Example sentences of "be [v-ing] [adv prt] [prep] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | NEW Yorkers are stepping out to weird Foot Friend parties to meet the partner of their dreams . |
| 2 | Peterborough are jogging along in midtable while United are slipping down … |
| 3 | The Chinese have been inching back towards economic reform . |
| 4 | Thames valley police are cracking down on bad driving . |
| 5 | Some are rowing about in spindly black rowing-boats in the graceful standing posture that is the classic Venetian stance , while others are darting around in speedboats . |
| 6 | MARKETS in the Far East and Middle East are opening up for hi-tech heat-beating textile produced by Performance Fabrics . |
| 7 | are walking round with flared trousers and things ! |
| 8 | CYCLING organisations in Wales are gearing up for National Bike Week , which begins on Saturday . |
| 9 | ALL-GIRL band L7 are teaming up with wild rockers Nirvana in a bid to promote women 's rights . |
| 10 | They are teaming up with British and American publishers for simultaneous English and German editions of the same book , or themselves issuing an increasing number of bilingual ( usually German/English ) books . |
| 11 | For a while now the narrow house has been filling up with medical paraphernalia , with doctoring tackle . |
| 12 | Swindon have to fight on in the promotion race … while Oxford have to battle on in the relegation scramble … but things are looking up for United … they 're off the bottom of the table for the first time since November thanks to a win at Brighton |
| 13 | This applies also to the British Council , our arm of cultural diplomacy , which is facing unprecedented demands from the newly liberated countries which are looking out for English language teachers . |
| 14 | Secondly , you are looking out for minor defects which will cost you time and money — plumbing , heating redecoration , bathroom and kitchen fittings , replacement windows , floor finishes , insulation etc . |
| 15 | My map-reading skill comes from many years using the OS ‘ 1 inch = 1 mile ’ maps in club , national and international motor rallies , where you are bouncing along at high speed , often at night , in poor conditions . |
| 16 | Searle was not the only person at this time to conclude that since the Lefevre Gallery had told Minton ‘ Moons are out ’ , he had been searching round for new solutions which visits abroad solved only temporarily . |
| 17 | This may be partly because there are many pigs , who are a match for the boys , and partly because the boys are acting out of reasonable necessity , and not immature impulsiveness . |
| 18 | As for the staff , they 're going on to new jobs . |
| 19 | Got to stop and then you say you 're going up to middle class . |
| 20 | Good , you 're getting on to good ideas now . |
| 21 | What that means is that when you 're facing up to foreign situations , you tend to pull together you tend not to divide you tend not to emphasise the differences between you . |
| 22 | But the point is what I 'm saying is if we could get that stuff there on Friday afternoon and get the the conveyor set to where you want 'em , because I do n't know what leads you want the lorry got there on Monday morning , wants unloading , and we 're flying about for damn leads , we we 're gon na be in trouble . |
| 23 | tell them that you 're recording out of common courtesy as was , but I did n't think you two would mind because it 's , well I do n't know interesting , interesting talking to you |
| 24 | But it is coming , and certainly some of the medium-sized shops , perhaps with a couple of two or three outlets but under the same management , where it 's not quite so easy to see when you 're running out of baked beans , are already beginning to take advantage of some of these retailing computers . |
| 25 | And you thought they 're coming round with bloody kiddy 's toy cups . |
| 26 | Faced with those kind of possible reductions in service , if there is a penny one penny more than necessary spent on administration and bureaucracy wherever it is in the youth and community programme that is gon na be less money for front line vision and the Labour group can have to think very , very carefully about that and the issue is gon na be that if we 're spending too much money or if they 're coming back to supplementary estimates which wo n't be available er given the financial situation next year if we 're having two heads of centres or whatever when we could have one that is gon na mean less money for front line services to the people of Highfields and there 'll only be one group that will be responsible for that , if that does come about and I think that 's something that we all need to bear in mind because what we were told as members of that committee is that the youth and community budget is gon na be in for some very serious times in the future and it 's mainly the government 's fault because of the way they 've decided to re-organise the situation it 's going out of our hands into the control of an unelected body and like most members of this council I think we would oppose that but that 's the reality of the situation and I could not support any increase of funds er for any community centres if I knew it was simply gon na be spent on administration . |
| 27 | We 're opting out of one-night stands ; |
| 28 | They 're fighting back in other workplaces throughout the U K. We must fully support these workers and campaign for them . |
| 29 | ‘ They 've made the accident story official , and now they 're covering up like mad . |
| 30 | as if they did n't have enough problems already , green turtles from Florida to Australia have been turning up with horrific cancerous tumours . |