Example sentences of "be [adv] [v-ing] [to-vb] [conj] [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | It follows that , if the Japanese do incorporate imputed interest charges , they are obviously trying to assess whether the cash inflows are sufficient to meet all claims upon them , including the yields required by shareholders . |
| 2 | ‘ I know you are only trying to help but the sooner we get this over with the better . |
| 3 | I am just going to see if the cook is attending to the vegetables . ’ |
| 4 | An OFT spokesman confirmed : ‘ We are already looking to see if the high prices charged are justified . |
| 5 | And the volatile Aqib took the argument a step further by saying : ‘ If people are still trying to say that the ball was the main reason for our success rather than the bowlers , let's put it to the test . |
| 6 | Police said they are still trying to determine whether a third suspect , a male , was also involved . |
| 7 | We are now beginning to see that the beatitudes are like steps cut into a mountain . |
| 8 | They are now fighting to ensure that the Council honours it 's local agreements . |
| 9 | Ulimo officials on Aug. 25 professed to be committed to the ECOWAS peace initiative and claimed that their forces were only fighting to ensure that the NPFL abided by the Yamoussoukro agreement . |
| 10 | The time-honoured method has been by urine testing , but with the renal threshold in the not so elderly being of the order of 10 mmol/1 glycosuria is only going to occur when the blood glucose is in double figures . |
| 11 | Traces of all three elements have been found in isolated cases before then so it is perhaps exaggerating to say that an entirely new tradition was invented . |
| 12 | But while this explosion of concern for the plight of animals , species and natural habitats may seem new and unprecedented , it is perhaps reassuring to discover that the basic issues involved belong to an ancient tradition . |
| 13 | So it is mildly unsettling to realise that the richest regions of Europe also have their own inward investment agencies . |
| 14 | CPRW has evidence that the sale of holiday units as permanent residences is already beginning to happen where the temporary occupancy clause , which is customarily enforced on caravan and chalet sites , has been withdrawn for some reason . |
| 15 | Whilst the demise of the Region is not certain , Network can reveal that the Directorate with the active support of the Council is already acting to ensure that the interests of staff are maximised during any transition to a new Local Government establishment . |
| 16 | We must n't forget Mauleverer , the one who 's always demanding to know if the haddock is finnan , the salmon wild and the beef Aberdeen Angus . |
| 17 | SCOTVEC is also working to ensure that the audit which emerges will be compatible with developments elsewhere — for example with the Scottish Quality Management System being developed by Scottish Enterprise and Highlands and Island Enterprise . |
| 18 | Does he also agree that there has been a noticeable change of opinion in the business community , in that in 1990 it thought that we could go into the exchange rate mechanism without any disadvantage whereas it is now beginning to realise that the ERM obliges us to have a higher exchange rate and higher real interest rates than are appropriate for domestic needs ? |
| 19 | ‘ Even the Home Office is now beginning to question whether the Firearms Amendment Act , passed after the Hungerford incident , has helped secure public safety . ’ |
| 20 | A BUS company is anxiously waiting to hear if a Government minister will break the deadlock over a deal which could bring a Sainsbury superstore to Darlington . |
| 21 | Nationalism was , is and will be : it is , as Tom Nairn put it , the Janus-face looking at once forward to liberation and progress and backward to reactionary and often mythical notions of the past ; it is a force which should never be identified with the nation-state , a concept which nationalism has for a time inhabited , as a hermit crab inhabits a shell , but is evidently beginning to evacuate as the sovereign nation-state shows clear sign of obsolescence . |
| 22 | What is even more remarkable against this background is that modern science has now not only taken an interest in the mystical art of the Zodiac , but is actually trying to prove that a person 's stars do have an effect . |
| 23 | NICRA 's official history records that the association ‘ was slowly coming to realise that a ban on demonstrations was an effective Government weapon against political protest and that although letter writing to Stormont was a fine form of occupational therapy , it was unlikely to bring amy worthwhile results ’ . |
| 24 | He was on crutches for three or four months and was just beginning to recover when a stomach malignancy had to be treated by very extensive surgery . |
| 25 | Hollywood was just beginning to realize that the old phenomenon of stars might have an added significance in a period of depression and there must have been considerable delight in the studios at the alacrity with which the critics took up the subject of Cagney . |
| 26 | I was just going to say that the the the social stigma already attached to erm unmarried mothers |
| 27 | I , I was just going to say that the county surveyor said that everything comes to this committee before anything else happens , but of course it goes to the press before it comes to this committee and that shows with , with the |
| 28 | The woman whom the man and the bear were tormenting — for this was how Cecilia saw it , as torment — at least had the good fortune to be possessed of a magazine , which she was now pretending to read while the bear cavorted in front of her . |
| 29 | And it was curiously unnerving to realize that the little boy staying in his parents ' house should bear the same name . |