Example sentences of "be [v-ing] in [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | A of teams will be competing in this year 's hockey tournament at Grosvenor Ladies ' Hockey Club , heralding the start of the new season . |
| 2 | And the modern pentathletes will be competing in 3 of the usual 5 disciplines at Milton Keynes this weekend , for the British Modern Triathlon Championships . |
| 3 | The 30-year-old Londoner hopes to be competing in next week 's UK Open in Preston , starting on November 13 . |
| 4 | A RECORD number of 737 snooker professionals will be competing in next season 's nine world-ranking events and that means nearly 5,000 matches will be played . |
| 5 | Britain was actually given a lower standard check , on the basis that we would be using in many places our own coal , which has a quite a high sulphur content , or de-sulphurisation , we were given a lower standard , or a higher standard , or whatever it is , it was more relaxed for Britain , and that 's why I like the idea of taking this up with the M.E.D. , how it 'll happen , how it will square in his mind . |
| 6 | Born in 1964 , but out of production since 1984 , this once all-conquering hero will be re-emerging in late February , ready to do battle with upstart Thunderbirds and other toytown insurgents . |
| 7 | Life as ritual and art is a belief we associate very much with those ‘ long-forgotten ’ Nineties when sins were still scarlet against which Eliot professed to be reacting in 1917 when he declared that their ‘ aesthetic eccentricities may now be ignored ’ . |
| 8 | The blood seemed to be driving in great swoops through her head . |
| 9 | The administrators Morton Thornton are now planning a complete restructuring of the company they are confident they can turn Carpenter 's around so that it will be trading in another hundred years . |
| 10 | Melford , now he had tasted blood , seemed to be revelling in some private joke . |
| 11 | Salmond has since shown himself responsive to calls for cross-party unity among the opposition , but Brian Wilson ( ‘ The Union strikes back ’ , 24 April ) seems still to be revelling in partisan spite . |
| 12 | The size of the new government 's legislative majority was also considered to be destabilizing in that it would encourage factionalism within the National Party . |
| 13 | ‘ It will not be appearing in any systems in the near future , but the cost advantage for large systems makes it an attractive prospect . ’ |
| 14 | Among the performers who will be appearing in this year 's Spring Thing are 18-year-old Lynn Tocker , the Hokum Hotshots , Beggars Velvet and Whippersnapper . |
| 15 | Schools that have had an HMI inspection have found that much of their work has been done for them — though it is difficult to imagine that schools will therefore be applying in large numbers for a full inspection ! |
| 16 | The last full analysis of reported cases , made in 1980 , shows 41 per cent to be occurring in tropical Africa ( where virtually no attempt at control has been made so far ) , 22 per cent in the Indian subcontinent and 31 per cent in Eastern Asia and Oceania ; only 5 per cent of cases were reported from Europe , the Eastern Mediterranean and Central and South America . |
| 17 | Our results now make it relatively straightforward to predict where phosphorylation might be occurring in these proteins . |
| 18 | A This is difficult to predict but is likely to be happening in mid to late November . |
| 19 | So you 're doing a bit of detective work here , what must be happening in this ? |
| 20 | We currently have a small office in Harlow , staffed by full-time member er , and we 'll be opening in late November er , an of , a fully staffing housing management office er , with with three members of staff , it 'll be located in the town centre . |
| 21 | A cairn marks the crossroads , and although the outrageously boggy path will cover you in peat to the armpits , you may hug yourself in delight to be walking in empty country again , as the cries of ‘ Look , Mam . |
| 22 | DANGER might be lurking in freshwater lakes as the country basked in sweltering temperatures , scientists warned yesterday . |
| 23 | So the light that actually comes out will be vibrating in specific planes , but not all planes every plane in . |
| 24 | The total number of books published in the UK has been rising relentlessly for over 10 years , but 1993 should herald a change in strategy from major publishers : Random House , HarperCollins and Reed Consumer Books are among companies to have announced that they are substantially reducing the number of titles that they will be publishing in 1993 . |
| 25 | MONTGOMERY councillors will be meeting in private tomorrow to consider a report on unauthorised deposit of controlled waste at the Severn Farm Industrial Estate , Welshpool . |
| 26 | She appeared to be looking in two directions at once and Dot could n't tell whether or not she was being stared at . |
| 27 | So I think for next week I 'd like to be looking in some detail , there are two sources on this one is , is and the other is , tho those two are crucial in terms of understanding or , and and that those are crucial in terms of understanding erm why this policy document . |
| 28 | In other words , little ozone holes , several hundreds of kilometres across , may be forming in middle latitudes during the winter rather than one large hole , several thousands of kilometres across , forming over the pole in springtime as happens in Antarctica . |
| 29 | People were totally amazed that , in Britain in the second half of the twentieth century , someone could be living in such materially deprived conditions , alone , with no water on tap and no electricity , on an income of barely £5 a week — and that she could rise above it with such dignity , inner tranquillity and gentle philosophy . |
| 30 | He took the call in the sitting room and Rain sat on a red-painted kitchen chair and wondered how he came to be living in such circumstances . |