Example sentences of "[art] [noun] be [v-ing] " in BNC.

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1 The porter was expecting them and let Maxim park in an awkward position on the forecourt pavement .
2 They reached Stephen 's jeep , where the porter was piling the bags into the back .
3 Even the porter was shivering .
4 The porter was standing on the platform , his hands dug into his overall pockets .
5 Arguably , the defence has no evidential burden to discharge in this situation , for , since the defence is seeking to do no more than deny the basic elements of the prosecution 's case , any assertion of consent by the defence should be placed before the jury .
6 I agree you are if/when the defence are pushing out trying to catch you offside , but the Oldham defence were nt , and did nt even know he was there .
7 In fact it became clear that a considerable part of the defence was going to be that of justification , that the laws and usages of war permitted reprisals to be taken against hostages .
8 The response is coming through slowly , but we 've had to take a lot of initiatives on our own and we are hoping that others will come and support and back these initiatives .
9 I think it all depends on what the British feel the response is going to be , either today or in the future .
10 The response was staggering — reports of encounters with dolphins now range across species and latitudes .
11 It is not possible to argue that because the income is trading income s739 does not apply to that income ( Latilla v IRC ( 1943 ) 25 TC 107 and IRC v Brackett [ 1986 ] STC 521 ) .
12 Erm and all the uranium is fissioning , it 's all splitting up , it 's generating immense quantities of heat
13 He expected Mr Major to turn up at another party on Thursday night — even sneering : ‘ This is the vomit party , tomorrow 's is the cream ’ — but the Premier was flying across the Atlantic for a high-profile visit to Canadian leader Brian Mulroney .
14 These professional barriers ensured that there would be little interaction even when the disciplines were working on parallel problems .
15 I thought , oh dear , so we got to bed by this time , and we lay , and we just could n't get to sleep for the noise the tent was making .
16 In the period when these first marine invertebrates were evolving , between 600 and 1000 million years ago , erosion of the continents was producing great expanses of mud and sand on the sea bed around the continental margins .
17 The park is teeming with big game and you may be lucky enough to see the Royal Bengal Tiger .
18 The park is participating in an international breeding programme with several other zoological collections , to help save the race from extinction .
19 The Park is objecting because the land , which is within the Malham Arncliffe SSSI , is unimproved pasture with herb-rich flushes , including birds-eye primrose , devils-bit scabious and Black bog-rush .
20 Outside the window , down in the reasonable world below , the light among the trees in the Park is becoming golden .
21 The foliage in the park was turning to burnished gold and Rachel knew that in a few short weeks the temperature would drop , the leaves would fall and once again her favourite time of year would be over .
22 We believe sound type is essential these days , but the opportunity is rising very fast .
23 She wants to persist , but feels the opportunity is slipping away .
24 Sales of mainframe software also increased slightly , he says , because although some clients are downsizing , the majority are freezing the size of their mainframes , and either running applications on Unix boxes or investing their money on mainframe software with more functionality .
25 We have tried to spread the shows out and the majority are coming from Stockton . ’
26 The majority are signing undertakings to cease action against the company in return for payments ranging from five hundred to five thousand pounds .
27 Well this is where Michael is a he would rather , I mean when I say to him can I just do some work on you calc I say , no , cos you are not doing any work , the calculator 's doing the work .
28 There was no limit on the number of clubs then , and by the 1920s and 1930s the pros were beginning to take advantage — much to the dismay of the caddies , who often faced knee-buckling rounds hauling thirty clubs at a time .
29 Right , the story 's building up to a sort of crescendo erm the the Sanhedrin was saying he heard him say I will tear down this temple which men have made and after three days I will build one that is not made by men with our hindsight , with our knowledge of what went on .
30 Local councils do help to direct communities and that 's what the Sanhedrin were hoping that they could do too , they advised their communities .
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