Example sentences of "be [v-ing] [adj] [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | So you can see how they 're looking , see if they 're going pale a bit or if they 're going to fall off their chair and talk and reassure them . |
| 2 | ‘ What do you think you 're doing frightening a girl half to death ? ’ |
| 3 | Erm the Aldershot method works or appears to work very well with structured thoughts the two merge together very well and erm again that 's the putting down on paper I did n't believe that had actually talk at all and yet it works and as you read it things come into the brain and when you combined all that with the coaching and you can see what you 're doing wrong the rest of it . |
| 4 | Bearing in mind that unemployment is rising yet again , and that 900 companies are going bust every week , when will the Government realise the depth of the recession that their policies have caused and do something to stimulate investment in our manufacturing industry ? |
| 5 | When things are going wrong the Government 's supporters call it a failure of presentation and everyone trots out the old excuse that ‘ we are not getting the message across ’ . |
| 6 | Monoamine oxidase inhibitors would prevent the inactivation of noradrenaline and other amines thought to act as neurotransmitters : might they be making good a lack of one of these amines in the tissues ? |
| 7 | And I 'm falling asleep every time I sit down . |
| 8 | Well , she had wanted him to be hopping mad the next time she saw him , and she was pretty sure she 'd succeeded . |
| 9 | Pupils at Bredon School on the Worcestershire Gloucestershire border are making sure the otters are made welcome by building an artificial holt . |
| 10 | Those who live close enough to walk to work make a point of mentioning it , rather as if they were keeping alive a forgotten folkway . |
| 11 | Mist lay in shallow patches over the hollows and where the fields were lying fallow the hay was nearly ready to be cut , but it was not yet cut . |
| 12 | Full discussion of this model is outwith the scope of the present paper , and we are leaving vague the discussion of types of role-mapping which might be important : for the present purpose , by role-mappings of atomic discourse elements , we mean any mapping between a description and an underlying knowledge structure which has been invoked during the understanding process ( and , of course , there may be more than one ) . |
| 13 | One is going bust every 10 MINUTES . |
| 14 | ‘ Is learning Persian a good training for smuggling ? ’ |
| 15 | Their principal duty is making sure the two little princesses are safe and well . |
| 16 | On the occasion of this first retrospective of his work — which runs until the end of the month — Shepherd is making available a book with forty-three colour plates , Subway Ceramics by Lee Stookey , as well as a fully-illustrated catalogue for the show . |
| 17 | If markets fail to allocate resources efficiently because of the existence of externalities , then the first prerequisite for efficient government intervention is making good the market 's informational failures . |
| 18 | How long he 'd been sleeping rough no one could tell . |
| 19 | She 'd been feeling sick a morning or two , but not so as it interfered with her work , and no one remarked on it . |
| 20 | Someone who knew what she was doing produced a pitcher of iced water for Farrar 's hand . |
| 21 | Some thought that he had been paid to attack the Visigoths by Gaiseric , king of the Vandals , who were now settled in North Africa ; others that he was making good a claim to be the husband of princess Honoria , daughter of Valentinian III , or that he was intervening in a dispute over the succession to the kingship of the Franks . |
| 22 | Bukharin was making clear the distinction between the period when means of production were gathered into the hands of certain groups , who then used them as capital and thereby began the process of the accumulation of capital , and reproduction o f capitalist relations of production . |