Example sentences of "[vb base] be [v-ing] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The professions have lost many of their better men ; many of those who remain are concentrating on maximising profits and fees to feather nests in the US , Canada or Australia . |
| 2 | The contradictions that remain are challenging — not only with respect to de Beauvoir 's life but also in relation to our own lives . |
| 3 | It falls to stifle creative enterprise , with the result that all that remain are dying echoes |
| 4 | The decisions that they make are gon na be based on comers commercial considerations , not health , so I 'm sure the doctors wo n't be wo n't be bothered with decisions , Councillor because the accountants will be making them for them . |
| 5 | Silvertone are seeking a court declaration that four members of the band and their manager Gareth Evans are bound to their contract , among unconfirmed rumours that Geffen are ready to move in to snap up the band for £2.2 million . |
| 6 | Friends and colleagues , most of you I expect are experiencing heavy increases in house and car insurance . |
| 7 | A hundred and ninety four worker from Smiths industries in bishops cleeve are joining britains jobless total which this week rose for the twenty second consecutive month . |
| 8 | Routledge are offering a number of promising books including Stained Glass in England during the Middle Ages by Richard Marks of York University ( about £80 ) . |
| 9 | If we say are providing a band for dancing , we are liable if they let us down . |
| 10 | Now when erm you say are supplying at the moment . |
| 11 | Erm up then you can turn round when the smaller people come and say are carving up the price , you can turn round and say , Oh no they 're not that 's the price and that 's the price . |
| 12 | Our sales staff would be pleased to discuss your requirements and the many new concepts Interglass are working on towards the year 2000 . |
| 13 | Worst-hit are clothing and shoe stores where sales crashed even with up to 70 per cent price cuts . |
| 14 | As a ‘ no meaning ’ theist , he or she is protected from the sort of self-criticism that must come when believer and unbeliever are challenging one another on common ground . |
| 15 | It 's , it 's no good we going tomorrow or Howard 'll be coming turn out late shift be coming out you know , might as well get ready and going out , now I 've had summat to eat , it 's only quarter to Really we 're starting into the second leaves , the frosts through to the second set of leaves these , that 's gon na be better plant and here when the wind blows |
| 16 | At the top of the hill she was still in the forefront of matters with Run And Skip , but behind them Wayward Lad and Forgive 'N Forget were travelling smoothly and coming ever closer . |
| 17 | They 've lodged an official complaint against the police , who they say were treating the case as suicide . |
| 18 | What the staff provide is understanding and tolerance of difficult behaviour ; they also assist with the practical caring tasks of washing , dressing and feeding , and they encourage , supervise and train patients to carry out these tasks for themselves . |
| 19 | Environmental and human rights groups are opposing the involvement of international companies in oil exploration in Burma , which they say is destroying a relatively untouched forest environment and helping to fund a military government with a poor human rights record . |
| 20 | Hardline resistance to Mr Gaidar and his shock therapy programme , which conservatives say is sending millions into beggary , will not have ended with the vote in the Grand Kremlin Palace and is likely to move back on to the streets with more rabble-rousing in coming months . |
| 21 | It is also considered unlucky to pay the whole of a doctor 's bill , a superstition which may prove important as the years go by , considering what some people say is happening to the NHS . |
| 22 | So everything I say is running |
| 23 | mm , the thing is though , that was n't a Court hearing yesterday and whatever they say is gon na incriminate them so if they want to ask them questions they 've got ta take them to Court have n't they ? |
| 24 | Innu Indians Simon Michel and Mary-Ann Michel , delivering a petition to Canada House , London , yesterday , protesting at noise and pollution from low-flying Nato aircraft over the Labrador-Quebec peninsula which they say is threatening their survival by killing the animals they hunt . |
| 25 | ‘ That 's the way I see it , ’ was Karen 's doggedly repeated bottom line , ‘ and nothing you say is going to make me change . ’ |
| 26 | Other historical references included Stephen Seal with ‘ Look , Noah , I do n't care what you say is going to happen , these boats are not for sale ! ’ , |
| 27 | I 'm going to find them , and nothing you say is going to stop me . |
| 28 | Thus Intasun is diversifying into the United Kingdom hotel market . |
| 29 | The last thing we want is teaching by numbers , reducing learning to a series of mechanistic measured units . |
| 30 | ‘ You realize , of course , what you want is going to cost a hell of a lot more money … |