Example sentences of "[that] [pron] be [v-ing] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Check that nothing is getting hot . |
| 2 | It is quite clear that nothing is missing from the other end of the Interludium as it was copied on to this vellum : the vellum had already been cut to its surviving top edge by the time the Interludium came to be written on to it . |
| 3 | ‘ Well , now that we 've decided that nothing is going to happen tonight that does n't happen every Saturday night in Pepe 's Bar , tell me — why on earth can you even think for a second that Miguel is falling for me ? ’ |
| 4 | Check that the bridge fits snugly back into place and that nothing is preventing it from seating properly ; small gaps at either end of the bridge are common , but the glue will fill these . |
| 5 | A feeling of loneliness is connected with a feeling that nothing is happening : |
| 6 | After the answers that I have given , I do not know how anyone can say that nothing is happening on the matter . |
| 7 | Luckily the weather was so awful that nothing was flying , so there was only routine work to attend to . |
| 8 | At the junction with the road she braked just long enough to see that nothing was coming then turned right and careered wildly down the long hill into the village . |
| 9 | The trees were rustling silver in the moonlight and the garden , as always , waved its grass nonchalantly , trying to suggest that nothing was going on . |
| 10 | But after a week of total failure to concentrate for more than a minute he had to acknowledge to himself that nothing was going right . |
| 11 | Persuading her that nothing was going on could turn out to be a Herculean task . |
| 12 | Suffice it to say , without getting into the tortured complexities of the US budget process , that everyone is fiddling with the numbers . |
| 13 | Reaction to the latest rise makes it clear that everyone is watching out for another eruption of internal discord on the exchange rate between Sir Alan Walters in Downing Street , and Mr Lawson in the Treasury . |
| 14 | The fact that everyone is writing us off does n't bother us . |
| 15 | It is evident , too , that everyone is doing this at a time when thoughts of recession could easily exclude any charitable action . |
| 16 | At first , we thought everyone else was booming while we were down in the dumps , but from talking to other businessmen you realise that everyone is suffering the same . ’ |
| 17 | My complaint about reviews so far is that everyone is reviewing the man Larkin and not the biography of him . |
| 18 | School makes me nervous ; when I walk down the corridor I feel that everyone is staring at me , and because a lot of people know about my anorexia they think it their job to comment constantly on what I am eating or not eating , and how much better I look now that I 've put on weight . |
| 19 | The use of words also helps to bring across the message of the poem with words such as ‘ futility ’ and ‘ fatuous ’ giving the distinct impression that Wilfred Owen has almost given up everything that he once believed in because he feels that everyone is going to kill each other anyway . |
| 20 | Well I do n't think it is because you 're again you 're back to the line that everyone is bullying and I do n't believe that everyone is bullying . |
| 21 | ‘ Forgive me , ’ Alexandra said , feeling a recurring surge of the courage that had invaded her at Langley Dene , ‘ but I think — with respect , I think that everyone is making too much of my meeting Mr Swinton . |
| 22 | We get people on the programme singing and dancing so badly it 's painful , but they come back the next week and tell us that everyone 's stopping them in the streets to congratulate them , not slag them off . ’ |
| 23 | Well a word about next Friday 's match then , that 's the big one , the one that everyone 's waiting for against Kings Lynn . |
| 24 | A series of complex and powerful planetary influences suggest that everyone 's gunning for you this month . |
| 25 | ’ I like the laugh that everyone 's having . |
| 26 | Maintaining control over which is the most up-to-date version of the document can be a problem unless there 's centralized organization , logging who 's done what and making sure that everyone 's working on the right version . |
| 27 | James asked , contributing to the elaborate pretence that everyone was thinking about the Redburns , not Abbotsfield . |
| 28 | Rostov turned round and saw that everyone was bowing except Alexei . |
| 29 | The fact that everyone was waving tiny American flags made this spectacle of labour all the more bizarre . |
| 30 | Despite the received view that everyone was watching films like The Battleship Potemkin , Lenin 's vision began to be realised only at the end of the 1920's . |