Example sentences of "[v-ing] be [noun] " in BNC.

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1 The only missiles they 're using are stones .
2 The three main outlets for reselling are auctions , specialist shops , private individuals or dealers .
3 From tomorrow the women cricketers of the world will be pitched into battle against each other … competing are Australia
4 And what they 're including are unit acs and things like that .
5 Used for this type of surveying are resistivity meters , operated by passing an electric current between metal probes pushed into the ground , and measuring the resistance in the ground to that current .
6 Also appearing were Nicholas Frank McClelland , Daneshill Road , Coleraine ; Gary William McCauley , Kinvara Park , Coleraine and Michael O'Donovan , Brook Street , Coleraine .
7 The effect on a school would be devastating erm the school has already lost one teacher , the s the actual demand is increasing erm if we were to lose yet another teacher then what would we would be denying is education to the children , the best possible education .
8 The timescale for sedimentation is H/v S where v S is the Stokes free-fall velocity ; the timescale for cooling is H 2 / , where is the thermal diffusivity .
9 One of the two motorists Mrs Branch is sueing is Justin Biddle , whose van was the first vehicle to crash .
10 One of those Mrs Branch is sueing is Justin Biddle , whose van was the first vehicle to crash .
11 It is not that the cells die because they are sick or somehow abnormal — dying is part of their programmed development .
12 On the south side Drury Chambers ( late 17th Century — now the Halifax Building Society ) , adjoining is Phelan and Agutter which is impressively decorated .
13 Also returning is centre Andy Hewitt who returns after a year 's charity work in London while Neil McCluskey , brother of Graeme , joins the students after a one-year stint in the States .
14 I do n't know how strong it is because as I say , erm most contracts of employment do include a provision that if somebody h has a driving licence and loses it and driving is part of their work , even if it 's only a minor part of their work , then the employer can erm dismiss .
15 The most important determinant of gall bladder emptying is contraction of gall bladder smooth muscle , although the resistance to bile flow at the cystic duct and sphincter of Oddi may also modulate the process .
16 All a far cry from the practices of old when panel pressing was labour intensive and slow .
17 One of the few to grasp what was happening was Lieutenant-Colonel Laurens Van der Post , the South African writer who had been a POW and who spoke Dutch .
18 Adjoining was Mr. Baker 's Tailoring and Outfitting Establishment .
19 I had to keep checking the only one I had to keep checking was Dick 's .
20 Additionally , if the people you are seeking are members , we will forward your request to get in touch with them — EDITOR
21 Loud music , screaming and shouting are torture to the delicate hearing apparatus of the typical feline .
22 According to Chomsky 's formulation , speech and , indeed , writing are examples of language performance .
23 The two IT subject areas which had the highest proportion of SERC-funded students in employment and the lowest levels seeking were micro-electronics and the IKBS/MMI/AI group .
24 Cost for a course including full board and lodging is £175 .
25 The opposite of loving is indifference , with its lack of feeling one way or the other .
26 Surprisingly , Daphne has found out that the best time of day for picking is midday .
27 One of the people he 's conning is Sir Epicure Manhom who wants a life of ease and luxury and has been giving the alchemist loads of money in order to tu to , to perfect this and funny enough the alchemist has n't managed , has n't managed to do this , to get the person 's money .
28 Another parliamentary colleague consistently to make the connection between Britain 's economic policies and the European morass into which she is in danger of sinking is Nicholas Budgen , Member for Wolverhampton .
29 That man who was shouting was Mr a complete and utter headcase .
30 He knew that what he was communicating was urgency , irritability , frustrated life and fury , wrong things here , and indeed Mrs Marriott began hopelessly , her head in a pile of clean muslin nappies , to cry .
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