Example sentences of "of [noun] be [v-ing] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | A mother and daughter in the Forest of Dean are writing to more than fifty prisoners in America … including convicted killers on death row . |
| 2 | Hundreds of ramblers from the Forest of Dean are campaigning against the governments proposals . |
| 3 | Beads of moisture were forming on his forehead . |
| 4 | This type of assessment is demanding for teachers , who need to observe pupils ' strategies carefully . |
| 5 | ‘ Any use ? ’ she asked , but waves of tiredness were sweeping over her and she found herself hoping that his answer would be no . |
| 6 | A fundamental process of change is occurring within society both in the UK and certain other richer nations : this has been termed the emergence of ‘ post-industrial society ’ ( Bell , 1973 ) . |
| 7 | ‘ But my feeling is that the winds of change are blowing through this club and that the old guard 's days are numbered . ’ |
| 8 | The purpose of the remainder of this chapter is to analyse the changing structure and composition of the national population , assess the principal dimensions of population redistribution , and examine the impact which both these sources of change are having on the geography of Britain . |
| 9 | By 1978 , the wind of change was freshening to a full gale in the cutter service . |
| 10 | Six teams of experts are going to Russia and two to Ukraine for placements of six months to a year ; each team consists of between four and six engineers , who will install computerised protection systems and leak detection devices . |
| 11 | In 1980 rates of smoking were increasing in Australian young adult women . |
| 12 | THE sun 's out and hundreds of Merseysiders are flocking into their gardens for a good old barbie . |
| 13 | You should then decide which area of parcel is going to be decorated with the pressed flowers and foliage . |
| 14 | I know those offices in Northumberland Avenue — I have been involved in submitting evidence to two separate Royal Commissions there — and I do not believe this proposed tour of inspection is going to be a very joyous occasion . |
| 15 | They had no security classification and related , not to naval operations , but to how the Ministry of Defence were dealing with parliamentary questions about the incident . |
| 16 | Long before the Gulf crisis , American , British and French ministries of defence were warning about the new threat from the South — the increase in missiles and chemical weapons , the danger of fanatics , fundamentalists , drug traffickers and so forth . |
| 17 | Steel-casting companies in Spain which in Britain would have been bankrupted are continuing to offer steel-castings at artificially low prices , and indeed inefficient capacity and production is not only being maintained but is even being purposely created ; while in France the producers of steel-castings are benefiting from soft loans from mostly state-owned banks . |
| 18 | Eight days later the first Duke of Wellington was calling on her with reports of a coming clash : the king 's desired divorce from Queen Caroline . |
| 19 | The other type of damage is chipping of the salient angles of microtine teeth , where whole corners of the tooth are broken away ( Fig. 1.5D ) . |
| 20 | I am delighted to see that lots of improvements are happening within the business and that people are not waiting for ‘ Felcourt ’ to make things happen — the best initiatives start in the field and are developed by enthusiastic individuals and long may this continue . |
| 21 | However an alarming argument which crept in , and seems here to stay , was that the ‘ cream ’ ( so called ) in terms of personnel was going to private industry . |
| 22 | So , because of the fierce competition , a number of houses are looking at gimmicks to try to bring their new authors to the fore . |
| 23 | Long strands of snot were hanging from her nose . |
| 24 | In the East there are social problems on a much more basic level than in the West , and these of course are competing with cultural needs . |
| 25 | The judges will of course be looking for turning ability , but the most important factor is that children — or adults — will find the toy a joy . |
| 26 | Next year 's will of course be going through the new procedure |
| 27 | A whole host of patterns are waiting for you to find and use them . |
| 28 | Coun Carr said : ‘ Unemployment in the eastern parts of Middlesbrough is running at 20 per cent and this problem must be tackled if the City Challenge initiative is to succeed . ’ |
| 29 | Now , the most famous little girl from the world of fiction is starring in her own exhibition this week . |
| 30 | A few sections of rail were lying on the bottom , several more were scattered on the ground and one was propped against the end of the trailer as if whoever had been in the act of loading or unloading had abandoned it in a hurry . |