Example sentences of "be [v-ing] the [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Although many local authorities in their strategy documents state that they aim first at rehabilitation , I remain unconvinced that they are devoting the same resources in terms of skilled social workers with small caseloads and adequate financial support to natural families , as they do to finding and supporting new families . |
| 2 | More distressingly , we discovered that the Aru islands and the Greater Bird of Paradise were no longer on their trading routes and that for the last twenty years they had been pursuing the shorter and more profitable triangular passage between Celebes , Java and Borneo . |
| 3 | Because he 'd been pursuing the same man for years . |
| 4 | ‘ The two I particularly remember are building the new stand at Ascot and the construction of Central Point in London . ’ |
| 5 | Just in case they 'd forgotten , Town Crier Willium Chapman 's been reminding the good people of Newent what day it is . |
| 6 | THE FRIENDS of John McCarthy have been reminding the Foreign Office that the British Government is the only government without a single success in efforts to achieve the release of any of its hostages . |
| 7 | He will tell you if you are rotating the left forearm properly on the backswing . |
| 8 | You are poisoning the very sources of order and happiness and virtue ; you are tearing up root and branch all relations of families to each other ; you are annulling , as it were , the institution of domestic life decreed by Providence Himself , the wisest and kindest of earthly ordinances , the mainstay of social peace and virtue and therein of national security . |
| 9 | For example , Fielding ( 1982 ) takes the best elements of the three main models : ( a ) the desire to live in a more rural setting ; ( b ) the availability of new jobs in the sunrise industries of the rural areas ; and ( c ) regional planning by governments to argue that the two main factors are first , the development of a post-industrial society where the mobile middle classes are relocating the new industries , and second , the rise of service employment , particularly in the more attractive rural areas of each country . |
| 10 | There were those amongst his small circle of intimates who said it would be his undoing , but they or their predecessors had been prophesying the same for three decades , and Klein had out-prospered every one of them . |
| 11 | PS I am attaching the relevant sections of the script |
| 12 | The problem of thinking we are attaching the same meaning to a word or action when we may not be can be appreciated humorously . |
| 13 | And Petrarch lived quite near here in Avignon , and I am seeing the same cypresses and oleanders … |
| 14 | Being in the habit of eating a generous quantity of food — the more you have been eating the greater the initial weight loss impact when you switch to a slimming diet . |
| 15 | If food 's got anything to do with it then I must have been eating the wrong way for the last 40 years . |
| 16 | The owners are not seeing guilty behaviour when Rover slinks across the floor , they are seeing the submissive behaviour Rover displays in anticipation of the aggression , however mild , the owners are about to use in attempt to reprimand him . |
| 17 | In other words , we are seeing the same film , but it is the negative that is now being presented to us . |
| 18 | It is only that by doing so , the accounts are reflecting the economic reality more closely . |
| 19 | You can only turn properly if you are using the gybing straps . |
| 20 | In truth the change to the game is subtle rather than sensational and too much fuss has been made when , in fact , some folk are using the new laws as an excuse to disguise their weaknesses . |
| 21 | We are using the first two forms ( No 1581 and No 1650 ) despite this , but the third form ( No 1655 ) is completely unusable and we are having to reorder . |
| 22 | Your are using the correct oil in the gearboxes . |
| 23 | Most items can be sent in sealed envelopes or packages , but if you are using the Printed Papers service please remember that the packaging needs to be easy to open for Customs examination and to be able to be repacked without additional packaging — the best solution is to use string or plastic tags . |
| 24 | ‘ It worries me that impresarios are using the Russian label to make money at the expense of companies like us , like the Scottish and Northern Ballet . |
| 25 | I think really what we want to do is to decide whether or not we are using the annual report as a a list of jobs that we did last year . |
| 26 | In a survey of 450 top UK companies last year , Touche Ross discovered that although the efficiency of financial consolidation is of key importance to senior management , few finance departments have any objective measure of their performance and know whether they are using the right tools . |
| 27 | We are using the additional resources to excellent effect . |
| 28 | If you just pull the plug it does n't have time to erase the temporary files it used and if you are using the latest SmartDrv utility you might even lose data that you thought was safely written to disk . |
| 29 | If this does not cut cleanly , never use excessive force — you are using the wrong tool . |
| 30 | Do n't confuse this with the time-up bell , especially when many areas are in close proximity and all are using the same type of bell . |