Example sentences of "[be] [verb] and [v-ing] " in BNC.
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| 1 | After this when you use Ctrl-K-B and Ctrl- K-K you will find that just the area below and to the right of the block 's start and above and to the left of the block 's end will be highlighted and pressing Ctrl-K-M will sum only numbers in this area . |
| 2 | Publicly , too , some obfuscation may actually be favoured and letterheading designed to indicate an " incorporation " of the acquired firm into the expanded practice . |
| 3 | Imagine yourself on holiday ; think about where you would be , what you would be doing , the kind of food and drink you 'd be eating and enjoying . |
| 4 | Brahe works on the CERN accelerator ( which the novel assumes to be completed and functioning ) ; his experiment involves close and constant watching of the monitor which will tell him when the ‘ event ’ has taken place . |
| 5 | In its report , The Fight Against Fraud ( HL Paper 44 , HMSO , £6.60 ) , the Committee calls on the Commission to draw up a specific action programme for the Council of Ministers to consider , setting out the times by which each element is to be completed and requiring that progress reports , accompanied by a report from the Court of Auditors , should be submitted to the European and national Parliaments . |
| 6 | The clinical effects are slight , and in the resting cat are limited to a chronic mild cough ; following exercise or handling , there may be coughing and sneezing with slight dyspnoea and production of mucoid sputum . |
| 7 | Over these erm past couple of weeks we 've been looking at er some of the questions in the New Testament , we thought a couple of weeks back of the question that Jesus asked his disciples , do you think I 'm able to do this and then last week we looked at a question that the disciples put to Jesus , that time when they came down from the mountain and they found the re , three of them came down with Jesus from the mountain of transfiguration and they found the other disciples with a man who and a , whose son was demon possessed and er they had been unable to help him and the man or brings his son to Jesus and Jesus delivers him and afterwards the disciples who had been so helpless put the question to Jesus , why could we not cast out this demon and this morning I 'd like us to look at another question , we 've got another one today and one God willing next week , er and the question is , is found in Luke chapter thirteen , let me just read a few verses , because of course it 's , it 's not just the questions , it 's the answers that are important as well in Luke chapter thirteen , gon na read from verse twenty two it says in Jesus was passing through from one city and village to another , teaching and proceeding on his way to Jerusalem now that gives us a clue in that , because Jesus only ever went to Jerusalem apart from when he was a boy , he only ever went to Jerusalem once and that , after since that time , and that was when he was crucified , so Jesus was now on his way to Jerusalem , it was the latter days , the latter weeks of the life of Jesus , he was making his way now to Jerusalem and someone said to him Lord are there just a few who are being saved and Jesus said to hi , to them , strive to enter by the narrow door for many I tell you will seek to enter and will not be able , once the head of the house gets up and shuts the door and you begin to stand outside and knock on the door saying Lord open to us , then he will answer and say to you I do not know where you are from , then you will begin to say we ate and drank in your presence and you taught in our streets , and he will say I tell you I do not know where you are from , depart from me all you evil doers , there will be weeping and gnashing of teeth there , when you see Abraham and Isaac and Jacob and all the profits in the kingdom of God , but yourselves being cast out and they will come from East and West and from North and South and will recline at the table in the Kingdom of God , and behold some ar some are last who will be first and some are first who will be last , so it 's just that question then , let's remind ourselves that is put to Jesus Lord are there just a few who are being saved |
| 8 | When the next stage is complete you will be phoning and getting your own instructions . |
| 9 | Needless to say , she had never been in a sports car before , and to be speeding and curving through the streets with the top open and the balmy August breeze combing silkily through her fine hair was sheer heaven . |
| 10 | The Hotel Oberland is ideal for children : there is a playground , early meals and special menus can be arranged and baby-sitting is available . |
| 11 | ‘ Like lambs to the slaughter , ’ he said , sorrowfully , thinking of the rubbish they 'd be taught and wondering how to counter it . |
| 12 | They were spectacular efforts often launched some distance from the target , who would be dillying and dallying with his foot on the ball when , suddenly and without warning , he would end up in a twisted heap at the bottom of our wall amid a terrible noise of stud on bone . |
| 13 | After a year or two I was nipping out at lunchtime to pick up a new skirt for the office party , calling at the dry cleaners , handing in the photos to be developed and meeting friends for lunch with the best of them . |
| 14 | They seemed to be laughing and mocking the battle going on below . |
| 15 | His parents were probably having coffee and pastries in a place among people ; Stu would be laughing and larking about with his mates at the wallpaper shop . |
| 16 | There may be tearing and stitching pains . |
| 17 | Not only are they going to find themselves deliberately and actively squeezed from above and below by the very organisation , the ATP Tour , which is supposed to be protecting and encouraging them but they still have to compete against exhibition events , with open cheque books , for a handful of top players . |
| 18 | Second , that having worked hard in the acting profession all my life , the last thing I would enjoy was working the clock round every summer when I could be sunbathing and swimming in Bala Lake . |
| 19 | Back in June ( UX No 387 ) , Hewlett-Packard Co was dropping large hints that it would be announcing and delivering new Snake workstations and upgrades based upon its next-generation PA RISC 7110 chip , Thunderbird , sometime before its fiscal year ends in October . |
| 20 | Local authorities should not be interfering and wasting charge payers ' money in those ridiculous , trite and stupid ways . |
| 21 | Extra toilets will be installed and catering outfits brought in to meet the demands of the expected 27,000 people in attendance . |
| 22 | The hawk 's head would be bobbing and swivelling , trying to find out what on earth was going on . |
| 23 | The diaphragm is usually made in such a way that the hole size can be varied and decreasing its size is called ‘ stopping down ’ . |
| 24 | The first was from a destitute young woman about to be evicted and threatening to gas her four children , then herself . |
| 25 | Well there 'd be dying and scouring and tacking sorting , trimming , packing , drying , all kind , you know that that 's about total number of departments , brushing . |
| 26 | The embankments which he had vainly tried to have reinforced by the zemindars would now be brimming and beginning to overflow … within a few hours the country around the embankments would be flooded and ignorance , stupidity and superstition would have triumphed once more as they have triumphed again and again in human affairs since time began ! |
| 27 | Businessmen — especially Mr Collor 's original fans , from the subsidy-hooked north-east — will be lobbying and bribing as usual . |
| 28 | But certainly he 'll be pushing and pushing at the front there and making runs to get in the back all night I 'm I 'm certain of that . |
| 29 | Dahlerus had spent the morning in one last effort to save the situation , and Goering had , in fact , ordered a plane to be prepared and standing by to fly him to London if the British would accept . |
| 30 | The bearer of the missive had been instructed upon the terms to be made and according to Patrickson other persons would be willing to join the venture . |