Example sentences of "be [v-ing] [adv] [verb] [noun sg] [conj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | However , there are two significant additional factors : on the one hand the parents use sign language and therefore growth in the infants from gesture into sign ( rather than into speech ) is predicted , but on the other hand just over half of the sample infants are hearing and are acquiring both sign language and spoken English during this phase . |
| 2 | I have never seen anyone create a gap in the crowd for one of the nice people , who are stagediving either to have fun or get out of a painful suffocating position in front . |
| 3 | ‘ We were looking forward to free hospitality but there was n't a drop in sight . ’ |
| 4 | This time we were sitting there drinking wine and having straights [ packet cigarettes ] . |
| 5 | This time we are trying hard to improve batting and bowling . |
| 6 | It starts with the observation that Major is struggling desperately to gain stature and authority . |
| 7 | In a sense Mao is , is adopting very much the position that he seems to have taken erm in nineteen forty five when he 's , he 's looking forward to land return but saying at the moment our policy of rent reduction , interest rate reduction will continue and at some stage we will then be able to move on into , to that reform . |
| 8 | Microsoft supremo Bill Gates is doing more to unify Unix than any other single human being in the last five years . |
| 9 | ‘ I was goin' ter call terday but it 's bin snowin' . ’ |