Example sentences of "be [adv] [v-ing] [adv prt] [prep] the " in BNC.
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| 1 | Indeed I am rather coming round to the view that the trouble last year was not that we failed to produce as good policies as our opponents but that we failed to produce policies for the issues the electorate was most interested in . |
| 2 | I mean increasingly small authorities are effectively opting out of the national negotiat now we ca n't ignore th |
| 3 | Creatures that bestride the dividing line between amphibians and reptiles and between mammals and protomammals , are constantly turning up in the fossil record . |
| 4 | ‘ I 'm going to turn into one of those old guys who are constantly harping on about the war , about ration books and bomb shelters . |
| 5 | They are making many staff redundant , and they are largely pulling out of the programme , thus leaving a huge hole in numbers and finance . |
| 6 | Users are finally coming round to the idea that applications are more important than the platform , he says , citing the UK supermarket chain , Sainsbury 's , which took ten months to decide that it would move to Unix , choosing its software before inviting companies to bid for the hardware contract . |
| 7 | Museums are finally coming in from the cold , to take their place alongside a whole range of other cultural facilities such as zoos , botanic gardens , planetariums , libraries , and the like — all of which are striving , in their own distinctive ways , to contribute to the informal education of the public as a whole . |
| 8 | I think I am just starting out on the steep , rocky — and lots of other corny metaphors — road to recovery . |
| 9 | Developers are already cottoning on to the trend by building houses with ready made work rooms . |
| 10 | Orders are already pouring in for the American-made scarves and bandanas that heat up when a liquid-filled pad is microwaved is placed into a pouch . |
| 11 | But these larger firms are already cutting down on the size of their student intake and , if the trend continues , will end up — as Grant Thornton has already done — recruiting and training only staff who are expected to make a career with the firm after qualifying . |
| 12 | The houses of Old Odborough are already lighting up for the evening , but it is not yet dark enough to see the lights farther away . |
| 13 | Another powerful reason why improved mud buildings are not catching on in the tropical Third World is that for poor families , housing is not the first priority . |
| 14 | Monitoring of people moved from Friern Hospital in north London and Claybury Hospital in Essex shows that they are not slipping out of the system and are enjoying a better quality of life with greater independence and a more varied social life . |
| 15 | What evidence is there that you are not living up to the appropriate standards ? |
| 16 | Government and hospitals are not opting out of the N H S at all , they are every much of it a as part of the Health Service as they every have been and you all know that and it 's about time you stopped saying it . |
| 17 | The auctioneers Phillips have asked us to point out that they are not giving up on the continent , although they are reducing their representation there ( The Art Newspaper No. 21 October 1992 , p. 27 ) . |
| 18 | They are not going in at the moment but that does n't worry me because he is a smashing lad doing the right things again . |
| 19 | ‘ You are not walking on to the stage at the Shield , or any theatre in which I have influence , again . |
| 20 | Yes , but On the last comment that er Chris made er bringing us and the letter to county about the the failure of the meeting on the twenty second cos we feel that they are just lying down to the situation and not pursuing a pursuing the D A P about whatsoever and erm we are , certainly in John 's letter probably get it signed tonight complaining and asking for a a meeting as soon as possible because we feel that that they ought to be pursuing the question of these two sites , they 're dragging their feet ! |
| 21 | Sure , they are soon going off into the night , their lights flickering and fading , but it will be with dignity . |
| 22 | ‘ We 're just going through to the hall , ’ said Dominic . |
| 23 | We 're not having a party we 're just gon na , they 're just coming round in the afternoon to play with you and we can have a drink and |
| 24 | If we 're doing add we 're just starting off with the counting numbers . |
| 25 | If you look up to the university lecturer or down on the cleaner , either way you 're not facing up to the truth about us all . |
| 26 | They 're they 're not living out in the in the sticks the vast majority of people , they actually live in in settlements . |
| 27 | alarm , I hope they 're not running about in the barn all day going bad , we 'll all get fucking poisoned , did you leave us a couple ? |
| 28 | Or if you 're not going back to the hospital , it will be sent to you by post . |
| 29 | Yeah we 're not going back to the underpass do |
| 30 | You 're not going back in the family business , are you , Floyd ? ’ |