Example sentences of "[noun] [modal v] [adv] be [v-ing] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Also , cash-bloated film and television tycoons formed one important group of new collectors of contemporary art in the Eighties , and since the entertainment business is often the last industry to feel the pinch of a national economic recession , artists may also be retreating to the comfort of their remaining sure sources of income . |
| 2 | Some local authorities may simply be colluding in a ‘ process of social exclusion ’ . |
| 3 | There is some evidence ( ILEA , Oxfordshire ) that LEAs may also be responding to the view that the arts coordination is more consistently served in advisory services by a single member of staff with cross-arts responsibilities than through the informal cooperation of individual arts subject advisers . |
| 4 | Pesticides may also be contributing to the fall of the hare . |
| 5 | Hairdressing salons , dry cleaners , photographic developers and petrol stations are other places of work that may cause ill health Those working in offices may also be suffering from workplace exposure — to photocopier fumes , for example , or to solvents released by erasing liquids ( Tippex etc ) , glue , carbon paper , chipboard and plywood . |
| 6 | In order to counter the effects of this drop in trade and profitability , and at the same time ensure a successful and profitable year in 1992 , companies within the hotel and catering industry should now be looking at making savings in time and money , while at the same time improving their service to the customer . |
| 7 | The car would now be calling for him at seven . |
| 8 | If this advice had been taken , we would now have a Labour government with Liberal Democrat support , and the two parties would jointly be working on reforms to the voting system to ensure that it more accurately represents the will of the people . |
| 9 | 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 ! |
| 10 | Industry will especially be looking to the polytechnics to provide a further and much needed stimulus to innovations already taking place in higher education ; in particular , in the development of mixed degree courses , modular courses coupled with practical experience , and of the sandwich system of education and training generally , and in the opening up of opportunities for women in all branches of higher education , not least science and technology . |
| 11 | The formal publication stage is much the same when it comes to record content — peer and institution review will still be looking for the same things . |
| 12 | The yarn , following the path of the carriage will now be lying across the needles in E position . |
| 13 | UNIVERSITY STATUS : The Privy Council has granted Luton College the power to award its own research degrees and the college will now be applying for a change of title to the University of Luton . |
| 14 | Both parents may also be coping with the doubts and identity crises which are common to midlife as well as to adolescence . |
| 15 | Girl should either be suffering from same disease or is not interested in sex otherwise . |
| 16 | Winger Andrei Kanchelskis must still be struggling with his English — he gave the impression he had n't heard the news . |
| 17 | Theology must somehow be playing on a different pitch , with revelation determining the rules and faith the outcome . |
| 18 | At first we thought that the foragers might simply be suffering from some sort of apian hydrophobia , but when we increased the distance of the feeding station so that the dances indicated the far side of the lake , recruits turned up in great numbers . |
| 19 | One fantasy was proving especially obdurate : as he entered his office , the telephone on his desk would actually be bouncing on its console — Hugh Sixsmith , from The Little Magazine , his voice urgent but grave , with the news that he was going to rush Alistair 's screenplay into the very next issue . |
| 20 | Head teacher of Bentley School , Philip Callaway , told the Herald that during the week , the children 's topic work would also be looking at changes in everyday life over the 150 years . |
| 21 | Miranda frowned at the rain ; her visitors would shortly be arriving at the village hotels , for she had decided to hold the KITS annual sales conference weekend at Saracen . |
| 22 | It could be faked by rear projection or front projection : but the first would be quite obviously phony , unless lit with uncommon skill and the second would probably be restricting in terms of movement — certainly the camera could not track sideways . |
| 23 | I also announced that Robert Lindsay would soon be appearing on the London stage in the title role of a classic story . |
| 24 | If a Prime Minister indicated that he wished to resign because he was ill , the Queen would indeed be acting in accordance with constitutional law if she were then and there to accept his resignation and appoint a successor after taking whatever soundings seemed appropriate . |
| 25 | Ancestral gulls therefore probably learned to fly away from gulls pointing their bills from an upright posture ; the posture would then be acting as a threat signal . |
| 26 | This year management will also be looking for concessions on working practices . |
| 27 | The Exhibition Gallery Bays will also be teeming with diverse activities . |
| 28 | The Exhibition Gallery Bays will also be teeming with diverse activities . |
| 29 | Given that a year 's ACT capacity will normally be falling outside the ‘ six year ’ period at each year-end , a company with potential surplus ACT problems will need to act promptly . |
| 30 | Allsorts of costs may well be impinging on this . |