Example sentences of "[noun sg] be [v-ing] [adv prt] " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ Traditional sources of funding are drying up and the events of the past two years have further undermined the capacity of airlines to finance new aircraft on their own balance sheets . |
| 2 | 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 . |
| 3 | Nizan sided unequivocally with Stalin , noting : " In the USSR only the myths of freedom are dying out , but true freedom has come into being . " |
| 4 | But jobs are threatened because defence establishments and agriculture are cutting back . |
| 5 | With Hewlett-Packard Co heading for $18,800m turnover this year and Fujitsu Ltd at around the $26,000m mark , while Digital Equipment Corp looks hopefully to Alpha to rocket it off its $14,000m-a-year launchpad , the contenders to take over leadership of the mainstream computer industry from IBM Corp are lining up — and a major new round of mergers and acquisitions could be on the way . |
| 6 | MIPS ' known design wins , including SNI , Sumitomo Electric Inc , Ing C Olivetti & Co SpA , Acer Group Inc and parent SGI , are not the stuff of massive volumes despite MIPS ' claims that Sony Corp and NEC Corp are racking up the numbers in Japan . |
| 7 | Falling rolls and rapid technological and social change are bringing about constant adjustments and shifts in the secondary school curriculum , demanding in turn a degree of flexibility and adaptability on the part of the teaching force . |
| 8 | Appeals over the nurses ' regrading are coming through with no extra cash to pay for them , and , ironically , in the Thames regions the slump in house prices has slowed staff turnover ; vacancy levels , which helped balance the books at the cost of quality and volume of service , are lower . |
| 9 | ‘ Dad 's coming over here and he and Mum are going down to Cornwall . |
| 10 | But , times are moving on , local government review is just round the corner , and erm , we see that grant maintained schools of course are coming along . |
| 11 | Farmed out tourist attractions like Farm World on the Clwyedog Valley Heritage Trail are drumming up publicity for a new Crosville bus service for visitors . |
| 12 | Twenty students from the University are coming in as extras . ’ |
| 13 | The primary methods of co-operation and co-ordination are setting up committees concerned with various aspects of library instruction , organization of conferences , courses , seminars etc , and the publication of newsletters and similar channels of co-operation . |
| 14 | ASIANS in the West are moving in on Hollywood . |
| 15 | Schemes similar to Horse Watch are springing up around the country , initiated originally by the British Horse Society . |
| 16 | Now that interest rates are at historically low levels , considerable sums of money are moving out of the banks and building societies into equity based investments , the equity message seems to be getting home . |
| 17 | Maybe , you know , finding out what people in Israel , for instance are going through . |
| 18 | It appears that the German Infantry facing the Marines has surrendered , and now No. 4 Commando Brigade are following up the retreating Germans . |
| 19 | While the BARB meters can record whether the VCR or an on-air programme is being watched , there is no way of telling whether people watching a time-shifted programme are cutting out the commercial breaks — or , indeed , what programme they are watching . |
| 20 | That is the kind of enlightened policy to which the Opposition are signing up . |
| 21 | Connoissuers on the Continent are turning up their collective noses to the great stalwart of British cuisine . |
| 22 | Andesite lavas are characteristic of destructive plate margins , where the rocks of the oceanic crust are diving down beneath a continental plate . |
| 23 | My gran and granddad are coming round . |
| 24 | The arrows in the drawing are moving back from the boundary of the information field to the centre . |
| 25 | Twenty-eight per cent — nearly one in three — of primary schools in the study are shaving up to one hour a week off teaching time . |
| 26 | But the signs are that street-wise teenagers who caused the Chipie boom are moving on again , leaving the brand to settle back to what it is meant to be , a broad-based fashionable collection with an appeal to all members of the family who like off-beat colours and tradition given a twist . |
| 27 | More interested in the style than the fashion , Huggy Bear are carrying on the feminist tradition of punk bands like The Slits and X-Ray Spex with all the musicality of Pete Duel & The Shit or Alien Sex Fiend . |
| 28 | The ships in the harbour are letting off rockets . |
| 29 | Opera-goers who never venture past the Watford Gap are missing out , urges RUPERT CHRISTIANSEN |
| 30 | They 're occupying themselves writing out an account of their movements since Lorrimer was last seen alive and the local force are getting on with the preliminary checking of alibis . |