Example sentences of "of [pron] [vb -s] be [v-ing] " in BNC.
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| 1 | I think one of them has been trying to talk to me . ’ |
| 2 | Erm I must confess to doubting whether such a pool of talent exists and I share the views er of the Noble Lord , Lord Motterstone who in a very powerful and commonsense speech made this point an and a number of other ones , but I have to say that what I do think exists is the temptation to create posts for friends of the Government , a process of which has been going for far too long and I mem and I wonder if er members on the other side would defend this position as my Noble Friend Lord Allen said earlier , quite sincerely if , say , another party were in power before when such a time arrives it will then be of little avail for them to run around complaining , for they will have sown the seeds of their own dissatisfaction . |
| 3 | Ooh he he he came out of she 's been running round behind me must of thought she was . |
| 4 | Oh , yes , indeed , a close friend of mine has been working on the history of a very large British company and he 's just seen the proofs produced from the printers from the typescript which was typed in his own office , and apart from the fact that their computers can change the typefaces and improve the whole thing , the work has not had to be re-keyboarded , as they would say , re-typed in at all . |
| 5 | Oh yes , indeed , a close friend of mine has been working on a history of a very large British company and he 's just seen the proofs produced from the printers from the typescript which was typed in his own office , and apart from the fact that their computers can change the typefaces and improve the whole thing , the work has not had to be rekeyboarded , as they would say , retyped in , at all . |
| 6 | Erm the volume i i is tremendous and er one worries about the effect of the surging waters on such an old construction , now we far worse than and consequently the emergency services have had to consider all sorts of alternatives , some of which you see now with the piping on , on the surface of it 's been having a good result the immediate problem , but you ca n't stop there and the emergency team have given consideration to all sorts of other possible temporary solutions in the event or that the pumping failed and er I think that 's possibly where this rumour about erm the railway line arrived but er I think Chairman I 've said enough , we all , we would all agree I think that the emergency workers have performed er I think we 're all pleased to see the army coming in erm and doing what they 've done and erm I certainly er appreciated the opportunity to come in on the old A Twenty Seven through West it took my mind back er many years I can tell you and erm I , I think congratulations all round are due , but I come back to what 's all saying and which I support as it would be a folly when the dust has settled erm to really take a an objective er position and see that er arrangements are in hand channels and things like that will not again be supercharged in the way they are . |
| 7 | I know it 's him , this man — what was his name ? — Luke Denner , that 's got you so worked up ; you 've not been the same since those few days in the country and that plan of his has been sitting on your desk untouched for days on end . |
| 8 | The implications of what Georgiades was saying sank in . |
| 9 | Tonight was just the culmination of what 's been building up for a long time . ’ |
| 10 | None of what 's been happening to her lately has sat well with her temperament . |
| 11 | Well , thank you very much er , Geoffrey , erm that was a very full , and I think er , and as he says , cautious account of what 's been happening , and he does remind me of all the finance officers that I 've ever known , in this thing , I 've never really seen , or rarely seen them smile . |
| 12 | They 'll give us an up to date assessment of what 's been happening , what 's being done to reduce the effects of the factors I 've just mentioned and , more importantly , how the industry is changing in tune with the changing demand , or lack of it . |
| 13 | Lamb said : ‘ We are aware of what 's been going on in India and obviously things are not as rosey as we would have liked , but we all hope the conflict will die down . |
| 14 | Royal , who looks like a bit he 's been carved out of rock , warned of what will happen if we follow in the wake of what 's been going on in the States . |
| 15 | Of what has been collecting centuries |
| 16 | a a step back in time over the last five years of what has been delivering and there are many thousands of customers using in that manner . |
| 17 | I would be surprised if it was n't still possible to go through ten years of education with only the faintest idea of what has been happening in the world , even your own country . |
| 18 | At one point he inserts the comment , ‘ you will want cause and effect ’ , as a prelude to a ludicrously far-fetched explanation of what has been happening to a character in one of the text 's interstices ( Pynchon 1975a : 663 ) . |
| 19 | The list of libraries will come as a shock to anyone who is unaware of what has been happening . |
| 20 | If any of your friends are aware of what has been happening , take them with you . |
| 21 | To understand the force of these interpretations of what has been happening we must be clear as to what the contrasting but implicit concept of order is supposed to comprise . |
| 22 | Their models have been evolving as circumstances have changed and explain much of what has been happening at the level of the industry , but say little about the behaviour of individual firms . |
| 23 | The International Motor Vehicle program of the Massachusetts Institute of Technology , which has studied eighty assembly plants around the world , provides hard evidence of what has been happening ( Krafcik , 1988 ; Krafcik and MacDuffie , 1989 ) . |
| 24 | Graphs are often used to show information in a way that gives the reader a quick picture of what has been happening or is likely to happen , in the future . |
| 25 | The elite theory shares with pluralist writings a very well developed descriptive sense of what has been happening . |
| 26 | Third To make the public aware of what has been happening to the badger . |
| 27 | We 're not talking of a conversion of ten to fifteen thousand dwellings with erm new building being reduced considerably , we are talking something in the order of magnitude of what has been happening in the past . |
| 28 | He said to protesters : ‘ I think the Timex situation is an indication of what has been happening in the country over the last 10 to 15 years . ’ |
| 29 | The move is symbolic of what has been going on at H&C since George Paul , the chief executive , took over two years ago . |
| 30 | This brief outline gives some idea of what has been going on and where we have got to , a brief outline of the key tasks , and the progress made on these . |