Example sentences of "[be] [adj] and [v-ing] [prep] the " in BNC.
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| 1 | The staff are alert and responding to the needs of their guests and are dressed appropriately to support the scene . |
| 2 | In the year of German reunification and national congratulation , Michael Verhoeven insists that ghosts from the past are alive and kicking in the ‘ mature democracy ’ of the west . |
| 3 | Growth in the Information Services sector , which Broadview noted to be stabilising and benefiting from the cost cutting implemented in 1991/2 , was driven primarily by the Software and Services segments . |
| 4 | TENS OF thousands of phantom azalea bushes and geraniums are believed to be alive and growing in the gardens of Northern Ireland after the discovery of alleged false accounting . |
| 5 | The trade unions are a problematic force both in and on the uneasy edges of the system of power ; a variety of factors have conspired to produce an upsurge of competing participants and conflicting demands ; elected governments have frequently shown themselves to be weak and vacillating in the face of pressures and problems ; and certain democratic aspects of the British polity have heaped problems on to the capitalist economy in a way that has " crowded out " opportunities for growth . |
| 6 | For who among us is too world-weary to be awake and watching until the small hours of Friday morning ? |
| 7 | ‘ No , Reggane , ’ I retorted , wishing to be sure and pointing to the plateau . |
| 8 | Twice Michael had lashed out at him and hurt him , only to be contrite and loving in the next breath . |
| 9 | 12.1 In the event of any dispute or difference arising between any of the Parties concerning this Agreement or the construction or performance thereof , such dispute or difference shall in the first instance be referred to the Project Manager whose decision shall be final and binding on the Parties unless with 14 days after such decision any one of the Parties shall have notified the others of his dissatisfaction with such decision . |
| 10 | Expert clauses often provide that the decision is to be final and binding in the absence of manifest error . |
| 11 | After all , it was nearly seven and Ms Right would be ready and waiting in the foyer of Phedre which , she had promised me , was action-packed . |
| 12 | There is very considerable force in the submission that once a refusal to treatment is expressed and held to be valid and binding on the hospital , as I have found , then that consent or that refusal should continue to prevail and dictate the outcome of this case . |
| 13 | The House of Lords believed that a period of exclusivity would be valid and binding on the vendor provided that consideration passed between the parties , that the terms of the period were certain and the parties intended to be bound . |
| 14 | Entries which are read from the Working-Set for update are flagged as being on-loan and belonging to the lexicographer who obtained it . |
| 15 | He swallowed the Communist propaganda about Mihailovich being inactive and treating with the enemy . |
| 16 | Most of us were red and peeling from the sun : he had been burned golden . |
| 17 | Larne Mayor Rosaline Armstrong said many of the young children were frightened and crying after the freak accident . |
| 18 | Opened by another Mr Perkins who was staying at the same hotel , the package was passed to police who were ready and waiting for the actor when he arrived at the hotel in Cardiff . |
| 19 | Soon , the two of them were ready and going through the front door . |
| 20 | She loved fantasising about being his wife , wearing big hats , being chauffeur-driven and waltzing through the door of Number 10 if he got to be Prime Minister . |
| 21 | Cityslickers and Bonanza aficionados will be delighted to learn that Western-style riding is alive and bucking in the UK . |
| 22 | And if we look at the patristic understanding of atonement , what hits us with startling freshness is that the Divine Drama is alive and pulsating with the tension and conflict of the Great Battle . |
| 23 | Medau work , with all its many aspects , is alive and thriving in the counties north and west of London . |
| 24 | Frank has made a career of knocking on doors , finding the wood is solid and going round the back way . |
| 25 | Child care research should help practitioners distinguish what is grave and enduring from the less serious and transient . |
| 26 | John Tavener 's cello work The Protecting Veil is hymn-like and bordering on the minimalist . |
| 27 | Immortality is for Tithonus a punishment , it is cold and silent whereas death is warm and inviting for the old man . |
| 28 | The quality of life that is appropriate and fitting for the neonate , young adult , handicapped man , and elderly woman are different . |
| 29 | It is widespread and growing to the extent that the government is currently seeking to legislate for variable contracts between trade union members and non-members . |
| 30 | For its part , pluralism adopts a restricted frame of reference and takes too much for granted so that it skates on the surface of political life and only deals with the politics of participation and the politics of satisfaction to the detriment of any consideration of other less " obvious " things : there is little that is deep and illuminating about the pluralist perspective and crucial concerns are ignored as irrelevant to politics : pluralism is less wrong than limited . |