Example sentences of "be [v-ing] [art] [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Lynda says that she did think long and hard about changing careers — not least about the fact that as a Stoy 's partner she could soon be drawing a six figure profit share , compared to the substantially lower salary she would get at C&R . |
| 2 | I shall be drawing a considerable sum in a few days but you must know how it is , travelling the country as we old soldiers do … thank you … ten pounds will be quite sufficient … and you must let me spend some more of it in your excellent company … that evening 's entertainment we enjoyed together , Mr Wood , ’ his voice rose in the small hallway and the other guests and servants indoors and out strained noticeably to catch what would surely be the eloquent testimonial of a compliment , ‘ was one of the , shall we say , most boisterous and wise , a rare combination , Mr Landlord , I have spent , whether in London , in Europe or in and out of ships and foreign postings in a long lifetime . |
| 3 | On the other hand , the person who discovers a lump under their skin but is too frightened to go to the doctor lest he diagnose cancer will be perpetuating the threatening situation — and this would hold even if the lump was in fact benign . |
| 4 | What was feasible general practice , and whether that was the best place to be contacting the local people . |
| 5 | ‘ He will be nursing a secret desire to try to make amends , even though everyone has reassured him that these things happen . |
| 6 | Next week , in recognition of this magnificent feat , Public NME will be devoting the entire page to care of your dust mask . |
| 7 | Both statistics are equally powerful in large samples but by and large you will always be using a small sample , so use the test statistic which is designed for small sample work , that 's the F statistic . |
| 8 | The AA says fourteen thousand extra drivers a day will be using the existing motorway and its link roads by 1991 . |
| 9 | It will , in that sense , be using the existing form of uneven development to its maximum advantage . |
| 10 | Are we supposed to be using the pre-course questionnaires that I 've seen a couple of times , on all course ? |
| 11 | The remaining locations should be using the new system by October this year which will then see the completion of a major personnel and data processing project which will have taken two and a half years to plan and implement . |
| 12 | Can he tell us whether and how he will be using the new marketing initiative of his Ministry to assist exports in the industry ? |
| 13 | In conversations which involve speakers of both the first and second generations it is mainly the behaviour of the second generation speakers which is of interest , for it is these individuals who have " stylistic mobility " between London English and Creole and can be assumed to be using the two codes differentially ( though not necessarily consciously ) in a strategic way . |
| 14 | Yeah , were going to be using the first plane on Hong Kong on February the first |
| 15 | Despite Herbert 's claim to be using the plain saying of direct felt expression and humility towards addressing the divine , he is also demonstrating his poetic standing . |
| 16 | At first , no doubt , it was in the nature of an exercise just to see if he could still write : he was working very closely to the structure of " Burnt Norton " and seemed to be using the earlier poem as a model from which to draw inspiration . |
| 17 | Last month more than a thousand women in Birmingham were recalled after a nurse was said to be using the wrong type of spatula . |
| 18 | If you are properly set up under Windows then you should have the ANSI.SYS driver in your CONFIG.SYS file , if not then it may well be worth installing it unless you are driving an HP LaserJet in which case you 'll be using the Roman-8 character set ; the Roman-8 codes are 247 , 248 and 245 respectively . |
| 19 | " He wo n't be using the old way for long . " |
| 20 | Says John : ‘ We hope that this approach will take the personality element out of the audit process and will ensure that we shall all be using the same measurement criteria . |
| 21 | Both scientist and engineer , biologist and doctor , chemist and agriculturist may be handling the same kind of data , but where the first intervenes in the world in order to understand it , the second has to understand the world in order to intervene in it . |
| 22 | Is it not a fact that due to Government policy local authorities will be building no new houses next year and housing associations will achieve only what they achieved in the mid-1970s ? |
| 23 | But the rest of A View is formulated to transform readers ' approval to Irenius without loosing Spenser 's claims to be pursuing the Irish question in an impartial philosophic way . |
| 24 | Well , it may be simulating the same sport , but it 's a totally different sort of game . |
| 25 | He added : ‘ I will be demanding a full investigation by the chief executive of the council into every aspect of this affair . ’ |
| 26 | ‘ I will be demanding a full investigation by the chief executive of the council into every aspect of this . ’ |
| 27 | Yet it now looks inevitable that MPs and unions will be demanding the big spending schemes aimed at putting Britain back to work do exactly that . |
| 28 | Great plates of sticky , sweet cakes and pastries were being consumed with tremendous gusto , and one man appeared to be eating a huge slab of pizza . |
| 29 | Bearing in mind that she would be eating a main meal that evening , Fabia ordered an omelette and salad , and soon discovered that once Lubor had settled down from his initial opportunistic manner he was quite a pleasant lunchtime companion . |
| 30 | I am sure that he will not be preaching an anti-Christian message . |