Example sentences of "be [v-ing] a [noun pl] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Scientists are developing an anti-aids vaccine which could be used to immunise millions of people . |
| 2 | ‘ I say , old man , do you realize you 're wearing a Guards Brigade tie ? ’ |
| 3 | erm And I 'm very much looking forward to that , on Wednesday I 'm coming and we 're having a promotions day when we 'll let everyone know what we 're doing ; when it 's going to be , where it 's going to be held , and erm give two hundred youngsters the opportunity to try erm the various sports , we do n't just do football now either , we do lots of other sports . |
| 4 | I have on occasion told students that they 're doing an arts subject , and tried to encourage them to think in those terms , because if they 're constantly thinking of the job at the end of it , then I do n't think they 're getting the most out of it that they can do … . |
| 5 | That was a very , very successful evening , and now we 're organising an entertainments evening down there again . |
| 6 | Yes , we 're planning a pokes section on the Megatape . |
| 7 | Contrary to Europe , the young churches are experiencing a vocations boom . |
| 8 | At this school in Oxford they 've been running an arts week , helping the children to write their own play and make the scenery . |
| 9 | Farmers Weekly and Power Farming , in association with FAF and the Royal Smithfield Show , are running an inventions competition with a first prize of £1,000 , two runners-up prizes of £500 and three further prizes of £250 . |
| 10 | We will shortly be publishing a Courts Charter . |
| 11 | There 's a choice of 32 family hotels , many of which will be operating a Kids Club for youngsters aged between four and 11 . |
| 12 | A lot of erm group one plans are , there are about ten thousand plans that are showing an arrears status at the moment , and premium has been missed some time ago , it 's not a , not a current premium , which means on the fifteenth of June or the first of July we will automatically go in and pick up two premiums , we 'll t we 'll try and collect the arrears without having notified the client of it in any way at all . |
| 13 | This autumn join Harpers & Queen On Location at Harvey Nichols , Knightsbridge , London SW1 , where we are hosting an accessories extravaganza to celebrate the opening of their newly refurbished department . |
| 14 | ‘ Our research showed that over half our customers were using a Windows operating system , ’ commented , managing director of HTFS , a joint venture between AEA , NEL and the Atomic Energy of Canada . |
| 15 | But you can see why if you 're selling inappropriately , if you sell someone for example , a savings plan , and they cash it in the first four years , and they do n't even get what they paid in it , how they 're going to be very annoyed , because from what they could see , they were getting a savings plan . |
| 16 | Already equipment and furniture were being delivered from central stores and technicians were installing a communications unit . |
| 17 | In fact , if it were n't for the program 's stunning speed , you could easily believe you were running a Windows application . |
| 18 | The National Trust is producing a Gardens Handbook to enlighten on matters horticultural and historical , opening times and seasonal interest , plant sales and facilities in 150 of its prime gardens . |
| 19 | It is in this latter sense that very often it is claimed that the Conservative Party is advocating an incomes policy , by which is simply meant that the policies which we advocate would , we believe , have as a result the stability of money values and thus have the effect that increases in earnings were real and not merely monetary . |
| 20 | In addition it is developing a Skills Audit Service based upon APL and a special service aimed at Employment Training Managers . |
| 21 | So the landlord 's holding an after-hours booze-up as usual ! ’ |
| 22 | Because the there 's only one way of obtaining somebody 's criminal record and that 's getting a police officer to do it . |
| 23 | , because , though he is in the army , he 's doing a masters degree in Brussels as well , at night , so it can be done . |
| 24 | The Peat Producers ' Association is discussing a peatlands strategy with English Nature , the government advisory body for England . |
| 25 | For the first time in its history D'Oyly Carte is receiving an Arts Council grant , support denied to the old company because of both its sliding standards of production and its refusal to widen its brief beyond Gilbert and Sullivan . |
| 26 | Helen Sharman has been visiting a girls school where she opened a two million pound science block . |
| 27 | Sheene , who now lives in Australia , was opening a watersports resort in the Cotswolds . |
| 28 | If a country was facing a payments deficit , then short-term capital outflows would tend to increase because of the potential capital gains accruing to holders if that country devalued its currency . |
| 29 | This guy I used to know , Babs Eadon , he told me of how he went to get a holiday job when he was doing a Masters degree . |
| 30 | The ex-LMS 4F 0-6-0 No. 4422 , on loan from the North Staffs Railway at Cheddleton , was hauling a goods shuttle between this temporary railhead and a NORWEB cable-laying site under the M66 viaduct . |