Example sentences of "[adj] [noun sg] [conj] be [adv] [v-ing] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Bushes of prickly blackberry and wild rose had broken free of the lower level and were now marching towards the house like an insidious green army . |
| 2 | Certain other polymers , with loose crosslinked molecular networks , can , in even tinier amounts , convert water to a soft sticky gel that is hardly lubricating at all . |
| 3 | Dr Bernard Whim , technical marketing manager , said : ‘ We have previously provided the process , plant and technical support and are now closing the loop by offering this safe , environmentally acceptable recovery and disposal route . ’ |
| 4 | The government 's watching the outcome of this case and is now taking mental stress at work very seriously . |
| 5 | They are waiting to hear from English Heritage and are also hoping for a grant from the East Hampshire District Council . |
| 6 | I have absolutely no conscience about taking this stuff from Ellis , who incidentally has shunted Plutarch off to a luxurious cattery and is still wrestling at getting the hairs out of the carpets . |
| 7 | Two indistinct figures had broken away from the struggling mass and were desperately flailing towards Christine and the safe area at the other end of the executive transporter . |
| 8 | He missed most of last season but has run well this term and was certainly going as strongly as anything before making a mistake at the third last in the Gold Cup . |
| 9 | Aunt Louise had the vocal range of the born actress and was now using a deep ( though soft ) organ note . |
| 10 | That it did n't cost England more dearly was due to the fact that the Scots simply had n't planned for such a generous return and were consequently playing the wrong strategy . |
| 11 | The hospital staff are beginning to grasp the difference between CAB and social work and are now involving the CAB with more in-patient cases . |
| 12 | Again , we do not have room to delve into the fascinating area of population changes , but it is clearly true that in the Western world there is an older and ageing population that is radically altering the shape of the population curve . |
| 13 | Once an arm of the Post Office as a government department , telecommunications was first re-located ( 1969 ) in a public corporation and is now experiencing a ‘ liberalisation ’ phase as the present government has introduced an element of competition into the provision of telecommunication services through re-definition of the British Telecom monopoly . |
| 14 | It is difficult to believe that every time Tinbergen presented a model bill to a chick his activity coincided with a third , unobserved variable that was really signalling to the chick to start pecking ; that would however be possible for the natural observation that chicks peck when their parent arrives . |
| 15 | They collapsed on the ground , gasping , black in the face , their hair covered with charred paper that was slowly settling like a shower of tiny , black , bird 's wings . |
| 16 | SELLAFIELD 'S new hi-tech laundry opened this month and is already attracting international interest . |
| 17 | For the world 's longest-running play , Agatha Christie 's The Mousetrap , celebrates its 40th birthday this month and is still going strong . |
| 18 | Bangor have been a revelation this season and are still pushing for success on three fronts , unlike the poor old Blues . |
| 19 | The application of systematic thinking to , for instance , the courses offered by the Open University has resulted in the production of syllabuses , learning methods and study materials which are not only of extremely high quality but are profoundly influencing the approach of teachers and administrators all over the world and at many levels of educational activity . |
| 20 | It appeared that the naval guns , about five or six miles back in the English Channel , were either trying to break another German attack or were just shelling the enemy positions ! |
| 21 | European eyes are fixed on the first of these figures : public spending that is now shooting through the ceiling set in the EC 's self-denying ordinance of 1988 . |
| 22 | Olivia — whose hits include You 're The One That I Want , Physical and Xanadu — still has a tough fight ahead , but she is a born fighter and is now planning to write a book to help other breast cancer sufferers . |
| 23 | Does he agree that that contrasts with the breath of fresh air that is now flowing through our universities and polytechnics ? |
| 24 | I have gone much further than I intended when I set out on this report and am already beginning to regret the substantial breach in normal departmental procedures which this has involved . |
| 25 | Or maybe the French had marched past this crossroads and were already nearing Brussels ? |
| 26 | CA 's business is being hit by the slowdown in mainframe sales , while Sun , with its high-end multi-processor servers now on the market , is keen to gain more credibility in the commercial world and is currently building up its portfolio of commercial tools , migration/ rightizing software and commercial applications . |
| 27 | It had been bad enough , this year that was just ending , without that . |
| 28 | We launched a national recruiting campaign at the beginning of this year and are shortly introducing a pilot scheme to pay a bounty to specials , as a further boost to recruitment . |
| 29 | A new committee was formed in the Acomb area of York in January of this year and is already enjoying a great success with its fund raising efforts . |
| 30 | But he hated this prison and was always fighting to escape from Jekyll 's mind and body , and take control . |