Example sentences of "[conj] [noun sg] [be] [adv] [v-ing] [verb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | It was up to her to get herself and the twins out of here , back to the safety of their apartment — and clearly any display of outrage or temperament was only going to delay matters . |
| 2 | This is precisely the minefield that King is gleefully preparing to step into with her debut novel O.P.P. ( a title lifted from the rap hit by Naughty By Nature and standing for Other People 's , uh , Property ) . |
| 3 | M4 , that 's pretty busy too , although traffic is slowly starting to ease up along there . |
| 4 | The fact that production is now starting to pick up is changing the nation 's sleeping habits once again . |
| 5 | For instance , in September 1989 , with the Tory Party set to extend its organisation into Northern Ireland , he was asked if Labour was also going to move into the 17 ‘ missing constituencies ’ . |
| 6 | as if that were not enough , the Department of Trade and Industry is still trying to have him disqualified as a company director for his role in the collapse of Homes Assured — a move which forced his resignation from the chairmanship of Lonrho in 1991 . |
| 7 | And Baby was never going to get to know about any of them . |
| 8 | It asks why the sun bothered to start the cycle of life at all if life was just going to end at the middle like the soldiers life . |
| 9 | Although it is over a year since the end of the Gulf War , the Iraqi Ministry of Culture and Information is still trying to recover various ancient treasures dating back to the prehistoric and Islamic periods which disappeared from museums in the north and the south of the country . |
| 10 | Here , the concrete Yeah that but we have n't got the resources to do it yet We 've just got a couple of assumptions At , together at the beginning The tractor and trailer is generally helping moving between cranes loading back and forth , so many areas So , unless you want us to go through this literally point by point , it 's question time . |
| 11 | A dreary diet of lessons based upon textbook and worksheet is never going to inspire children to regard schooling with enthusiasm , nor will it provide the base on which a personal commitment to learning can be built . |
| 12 | The company had seated themselves again , and conversation was just beginning to resume , when there came an authoritative rapping of knuckles upon wood and M. Dupont had risen to his feet . |
| 13 | Though fever and diarrhoea still linger as killing diseases in parts of southern and south-eastern Europe , and malaria was only beginning to give way before D.D.T. in 1945 these diseases now linger on only in backward districts . |
| 14 | It may well take only a quarter of an hour to train a worker in the future but industry is also going to have to change how it treats that worker . |
| 15 | Video 's role now can be to provide the variety , interest and stimulation which are very important at this stage when motivation is often beginning to wane . |