Example sentences of "be [v-ing] [adv prt] [prep] the [noun pl] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Towards the end of the 19th century , a crisis had been building up over the names of organic compounds . |
| 2 | While his loving note helped to sooth her misgivings , it was difficult to control the inner turmoil which had been building up over the months . |
| 3 | It means the loss of hopes and plans which have been building up in the parents during the months of pregnancy . |
| 4 | Less robust , but far more weighty , messages of similar import from Conservative back-benchers have been raining down on the heads of Norman Lamont and John Major since Tuesday 's announcement that VAT will be imposed on domestic gas , electricity and coal . |
| 5 | In Britain in nineteen ninety three we are hanging on to the remains of our welfare state by our fingertips . |
| 6 | Bookmakers Ladbrokes are catching up with the odds on races on four wheels instead of four legs and offering odds on Senna ( 11–8 ) and Prost ( 7–4 ) for the world championship during the week the cars were being loaded for the opening grand prix in Phoenix . |
| 7 | A SHOP 'S vintage hangover cure is proving so popular that regular users are walking in off the streets to take it at £1 a shot . |
| 8 | TEENAGE girls are ending up with the bones of old women because of eating disorders which are producing ‘ horrifying results ’ , a doctor said yesterday . |
| 9 | Robert Taylor has been listening out for the sounds of an economic recovery |
| 10 | I put the phone down , wondering how many people had been listening in on the extensions , and went back into my room . |
| 11 | Can any of you who are meeting up for the spurs game do me a favour , please ? |
| 12 | ‘ The C & D category societies ( the smallest ) have picked up a lot of savings business by offering high interest rates , but that money has to be lent out and the sort of mortgage business they have been picking up at the rates they charge looks very doubtful to me . |
| 13 | They 're just doing us out of money that we 've been saving up over the years . |
| 14 | But they are unable to process this and obviously that will be different for children at different stages of their development erm younger children being particularly susceptible to the sort of atmosphere around them , and if they are picking up from the adults around them , be that through the media or within the context of their everyday lives , that there is something dangerous and disturbing going on , then they are obviously going to reflect that unease in their behaviour . |
| 15 | They 're sticking out like the prongs of a garden fork . |
| 16 | So that you 're keeping up with the fractions . |
| 17 | They 're a bit cold when you 're walking out on the streets . |
| 18 | We 're walking back from the shops — me and Marie — and we stop for a bit to look at the lights in the electric shop . |
| 19 | Its stopped snowing here but the temperature is still minus three and we 're going out on the slopes now to join the Gloucester slalom ski-racing team |
| 20 | ‘ I see you 're getting on with the boots for Edward Morris 's nephew , doing a good job too by the look of it . ’ |
| 21 | This was a digitally-recorded album , so you 're just playing into a microphone and what you 're getting back through the headphones tends to be a little dry and sad . |
| 22 | and they 're coming in with the colds and the shivers and not feeling very well . |
| 23 | you 're coming along to the doctors . |
| 24 | They 're cashing in , but at least they 're cashing in on the locals and not just on the Leeds . |
| 25 | A glance at the coupon of the new issue and what it has been paying out on the ones being redeemed shows the reason for the moves . |
| 26 | She 'd been going on about the outings , never getting away , had n't she ? |
| 27 | Just as most large organizations and systems have found important uses for the computer in accounting and housekeeping operations , so also large libraries , whether public , academic or special , have tended to put their acquisitions and other operations on to computer , and considerable experiment has been going on with the applications of computerization to information retrieval . |
| 28 | Meanwhile , I had intervened in a wrangle which had been going on in the pages of Time and Tide over some articles Eliot had written . |
| 29 | ‘ In the end I could n't bear to be anywhere else , ’ she said , and added that if such practices had been going on in the islands as were alleged , everyone would have known about them . |
| 30 | Clearly , much had been going on behind the scenes , probably accounting for the delay referred to earlier . |