Example sentences of "[noun pl] [verb] [adv] be [v-ing] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Concern was heightened by the knowledge that , since the late 1970s , the North Koreans had also been developing ballistic missiles capable of carrying nuclear warheads . |
| 2 | Opposition parties had also been pressing for an early poll , especially in view of the poor performance by ANAP in local elections since 1989 [ see p. 36528 ] . |
| 3 | Up to now , the manufacturers had not been accounting for dismantling personal computers in their construction , so it 's still a very difficult process . |
| 4 | Footnote : NSS readers have apparently been enquiring about the welfare of my cat , Euclid , who , as I reported last week , went missing after the earthquake . |
| 5 | Perhaps motivated by such heady topics , the Scottish Survivors have not been taking matters that light-heartedly . |
| 6 | Dublin 's notorious ticket touts have also been getting in on the act through Northern front men knowing there will be a market for the tickets at ten times the outlay . |
| 7 | Manufacturers have also been putting a lot of resources into providing a wide range of dry foods especially formulated for marine fish species . |
| 8 | Sensitive to the disastrous marketing implications of such a move ( imagine needing a prescription for your favourite skin cream ) manufacturers have recently been shifting their attention to the uppermost levels of the epidermis where any improvement in texture or tone , no matter how impressive , is still deemed to be ‘ cosmetic ’ . |
| 9 | English wine growers have only been operating on a commercial basis for the past 20 years . |
| 10 | As you will see , from the enclosed programme for 1990/1991 , all our Trainers have again been working very hard , to provide you with Q.T. days which continue to be exciting , different and which reflect your requests and ideas . |
| 11 | The first candidates have now been enrolling for the new , operational system , following the successful completion of the pilot phases of the Advanced Courses Development Programme during 1988–90 . |
| 12 | The number of their monthly transactions and the average value of these transactions has also been growing as they transfer monies from their savings accounts to pay for surveys , place a deposit with estate agents and so forth . |
| 13 | This board of directors has just been spelling out the fact that we 're in big trouble ; we 're heavily in debt , we 're showing a … a net loss before taxation … we can barely afford this month 's wages bills , we ca n't meet half our orders … all that does n't just come blazing in overnight after an accident with the new singeing machine in the printing plant … ’ |
| 14 | This seems to suggest that the policy of the 1974 Act is the recognition that there is a need for industrial waste to be disposed of , and the companies doing so are providing a much needed service , but such operations ought to be closely controlled to ensure that any interference on the surrounding locality is minimal . |
| 15 | The repatriation of Yugoslavs had now been proceeding for a week . |
| 16 | With this increasingly active role which Highlander was playing in the civil rights movement , it was only a matter of time until the reactionary extremism , which the blacks had long been fighting against , began to be directed at Highlander itself . |
| 17 | Indians had long been demanding the return of sacred relics , and both Stanford University and the University of Minnesota had already agreed to release their collections to Indians . |
| 18 | The political winds had also been blowing from a different and more conservative direction . |
| 19 | They had supposed the threat of Naggaroth all but extinguished , but now it seemed that the Dark Elves had merely been rebuilding their strength . |
| 20 | Mr replied that is what Mr was asking the other to do , that is to hold their hand and to enter into negotiations , now I fully appreciate that erm doctor feels strongly that the defendants have not been negotiating in good faith and have been simply dragging matters out for his benefit , now when I say that I 'm simply saying what I understand to be doctor view , I 'm certainly not suggesting that I 'm finding as a fact , but that was the decision , indeed I could n't cos I 've not heard all the evidence on this matter not as Mr to address me on that one , it seems to me with all respect to doctor missions on this matter that if there has been any dragging of feet or other improper conduct of either the defendants in connection with er they remain on in the premises and not paying what doctor would consider to be a full and proper rent or if there has been problem about their not disclosing documents when they should have done , the position is that doctor has er by making an appropriate application to the court , for maybe the appropriate relief arising out of the facts which he can establish , but that is not in general a matter which erm the court should go into on the question of taxation , it 's not , th this particular taxation of costs is a taxation as I understand it that are formally to the debt of the order of Mr Justice and there is thus no question of the court having to consider the question when the those tax those costs have been swollen or increased in any way by reason of spinning out negotiations whether to run up costs or otherwise , that simply does n't arising it seems to me in this case that maybe a matter which may arise possibly at some future date , though I would hope it would not do so , but er so far as the costs down to the end of the trial of the twentieth of March nineteen ninety one are concerned , it seems to me the fact that the parties maybe negotiating subsequently to deter to rece to resolve the outstanding issue , it 's not a matter which really goes to the question of erm what is the proper amount to allow for taxation of costs which have already been incurred , before these negotiations erm we do n't the figure of the costs appears to have been effectively agreed between the solicitors at forty two thousand pounds , the plaintiff solicitors made it quite clear that they were seeking interest , this was clear in apparently of nineteen ninety two , but this held their hand , er it seems to me the reason they held their hand rather than indicate it was because the defendant through his solicitor was asking them to do so and it seems to me that Mr was acting very sensibly in the defendants interest , because if in fact they had gone ahead and taxed their costs there and then the position would simply be that there would of been an award for taxation , in order , there would be a taxation resulting in an order for payment of of some cost probably in the region of forty two thousand pounds and er that order would itself carry interest under the judgements act , it does n't seem to me it can be sensibly said that erm any interest has to be in any way increased by reason of this delay and it seems to me that erm if one looks at order sixty two and twenty eight er certainly under paragraph B two erm there 's a reference there to any additional interest payable under section seventeen because of the failure on the May , erm , it does n't seem to me that the effect of what has in fact incurred , in this case has been , caused any additional interest to be paid and er it seems to me the only best that I can see in the evidence before me to , which would enable the court to erm , conclude that there should be a disallowance of interest would be as I say because the plaintiffs appear not to have perfected the order for the payment of perfectively two years , just over two years , erm it seems to me however that , that on balance probably it simply a matter of oversight and even if it had been perfected it would n't of made as I guess the least bit of difference to the way the negotiations er proceeded and accordingly I take the view that erm there are no grounds for disallowing interest from either the plaintiffs bill of costs or the defendants bill of costs , accordingly erm to allow the defendants appeal in preparation to the disallowance of costs er interest and to dismiss the defendants appeal for application in relation to an additional period , P sixty of course disallowed , I also propose to dismiss the sum of , the appeal by the plaintiffs from the refusal of taxing master to disallow the interest on the defendants bill of costs . |
| 21 | If your publican can knock 70p off a pint , then breweries and pubs have certainly been overcharging . |
| 22 | This must be the first year when new rock boot models have n't been coming out of everyone 's ears . |
| 23 | Companies have also been looking after their shareholders . |
| 24 | The fact that one in five of the complaints were held to be breaches of the code shows that the tobacco companies have perhaps been treating the committee and the issue in a cavalier way . |
| 25 | I can not imagine why the Conservatives have not been campaigning harder on this issue . |
| 26 | With all of its efforts to establish itself in the Unix marketplace , DEC has sometimes been in danger of convincing its own VMS customers that the traditional VAX lines have not been keeping up with Unix in the price/performance race . |
| 27 | Auditors are normally concerned with ensuring that the accounts of a firm are an accurate record of its financial position and that employers or directors have not been absconding with the funds or ‘ fiddling the books ’ . |
| 28 | The heatwave which stole Ivano 's snowfields has also been wreaking rockfall havoc around the massif , with many normally safe routes becoming places to tread warily . |
| 29 | He learnt on a Cherokee like this , but he 's five hours short of his pilots licence so is hoping to finish his training in this country . |
| 30 | Although in their own eyes the rebels had simply been fighting for what was rightfully theirs , from the point of view of Henry II and Richard they were disturbers of the peace , and as princes maintaining the peace within their dominions , the Angevins could generally rely on the support of the church . |