Example sentences of "[noun] [vb base] [det] be [v-ing] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Indeed , the setting up of secondary banking subsidi-aries by the primary banks is indicative ofthe slippage that was occurring . |
| 2 | BY 1983 , New Order had three things : a deep desire to break away from the son-of-Joy-Division guitar glaciers with which they 'd become associated , a new-found interest in the electro dance vibe that was filling the UK 's clubs , and a brand new drum machine . |
| 3 | Directors know this is going on and turn a blind eye . |
| 4 | When the roaring giant of a tube train came , the fag sucker suddenly withdrew his double-buckled shoes from the concrete and became a little scuttling pixie to compete with all the other scuttling pixies , but managed a further quick change to a hunched-up half-shut-marble-eyed frowny scowling monkey as he took his tense unrest out on the floor of the tube train that was carrying him to his necessary employment . |
| 5 | And , full speed ahead … the business sideline that 's helping farmers rake in the cash . |
| 6 | The capital standards , negotiated through the Bank for International Settlements ( BIS ) , are a natural scapegoat for the credit squeeze that is deepening the recessions in Britain and America and may provoke one in Japan . |
| 7 | I mean , of course , the mid-life change that 's making the woman you love so difficult . |
| 8 | Well , he 's walking through the clouds with a circus mind that 's running wild . |
| 9 | The following sections look at the outreach work that is taking place around the country to make the CAB more accessible to groups who could not otherwise easily reach a bureau . |
| 10 | For example , erm , in erm , paranoia , delusions of persecution where people believe that is plotting against them , and no matter what you do , erm , you know if you said well look , we can prove to you we are not plotting against you , the paranoic says to you , why do you want to prove this to me , if it 's not true , you know . |
| 11 | ‘ Unfortunately , our sales manager , Mrs Everard , has contracted this flu bug that 's going round , so you 'll have to put up with me all today — and possibly tomorrow too , if she does n't regain her voice . ’ |
| 12 | Although the private good is assumed to be reputation from complying with an established custom of membership , it could also be regarded as any other form of excludable union benefit that is increasing in membership . |
| 13 | Readers may well be familiar with Bristol F.2b Fighter G–AANM that is nearing completion by Aero Vintage it would seem that the Demon is next for their from-the-ground-up treatment . |
| 14 | Er , I also wanted to raise the issue of er the public service section in respect to er this because there 's something prob perhaps not actually tackled in the resolution but equally er important I think is that it 's actually getting the resources into er er down to the br branch level and er if we took this resolution literally , er what it would actually mean would be that er in har with harmonization of agreements we would be handing over er our majority on the manual workers , public service workers to , so obviously we got ta take this resolution very seriously , but consider its implications and the relevance of the word appropriate because I do n't think that we want to be er handed over to come July the first er single table bargaining where we are an absolute minority and where th th that union merge that 's taking place is obviously hostile to our union . |
| 15 | ‘ There was also this electric in the studio fan that was making a horrible squeaking noise , we could n't get it to stop , so we sampled it . ’ |
| 16 | But it is not just this personality clash that is driving Solidarity-as-we-know-it to extinction . |
| 17 | I had the odd George II and George III copper , but these were in the minority and it was the 17th century coinage that was popping up with some regularity . |
| 18 | Because many new mums ca n't produce enough expressed milk — or choose not to breastfeed — there 's a real need for donated milk from milk banks , but according to the National Childbirth Trust these are becoming few and far between . |
| 19 | Such pessimism should not , however , discourage the imaginative computer work that is developing in many bureaux or deny the role of computers in profiling and statistical work , such as that discussed in Chapter 2 . |