Example sentences of "be [v-ing] [art] [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Although many local authorities in their strategy documents state that they aim first at rehabilitation , I remain unconvinced that they are devoting the same resources in terms of skilled social workers with small caseloads and adequate financial support to natural families , as they do to finding and supporting new families . |
| 2 | She said she and another officer had been pursuing a red Ford Sierra car on the road between the villages of Hillam and Burton , North Yorkshire , when it suddenly stopped and a gunman got out . |
| 3 | The president himself has quashed rumours that Egypt has been pursuing an Arab peace initiative , and rejected the idea of any ceasefire until the Iraqis have promised to withdraw from Kuwait . |
| 4 | Because he 'd been pursuing the same man for years . |
| 5 | ONE of the province 's most popular marching bands , the Millar Memorial Flute , has reported an increase in membership recently with it now in excess of 35 including many young members who are building a firm base for the future . |
| 6 | As you are building a new pond , you have the opportunity to put in the best filtration system , without paying a fortune . |
| 7 | Said manager John Bell : ‘ The Canadians are building a huge power plant in Ontario and already they have been in touch for guidance on how we operate our laundry system . ’ |
| 8 | With reference to the three-dimensional search space shown in Figure 1.1 , we are building a recursive graph along the time and the knowledge-level axes . |
| 9 | The Chinese authorities are building a 90 megawatt plant on the Yarlung River , 2,600 foot below the Yamdrok Tso lake , with water falling through four tunnels drilled through the Gambala mountains to power the turbines . |
| 10 | ‘ The two I particularly remember are building the new stand at Ascot and the construction of Central Point in London . ’ |
| 11 | Just in case they 'd forgotten , Town Crier Willium Chapman 's been reminding the good people of Newent what day it is . |
| 12 | THE FRIENDS of John McCarthy have been reminding the Foreign Office that the British Government is the only government without a single success in efforts to achieve the release of any of its hostages . |
| 13 | The doctor says stores are wasting an ideal chance to redefine children 's eating habits . |
| 14 | He will tell you if you are rotating the left forearm properly on the backswing . |
| 15 | You are poisoning the very sources of order and happiness and virtue ; you are tearing up root and branch all relations of families to each other ; you are annulling , as it were , the institution of domestic life decreed by Providence Himself , the wisest and kindest of earthly ordinances , the mainstay of social peace and virtue and therein of national security . |
| 16 | It appears that German states are opposing a VAT-like tax on in an inconsistent way , aggravated , aggravated by a failure to warn of any increase in the tax in January nineteen ninety three . |
| 17 | Scottish fishermen 's representatives are opposing an all-out ban and are calling for a series of restrictions on imports until there is a balanced supply at the markets . |
| 18 | For example , Fielding ( 1982 ) takes the best elements of the three main models : ( a ) the desire to live in a more rural setting ; ( b ) the availability of new jobs in the sunrise industries of the rural areas ; and ( c ) regional planning by governments to argue that the two main factors are first , the development of a post-industrial society where the mobile middle classes are relocating the new industries , and second , the rise of service employment , particularly in the more attractive rural areas of each country . |
| 19 | The eavesdroppers are proving a serious problem for police in Sheffield , South Yorkshire . |
| 20 | Significant technological advances in underwater excavation and recovery are proving a mixed blessing in the field of marine archaeology . |
| 21 | Remaining large areas of old-growth forest in Eastern Europe are proving a tempting source of hard currency at a time of rising world timber prices . |
| 22 | But the heavy clay gallops near Woodbridge are proving an ideal training ground for young chasers . |
| 23 | James had for some time been accepting an annual pension from Elizabeth in return for promises of assistance against foreign invaders — meaning , at this period , Spain — and on the tacit understanding that he would in no way connive at his mother 's return to Scotland . |
| 24 | I am attaching a complete list of the personnel in the film unit . |
| 25 | PS I am attaching the relevant sections of the script |
| 26 | The problem of thinking we are attaching the same meaning to a word or action when we may not be can be appreciated humorously . |
| 27 | ‘ You know my nightmare — that I am seeing a dead boy ( whom I never recognize ) on the ground at my feet . |
| 28 | And Petrarch lived quite near here in Avignon , and I am seeing the same cypresses and oleanders … |
| 29 | If food 's got anything to do with it then I must have been eating the wrong way for the last 40 years . |
| 30 | ‘ We are seeing a radical change in the structure of our society , ’ said Mintel , the research group behind the survey . |