Example sentences of "be [verb] and [noun] [is] [adv] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Although these attitudes still persist , the general view has been transformed and reminiscence is now seen as a normal , if not essential , element of successfully growing old . |
| 2 | Further major capital expenditure has now been approved and work is already underway with the installation of a second line and additional warehousing . |
| 3 | Fortunately their future has at last been settled and work is currently under way converting the mill into council offices . |
| 4 | It is always worth keeping reports on disk because parts may be cannibalised and adaptation is much easier using a word processing system . |
| 5 | I 'm going and Tom 's also all us all , all four going |
| 6 | And when they were doing that male modele thing , when , when they were going and God is nowhere ! |
| 7 | Cnut is being crowned and Emma is apparently being given a veil by angels pointing to Christ , who is flanked by the patron saints of New Minster , the Virgin Mary and Peter . |
| 8 | Croatian country manager Huw Jenkins attested that contracts are still being signed and cash is still being paid , while moves towards privatisation are freeing up budgets that were previously frozen . |
| 9 | They argue that if the Greeks can demonstrate with exhibitions such as this that there is no such thing as a Macedonian culture in the former Yugoslavia , Serbian claims to cultural domination of the region are strengthened and Macedonia is more likely to suffer the kind of atrocities that Croatia and Bosnia have endured . |
| 10 | erm There 's a kind of assumption that if something , if somebody does something on a Sunday afternoon , for lack of better , something better to do or because it 's raining and golf is therefore , therefore off , that he therefore does it in a truer , sincerer way than a man who might be doing it as his career , for his income , to keep his family alive and so on . |
| 11 | In a struggle Compeyson is drowned and Magwitch is seriously injured . |
| 12 | Breathing is affected and bronchitis is more likely to occur in overweight people . |
| 13 | When we , the hearers and readers of the narrative , and Abraham , are told by God that he will have a son by Sarah , we learn that Abraham will be a hundred years old when the child is born and Sarah is already ninety ( 17.17 ) . |
| 14 | No unmentionable topic is spared and fun is liberally poked at everyday events in Kamrok 's continuous search to keep customers rocking in the aisles . |
| 15 | ‘ The BBC as presently managed is over-stretched and quality is already being compromised . ’ |