Example sentences of "[noun pl] be [v-ing] [adv prt] [prep] the " in BNC.
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| 1 | I 'm just a little bit concerned that if we do delay it while discussions are going on about the unitary authorities and such like , we 'll put restrictions on Mr running it as a commercial enterprise , and I think we have got to make sure that any long term deferral on this , we do n't inhibit him rationalising selling off the odd cottage and this sort of thing , and the farmhouse as we go along , and amalgamating ones because I think it 's , he 's got to be able to run it as a commercial proposition during the course of deliberations . |
| 2 | PHYSICS lecturers are going back to the nursery to teach toddlers in the water tub while admissions tutors consider the merits of palm-reading and astrology for selecting students at Newcastle Polytechnic . |
| 3 | Dutch authorities are looking in to the incident . |
| 4 | We 're talking about hundreds , not thousands here because there are six hundred clubs , so we 're talking , but I think though we , we hope to be able to give significant amounts of money to pay for perhaps safety boats , perhaps instructors , perhaps rescue boat fuel , enough to kick-start these courses off which is important and those forms are going out at the end of the week and when the money 's gone we 'll stop giving the grants out . |
| 5 | Oh no , look buns are going off on the floor everywhere ! |
| 6 | At long last , the motor manufacturers are waking up to the reality that they ought to do more and that they too can assist in the reduction of car crime . |
| 7 | But meanwhile many Japanese eyes are turning back to the root cause : policy co-ordination and America . |
| 8 | Would-be engine drivers and guards are lining up at the Buckinghamshire Railway Centre at Quainton for the chance to transform their own personal childhood fantasy into reality . |
| 9 | A trio of local drivers are closing in on the Autoquip North Western Rally title as the final four rounds in the series are approached . |
| 10 | The kids are larking about in the steam-filled room , and the girl seems grateful for adult conversation . |
| 11 | Yeah you 're going on as if , you started off on the fact that you do n't think we 've got any fear of them cos their kids are running round on the street and now all of sudden you say we have because they 've got nuclear weapons you say . |
| 12 | But new funds are popping up by the day — from plain-vanilla stock funds , such as National Funds ' National Global Allocation Fund , which boasts the guru-economist Henry Kaufman as its asset allocator , to exotica such as Scudder Stevens & Clark 's Short Term Global Income Fund , which will invest in short-term debt securities . |
| 13 | They 've made him lie with his hands behind his head , which is a trick they probably picked from a Miami Vice afternoon repeat , except it looks stupid when the guy 's hairy legs are sticking out from the tail of his shirt . |
| 14 | The words are coming out in the right order . |
| 15 | New opportunities are opening up in the near future which you must be calm enough to accept . |
| 16 | Readers were settling down to the novel 's opening instalment — not a venture to be recommended for ‘ people with weak nerves ’ remarked Strakhov , the gifted critic — when a murder story broke in the newspapers . |
| 17 | Buddleias were growing out of the gutters and doves watched her stone-still , looking like part of the masonry . |
| 18 | ‘ Some of the other kids were going down to the Ash Grove later , ’ she complained . |
| 19 | All the computers were cracking up on the factory floor this morning . ’ |
| 20 | Colombo radio reported on Oct. 17 that the LTTE had recently been admitting , at public meetings in its remaining Jaffna stronghold , that the organization was disintegrating , foreign funds were drying up after the recent military reverses , and Tamil youths were refusing to join its guerrillas . |
| 21 | The year 1973 came close to repeating the triumphs of 1972 but , as usual in FI , other cars were catching up with the Lotus , though not in qualifying , for 1973 was the year in which Ronnie Peterson notched an astonishing nine pole positions and a place on the front row in twelve of the season 's fifteen races , as against one and five for Emerson , Peterson finishing a mere three points behind Fittipaldi . |
| 22 | There were still several boys , waiting for their lifts home , and a number of cars were pulling out of the main gates . |
| 23 | Britain under Harold Macmillan was booming and new Austins and Morrises were flooding on to the country 's antiquated roads . |
| 24 | All eyes were looking up at the pit lane screens as every lap , every move , was relayed on to the tube |
| 25 | one thing 's for sure the appointment of John Gorman is a popular one on the terraces … he 's given the fans what they crave for … and that 's loyalty … from first thing this morning supporters were rolling up at the County Ground to have their say |
| 26 | The Provos , he claimed , had reserves of munitions and were determined to keep going , even though a debate of sorts was going on within the Republican movement . |
| 27 | Though French brands still account for nearly half of the luxury market , German , British , Italian and even a few Japanese and American brands are showing up on the shelves . |
| 28 | Casual work is growing most rapidly in the service and retail sectors but even traditional manufacturing companies are catching on to the trend . |
| 29 | Stewarts and Crazy Prices supermarkets are cashing in on the schooltime purchases with a bigger than ever range of bags and stationery . |
| 30 | But they , the Conservatives are cutting down on the health service and everything else and the schools |