Example sentences of "be [v-ing] [conj] [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | I am grateful to my hon. Friend for his comments about the policies that we have been pursuing and economic prosperity in the Province , where we have seen advances in recent years . |
| 2 | The towpath , covered with a build-up of earth and grass which had been accumulating since commercial traffic on the canal ceased in the 1930's , was cleared to a width of one metre for a distance of about half a mile . |
| 3 | She notes that there is a difference between the stories people have been producing and traditional fiction . |
| 4 | This insight had enabled Lewis to recover all the things in art and in life which he had been enjoying since imaginative awareness dawned . |
| 5 | He had been cooking because beef-flavoured steam droplets fell into the air around him in the fractional gravity of Mars , and mingled with the tiniest hint of sweat on his fingers were odoriferous particles of fresh garlic . |
| 6 | Is it not perverse , therefore , that some people are suggesting that those hospital trusts should be wound up ? |
| 7 | There is an item about this joint staffing watch at item ten , which suggests that the government are also finding that it 's got limited use , and are suggesting that these returns should be completed on a different basis , and rather than quarterly , annually . |
| 8 | Some MPs are suggesting that local authorities should be given the power to compel farmers to protect hedges . |
| 9 | Furthermore I am suggesting that each team should be no larger than 16 staff . |
| 10 | I am suggesting that this relationship is also to be found in games , in the arts and in life . |
| 11 | Commercial banks everywhere are realising that profitable banks may become big , but not the other way round . |
| 12 | While manufacturers were perceived as the traditional users of sales promotion , now retailers and financial institutions are realising that these techniques can help build business . |
| 13 | Farmers and local residents say the hippies are destructive , noisy and dangerous , and are demanding that harsher action be taken against them . |
| 14 | They are demanding that richer countries cut back their carbon emissions to compensate . |
| 15 | Managing projects across countries , and linking different databases on different equipment , are challenging and interesting prospects for information managers , and will oblige us to acquire scarce and commercially valuable expertise , available later for consultancy . |
| 16 | The components of nutrient systems treated are weathering and atmospheric inputs , the leaching output and nutrient cycling , and this leads to models of the system and to models of stability and change . |
| 17 | That is the orderly and sensible way to proceed , which is why we are pressing and encouraging others to press for the earliest possible membership of the former Soviet republics in the IMF . |
| 18 | Already thousands of GPs have pledged their opposition to the White Paper — GPs all over the country have been meeting and issuing threats of mass resignations in protest at the plans . |
| 19 | There are training or temporary work schemes to be promoted and amended . |
| 20 | Are frowning and haughty tyrants to be preferred to generous Lords ? |
| 21 | Sometimes historians assume when they are writing that this context already exists in the mind of the reader ( e.g. that you are familiar with a particular person or idea ; that you have background knowledge of a topic ) . |
| 22 | Health officials are warning that so-called rave parties could lead to a drug epidemic . |
| 23 | Ambulance chiefs are warning that some accident victims will die if the funds are n't found to keep an air ambulance in operation . |
| 24 | Newton Aycliffe police are warning that forged notes are still circulating after a fake £20 note was handed to a Ferryhill newsagent . |
| 25 | In addition , the NSPCC are urging that more treatment facilities be provided in recognition of the vital role therapeutic treatment plays in helping children overcome the effects of abuse and neglect . |
| 26 | Club members are serving or retired police officers , customs officers or prison officers . |
| 27 | I take the point that you 're suggesting that another group may have re- considered it 's position . |
| 28 | Whether we could look at our contract and see if this could be because mentioned about grass on the pavements , not only is it the machine that 's doing that , but there 's a danger to young children from the machines they 're using and elderly people with pavements being very very slippery once they 're doing the grass if it 's raining . |
| 29 | They 're warning that overloaded vehicles are dangerous and can cause serious accidents . |
| 30 | Well look , I do n't know what you 're getting but one portion of chips 'll be enough between us . |