Example sentences of "[be] [v-ing] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | You would be drawing sucker from E two in your anti-development policies in your local plan . |
| 2 | This may , however , change by the end of the century when most married women in employment will be drawing retirement pensions reflecting their previous earnings . |
| 3 | Unfortunately , it is not possible to state what the overall dependency total is , as most supplementary benefit claimants will also be drawing housing benefit . |
| 4 | Because of these difficulties , there is a widespread view that auditors will regularly be drawing attention to inherent uncertainties surrounding the going concern . |
| 5 | What you have to steal : If you have an expensive car sitting in the driveway , or inadvertently let slip in the pub about your latest classy hi-fi , you could be drawing attention to your house as being potentially worth breaking into . |
| 6 | On Dec. 5 Hachani announced that the FIS would not be organizing street demonstrations in the run-up to the elections , in order not to " draw the country into a spiral of confrontations , in which the only beneficiaries will be the enemies of the Islamic solution " . |
| 7 | Mr Dilworth explained that our programmes would form part of the radio services for the troops wherever they were , at home or abroad , that those concerned with broadcast production would be organizing War Bonds and recruiting campaigns , and that keeping at our work would be the best way of serving the war effort . |
| 8 | Before the end of the session , we shall also be contacting centre co-ordinators , asking for information about first destinations of candidates who have completed a general SVQ . |
| 9 | Attempting to take up a post abroad without any preparatory updating could be courting disaster . |
| 10 | He grew very hot and thought that he was probably looking runnier than ever , but felt it would be courting horse trouble to take off his jacket . |
| 11 | Yet the laibon seems to be suggesting complicity by his own family in what Fairfax calls ‘ the balls-up ’ . |
| 12 | ‘ You ca n't possibly be suggesting Father intimidates her , ’ Guy said . |
| 13 | It promises to be electrifying stuff . |
| 14 | Presumably ACE will be submitting evidence . |
| 15 | When they had finished unloading , Therese said , ‘ My coco , I shall be helping Loulou for the next week or two , I do n't like leaving him much when he 's working on those big things . |
| 16 | Pupils at Branksome Comprehensive School will be helping raise money for the appeal with a ‘ mufti day ’ when they can wear their own clothes in return for paying a small fee to the charity . |
| 17 | Guinness manager Ken Morrison said : ‘ We are delighted to be helping stage this year 's tournament and it demonstrates our commitment to hockey in Northern Ireland . ’ |
| 18 | Or would that not be defying fate ? … the same fate that had reversed his own fortunes that very night ? |
| 19 | You should aim to be using video in the classroom as easily as you use the audiocassette recorder or the Overhead Projector . |
| 20 | While the people of one region might still be using stone tools , those in another were already using bronze for all their tools and weapons and sometimes iron as well . |
| 21 | Here one may be using negotiating skills within a relationship , with a home help organiser for example , and using counselling skill in deciding how far to push the claims of one particular client . |
| 22 | I reasoned the pilot must be using descent speed to keep the rotor spinning in readiness for his ‘ landing ’ . |
| 23 | ‘ Everyone is talking about it and before the pictures come out you can bet all the top designers will be using rope . ’ |
| 24 | Then their proper separation will be Using eqn ( 10.11a ) this gives where l is the separation before the gravitational wave arrived . |
| 25 | From the beginning the IDA trod carefully : the planning application for the site appeared in the national daily , the Irish Independent , rather than in the local paper the Cork Examiner , and the application did not specify that the factory would be using asbestos . |
| 26 | Just to be using brain and muscles and feelings all together at once , and not failing . |
| 27 | Also remember that you will not be using dairy products next week , but you will be introducing foods that contain yeast and alcohol . |
| 28 | The broad sense in which I shall be using homophobia is loosely descriptive of a manifest phenomenon : the hatred , fear , and persecution of , the raging at , homosexuality and homosexuals . |
| 29 | The commonest drug problem encountered by specialist services is multiple drug use ; a person may be using alcohol , tobacco , cannabis , hard drugs and ‘ pills ’ . |
| 30 | It has very much the same facilities as Delta Five , but is single-user rather than allowing several people to work on the same data , and also has a lower limit on the number of records , transaction files , and so on ; nothing that would really present a problem , unless you were trying to use the system for a fairly large system , in which case you should be using Delta Five . |