Example sentences of "[noun sg] be [v-ing] [prep] this [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ But my feeling is that the winds of change are blowing through this club and that the old guard 's days are numbered . ’ |
| 2 | The gardens outside my window are bowing down to the heat of the afternoon , but my mind is racing in this stillness , like a dust devil on the apparently windless plains . |
| 3 | The light 's flashing on this screen you know , |
| 4 | As Butler and Stokes pointed out , the replacement of the electorate was working against this kind of ‘ cross-voting ’ as more cohorts from ‘ working class'/Labour homes entered the electorate , but evidently the Tories managed to counter this trend . |
| 5 | Her love of coaching was developing at this stage too . |
| 6 | It is therefore unsurprising to note that parents fear the prospect of having a child with Down 's Syndrome , and seek to determine , at a prenatal stage , whether their child is suffering from this handicap . |
| 7 | It was difficult to x-ray his leg so far up , and as it was a small machine and needed a relatively long exposure it was hard to get a clear picture with him shaking as the poor boy was doing by this time . |
| 8 | What I do n't do is pretend to be a socialist , organise five hundred pound a head er ticket dinners as Neil Kinnock does , champagne and then have the gall next day to go to on the nineteenth of July , on the very day when saw what the Labour Group are doing to this city . |
| 9 | Erm that this council had a tradition of actually putting forward information in as straightforward a way as possible and indeed the attitude of the citizens ' er charter working party demonstrates that we actually put a value on this and it seems to me that there is a gap if you like , between what some people in the conservative group are doing in this context and what they 're actually doing in working parties and in committees and it comes out elsewhere as well . |
| 10 | Apparently she 's got a problem that the oil pollution is coming off this site where they 're refurbishing the boilers . |
| 11 | The somewhat revolutionary character of the true Aquarian is showing through this month and you 're definitely on the lookout for subversive activities , such as home-wrecking or a protest howl-in . |
| 12 | These formed far and away the largest group in the population of Europe , and it is the evidence that their numbers were expanding rapidly which offers the most substantial proof that the population of western Christendom as a whole was rising at this time . |
| 13 | Only the title was missing from this story about life in a music academy — perhaps that was the reason ; ‘ Carry On Student ’ or even ‘ Carry On Musician ’ was n't guaranteed to have the customers rolling in . |
| 14 | And even if someone from another age is standing on this spot , a ghostly paintbrush in her hand , her eyes would n't see what I see . |
| 15 | The Diocesan Faith and Justice Commission is responding to this appeal with action ! |
| 16 | Well no , you see erm across where actually Songs of Praise is coming from this evening |
| 17 | To support the student 's learning in this area , the tutor should consider ways in which mathematical skills and content can be presented to the student in order to encourage the formulation of ideas . |
| 18 | Between 1532 and 1534 , the passing of each individual piece of legislation was closely followed by the appearance of official government propaganda justifying it and anticipating the next move , a fact that suggests that a coherent policy was unfolding by this stage . |
| 19 | If the taxpayer understood what the Government are planning with this privatisation and what they are doing to the coal industry , there would be no doubt what would happen at the next general election . |
| 20 | No one knew where he 'd gone ; everyone was worried sick ; and by the look of her , Shirley Brown was worried the sickest : what could a man be doing at this time of night , for heaven 's sake ? |
| 21 | The Government 's thinking on this issue is confused . |
| 22 | in McInnes v. Onslow-Fane is illuminating in this respect . |
| 23 | But though the machinery of government is developing in this direction , there is insufficient willingness to face the facts , to give up some of the pretences left over from the old period of vigorous , participatory democracy in order to remove the anomalies and rationalize the system . |
| 24 | What the being is doing in this case is to trace out a geodesic — a great circle on the sphere , e.g. NA shown in Fig. 3.8 . |
| 25 | It does n't matter what you 're up against , who 's being unfair or where the financial and emotional pressure is coming from this week . |
| 26 | ‘ I warn you , the man called Carnelian is hurrying towards this spaceport . ’ |
| 27 | His first responsibility 's looking after this Berlin trip . |
| 28 | Sir — In response to your feature on ‘ Course Crisis ’ in the December 1990 issue , may I explain what Club Link is doing in this problem area . |
| 29 | Gold exploration is continuing in this area . |
| 30 | Yeah but I , part of this comes from my first real , my only training at all and my first real experience in printing was working for this guy called Robert Dothard . |