Example sentences of "the [noun] be [v-ing] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The porter was standing on the platform , his hands dug into his overall pockets . |
| 2 | In fact it became clear that a considerable part of the defence was going to be that of justification , that the laws and usages of war permitted reprisals to be taken against hostages . |
| 3 | I think it all depends on what the British feel the response is going to be , either today or in the future . |
| 4 | He expected Mr Major to turn up at another party on Thursday night — even sneering : ‘ This is the vomit party , tomorrow 's is the cream ’ — but the Premier was flying across the Atlantic for a high-profile visit to Canadian leader Brian Mulroney . |
| 5 | These professional barriers ensured that there would be little interaction even when the disciplines were working on parallel problems . |
| 6 | The park is teeming with big game and you may be lucky enough to see the Royal Bengal Tiger . |
| 7 | The park is participating in an international breeding programme with several other zoological collections , to help save the race from extinction . |
| 8 | The foliage in the park was turning to burnished gold and Rachel knew that in a few short weeks the temperature would drop , the leaves would fall and once again her favourite time of year would be over . |
| 9 | We have tried to spread the shows out and the majority are coming from Stockton . ’ |
| 10 | Now the authority of the community was carried by the Sanhedrin they brought him to what is what they accepted as a trial erm they 'd assessed that something was going against their structures , and as I 've already said religious life was the most important thing he 'd broken it seems a religious law and the council the court the gathering together of the seventy members of the Sanhedrin were going to in a serious sort of way check this out , check this accusation out . |
| 11 | Sergeant Bramble and Constable Quince very quickly gave up trying to understand what it was that the experts were looking for . |
| 12 | IT WAS a bitterly cold February day and the crowds were swarming over security barriers on the desolate streets of Harlem . |
| 13 | Then the dome was echoing with the last anthem : she was walking out into the September sunshine on João 's arm ; the crowds were cheering in the streets , gasping at the splendour of her dress and showering her with flowers and petals . |
| 14 | The horizons were opening in every direction . |
| 15 | It was as if the Sechem were listening to something no one else in the room could hear . |
| 16 | The drip was coming from the bathroom on the other side of the landing opposite this room . |
| 17 | It was virtually a hundred-and-eighty-degree turn and very sharp , the culvert blocked with stone and the remains of a small tree , so that the full volume of the water coming down the gully was swirling across the track to disappear over the edge , thundering down into the main gorge of the Jequetepeque . |
| 18 | In 1919 , Longstaff Dennison had claimed that the NCOAP was going to be ‘ a trade union for pensioners ’ . |
| 19 | Loyalty to the old King did nothing to establish Drummonds with his heir — and indeed the story has it that curbing the Prince 's spending on the orders of the King led to Drummonds being abandoned by the new monarch in favour of Coutts . |
| 20 | It was unlooked-for grace that after supper he should send his page to ask Mistress Hussey to be kind enough to come and speak with him in the small chamber the prince was using as a study . |
| 21 | The Prince was hitting at the running men with the flat of his sabre , but they feared an emperor far more than they feared a prince and so they kept on running . |
| 22 | The Prince was bursting with pride , and amused to find himself redundant . |
| 23 | If the Prince was going to be able to live off it when he finished his naval career and support the wife that everyone seemed so desperate for him to acquire , something radical had to be done . |
| 24 | The Prince was waiting for him on the terrace of the Hotel Continental , sitting by himself and looking bored . |
| 25 | Having packed off a double convoy of cruise launchers ( still at large ) the base is playing at being under nuclear attack . |
| 26 | A moment later the wizard was standing over him , shouting , ‘ Tell it that if it singes me I 'll let the sword go ! |
| 27 | The unexpected cohesive system of genetics of molecular drive could permit long-term changes in biological organisation which might lead to both pre-mating and post-mating barriers , and the formation of new species ; not within a population , for the change is occurring in unison , but between different , separate , populations . |
| 28 | You see nowadays the solicitors are falling over themselves to do the conveyancing . |
| 29 | Verbs such as present , mention , propose , and refer to , which relate to what the writer is doing in the paper itself , are usually in the present tense while verbs such as determine , record , select , and detect , which have to do with actual research , are usually in the past tense . |
| 30 | Here again the highlighted nouns are not marked for number in any way and the Japanese reader can only guess whether the writer is talking about one or several fingers and tattoos . |