Example sentences of "[noun prp] [modal v] be [v-ing] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | And talking of news , Alice , you might be interested to hear that Madeleine may be getting engaged to an army officer called Lionel Dunbar . |
| 2 | I can only suppose that commercial flights fly to where the VCR should be using inertial navigation , but this was not quite within our capabilities . |
| 3 | Marie-Christine must be riding high in local esteem , Sabine thought as she parked her car in the square , and walked up the steps to the mairie with the other guests . |
| 4 | Edward will be getting restive . ’ |
| 5 | Michael Smyth from the University of Ulster at Jordanstown said that although there were strong indications of an upturn in recent months , Northern Ireland may be facing tough times ahead . |
| 6 | It was inevitable that Washington should be considering future reductions in KMAG and Roberts commented on this . |
| 7 | David did not in fact begin to relax his reserve until nearly a week after the telegram had arrived , when Julia judged it a suitable moment to say that she and Anthony would be making other plans for Easter . |
| 8 | The Louvre will be awaiting critical reaction with some apprehension after the violent , largely ill-informed polemic which erupted in France over their recent cleaning of the huge ‘ Wedding at Cana ’ by Veronese ( see The Art Newspaper No. 24 , January 1993 , p. 11 ) . |
| 9 | According to Neuron Data , IBM will be using Open Interface to develop front-ends for software which it will offer across a range of platforms , including AIX , OS/2 , Windows NT and Macintosh . |
| 10 | Tying in with the loan exhibition , Nick Stogdon will be showing sixteenth-century German prints by Altdorfer , Lautensack and Hirschvogel , among others . |
| 11 | ‘ We will , we will , and Sean Walsh will be doing penal servitude … . ’ |
| 12 | ‘ Robert will be getting lonely , ’ said Lili . |
| 13 | Tom will be wearing running shorts and vest woven by himself on Sekers Jacquard Looms , using special colours and with the Sekers name across the front . |
| 14 | At that time I believed that the United Kingdom would be facing severe economic problems in the future , and I decided that I wanted to work somewhere where I could serve the community , and make a contribution to the resolution of those problems . |
| 15 | Anyway , he thought they would be drifting apart a bit now , perversely but predictably because they were seeing more of each other , not just weekends ; Stock stayed the night at the horrible little place in Islington quite often , but Slater thought Sara might be getting bored with the black-leather macho man . |
| 16 | Switching to a music channel , Margaret wondered how Jack would be feeling right now . |
| 17 | With XPG4 , as part of its sworn intent to become more user-oriented , X/Open will be assembling various specific user packages and profiles made up of combinations of the existing and new XPG components . |
| 18 | Until 16 January Gisela Capitain will be showing large-scale photographs by the American photographer Nan Goldin , taken between 1990 and 1992 . |
| 19 | Due to a good response , Cliff Temple will be staging extra coaching advice clinics for personal consultation at the St Lawrence Sports & Physiotherapy Clinic , Canterbury , Kent , during April , besides his regular Wednesday evening clinic . |
| 20 | This time , though , ‘ Ned ’ Kelly will be wearing black and white stripes . |
| 21 | ‘ Christie will be telling connecting stories and anecdotes about herself and the trade , ’ explains executive producer Jay Suber . |
| 22 | Ferranti will be sending British Aerospace and other interested parties prepared to sign a confidentiality clause a detailed information pack on the company 's present state of affairs . |
| 23 | Zimbabwe and Sri Lanka will be making short unofficial tours of England next year , in addition to the official tours by New Zealand and India . |
| 24 | Someone in London must be blocking complete access … ’ |
| 25 | Even without these dramas in the Gulf and the Soviet Union , America would be facing big economic risks in 1991 . |
| 26 | For years to come India will be buying spare parts from abroad . |
| 27 | The EC will be running cultural cooperation programmes as a result of the association agreements with Poland , Hungary and Czechoslovakia . |
| 28 | As well as selling her yarns and patterns , Nina will be holding special workshops at the Mill to cover ‘ Buttonholes ’ and ‘ Finishing Techniques for Knitwear ’ . |
| 29 | Well , if ‘ Einstein is rolling over in his grave ’ about those positive electrons , Leo must be turning triple somersaults in his . |
| 30 | New lines in the Northern Corries must be getting scarce because only three were climbed recently , although White Magic was repeated by Graeme Ettle and quoted as straightforward V. |