Example sentences of "be [adv] [v-ing] [art] [num ord] " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ In the West we are constantly telling the Third World to save the rain forests — rather hypocritical considering we are not even prepared to replace the tree cover destroyed over the years in Essex . ’ |
| 2 | The eye can not rest on one thing , as in traditional circus , but you are constantly seeking the next thrill . |
| 3 | So we 're just rearranging the first expression , okay , and getting this one right so now we 've got er a decision rule to obtain a , farmers will form their expectation of prices say next year , in T right , on the basis of last year 's price , last year 's actual price and last year 's , the expectation of last year 's actual price okay . |
| 4 | What might have been first visualised as a basic low cost word processor might have transformed into a full blown all bells and whistles application that has spreadsheets and databases built in , yet , if you 're still using the first release , you could be losing out . |
| 5 | The addition of this weakling to the family of Test nations will seen them merely tolerated as non-profitable visitors , lower on the scale even than Sri Lanka , who are still awaiting a first invitation to play West Indies after 10 years of Test status . |
| 6 | Following the breakdown of talks with the 43-year-old Foreman , Bowe 's handlers are also considering a first defence against either of the ex-champions Michael Spinks or Michael Dokes at Madison Square Garden , probably in March . |
| 7 | ‘ But we will have the first National Hunt racing on all-weather anywhere in the world at our first meeting ( Lingfield 's opening card is all Flat ) and we are also staging the first trials at racing pace on the new surface ( they take place on Sunday ) . ’ |
| 8 | We are now entering the last decade of our century and of our millennium , which has been declared a ‘ Decade of Evangelism ’ . |
| 9 | The Lords are now taking a third bite of the cherry . |
| 10 | Detectives are now hunting a fourth man who will also be charged with murder . |
| 11 | We are now seeing the first signs of recovery and all forecasters expect to see our economy growing again in the coming year . |
| 12 | The sport , he added , gives an enormous amount of pleasure to a lot of people , ‘ We are now seeing the second generation enjoying our facilities — youngsters whose parents used to ride around our tracks . ’ |
| 13 | Gradually the old has merged with the new and the grandchildren of the ‘ young couples ’ who moved into the ‘ new ’ houses are now becoming the second generation to attend Keyingham school . |
| 14 | so I 'm actually taking the first three weeks and you 're taking the last |
| 15 | But now said that although he and Mary were already filling a second room with their bits of furniture and stuff , of course they would move it all out at once , if that room were needed by anyone to live in . |
| 16 | In the recent British Library publication , ‘ The Emergence of the Electronic Book ’ ( BNB Research Fund Report 46 , 1990 ) , we saw how handheld electronic reference devices based on chip memories were already foreshadowing the first true electronic books . |
| 17 | She laughed as she watched the dove soar above the chestnut trees , which were already showing the first flecks of green . |
| 18 | Food was a joy to them , and they had no sooner finished one meal than they were enthusiastically discussing the next . |
| 19 | And so , you know , on the business desk you might have three teams and the first team is only doing the first page and the opinion and the second team is doing a large amount of financial news and the third team is doing the company news , and then the erm there 's a graphics person who 's working on charts and stuff . |
| 20 | Sometimes it 's as if he 's constantly rejecting the first idea that comes into his mind , and plays the second instead . |
| 21 | Shaw is already preparing the next generation of managers to handle T&L 's ever-widening geographical and product spread . |
| 22 | We have been without this issue as she is still receiving the last of her treatment from Charing Cross Hospital . |
| 23 | Coton , last season 's choice by his fellow professionals as the country 's top goalkeeper , has been in England squads for two years but is still awaiting a first full cap . |
| 24 | Nearly £35,000 in cash and £450,000 in cheques is believed to have been stolen from the administrator 's home following the first show on Saturday . |
| 25 | With these two packages , Microsoft essentially becomes a value-added reseller of its own applications , and is also taking the first step into the world of the ‘ applet ’ , where software authors use simpler applications as building blocks for larger projects . |
| 26 | British Telecommunications Plc is now implementing the first Metropolitan Area Network in the UK . |
| 27 | CAC sees itself as part of the community of East Manchester and this is borne out by the fact that the company is now employing the third generation of workers from local families . |
| 28 | Dover is now proposing a third force that can genetically transform a species ; transforming not because of the external forces of selection or drift , but from within . |
| 29 | The Abbey is now planning a fifth mailshot to alert them to their windfalls . |
| 30 | In Europe , performance in France and Spain remains unsatisfactory , although it is now showing the first signs of improvement . |