Example sentences of "[v-ing] [prep] [adj] [noun sg] [prep] be " in BNC.
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| 1 | Mr Williams was walking in the countryside , listening for odd songs , looking for that magic to be found in a new song . |
| 2 | I have no doubt myself that a man or woman earnestly seeking in grown-up life to be guided to wide and suggestive knowledge in its largest and most uplifted sphere will make the best of all the pupils in this age of clatter and buzz , of gape and gloat . |
| 3 | In Newham the picture was more complex , though not dissimilar , with the project tending at one year to be supporting people living on their own whose dementia was advanced or who for other reasons could not manage their own care , or needed some safeguarding care . |
| 4 | We have been living on the edge for a number of weeks waiting for this decision to be made known . ’ |
| 5 | Now , although there were no signs of any elephants , the shop was besieged by crowds of equally persistent villagers competing with each other to be served . |
| 6 | In June 1988 it reported , recommending the removal of any improper restrictions upon the right of individual Tatars to return to their native land and calling for more attention to be paid to their cultural needs , but also rejecting the Tatars ' call for the reestablishment of their autonomous republic . |
| 7 | Environmentalist Darryl D'Monte is calling for big technology to be supplemented by smaller schemes . |
| 8 | No but as erm Mrs has mentioned to me , when it comes to er converting an existing garage into a den or a study and then asking for another garage to be built . |
| 9 | Because of the difficulties in communication , there has been a tendency for the intellectual abilities of people suffering from cerebral palsy to be underestimated , but this is now generally not the case . |
| 10 | The DES 's case for insisting upon more attention to be paid to subject competence in the training and deployment of teachers rests on two kinds of evidence , both of which are somewhat insubstantial . |
| 11 | After the worst year on record for cruelty to sheep and cattle — the RSPCA is now campaigning for that loophole to be closed . |
| 12 | But for most Town Halls , by far the vast majority of that information is still translated into a paper format in order for a decision to be made and the action arising from that decision to be implemented . |
| 13 | Where there are insuperable difficulties in arranging for that evidence to be questioned it should not be admitted in evidence , or the hearing authority should exclude it from their consideration . |
| 14 | Large conspicuous wooden figures , Dotty and Dolly , and beneath their knees skulked little Alix Doddridge , creeping quietly , smiling obsequiously , keeping a low profile , longing to be ordinary , longing with such passion to be unnoticed , to be accepted , to be one of the crowd , not Dotty 's Daughter , with all that that implied . |
| 15 | One woman told her that " the men get the more experienced and difficult work " , while another reported that she thought " the work very pleasant and suitable for women … but has sometimes found working with small type to be a slight strain on her eyesight " . |
| 16 | But you have to have some level of arousal has to be something pumping round you round your blood your brain has to be working in some way to be able to perform . |