Example sentences of "and be moving " in BNC.
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| 1 | It is clear that they had already formulated their ideas and been moving towards confirming them , but the definite proof still awaited the energy sensitive neutron spectrometer . |
| 2 | The unit reports to IBM president Jack Kuehler with the mission to retain as customers those users worldwide that have given up on mainframes altogether and are moving to open systems . |
| 3 | Admittedly , the animals in the Withington mosaic are lively ; but they are running not springing ( as at Newton St. Loe ) , and are moving in one direction only . |
| 4 | Anderson 's history must work according to a rational principle , the dialectic , and be moving towards an end which will reveal and enact its meaning . |
| 5 | But for decades such scenes were done in the studio : if you think of the scene between the brothers Charley ( Rod Steiger ) and Terry ( Marlon Brando ) in On the Waterfront ( 1953 ) , as they talk in the back of a limo , the background of night-time streets has to be there and be moving ; but it 's only partly visible ( and the cars of the 1930s and '40s had small rear windows ) and becomes dramatically significant only after Terry has left the car . |
| 6 | In particular , they exerted more power within the Labour Party , were increasingly respected by the National government , and were moving towards the reduction of interunion rivalry . |
| 7 | His scouts had assessed that the enemy numbers would reach around twenty thousand , and were moving fairly fast , a mounted host save for the Islesmen and Highlanders who , trained to proceed long distances at the run , and lightly clad , did not hold up the horse to any extent . |
| 8 | With this new development , the Brigham Young University team were replaying Paneth and Peters ' and Tanberg 's tactics of the 1920s and were moving towards the same road that , unknown to them , Fleischmann and Pons were following . |
| 9 | They had raised themselves but still remained crouched , and were moving slowly by the hedge towards the tree , when once again Martin 's attention was brought round to the strip of woodland , not by a noise this time , but by a strange feeling of impending danger . |
| 10 | Some engineering companies had experienced a decline in demand for their traditional output and were moving into new areas which , if more buoyant , did not offer the same continuity as those in which they had previously operated . |
| 11 | Ten minutes later , they had passed through the kilometre-thick crust of the moon via Moloch 's Pit , and were moving once more into the human-designed areas of the base . |
| 12 | They had left behind the Silberner Hirsch and were moving towards the place where I lay . |
| 13 | She was chiefly aware that his passing had served them well ; for the under-bailiffs had relaxed their vigilance , and were moving slowly downhill towards the gate , and suffering the crowd , those who willed , to move in that direction with them . |
| 14 | It is getting steadily worse and is moving westward with the stream of refugees , who , having eaten their last stores and sold everything that would buy a morsel of bread , are wandering they know not whither . |
| 15 | Sainsbury , which has concentrated on the south , has just opened its first store in the north-east and is moving into Wales and Scotland . |
| 16 | It continues to do this until the predator is safely in pursuit and is moving farther and farther away from the nest . |
| 17 | The Treasury is looking at ‘ resource accounting' , an accruals-type system , and is moving towards a system of valuation for fixed assets based on replacement cost . |
| 18 | He passes the Financial Services Centre at room B-218 and is moving to B-211 some twenty paces on , when he hears Maryse Laganière trying to lock the door of the Finances Office . |
| 19 | She 's found a job and is moving into a small flat . |
| 20 | By the same kind of argument , when our motorbike has passed the factory and is moving away from it , the pitch will be lowered . |
| 21 | Madeleine replied with the news that she had been promoted and was moving to a town not twenty miles away . |
| 22 | Four miles away , Francesca had already reached her own small Victorian house and was moving clothes from the dryer straight into a battered suitcase . |
| 23 | The car had rushed into view so unexpectedly and was moving so fast that Mary 's only chance of evading it was to jump . |
| 24 | The effect was for her to wave both her arms out in front of her holding her hands together , then surprisingly a seeming third hand was under her jumper and was moving up and down . |
| 25 | She banged that drum when she came back , and was moving parents to centre stage while others were still thinking about what role they might have . |
| 26 | Bending double , he ducked beneath the window and was moving towards the door … when a long man-shaped shadow moved across the bar of light thrown out onto the paved pathway . |
| 27 | For a moment I felt hopeful , since she had begun to smile and was moving closer to me . |
| 28 | She read it idiotically at least three times , until she 'd convinced herself there was no hidden psychological message in the bare statement of fact , and then realised that someone had just come in the front door of the flat and was moving around in the hall . |
| 29 | Harry had come into the lower doorway at the right time , and was moving up between the tables to take his normal place among the young fellows of knightly family , his peers . |