Example sentences of "be [v-ing] a [num ord] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Classic movie-star style also crops up at Hope And Glory , who are opening a second shop in the new Thomas Neal development in Covent Garden at the end of September . |
| 2 | The adoption of standards by TDWG networking and the first steps towards ‘ taxonomically intelligent ’ integrity checking are enabling a second generation to appear . |
| 3 | Another Harlequin , Everton Davis , has been seeking a second opinion on the knee injury that forced him out of last month 's England training session . |
| 4 | So Dr Palcic and his team are developing a second test to help decide who might benefit from their first test — they are trying to determine whether a patient might have signs of lung cancer by looking at cells coughed up in his sputum . |
| 5 | The event , which has been one of the most successful new launches in recent years , is now in jeopardy for the coming season , although both the RYA and James Capel are seeking a last minute sponsor . |
| 6 | Now we 're driving a tenth of the speed , so it 's going to be one over one tenth . |
| 7 | They do n't want me paying d you know like their pension deferred , so if you 're serious about the fu pension fund managers paying , we 're talking y you know earlier you said four hundred and eighty million whatever it is lost , they 're paying a third , pension fund managers have got to come up with that sort of sum . |
| 8 | When we 're doing first aid incidents erm the standard thing we 're doing for adults when they 're doing a first aid exam is we 'll give present them with a casualty with perhaps a cut hand or something like that and they 'll actually have a black eye . |
| 9 | So , you know , they 're taking a second mortgage , not a first mortgage , because we 've already mortgaged it . |
| 10 | you 're talking a third more . |
| 11 | I remind him that it hit Grimsby bitterly between 1979 and 1981 , and now we are having a second dose of it , with the loss of Findus Ltd. and 900 jobs , and the shrinking of labour forces by major employers . |
| 12 | Gloucester are giving a first team debut to new winger Mark Nicholson . |
| 13 | The Operators & Observers of the River Adige & Its Banks are running a second Green Canoe Tour down Italy 's second longest river from 24th to May 7th to make the local population aware of the environmental threats to the river . |
| 14 | Two Oxfam workers have been giving a first hand account of conditions in Cambodia , where they claim millions of lives are at risk . |
| 15 | But in competitive equilibrium prices are performing a second role . |
| 16 | Juron almost seemed to be enjoying a second adolescence in company with his Scouts , while yet remaining devoutly responsible . |
| 17 | In addition to London , Tyzack has an office in Bristol and will shortly be opening a third UK branch in the North . |
| 18 | In his post match press conference Tony Jacklin also chose to stress the marvellous atmosphere the match had been held in before going on to reiterate that he would n't be serving a fifth term as Captain . |
| 19 | You may be selling a second home , or buying and selling shares . |
| 20 | We have successfully launched three new publications and will be presenting a fourth , Feminist Art Criticism , next year , in collaboration with the Scarlet Press . |
| 21 | After four and a quarter years , some firms will already have had at least two visits and many in category 1 will be facing a second visit in the near future . |
| 22 | During the summer the Red Cross will be providing a first aid service at Durham County Cricket ground . |
| 23 | He must be in his early forties , Belinda decided , while Faye , she knew was thirty-eight — fairly old to be having a first child , which added a greater sense of urgency and importance to the task of keeping her pregnancy on track . |
| 24 | The sitting-room , then ; he would be having a last brandy in the sitting-room … |
| 25 | I 'm doing a third year I 'll be twenty four |
| 26 | The two counties also happened to be playing a 2nd XI match at Stratford , where Cranmer made both his first and last appearance as a Warwickshire 2nd XI player . |
| 27 | After all , here you are in Nicole 's hotel bedroom , obviously believing that you were n't going to be finding a third party here as well . |
| 28 | Stalinvast could n't very well be hosting a second secret Inquisitor , could it ? |
| 29 | Sitting up straight-backed on her stool , she could flatter two men at once and still be watching a third in a mirror ; she could keep tabs on the whole shifting choreography at once . |
| 30 | Now we are entering a third period of change : the shift from the command-and-control organization , the organization of departments and divisions , to the information-based organization , the organization of knowledge specialists . |