unless you are driving an HP LaserJet in which case you 'll be using the Roman-8 character set ; the Roman-8 codes are 247 , 248 and 245 respectively . |
| 15 | " He wo n't be using the old way for long . " |
| 16 | Says John : ‘ We hope that this approach will take the personality element out of the audit process and will ensure that we shall all be using the same measurement criteria . |
| 17 | Both scientist and engineer , biologist and doctor , chemist and agriculturist may be handling the same kind of data , but where the first intervenes in the world in order to understand it , the second has to understand the world in order to intervene in it . |
| 18 | But the rest of A View is formulated to transform readers ' approval to Irenius without loosing Spenser 's claims to be pursuing the Irish question in an impartial philosophic way . |
| 19 | Well , it may be simulating the same sport , but it 's a totally different sort of game . |
| 20 | Yet it now looks inevitable that MPs and unions will be demanding the big spending schemes aimed at putting Britain back to work do exactly that . |
| 21 | ‘ I take it you 'll be seeing the young lady 's looked after , Doctor ? |
| 22 | Becky assumed that she would not be seeing the young officer again . |
| 23 | The cup was halfway to her mouth when she said , ‘ We wo n't be seeing the New Year in then ? ’ |
| 24 | But you 'll be seeing the old man , of course . |
| 25 | In other words , McCreery would be seeing the commanding officers in 6 Armoured Division who on 19 May had expressed disquiet over the Yugoslav repatriations , as had been reported by Maj Mennell on his return to Division HQ . |
| 26 | ‘ And soon ’ — Dr Reid waved a hand dramatically — ‘ you 'll be seeing the eighth wonder of the world . |
| 27 | Tomorrow evening the Mersey Partnership will be sponsoring the official conference dinner at the Maritime Museum where the Partnership 's Chief Executive Christopher Gibaud will be the keynote speaker . |
| 28 | These celebratory fanfares do n't sound as though they might just be heralding the very advent of Slavonic culture . |
| 29 | That has been further added to and we do have problems at Bentley Chorley Blackburn although Blackburn at this particular moment in time may be easing the particular pressure but we are all suffering from the restraints within the government industry . |
| 30 | Lenders in general often appeared to be financing the tempting rates offered to first-time buyers at the expense of existing borrowers . |