Example sentences of "to be [v-ing] [adv] the " in BNC.
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| 1 | Obviously for the average electrician , stockbroker , or humanities-trained academic to be laying down the law un the value of a human blood substitute from cows or the spread of BSE would , as things stand , be foolish . |
| 2 | " To be bossing up the school . |
| 3 | BRITISH Rail has launched an investigation to discover how a herd of cows came to be wandering down the Saltburn-Darlington line last week . |
| 4 | Er , let's , they are , seem to be setting up the s the administrative structures for regional government , without any democratic regional government taking part in the process . |
| 5 | As petrol prices are er reported to be rising again the oil companies are blaming the crisis in the Gulf . |
| 6 | But , by now , he would have had to be moving up the ladder , getting experience of command . |
| 7 | Socialist Worker appeared to be soaking up the potential trade union readership , while the audience of students in revolt could dwindle — although with the formation of the Revolutionary Socialists Student Federation there were hopes that the ‘ new vanguard ’ might survive to detonate the proletarian uprising . |
| 8 | It was strange to be filling in the two forms at the same time . |
| 9 | Drug cartels and terrorists are reported to be taking over the counterfeit clothing business . |
| 10 | This time he seems to be picking up the signals of some approaching hostility towards him . |
| 11 | This is followed by pushing the arms above the head , so that the cross breaks and the student appears to be holding up the ceiling . |
| 12 | Her nerves were worn ragged by the swift changes in his moods , as first they convinced her of his avowed antipathy , as he called it , and then somehow , without any warning , he seemed to be saying quite the opposite . |
| 13 | Meanwhile , in a studio in north London , Geoffrey Winston of Thumb Design Partnership , seems to be doing much the same . |
| 14 | But when he looked over his shoulder , expecting Eve to be doing much the same , she was heading in quite a different direction . |
| 15 | This evening seems to be going up the spout . |
| 16 | But if they were supposed to be keeping up the fiction about being happily married — a second honeymoon , indeed ! — then it was going to look a bit odd , if not downright peculiar , if he did n't spend his nights here in the cottage . |
| 17 | But it seems to me to be having just the opposite effect . ’ |
| 18 | It i my Lord Mayor , it is indeed colossal cheek and pure hypocrisy on the part of the Tory Group , and particularly on the part of Councillor , to be putting forward the resolution congratulating schools on their success in responding to the introduction of Local Management , when they and the Government , between them impose such conditions that could only lead to chaos and disorder . |
| 19 | Guy 's Hospital in London has been rumoured to be heading down the opting out path , although recently a group of consultants at the hospital expressed their opposition to the idea . |
| 20 | Is not that a long enough period for miners to be working down the pit ? |
| 21 | then it went a bit further and stop , and then we used to be walking up the , but that were it , half a crown |
| 22 | Whilst many local authorities in Scotland appear to be rolling forward the present DSS rates , we are keen to move away from a flat-rate fee which bears little relation to the intensity of service ( and costs incurred ) in meeting the needs of different people . |
| 23 | In the drawing the arrow is seen to be pulling inwards the boundary of the information field . |
| 24 | I honestly do n't think that the public walking past the building will actually notice very much , except that in the foyer , they 're going to be knocking down the sort of glass partition , so you , people will see that a little bit is going on . |