Example sentences of "of [noun pl] be [v-ing] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Six teams of experts are going to Russia and two to Ukraine for placements of six months to a year ; each team consists of between four and six engineers , who will install computerised protection systems and leak detection devices . |
| 2 | THE sun 's out and hundreds of Merseysiders are flocking into their gardens for a good old barbie . |
| 3 | Steel-casting companies in Spain which in Britain would have been bankrupted are continuing to offer steel-castings at artificially low prices , and indeed inefficient capacity and production is not only being maintained but is even being purposely created ; while in France the producers of steel-castings are benefiting from soft loans from mostly state-owned banks . |
| 4 | If George wins , erm a lot of artists are gon na be looking at their contracts and erm those that are signed on similar terms will no doubt want to er er renegotiate . |
| 5 | I am delighted to see that lots of improvements are happening within the business and that people are not waiting for ‘ Felcourt ’ to make things happen — the best initiatives start in the field and are developed by enthusiastic individuals and long may this continue . |
| 6 | However an alarming argument which crept in , and seems here to stay , was that the ‘ cream ’ ( so called ) in terms of personnel was going to private industry . |
| 7 | So , because of the fierce competition , a number of houses are looking at gimmicks to try to bring their new authors to the fore . |
| 8 | A whole host of patterns are waiting for you to find and use them . |
| 9 | Suddenly all sorts of birds were alighting on the branches of the tree around where Little Billy was sitting , and the Minpins were climbing onto their backs in droves . |
| 10 | Erm a lot of employers are looking at self funding because the m They can manage their own money and it 's much more efficient to do so and then they also have a lot more control over the management of the claims themselves because they select their own management corporation . |
| 11 | The federal government decided that exports of vegetables were contributing to the soaring inflation rate , and banned them . |
| 12 | A pile of queries was waiting to be answered . |
| 13 | When one of Armel 's string of mistresses is riding in the car with him , she notices the effect of the flaw in the glass and tries to appropriate this phenomenon of double retro-vision for herself : |
| 14 | He was reluctant to announce his status to the whole street ; already a desultory crowd of idlers was gathering across the road . |
| 15 | Already lines of recruits are filing past the hotplates to collect the Catering Corps ' famous blend of humour and culinary excellence . |
| 16 | All the same , if we turn the figures about and look at them from the point of view of the older generation themselves , we still find that in early modern England only 10 per cent of sixty-year-olds were living with their married children or grandchildren . |
| 17 | The last redoubt of the ‘ arm 's length ’ policy would then be the national theatre companies and a chorus of voices is calling for their retention by the Arts Council . |
| 18 | Having worked out how your room will be used , you should consider what sort of finishes are going to be suitable . |
| 19 | The battles in Russia , Africa and Normandy became mere words , to be heard punctually from the loudspeaker at three or four o'clock , from the English news-reader if German security was sufficiently relaxed , or from anybody who thought he knew what the next allotment of words was going to be about . |
| 20 | A case that looks set to rival Outhwaite in notoriety concerns two Feltrim syndicates , where at least £200m of losses are emerging on ‘ excess-of-loss ’ insurance in 1987–89 . |
| 21 | Only a trickle of cars was moving through Sandwich towards Royal St. George 's . |
| 22 | The next hold-up was outside Boundary Hall where a stream of cars was emerging from his left and not acknowledging his right of way . |
| 23 | On the return train journey to Sunderland , they were told that a group of journalists were waiting at Sunderland station , forcing the two players to decamp at Durham and sneak home via the back door . |
| 24 | Seven pairs of eyes were looking at him with open hostility , even the youngest 's who was not yet four . |
| 25 | The gang then bribed border officials in Mexico before driving the vehicles to South America , where a steady stream of clients were waiting for delivery . |
| 26 | But already a fresh wave of sepoys was pouring over the ramparts and bounding forward to the attack over that rubbery carpet of bodies . |
| 27 | From the observation post on the Residency roof Mr Ford reported that new contingents of sepoys were streaming into the enemy lines from every direction . |
| 28 | Hundreds of gypsies are gathering for one of the biggest horse fairs of the year . |
| 29 | Meanwhile , the bank accounts of the firm were blocked , its workers were not being paid , thousands of turkeys were dying of starvation , and the whole enterprise was in danger of destruction . |
| 30 | The puppet pigs with the squeaky voices who captured the imagination of a generation of youngsters are appearing in a new ITV children 's series on puppetry . |