Example sentences of "[be] [v-ing] the [num ord] " in BNC.
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| 1 | We are using the first two forms ( No 1581 and No 1650 ) despite this , but the third form ( No 1655 ) is completely unusable and we are having to reorder . |
| 2 | The three are singing the last bars of a song . |
| 3 | I 've er I 've only just I 've only been coughing the last couple of days , but |
| 4 | The police and the courts should be the last resort for handling football indiscipline and we are reaching the stage where they are becoming the first . |
| 5 | They 're clearing the way for the new 600 series and we 're seeing the first evidence of the Japanese working practises . |
| 6 | the first bit yeah you 're remembering the last bit when you 're remembering that you 've forgot the first bit . |
| 7 | Well look , if if you 're wanting the next thing to do , I mean you 've done that for seventh year |
| 8 | This is the culmination of a campaign to mobilise white opinion against President de Klerk 's reforms , and to launch what they 're calling the third freedom struggle of the Boer Nation . |
| 9 | erm people do look for protection when they 're when they 're buying the second purchase of their lives in most cases . |
| 10 | but they did n't when they 're having the next one |
| 11 | DO N'T scoff at Skodas , they 're having the last laugh . |
| 12 | The latest from Glasgow is the system is starting up again , we 're doing the first one on the twenty fourth of September erm , the Theatre Royal had , we 're doing three |
| 13 | ‘ Yeah , we 're doing the 23rd December at Hammersmith . |
| 14 | No , well , he , you know , just at the end when they 're giving the last news just before nine o'clock |
| 15 | so I 'm actually taking the first three weeks and you 're taking the last |
| 16 | A schoolboy has been recalling the last minutes of a ski-lift crash in which his step brother died . |
| 17 | aye , you see , that 's why so it meant that we have been going the last week in each month , er each second month |
| 18 | Stars of the film world have been marking the eightieth birthday of one of the giants of British cinema . |
| 19 | Nevertheless it is not financially troubled Japan , but Asia 's tigers who are leading the next wave of investment in the region . |
| 20 | Perhaps we could have been celebrating the first golden anniversary of the 1,000 Reich boasted about by Hitler . |
| 21 | Mr James Bowen , the televisionist , has been celebrating the tenth anniversary of his ‘ television ’ contest , Bullseye , an adversarial entertainment based on the art of projectile throwing . |
| 22 | POLICE and fire brigade experts are investigating the second blaze in a fortnight at a farm on the Mulgrave estate near Whitby . |
| 23 | Peasants who have returned to their lands in the heart of El Salvador 's war zone are celebrating the first anniversary of a daring experiment . |
| 24 | ‘ Celtic fans are celebrating the 25th anniversary of the club 's European Cup triumphs and will be looking for more success . |
| 25 | THE organisers of the Smithwick 's Boston Floodlit Cup are celebrating the 20th anniversary of the competition this year . |
| 26 | THE BFSS , in conjunction with The Game Conservancy Trust and The Lords Taverners , are holding the second Countryside Race Day on Newmarket 's Rowley Mile course on Saturday . |
| 27 | Timed to coincide with the major retrospective of Georgia O'Keeffe at the Hayward Gallery , Alex Reid and Lefevre are holding the first commercial exhibition of the artist 's work to be held in Europe ( 8 April to 7 May ) . |
| 28 | London University 's Birkbeck College in collaboration with information technology consultants Brameur Ltd are holding the third annual conference on electronic imaging and the visual arts . |
| 29 | Datapro Canada , Unican and UniForum Canada are holding the Fourth Annual Executive Symposium on Open Systems & Client/Server Computing at the Sheraton Centre in Toronto April 6 to 8 : they 've rounded up people like Doug Michels of Santa Cruz Operation Inc , Roel Pieper of Unix System Laboratories Inc , John Paul of Compaq Computer Corp , Jon Gossels of the Open Software Foundation , Bill O'Shea of NCR Corp , Heinz Lycklama of Open Systems Technology Associates and George Shaffner of X/Open Co Ltd to speak . |
| 30 | If the interviewer remains silent then look at her or him as if you are expecting the next move to come from their side . |