Example sentences of "[conj] [adj] be [v-ing] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Where that is lacking , the result may be the exercise of power without sensitivity , poor relationships with church musicians , little sense of occasion in worship , and frustrated worshippers . |
| 2 | Pro and anti-hunt demonstrators have been lobbying a meeting of the full council , where Labour is trying to rush through a ban . |
| 3 | As part of the whole process of computerising its information systems , Catering & Allied is making neat use of the Psion Organiser II alongside personal computers loaded with the Caterdata software from T IS . |
| 4 | Erm looking up er the er line or that is looking from the bridge erm that 's going down towards er th the just it it it er cur curved round to meet the er the line er an and the s and the station was was here . |
| 5 | A bus would repeat itself every hour and he 'd say , run that one down , or that was running it down hour after hour until about seven o'clock when certain buses were run in . |
| 6 | Elections of one kind or another are taking place three years out of four : parish , borough , county , European . |
| 7 | A Study Skills Handbook ‘ has been written for students whose mother tongue is not English , yet who , for one reason or another are completing a course of study where English is the only language of instruction . ’ |
| 8 | According to UNEP 's figures , desertification is taking as much land out of agricultural use as exploiters of one kind or another are clearing in the rainforests : |
| 9 | If these criteria can not be met then either the functions are in the wrong order or some are missing . |
| 10 | Where these are rising the main stimulus to be motorway development . |
| 11 | Where these are lacking he readily substitutes rumours , conjecture and legend , as well as his own hypotheses . |
| 12 | The therapeutic centre may be used typically to observe and monitor families which are not functioning well and to teach adequate parenting skills where these are lacking . |
| 13 | Where these are offering high standards of service and promotional benefits , they have a good chance of success . |
| 14 | Well somebody sooner or later 's gon na catch up , I ca n't understand really why these people think oh I 'll get away with it . |
| 15 | where all was changing and accomplished , |
| 16 | National & Provincial is offering a 10.6 p.c. rate ( 11.6 p.c . |
| 17 | So at that point then did you almost give up hope that you would be rescued ? that you more or less were going to end in the sea at that point ? |
| 18 | We had a 100% retention on the mortgage until the major work was done , and meanwhile were managing on a bridging loan — it was a bit like living in a house with no roof , hoping that it would n't rain ( which we more or less were doing ) . |
| 19 | But this girl who could n't be more than twenty-two or twenty-three was going to do it , not he . |
| 20 | The next two steps will be COSE II for networking , interoperability and distributed computing , and COSE III for systems management , and there is more where those are coming from . |
| 21 | These are to be COSE II for networking , interoperability and distributed computing , and COSE III for systems management , and there will be more where those are coming from . |
| 22 | The section of CONFIG.SYS that deals with this looks like this : device=c : \dos\himem.sys device=c : \dos\emm386.exe noems dos=high , umb devicehigh=c : \dos\smartdrv.sys xxxx yyyy ( where xxxx is the cache size , and yyyy is the minimum size it can be when Windows 3.0 or higher is running ) |
| 23 | Surely no power on earth or celestial is going to just let us drift apart ? ’ |
| 24 | He believes that the jets come from areas where material is evaporating from the surface more slowly than in surrounding regions . |
| 25 | ‘ I 've got part-time players and three or four are going to find it extremely difficult to get time off work . |
| 26 | Snuggling into his chair , he settled down for an hour or two 's tinkering . |
| 27 | So there we are , lines are open , three double one , one double one , I see one or two are ringing already , you 'll have to be very quick . |
| 28 | If we spot the fish we can cast directly to them with strong tackle and a big bait , or we can move from swim to swim until we find where a big barbel or two are feeding . |
| 29 | ‘ But I can not ask for any more from the players than the performances they are giving me and one or two are starting to show their true form . ’ |
| 30 | People were still walking up the drive , and one or two were beginning to walk back down it : they must 've had enough of visiting for today , like me . |