Example sentences of "[be] [v-ing] [prep] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | It 's been weeping at night when I 'm sleeping . |
| 2 | Will she also emphasise that we are building on success and , to this end , will she give the House the figures for 1988 , 1989 and 1990 on the proportion of American and Japanese investment in the EC which came to Britain ? |
| 3 | It was clear that Thomas Grenfell had made more than his share of mistakes , it seemed that The Fine Leather Trading Company had been overspending on labour and without the expected turnover in goods moved and sold . |
| 4 | United have been tumbling into trouble over the last couple of weeks … last time they won was Denis Smith 's first match as manager … |
| 5 | As many as 300,000 people , many of them farming families who have flooded in from the villages , are clamouring for survival . |
| 6 | Faced with such evidence , supermarkets are clamouring for information to label their goods ’ environmentally sound ’ , and there is an Early Day Motion in Parliament calling for a ’ chlorine free ’ paper industry ( Sweden already makes 95% of its soft paper without the aid of chlorine ) . |
| 7 | ‘ So you are seeing through sun ’ , |
| 8 | I believe that what we are seeing from President Moi and members of his Government is all going in the right direction . |
| 9 | People who are drowning in mortification do not find it easy to laugh . |
| 10 | BUCKING the usual trend to paint Spitfires after completion of their flight-test programme , Historic Flying at Audley End , Essex , are refinishing in detail at the earliest opportunity . |
| 11 | All figures that we 've produced and are producing in respect of commitments and the policy element the Greater York policy element of policy H one , relate to within the area defined as Greater York through the Greater York . |
| 12 | Samsung has been collaborating with HP on some of the low-end PA 7100 widgets , which are ready to pop next month . |
| 13 | Leading novelist Liz North , author of Dames and Ancient Enemies , has been collaborating with GCSE and A-level English students at Harrogate College of Arts and Technology as part of the Live Writing scheme funded by Yorkshire and Humberside Arts . |
| 14 | If you are typing in text with short lines , eg an address , use New line ( Shift+Enter ) at the end of each line except the last , when you should tap Enter . |
| 15 | The old certainties that ruled computer industry analysis over the past 30 years are tumbling like autumn leaves , and commercial realities are now eating away at the traditional determination of Japanese companies to forget the bottom line and stick with major product sectors for the long term : Sony Corp says it is considering pulling out of Japan 's competitive word processor market to save the cost of developing and manufacturing new models , Reuter reports from Tokyo ; Sony began making word processors in 1985 and production reached a peak of 10,000 a month ; NEC Corp , Toshiba Corp , Fujitsu Ltd and Sharp Corp now dominate the market and Sony currently makes just 500 of the things a month , a drop in the 1992 market ocean of 2.6m machines . |
| 16 | The company might perhaps be saying that , as happens throughout Britain , nursery children are drawing on waste computer paper . |
| 17 | The mystique of the rapid has been building since day one , and now , at cocktail hour , Crystal assumes demonic proportions . |
| 18 | For some time now a Canadian company , Delrina Technology , has been producing without doubt the best fax software , for both DOS and Windows . |
| 19 | They are competing for plum roles and staking their claim to be the No 1 box office attraction . |
| 20 | Of course , in er mammals wha you could say what was happening in mammals is that males are competing for access to uteruses . |
| 21 | As the example of housing palpably shows , conflict arises in the most acute form where these resources are in short supply and where all social groups are competing in pursuit of the same objective . |
| 22 | In addition to playing and working for Suntory , Glenn and I have been helping with coaching , primarily with the forwards . |
| 23 | The object-oriented software is targeted at companies that are rightsizing into client/server and distributed computing environments and re-engineering their processes . |
| 24 | Such advances are helping to chip away local employer prejudice against recruiting from the estate ; Northern Electric and carbody manufacturer Vickers Pressings have taken on people recently . |
| 25 | It 's not until the front tyres are struggling for adhesion , and screaming in anguish as the nose slithers round , that the Dodge 's steering imparts any sensation of what 's happening down at road level . |
| 26 | Ipswich are struggling for confidence after a flying start to the season … |
| 27 | The European champions , who host the first leg in 11 days ' time , have lost Ruud Gullit and Marco Van Basten and are struggling for form . |
| 28 | The president and the parliament are struggling for power , but both have said that individual savers will be compensated for the ravages of inflation . |
| 29 | More specifically , the prospecls for revolution can be deduced from the mode of production within a particular social formation ( society ) and the class forces that are struggling for power . |
| 30 | Lamont 's decision not to tax the Royal Family is disgraceful and I do n't know how the Queen can sleep at night when her subjects are struggling in misery . |