Example sentences of "[to-vb] be [v-ing] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Those Russians who choose to remain are pinning their hopes on him . |
| 2 | In nineteen eighty six treat people as if their labour is worth nothing you know those men have given their lives to the quarry industry and there 's no doubt that there is money to be made from slate at the moment and people are people that have the money to invest are making a lot of money okay they 're inves they 're risking the money but er people are risking their lives as well and giving their lives . |
| 3 | There is talk , still unconfirmed but reasonable enough , that Sparc cloners anxious to finally turn their allegiance to profit are pushing for the port . |
| 4 | Since it presumably means we will not for some time to come be seeing her again stretched horizontal on a sun lounger . |
| 5 | When she saw that her tense efforts to concentrate were getting nowhere she made a swift expedition back to the Hall . |
| 6 | ‘ The need to intern is staring us in the face , ’ he said . |
| 7 | Mr McLeish said that Scottish industry 's capacity to train was withering and the loss of skills training was deadly for the economy . |
| 8 | Finding something relatively healthy for your children to drink is becoming increasingly complicated . |
| 9 | A CHARITY that helps blind babies and teaches them how to smile is running out of money . |
| 10 | So within the range of the state 's responsibility to its subjects failing to help is hindering . |
| 11 | the thing the thing that you 've got to avoid is getting into a situation where you 've where where you you say to him , Oh well okay |
| 12 | A further danger to avoid is agreeing in advance to disclose a particular medical report , or indeed any other sort of expert 's report , before one has actually seen it . |
| 13 | The other thing to avoid is swaying backward and forward so that you are alternately bellowing and whispering , fading out or disappearing entirely at intervals like a badly tuned radio station ! |
| 14 | These courses were often run in conjunction with the Advisory Services whose expertise in the subject , allied to ATB 's training methods , ensured that the trainees obtained full benefit from attendance . |
| 15 | So again Warwickshire desperately had to win was slipping away , and with it their chances of the championship . |
| 16 | The court 's ruling in favour of the Commission created a legal vacuum which Brussels is not seeking to fill be re-tabling its proposals . |
| 17 | As clouds gathered over Wroughton , the last to leave were flying home . |
| 18 | What I 'm trying to do is trying to get it the way it will be in an exam so , cos in an exam you 're |
| 19 | That would we feel is certainly in a coordinating way and if somebody for instance er say you 've got a husband and wife living together , one of them suddenly becomes handicapped in a particular way , what we are planning to do is trying to develop programmes which will enable the carer to have to go on training at the County Council 's expense to enable them to look after somebody in their own homes and it 's a type of thing we want to develop . |
| 20 | Erm the other thing I 'd like you to do is adding up all all the numbers that make ten . |
| 21 | The weakness still lived in his body but his urge to draw was reviving , he could feel it . |
| 22 | But she had risen early and found that staying put with nothing to do was growing more and more irksome . |
| 23 | Perhaps in the last decade of this century something of a change in attitude to sculpture is becoming evident . |
| 24 | Neither — to put another old fallacy to rest is drinking with meals ‘ fattening ’ , if the drinks are calorie-free . |
| 25 | The most difficult part of learning to read is learning that learning to read is worth the effort involved , and of being aware of the rewards of reading . |
| 26 | The man the police want to question was walking through the Greyfriars bus station in Northampton , when he was caught on a security video shortly before the attempted abduction . |
| 27 | I can tell you , having Mr Bell 's physog dished up like a plate of cold suet every time I wish to relax is beginning to unnerve me . |
| 28 | It is a new A5 size printed in three different languages to directly appeal to WASL 's growing European network . |
| 29 | Oxford United 's boy wonder … two more goals against Millwall won the headlines last saturday and the queue of premier league clubs coming to watch is growing longer … |
| 30 | However , the one thing I was most emphatically told , was that learning to dive was going to be fun . |