Example sentences of "[be] [v-ing] [conj] [prep] [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | I am suggesting that within the one is the other — in some respects a Chinese Box would have provided a better diagram than a polarisation continuum , although it would have been difficult to decide which box should be on the outside . |
| 2 | Leila and Quincx are tackling if from the wrong angle . |
| 3 | So NEVER SQUEEZE ROUND THE BARRIERS IF THEY ARE CLOSED , and DO N'T CROSS IF THE WARNING LIGHTS ARE ON , whether you are walking or on a bike . |
| 4 | In recent years a critical consensus has gradually been forming as to the nature of postmodernism . |
| 5 | we get what you 're saying but at the moment er can , can we stick on skills and abilities and try and |
| 6 | ‘ You 're saying that off the top of your head , Mr Glover . |
| 7 | ‘ You 're saying that in a building — a skyscraper , say — on the top floor , the clocks go faster than those on the ground floor ! ’ |
| 8 | you 're drinking that during the meal like you know and |
| 9 | And she says Jean you know well you can see er she says you know the day before Ros was in Lisburn and she says you know the way when you 're standing and from the back you can feel somebody that their eyes are penetrating through you and she said she happened to turn round and there she 's sitting in , in this girl 's car and just er looked at her like that . |
| 10 | Erm , I just think that over the generations er ma a er perhaps we 're forgetting that in the seventies , for instance , er well , cannabis was a at that time a popular , a popular thing , but you also had ecstasy is n't either the main thing in the in the papers |
| 11 | Abdominal imaging so far has been disappointing because of the aperiodic motion of the gut wall and its contents . |
| 12 | Numbers are declining because of the removal of the calf subsidy , the level of calf prices and the rapid escalation in fodder prices , leading to a substantial drop in profit levels . |
| 13 | This is in line with the tougher market conditions we are experiencing and like the hard hit retail sector , the contract and hospitality business ( in which Runcorn majors ) has also been squeezed . |
| 14 | It is little surprise that they are saying that for the time being they will give Mrs Cresson the ‘ benefit of the doubt ’ . |
| 15 | At body weights close to the required minimum women may still have anovulatory cycles even if they are menstruating because of a lack of peripherally produced oestrogen in adipose tissue . |
| 16 | Remember that what your reader wants is not all the facts that a real-life situation would involve but only what I call the " fiction-facts ' , those pieces of information that are necessary not for the situation in the real world you might be describing but for the story you are telling . |
| 17 | Could I make a constructive suggestion in this context of board salaries or remunerations or compensation packages or bonuses I 'm saying that in a slightly tongue in cheek way because I believe that the majority of shareholders do n't understand the differences between these concepts , as you gentlemen evidently do . |
| 18 | Which audience demands which style , okay , we 're going to be practising that over the next week , and the other skills to do with summary . |
| 19 | The permitted hours provisions do not apply to any persons in premises where they are residing or to the supply of liquor to private friends of residents in a licensed premises entertained by the residents at their own expense . |
| 20 | In the circumstances of the current re–organisation however , employees will be allowed to retain the new level of protected hours , in a higher grade post if the result is a saving due to the reduction in staff numbers , either in the post they are vacating or in a lower graded post further down the structure or if his replacement is being appointed on the grade and hours required in the final structure . |
| 21 | We set standards , standards evolve we are coming to the stage now in nineteen ninety three the standards that are being set are changing and at the end of the day the hunt have got to come along with us . |
| 22 | The wasps are thriving because of the mild winter . |
| 23 | And in a recent hard-hitting editorial its editor Lee Mallett said : ‘ What is most disconcerting … is the apparent unwillingness … of leading figures in the property industry to acknowledge the distortions that are arising because of the suppression of information . ’ |
| 24 | A higher proportion of men and women are marrying than among the generation who are currently retired , and married men and women have lower mortality rates than single men and women . |
| 25 | Er we did erm er go through the selection procedure with internal candidates but were unable to appoint , and so therefore are advertising that in the press in the normal way er although both candidates have been told that they may reapply . |
| 26 | we were singing that in the bathroom the other day |
| 27 | Many of the people were dying because of a terrible drought and famine . |
| 28 | The doctor sounded her chest , asking questions about the pain , and all the time trying to keep a sober , professional look though his hands were trembling and in the end he had to sit down to conceal his excitement . |
| 29 | No you could n't I mean er at you know the the doors would n't be open be I mean you know , you could picture a wardrobe without a door , but you were working you were sandpapering that on the inside and er maybe brushing it up and down and then sandpapering that again and then they had to go over with what we call the rubber . |
| 30 | He found the spot where the three reeds were growing and at a single blow cut down all three with his sword . |