Example sentences of "[v-ing] be [det] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Among the other plants that are not only suitable for planting in window boxes but also pressing are many of the variegated ivies , some grey foliage plants such as cineraria , Pyrethrum ptarmiflorum , heathers and also miniature conifers . |
| 2 | Positioning , motorway and winter driving are some of the subjects covered but the night I attended the subject was speed . |
| 3 | ‘ The main people who are gaining are those whose total bill is more than £100 , and the vast majority of BT customers do not fit into this category . ’ |
| 4 | The point of issue is that estuary and coastal zone management is a reality and what seems to be happening is all sorts of different plans are popping up on various estuaries and Geoff knows them well now because he 's been involved with the one on the Stour and Orwell and what is happening is that these are starting at local level so the first contact with sailors may be from a local authority or someone at local level . |
| 5 | What is happening is that car-owning families are buying another . |
| 6 | In reality what has been happening is that humanity , driven by the inexorable power of the primordial desire for earthly happiness , has been producing a constant stream of decisions from which the good , which will ultimately help with the building of the Created God , have been extracted . |
| 7 | But what is happening is that private care is beginning to recreate some of the practices that the statutory authorities have been working away from . |
| 8 | I mean I want to start with , with pensions pay and er , basically what 's happening is that everyone 's suffering pay cuts er and er th th what the government is doing is , first of all is attacking the State pension scheme er , and it 's allowing , er , employers to continue to rip-off occupational pension schemes and er since it 's pay , and it 's our pay , we wan na make sure we control it and I do n't see why the employers should be allowed to continue to exploit er , us both at one , both in terms of the pay we get now and the pay we get when we retire , whether it be at sixty whether it be er , whenever we wish to er retire and er , I think it 's very important if the government is er committed to crime prevention , that it actually starts doing something about those for , those , those employers , and Maxwell has , has been er referred to already , he 's just the tip of this very big iceberg er , and er , up and down the country , people are suffering substantial thefts of pay er employers are systematically organizing wages snatches , that 's what this er pension fraud is all about , and it 's about time that our government actually got round er and tackled this very important corporate crime issue that 's actually going on at the moment and er , I think that it 's very important that we ensure that we 're involved in er managing our own pension sch p pension funds , and therefore we should be pushing through demands of the er th the , the charter for pension fund democracy , and ensuring er that the government actually listens to what we 're saying , and actually er comes up with answers why we can not have the right to control our pay cos I can I ca n't see an any reason that they come back and say why democracy , why they ca n't , why , why they wo n't allow us to have a greater say and control our own pension funds and that 's I think is a legitimate demand that we should be campaigning for , up and down the country . |
| 9 | What is actually happening is that natural selection does not select for fitness understood as health and er individual health er and wellbeing , athletic ability and so on . |
| 10 | No no , there are natural , we always have a strong preference for something but we can actually develop them , just like management style we have a strong preference for , for one style but it is something that we can learn can get more and try and rationale sort of like theoretical we can try and rationalize what 's perhaps happening is that in situations when we 're not gaining a lot and it could be that it 's because it 's had a lot of activity and we can actually gain more from it we can rationalize it and analyze it . |
| 11 | On the whole I think it 's a , a good thing , er it 's only five or six years ago that an historian called Paul Kennedy published a book saying that America was in decline as a super power , er and in fact I think what 's happening is that er , there are , there are going to be clusters of super powers now in the world and they 're all more modest than American and the Soviet Union were a few years ago . |
| 12 | Now the blue flames are What 's happening is this , there 's two reactions taking place in that coke fire . |
| 13 | Well I think I , I mean I do agree and I think that the that er that pressure is now getting on to these , these city institutions , but erm , but I still come back to the basic thing that , that really , you know what appears to me is happening is we 've we 're having literally millions of pounds taken out in , in issuing these massive massive writs you know , a hundred and seventy eight page writs are sort of being and really the money for those is coming out of the remaining money in our pension funds and really I feel that what wou what is happening is this , as far as I 'm concerned , is all due to the self-regulatory body being set under the Financial Services Act , and in a way I feel that you know we 're being made to pay for sorting out a mess that somebody else is making . |
| 14 | Steaming is another method of moist heat cooking again by conduction . |
| 15 | My hypothesis is that the conditions of work are such that one mode of relating is that of schizoid withdrawal which means that individuals have to take on some of the characteristics just described . |
| 16 | Except that it 's more likely the man , because , you know , the child talked about him dying , but in a funny way , as if dying was another name for something else . |
| 17 | Over bacon , cabbage and wine we had admired the elegance of the line that as prison walls got lower what was really happening was that prison was not disappearing but dissolving . |
| 18 | Now that meant that there was massively increasing pressure on China 's land , and there was growing parcelization of the land and what was happening was that peasant families would of very often er produce two or three sons |
| 19 | What was happening was this . |
| 20 | The amount of , intensity and direction of pushing were all wrong with the epidural . |
| 21 | Of course communicating is more than just telling someone something . |
| 22 | Race horse trainer … easy life … you 've got to be joking … steeplechasing is all of life always has been to David Nicholson … he was born and bred … turned out and trained on the gallops at Prestbury … |
| 23 | The concept they are promoting is that of ‘ electronic ink ’ — a magic ingredient that will enable scribbles written on one pen computer to be used by other systems , even those without pen-aware technology . |
| 24 | But roughly speaking , I , a figure worth remembering is that ninety decibels and above can cause permanent damage and under all circumstances situations above this level should be avoided . |
| 25 | All we 're seeking is some explicit acknowledgement within the plan that there may be circumstances where this type of development will be appropriate . |
| 26 | Checking or correcting is another procedure not usually engaged in unless directed to , but discussion of methods often produced a correction to the original wrong answer . |
| 27 | Acting 's all about doing the actions . |
| 28 | what you 're implying is that how that they had a radical policy in mind but because of the war it had to be moderated but I , somehow I tend to believe the reverse , that how that they may have continued the moderate policy but was forced into it because of circumstances to , forced to erm into radicalizing their policies . |
| 29 | What keeps most teachers going are these intermittent flashes of light , which they often hoard , like interesting shells found on a beach , and can proudly display if asked . |
| 30 | The most successful agricultural systems in terms of sustained productivity and the least environmentally degrading are those which involve crop rotations and an adequate fallow period . |