Example sentences of "[be] [v-ing] the [noun sg] [conj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Database creation is the process of matching the capacity , features and potential of the hardware and software to the needs of those who will be using the system and the information it contains . |
| 2 | A number of the visiting drivers will also be using the event as valuable race practice before round two of the European Championships at the circuit on July 2 and 3 . |
| 3 | Thus , if there is an outright transfer of the matrimonial home to the wife subject to the existing mortgage ( see Chapters 3 , 4 and 7 ) or the matrimonial home is held on certain terms and conditions ( see Chapter 6 ) then the occupant wife should be made responsible for the mortgage payments ( the husband would not be using the house as his only or main residence and so would not be eligible for interest relief ) . |
| 4 | In your article on Britain 's unions ( April 3rd ) you seem to be using the number and size of strikes as a measure of union strength , as if the reason for the unions ' existence was to organise strikes . |
| 5 | But you are very unlikely to be able to show a link which is directly attributable to your activities and you will be encouraging the view that media relations is simply a cheap form of advertising . |
| 6 | Women who find that homosexual men make wonderful friends , may be reflecting the fact that the freedom from preoccupation with physical sex leaves the relationship wide open to a full range of shared experiences which should be enjoyed freely between heterosexual men and women too . |
| 7 | We will continue here reminding you Mr Chairman , we will be opposing the budget that you have presented . |
| 8 | Is that what it is– ’ Or if I was to see the doctor and my girlfriend happened to be seeing the doctor as well , this was just an excuse , according to them , for us to be together . |
| 9 | Would the er patients be seeing the doctor as well as the midwife during this few months before they were going |
| 10 | All the same , Reader 's Digest is a successful publishing house and it seems to me that the company would not be producing the book if it were not convinced that there is a big market for such works . |
| 11 | She was uncertain whether , at work , she should be denying the rumour that she was engaged to the head of the Massingham empire , but thought that if Naylor had any strong views on the subject she 'd soon be hearing about them anyway . |
| 12 | She would n't be keeping the Law if she turned a deaf ear to the call or ran away from it . |
| 13 | will be co-ordinating the event and would appreciate all offers of help ( if only for short periods during the day ) Offers of display items to as soon as possible please . |
| 14 | ‘ I am proud to be representing the company and being able to wear the Wedgwood vest . ’ |
| 15 | They wo n't Brenda because if they did I would be opening the window or door and telling them exactly their fortune . |
| 16 | We traditionally take two wicket keepers on tour , Alec Stewart is one of them , but he 'll be opening the bat and we need the best wicket keeper and someone to bat at 7 or 8 and Jack Russell is the man . |
| 17 | You 'd be walking the beat and you 'd see some kid with his backside hanging out of his trousers . |
| 18 | about it and I did n't see her for weekend she gave me her phone number , Saturday morning I gave her a bell , said I would be walking the dog if you want to join me |
| 19 | So , with a day to spare after Watergate , I flew out to Kearney and over an eggs and hash brown breakfast at Captain Smith 's , heard the story of his life and how he came to be piloting the Catalina that sighted the Bismarck . |
| 20 | Does my hon. Friend agree that employers and the TECs should be congratulated on the fact that , despite difficult economic circumstances , they are continuing to train people for the period , which will shortly come , when under a Conservative Government we shall be re-expanding the economy and employment ? |
| 21 | I think the the the B W the Barton Willmore analysis appears to overlook the fact , and again Mr Jewitt referred to this when he referred to Easingwold , that settlement evolves over time , and and nobody seems to be addressing the point that that fourteen hundred , fifteen hundred , two thousand houses , however many it is , wo n't appear over night , erm er th it would take some time for that to be to be realized erm and as part of that there 's no clear view as to when the services will come along that are that are necessary to give that community the balance it it said it requires , erm , Mr Timothy from Wood Fram Frampton referred I think to a figure of twelve fifty dwellings for a viable new settlement , and there were plenty ex of of examples , quote , erm that one could look at to see that was the case , erm I I 'd be interested to know where those examples are an and what there make up erm is . |
| 22 | In an attempt to sharpen up the spongy brakes on my IIa , I am working on a process of elimination and the next venture was going to be flushing the system and changing the fluid . |
| 23 | It may seem ironic to onlookers that the very parents who have been complaining loud and long about the difficulty of sharing their home with impossible teenage children , should be lamenting the fact that they 've left , only a few months later . |
| 24 | It believes that the government report may be underestimating the speed and extent of extinctions . |
| 25 | They will be ignoring the slide that has already taken place — and is accelerating . |
| 26 | But competitors say the company may be testing the market as the world prepares to exploit the rapidly developing technology of receiving and processing data from satellites . |
| 27 | Once again hardware and software developers will be testing the portability and interoperability of their technologies at the eighth Connectathon event which SunSoft Inc is staging at between July 22–30 at the San Jose Convention centre in California . |
| 28 | Thus it is one thing to adopt a radically subjectivist posture towards law reform and another thing entirely to purport merely to be describing the law as it is and then to conclude that it is wholly or even primarily subjectivist . |
| 29 | No , yeah that 'd be selling the book but |
| 30 | This week Scotland Today 's Bernard Ponsonby will be analysing the law and order debate and talking to the police , the victims and the offenders . |