Example sentences of "the [noun sg] [pers pn] [be] [v-ing] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | When we discussed it , it became clear that there is a wide spectrum of response to the whole issue of private care , that the response from within the statutory services tends to be one of suspicion , tends to be one of sometimes a fairly moralistic approach and this is quite at odds with the response we are seeing from the government which tends to go to the other end of the spectrum and be promoting private care as the solution to many of the problems of service provision and volume that are being encountered at the moment . |
| 2 | He kissed her lingeringly as if he had all the time in the world and she felt a shudder run through her at the response he was forcing from her with so little effort . |
| 3 | The Bonnards and their car offered the opportunity they were looking for , a way of gaining entry to this country for two operatives and a device of some kind . ’ |
| 4 | Ethnomethodology depicts conversation as discourse constructed and negotiated between the participants , following pre-established patterns , and marking the direction they are taking in particular ways : with pauses , laughter , intonations , filler words , and established formulae . |
| 5 | That 's definitely the direction we 're heading as a society . ’ |
| 6 | the abolition of profit making and democratic control mark out cooperation as nothing less than a revolution , so fundamental , vital , and transforming is the change it is effecting in the economic structure of society … |
| 7 | The pastoral work of the church can not be done without adequate financial support and I am afraid the support we are getting at the moment is simply not enough for all we are doing . ’ |
| 8 | I was sitting there waiting for the grub to show when Martin Amis came through the open door — you know , the writer I was chatting to in the pub the other night . |
| 9 | The board he 's sitting at in your picture has the pieces the wrong way round . |
| 10 | I wonder which part of the sentence he is referring to . |
| 11 | The summer conversations in Kissingen , the presence in St Petersburg of the Grand Duke Konstantin Nikolaevich , the greater enthusiasm for reform of Lanskoi at the Ministry of Internal Affairs — all these undoubtedly altered the balance of opinion to which he was exposed and made him more susceptible to reformist sentiments ; but he may also have been naive enough to believe that the gentry at large would follow the example of the north-westerners and welcome the measure he was putting to them . |
| 12 | Not only that but when we found the mattress we were searching for , one corner had been completely eaten away . |
| 13 | By the afternoon she 's tucking into three or four chocolate digestives and in the evening has something like baked beans on toast and the odd glass of wine . |
| 14 | We wo n't actually make or do anything , but it will be really neat lying in the meadows thinking about all the money we are making on off-shore tax haven related business . |
| 15 | ‘ While we would hope the money we are spending at the moment is proving to be cost-effective , at the end of the day electronic security is really only buying time , ’ said Mr Banks . |
| 16 | To save money the government has now cut by one-third the money it is spending on the resettlement area . |
| 17 | The debt counsellor said that as long as I paid all the money I was getting from Social Security for the house , they could n't take it away from us . |
| 18 | ‘ With all the money I 'm paying for your education , you should learn more than that ’ … |
| 19 | The thieves cut her telephone wires and took the money she was saving for a cooker . |
| 20 | Shortly after the case I was walking down the street and a policeman went past , laughed sneeringly and said , ‘ Got you , did n't we ? ’ |
| 21 | It is one of many graphic illustrations of the damage we are inflicting on the Earth to be found in Jonathon Porritt 's Save the Earth ( Dorling Kindersly , £14.99 ) . |
| 22 | Most recently , the controversy surrounding the use of Chlorofluorocarbons ( CFC 's ) and the damage they are doing to the Ozone layer has received a great deal of publicity . |
| 23 | The new , uniform business rate generated similar outrage : nowhere was the anger better illustrated than in Bath , a city epitomising Thatcherite entrepreneurial success , where there was a shopkeepers ' strike in protest at the damage it was wreaking on their livelihoods . |
| 24 | I challenged him with all the dishonesty he had shown and all the damage he was doing to the paper . |
| 25 | Self-help in these circumstances is an unqualified virtue , but do ask the library staff to help if you 've repeatedly failed to find the text you 're looking for . |
| 26 | Some further criterion of selection is required , which in practice must mean the analyst 's own preconceptions , or his overall impression , as to what is important or interesting about the text he is dealing with . |
| 27 | Although worldwide economic conditions remain unpredictable , we are encouraged by our improved performance , particularly in the US , and by the progress we 're making in streamlining the company . ’ |
| 28 | Moreover , the absence of any firm information about the progress it is making with the disposal has added to the belief that the £300m estimated price tag for the management division was too optimistic . |
| 29 | ‘ The Commissioner 's giving a pep talk this afternoon about all the progress he 's making on this shooting . |
| 30 | To ask the Secretary of State for the Environment if he will make a statement as to the progress he is making in implementation of the Planning and Compensation Act 1991 . |