Example sentences of "[vb pp] [be] [adv] [v-ing] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The number of candidate words being discarded as too short or too long is quite small , and in fact the number of correct candidates being incorrectly discarded is slightly discouraging . |
| 2 | The form in which ‘ memories ’ are preserved and venerated is highly revealing : the ‘ memoire ’ implies something quite different from the ‘ oral history ’ . |
| 3 | Another type of work which is disliked is emotionally demanding work , a category not recognized elsewhere in the literature on the police . |
| 4 | ON A London Saturday , an unknown and unsigned dance band called Motion Incorporated were supposedly playing second billing to My Jealous God , and ended up catapulting themselves into the crowd 's heart . |
| 5 | At the time that Friedman was airing his dissatisfaction with the Phillips curve , the complex econometric models of inflation which its discovery had spawned were still predicting inflation reasonably well . |
| 6 | I mean the exercise that we 've done is purely working on your salary |
| 7 | Now this year what I 've done is actually going to see the form teacher and look at the classes and they 've actually given me a lot more information this year and hopefully , keep our fingers crossed , the classes are very varied and we have good , we have middling , and we have the not so good and we 've tried to keep those like that . |
| 8 | Having your cosy liaison disrupted was never going to go down easily , but think on the bright side — at least I 'm here to keep you company . |
| 9 | Kursell v. Timber Operators ( 1927 C.A ) concerned the sale of timber which at the time the contract was made was still growing in a Latvian forest . |
| 10 | Due in part to this continued policy of integration , the numbers of children attending special schools for the mentally handicapped are now falling . |
| 11 | And I think really what 's needed is actually going out , I mean , it could be a useful new thing that , a new departure that other people have n't done . |
| 12 | But the EQ as measured is probably telling us something about how much ‘ computing power ’ an animal has in its head , over and above the irreducible minimum of computing power needed for the routine running of its large or small body . |
| 13 | Free Range Total Freedom — The birds are grown to 81 days and the breed used is slow growing . |
| 14 | I can actually recall a press release which came to me about a a principal tourism officer who had just been appointed to be the head , you know the president for the year of his professional body , and in his own town a press release was put out in which his name was incorrectly spelt , and the conference at which he was about to be invested was actually taking , and I blush to say that it was in Brighton , I can only tell you when I got that press release I did what I frequently do , which is outline in highlighter the mistakes on the press release , put it back into the envelope and send it back to the relevant officer . |
| 15 | One of the most common problems encountered is simply deciding if two components in a machine clash . |
| 16 | In practice settings , those involved are often struggling to find ways of resolving the dilemmas they face . |
| 17 | The people involved are apparently drawing technical inspiration from Carnegie Mellon University 's PI project . |
| 18 | Even those heathlands which have not been reafforested are rapidly becoming covered with silver birch and self-sown Scots Pine , due to lack of grazing management . |
| 19 | With so many other potential challengers struggling , United are suddenly looking the team most likely to win the Premier League . |
| 20 | The play in which she had first appeared was still running ; its clumsy comedy appealed to the audiences who came here . |
| 21 | Very much a rubber stamp exercise in those days and as a result of that only one in four of the businesses that were supported was actually surviving at the end of the first twelve months . |
| 22 | The record only reached number twenty-five but the audience about to be touched was obviously going to be huge . |
| 23 | A large group in the opposite corner had erupted into laughter at just the right moment , to mask the sound of her action , however , and even those who had seen and heard were simply hiding slightly shocked and curious smiles behind polite hands and pretending to go on with their talk . |
| 24 | The publications taken were constantly changing and it would appear that " Punch " was the only one which was taken throughout the whole period . |
| 25 | It did more for Denby Dale than for George III as he soon went into a decline , but the tradition then started is still going strong , with the pies getting bigger in size every time . |
| 26 | ‘ What 's left is only trimming . |
| 27 | Earlier she 'd eaten some of the traditional casserole — fried rabbit in red wine — but any appetite she had left was rapidly deserting her . |
| 28 | They remained in control over the means of mass communications but those whose work or views they had long ignored were now clamouring for access . |
| 29 | When the long-awaited Invasion finally started , we were sure that the lives which had been lost were now going to be partly justified , because the boot was definitely on the other foot and the Germans had had it . |
| 30 | The difficulty for the historian is that evidence for how councillors were elected is often lacking , and one does not know how many freemen could participate in choosing them , nor when membership of councils came to be filled by the choice of the existing councillors . |