Example sentences of "be [v-ing] [noun pl] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | THE two winners of round-the-world holidays in our exclusive Courtauld News competition are finalising plans for their dream trips in February . |
| 2 | We have been pursuing proposals for some time . |
| 3 | Are building programmes for the next financial year drawn up in time to be available to managers before holidays are allocated ? |
| 4 | SOME Northern Ireland construction companies are so desperate for business they are building houses at a loss , a report reveals today . |
| 5 | SOME Northern Ireland construction companies are so desperate for business they are building houses at a loss , a report reveals today . |
| 6 | There 's the ex-taxi driver , the chicken farmer and the house decorator who are building robots in their spare time for space projects . |
| 7 | The crews knew them as Spivs , and initially their speed was such that a driver complained : ‘ I 've been catching seagulls with that thing ! ’ |
| 8 | Investment trusts are in fact very active in the market for new issues of shares and in this respect are channelling funds to ultimate borrowers . |
| 9 | If you are accepting instructions on behalf of a partnership , it is again a good idea to check that the person who approaches you has authority to act on their behalf . |
| 10 | Because he 'd been seeing psychiatrists since 1950 he fancied he was an expert on Freud and wanted to sit in on all our discussions . |
| 11 | All day I have been seeing pictures of him at his best ; jumbled up in no chronological sequence — Saturday evening tram rides and visits to the Hippodrome with late supper afterwards in Malvern days , earlier days of ‘ where do you want to go to ’ in the study … the ‘ Well , boys this is grand ’ at the beginning of the holiday … his little drop of whiskey : his fund of wheezes . |
| 12 | Sixteen US states are allowing convicts to be hired for telemarketing , prompting renewed calls for the curbing of telesales to the home . |
| 13 | More than 80 years later , Lenin 's heirs are allowing refugees from their Communist regime escape in the opposite direction , in an East German-made train travelling across East German territory . |
| 14 | The Swedish diplomat 's wife had to visit American tourist places instead of English ones so I had her saying : ‘ We are going to ze Rockingfellow Centre and ve are seeing Saks on 5th Avenue . ’ |
| 15 | People are are seeing animals as objects of entertainment , objects of amusement , we should not be allowing circuses to present animals in this way to our society and particularly to children . |
| 16 | Gangs of children some as young as eight have been targeting pensioners in the town centre and have stolen money and property worth hundreds of pounds . |
| 17 | There are also reports that hunting parties are using firearms against Dorcas gazelles in the Eastern desert , again contrary to law . |
| 18 | Allied to this advice , I would counsel you to be very careful if you are using figures from real life in your story . |
| 19 | Get titles right as well and if you are using initials for long names always spell out the name at least once . |
| 20 | Does he believe that that is possible in Northern Ireland , when some sections of the security services are colluding with terrorists , when they are using terrorists as agents while they are involved in terrorist activity and when some members of the security services are handing out confidential security documents as though they were pen-pal photographs ? |
| 21 | The band are using samples from a 1991 speech Bush made just before declaring war on Iraq , showing the President singing a version of Queen 's ‘ We Will Rock You ’ . |
| 22 | The one drawback is that bounce is not very efficient in its use of lighting power compared with direct lighting , and you may find that the illumination level is on the low side unless you are using floodlamps of high wattage . |
| 23 | They are producing reports with photographs and word-processed texts . |
| 24 | The second reason is a nagging doubt that perhaps we are researching fictions of our own making ; that is , we are producing theories about experimental subjects in laboratory situations which have nothing to do with the individual in society . |
| 25 | The university and polytechnic librarians seem to be on surer ground when they are producing guides on literature search strategies , or guides to the preparation of bibliographical references or guides to the preparation of projects and theses : that is , when they are writing guides to library and information techniques . |
| 26 | Heseltine 's campaign team , having been canvassing backbenchers for several weeks , had already developed a considerable momentum . |
| 27 | The relationship between herbivores and plants has often been seen as some kind of arms race , but there have been opposing views in that , for example , spittle-bugs in the dry tropics of West Africa , rather than depleting valuable water resources may promote microbial activity beneath particular tree species , allowing them to take up nutrients in the dry season from the surface layers of the soil , provided that other roots can tap a deep water source . |
| 28 | We are subsidising users of The Canadian 300 per cent and there is no justification for it . ’ |
| 29 | There are flashing units for flashing up to abutments or , if desired , these can be reversed to run into gutters . |
| 30 | Three years ago there was hardly a young black cinema at all , now critics are drawing comparisons as if bored with the idea . |