Example sentences of "be [v-ing] [adv] [art] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | POLICE in County Durham are stepping up the fight against crime after a wide ranging shake-up in senior personnel . |
| 2 | Gradually they are building up a resistance to a sting that could otherwise kill them . |
| 3 | Here we reckon we are building up a specialisation in this aspect of human development . |
| 4 | They already have a children 's play room , an art room , conference space and are building up a library . |
| 5 | But , if you plan your planting , and especially if you are building up a garden from scratch , it pays to think in terms of shape , colour and texture , and then arrange the plants with these factors in mind . |
| 6 | His chief backer is Roy Hattersley , whom he has been seeing quite a bit lately . |
| 7 | ‘ I learned from her diary that she had been seeing quite a lot of — of a man . |
| 8 | I understand from Valerie — I 've been seeing quite a lot of Valerie , as I think she 's indicated — that you were visiting your husband today . |
| 9 | Civil war has been eating up the country for five years . |
| 10 | It might be very hard for Ireland to get five on the team , but the way things are shaping up the selectors will probably not care where the players come from . |
| 11 | Those who saw him freeze into immobility against Mike Tyson before crashing to the canvas in the first round in July 1990 believe they are seeing now a repeat of the same symptoms . |
| 12 | He is the former production manager of British Die Casting which in 1973 employed 143 at Chirton and was quoted in The shields News Guardian on 26 May 1988 as saying : ‘ We are producing double the output of the old British Die Casting with half the work force . ’ |
| 13 | ‘ We need to consider how the economy of the West Bank can one day be integrated with that of the East Bank ’ , declared Jordan 's minister for the occupied territories , ‘ We are drawing up a West Bank five year development plan aimed at integrating what we do there with what we have here . |
| 14 | Well , she says that the boatmen and wharfers are drawing up a petition which they would like you to look at . |
| 15 | Customs are drawing up a paper to assist the Commission , in consultation with the Royal Yachting Association , the British Marine Industries Federation and others . |
| 16 | We also pledge that when we are drawing up the membership of the commission we shall take into account his earlier suggestions about widening the membership . |
| 17 | While men have been destroying life , women have been building up a system that will diminish suffering and save life . |
| 18 | As for Dieter Sims , I do n't know much about him except that he 's been building up the East German unit under Husband 's wing . |
| 19 | What is a good average for two-colour work , will be hopelessly wrong for four-colour , because we are knitting double the number of rows to obtain the correct pattern , so the additional rows knitted will change the measurement of 40 rows in millimetres . |
| 20 | But I do n't know that actually killing a man because he 's been touching up the boys would altogether hang together as a motive . ’ |
| 21 | They 'd pretty well packed their bags anyway , she said , it 's been raining there every day . ’ |
| 22 | The usual south-east Londoners are hanging about the bus stop . |
| 23 | He handed her her jacket , which had been hanging on the back of her chair . |
| 24 | ‘ I say , ’ he said jovially , ‘ I see my mama 's been lashing out a bit . ’ |
| 25 | The programme is open to people who have been mulling over an idea for some time and experts will give it the commercial analysis it needs and , if it stands up , the business planning and search for funding that it merits . |
| 26 | Ratners marketing director Simon de Mille says : ‘ We are speeding up the process . |
| 27 | De Burgh is speaking us very fairly and friendly , but both his hands are gathering up the borders round us . |
| 28 | They occupy the time that seems vacant , as if you were just hanging around doing nothing — but where in reality the well is filling up , where you are gathering together the material that will make up your narrative ; rearranging it , transforming it . |
| 29 | Touchmaster are bringing out a range of software designed specifically for use with their tablet ; games and educational programs in the main but the real proof of success will come if independent software houses decide to support it . |
| 30 | Gallimard , meanwhile , are bringing out the correspondence between Picasso and Apollinaire , a monograph on Masson by Bernard Noël , and a study of Leonardo and Titian by David Rosand , provisionally entitled La trace de l'artiste . |