Example sentences of "be [v-ing] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | If you are pitching for an account , appearing on television or radio , making a significant speech , always have a company Gofer with you . |
| 2 | You react like one when you burn the toast , so why should n't you react like one when you are pitching for a new account ? |
| 3 | All 3 political groups are pitching for increased spending , Labour is likely to propose a budget around £320 million , the Liberal Democrats around £314 million and the Tory group up to £310 millions , all of them well above Government guidelines of £306 million . |
| 4 | I find myself turning to the first chapter of the Book of Genesis for an insight into what I am hinting at here . |
| 5 | It 's been weeping at night when I 'm sleeping . |
| 6 | ‘ Care managers are stepping into a different world , managing budgets and telling clients when they ca n't do something because there is no more money . |
| 7 | They are stepping over the invisible , moralistic Maginot Line of the old culture of opposition . |
| 8 | The Convention has been binding upon the United Kingdom since 1953 . |
| 9 | It endorsed British industry 's achievements under the policies that we have been pursuing for the past 12 years , urged us to continue and build upon them in future and condemned utterly the sort of policies still advocated by the Labour party , which is stuck in a mind-set of the 1960s and 1970s . |
| 10 | And just in case any men out there still need to be convinced that cleanliness is next to Robert Redfordness , how about the tale of a friend of mine who was desperate to impress a woman he had been pursuing for weeks . |
| 11 | Downland Housing Association are building at the Larch Cottage site , Portsmouth Road , while the second site is at Lynchborough Road , Passfield . |
| 12 | Some will carry 300 men , with the baggage , and others 150 horse with their riders ; 150 more are building at Brest , St Malo , Nantes , Port L'Orient , Morlaix and other ports of Brittany . |
| 13 | They are helping to move soil into a garden they are building at the school with the help of mums , dads and teachers . |
| 14 | With the threat of relegation looming again , the loss of the ground , and the millstone around my neck of a team of asthmatic pine martens with the collective brain power of a kiwi fruit , the pressures on me are building to a frightening pitch . |
| 15 | On the contrary , they form the foundation blocks to all that follows , and serve as a constant reminder of the need to ensure that we are building on the right foundation and that the materials with which we build have spiritual survival capability ( 1 Cor. |
| 16 | Cosmetic companies are building on their foundations for black skin this spring : |
| 17 | Will she also emphasise that we are building on success and , to this end , will she give the House the figures for 1988 , 1989 and 1990 on the proportion of American and Japanese investment in the EC which came to Britain ? |
| 18 | We are building on this . |
| 19 | The woods in Coulby Newham , which have suffered from half a century of neglect , will be rejuvenated with help from three developers Wimpey , Yuill and McLean who are building on adjacent plots . |
| 20 | The flaws which they are building into the system ( which even Phil is building into the system ) — the endemic morbidity of man and the lethal hostility of his environment — are not incidental but essential . |
| 21 | Two developments are , firstly , that we are adopting a modular system , which we feel gives our students greater flexibility and , secondly , that through the Enterprise in Higher Education Initiative , we are building into all our modules transferable skills such as team building and presentation . |
| 22 | With regard to the War Department , I quite agree with Panmure , that the best course will be to lodge that Department in an unpretending but suitable manner in Pall Mall , and to carry that arrangement into effect at the same time that a Foreign and Colonial Office are building in Downing and Fludyer Street . |
| 23 | If as part of the task you specify the effect the programme is to have on the audience , you are building in the criteria by which that audience can judge the programme and you are giving them a purpose in viewing . |
| 24 | If you try and fudge it and set up three or four , say they can all discuss the same thing , you are building in the ability for major conflicts . |
| 25 | The way those clouds are building in the sky , I ought to drive . |
| 26 | So we , we are not just creating capitalism per se we are building in that direction er but there will be elements of socialism there which we can then build on and take us forward . |
| 27 | Old issues are re-emerging from our history books on to the political agenda : the status of Germany , the problems of the Balkans , the ambiguous relations of peripheral countries like Britain and Russia to the politics of Central Europe . |
| 28 | Hundreds of people are queueing at cinemas across the region to see Hollywood 's new dinosaur blockbuster Jurassic Park . |
| 29 | Hundreds of people are queueing at cinemas across the region to see Hollywood 's new dinosaur blockbuster Jurassic Park . |
| 30 | The residents of Unity Flats are shrugging off the stigma of living in what has long been regarded as one of the city 's most undesirable areas . |