Example sentences of "[noun] be [v-ing] [pron] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Friends of Professor Leopold Cor , who 's also deaf , say the burglaries are affecting his health . |
| 2 | I had heard about the new economic empires of the East : Japan , Korea , Taiwan , Singapore , Malaysia … yet it was a surprise to realise how fast these giants are probing their tentacles deep into Sarawak 's ‘ Heart of Darkness ’ . |
| 3 | Anyway , TWA is not an attractive partner because big debts are forcing it to sell assets too . |
| 4 | By the first year of secondary school , most Caribbean children in areas of reasonably high Caribbean settlement are speaking it to some extent at least . |
| 5 | Some states are imposing their own more restrictive caps . |
| 6 | Now Sir Peter chairs Midland Bank and the same managers of the Kuwait state investments are doing their utmost to dump Midland shares on to the market just as Hongkong & Shanghai makes its bid . |
| 7 | Thoughts of hell flames are blighting your young life . |
| 8 | Her knickers are hobbling her skinny legs where I abandoned them . |
| 9 | While the credit- driven Anglo economies draw in their horns the savings and investment driven economies of Japan and West Germany are reaping their rewards . |
| 10 | The hon. Gentleman 's mathematical skills are letting him down today — perhaps I should not go too deeply into that in case we get into a tangle . |
| 11 | Now East Germans are shipping their own people in sealed trains through their own country to the West , and police fight back thousands who block the tracks and want to jump on board . |
| 12 | Yet the central district of east Berlin is the heart of the old imperial capital , and all Germans are re-discovering its history . |
| 13 | The Germans are asking their ‘ sickness funds ’ ( which collect payroll taxes and arrange for care ) to cancel contracts with inefficient hospitals and are obliging hospitals to publish details of their costs . |
| 14 | the Russians are accepting our beef . |
| 15 | ‘ Not unless the Russians are holding something back . |
| 16 | That and the Building Society 's own policies are making them increasingly frequent targets . |
| 17 | Bates and Chelsea are insisting there is nothing to worry about . |
| 18 | And the Friends of Eastham Country Park are supporting their bid . |
| 19 | Alongside keyboard player Ceri Evans ' Sunship project and vocal sensation Jamiroqua , Mother Earth are proving there are new , diverse sounds emerging on a record label that some people pigeonholed way too prematurely . |
| 20 | But despite the retro threads and a name stolen from a Sixties psychedelic-funk group , tracks like ‘ Theme From Riot On 103rd Street ’ ( featured on Acid Jazz 's ‘ Totally Wired 7 ’ round-up ) prove that Mother Earth are doing something interesting . |
| 21 | With trippy guitars working around strange out-of-time sampled rhythms , and the obligatory Hammond organ in the wings , Mother Earth are carving themselves an individual niche on Acid Jazz 's strengthening roster . |
| 22 | President , congress I ask this congress to do all in their power to campaign on behalf of all sick members and pregnant women regarding the breakdown in the control over sickness and maternity benefits employers are depriving their employees of millions of pounds since the privas privatization of the benefits . |
| 23 | Similarly , some of the bigger employers are finding it impossible to attract young workers on to their YTS schemes . |
| 24 | In an attempt to maintain their share of the young labour market , employers are finding it necessary to offer their own training courses , on the rates of pay currently going to young people in the labour market , rather than the YTS trainee pay level . |
| 25 | The RAF are putting their own stamp on the project . |
| 26 | Dividends jumped 26% to 7.25p and shareholders are pinning their hopes on continued success . |
| 27 | Western clubs are picking our bones . |
| 28 | Well , league and cup matches may not have quite the lure of England and Australia , but , as far as I can tell , clubs are doing their utmost to keep rugby 's momentum going . |
| 29 | Tore-Andre is in fact the most hunted player in Norway just now — this fall he has played himself into our succesful U-21 team and at the moment eight out of twelve norw. ‘ premiership ’ clubs are offering him a contract … |
| 30 | These servicemen are making their first ever jumps ; vital training that might have been sabotaged by the £40m fire at the country 's parachute headquarters at RAF Hullavington . |