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

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1 Doctors at the East London rehabilitation unit where he is recovering are sending him home for Christmas with his family in Chingford , Essex .
2 The pastor who is not praying is playing ; the people who are not praying are straying .
3 At least one top left-hander in the top six looks a must to help combat Warne 's leg-spin-and the odds on David Gower returning are shortening almost by the hour .
4 So the sort of things that are happening are happening everywhere and community care I think could be probably one of the areas that I could talk about at some length if you wanted to later on .
5 The adoption of standards by TDWG networking and the first steps towards ‘ taxonomically intelligent ’ integrity checking are enabling a second generation to appear .
6 In 1973 , approximately 14% of the persons training for building surveying were doing so through full-time study ; still a minority , but trends were obvious and it was predicted that seven years later , by 1980 , that percentage would have increased to around 30% ; in the event the figure was 46% .
7 Surely cheating is cheating , whatever form it takes , and I do not believe that the ‘ crimes ’ committed at the Olympics were any worse than that committed in Rome .
8 It means that the recession which ought to be ending is gathering pace . ’
9 Yet already the urgent need to know what is happening is fading .
10 On one level you may be preoccupied with establishing greater financial stability but what may be equally as pressing is finding a real sense of belonging and a deep emotional rapport with a partner .
11 The pastor who is not praying is playing ; the people who are not praying are straying .
12 During the comprehensive rebuilt process , the aircraft 's original paint scheme was discovered on the airframe whilst paint stripping was taking place , along with signs of active service in the form of several small calibre bullet holes .
13 Any bases where these little babies are operating are going to be way off our orbital paths .
14 Is he satisfied that the new system encourages local authorities to provide houses — rented accommodation — for those people and that the numbers that are dependent on board and lodging are decreasing ?
15 Advances in all aspects of low energy ion scattering are occurring rapidly and the breadth of these applications will certainly expand in the near future .
16 er that would be erm structured in a way that y the people who are er training are making sure you 've got the best out of it and are making
17 It was the year of the first World Championships , and many of the big names in sprinting were biding their time .
18 ft was just about the last poem I wrote on my own for the next six months or so ; it is called ‘ Believing Is Seeing ’ , and it was also about a carving , the sculpture illustrating the miracle of Christ healing the blind man :
19 That poem , ‘ Believing Is Seeing , ’ refers to one of the first poems we wrote together .
20 The low-cost 7100LC version of the Precision Architecture RISC that Hewlett-Packard Co is developing is generating growing excitement , and could give the company a significant edge in winning space on the desktop of the future .
21 Looking is seeing , really .
22 When Alice was sixteen her mother , angry with her about something , said in a fury , ‘ You need n't think being good looking is going to be an advantage in life .
23 For me , the whole point of acting is using different aspects of yourself , and getting as far away from yourself as you can .
24 Although the spectral index at phase 0.7 , close to the maximum , is about -2.0 between 606MHz and 1,660MHz and typical of most pulsars , at 408MHz the flux density is actually less than that at 606MHz and is lower than the extrapolated spectrum by a factor of about 4 ( Table 1 ) , indicating that strong absorption or scattering is occurring even when the companion is on the far side of the pulsar .
25 Population ageing is operating at two distinct levels : societal and within the older age groups itself .
26 The amount people were saving was slowing down , and Mr Patterson said : ‘ Many consumers should soon feel they have built up their savings to an acceptable level , and may start spending again . ’
27 What Dr Tolley was advocating was withdrawing membership of professional bodies from people who did not keep abreast .
28 The ten minute film , to be shown on Channel Four tonight says councils who block squatting are making homelessness worse .
29 A communicative support system has been outlined to try to amplify the sorts of competencies in which the child must become autonomous before the skills which referential communication is measuring are functioning fully .
30 In between yeah , here 's Alice , he sh here she is she 'll come and talk to you across the world be go be going be going back tomorrow
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