Example sentences of "[be] [v-ing] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | I am conscious of the late payment problem , which is something to which we are devoting great attention . |
| 2 | Hastings Borough Council had been pursuing compulsory purchase of the building but , in the light of surveyors ' reports apparently quoting costs of £2.5 million for repairs alone , made a last-minute decision against this and served a Dangerous Structures Notice instead . |
| 3 | This is not to say that the Government has not also been pursuing other policies , such as the wider spread of home ownership , that have been beneficial to many working-class people , but the approach has been implemented in a way that has isolated the underclass still further . |
| 4 | Somalia said that its forces had been pursuing anti-government rebels . |
| 5 | The building industry has today an appreciably larger number of men at work than in the years immediately before 1939 , though probably rather a smaller percentage of the total are building new houses . |
| 6 | Volkswagen and Daimler-Benz are building new car factories in the east , at a cost of DM5 billion and DM1 billion respectively . |
| 7 | We are building new obstacles and barriers . |
| 8 | The DIY firm Wickes , and Toys R Us are building new superstores there , creating thirty five jobs . |
| 9 | Not least , they serve as a warning to firms that are building dominant positions in markets that their conduct is likely to be scrutinized if their market share crosses a given threshold . |
| 10 | Toyota and Nissan are building electric versions of their luxury barges . |
| 11 | The Japanese are building artificial ski slopes in a new material which is claimed to closely simulate the sensation of snow . |
| 12 | SHe 'd been charting possible escape routes for a while now , the main reason for not taking advantage of them being a certain concurrence with Jahsaxa 's opinion that blackouts could occur on the street . |
| 13 | It is understood Special Branch detectives have been charting planned attacks on unionists and advising the politicians on measures to protect their lives and members of their families . |
| 14 | It is an insult to all the people who made the submissions for the Secretary of State to suggest that all those professionals are accepting misleading statements and that the quality of their submissions is not as good as those of the handful of people in favour . |
| 15 | On the contrary , in building a new product category they are accepting high levels of risk . |
| 16 | Apart from that , you are wasting good knitting time while you are popping around with deliveries . |
| 17 | In a lengthy communiqué , regarded by observers as a carefully crafted compromise between United States pressures to boost growth and German determination to control inflation , ministers observed that " forces that have been inhibiting economic activity in many countries are dissipating " . |
| 18 | By adopting policies against sexual harassment they are opposing hitherto-accepted codes of normal masculinity and their effects in exercising power and control over women . |
| 19 | Now , in retrospect , she could see that marriage to him would have been a ghastly mistake , and that her reaction to discovering that he had been seeing other women while he had been engaged to her had had far more to do with wounded pride than with a wounded heart . |
| 20 | Meanwhile Mick is reported to have been seeing glamorous 21-year-old Aussie model Peta Wilson in Los Angeles . |
| 21 | The Government controls Parliament 's time and it is therefore able to limit debate where its proposals are proving controversial or where a rational examination of them is turning out to be embarrassing . |
| 22 | In a project funded by the Cancer and Leukaemia in Childhood Trust ( CLIC ) , Beverley and her team have developed a procedure for cloning the cell factories that produce antibodies which are proving effective as magic bullets in identifying and destroying brain tumours . |
| 23 | There are many quality initiatives already under way in Scotland which are proving effective at local level . |
| 24 | Robert King 's series of concerts and workshops are proving invaluable at a time when authentic performance , a long time in its coming to these northern parts , is fast developing its own passionate audience . |
| 25 | Bombarded by change , the established values and ways of working are proving inadequate . |
| 26 | The law changes , in general , are proving successful and popular . |
| 27 | But if the problems of training staff and investing in the necessary hardware and software systems are proving burdensome to national institutions , they will surely place an intolerable strain on the budgets of local archival services , many of whom are already faced with reduced hours of opening and the like simply in order to survive . |
| 28 | However , a report in last month 's Railway Gazette says the terrain has been a problem , and that complicated foundations for the all-concrete track bed are proving expensive . |
| 29 | One or two singers are proving elusive : so any information concerning the dates of or any information about Edward Halland , Harry Brindle or the Australian baritone A.H . |
| 30 | According to insiders , sales of NeXT computers in Japan are proving difficult , despite a growing number of Japanese language applications for NeXT . |