Example sentences of "[n mass] [vb mod] [be] [v-ing] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Some of the world 's finest vintage aircraft will be taking to the skies at a display this weekend . |
| 2 | Each aircraft will be acting as an extra set of eyes for the other in an attempt to see before being seen . |
| 3 | In an environment where the data can be coming from ATs , PCs or portables the DaynaFile is obviously going to be the better solution and it has the added benefit of being portable between systems which is not true for the Apple unit . |
| 4 | ‘ I guess these folk must be dying for a cool drink and some cookies , right ? ’ |
| 5 | It was also announced that volunteers from the US Peace Corps would be going to the Baltic states . |
| 6 | $4m will be going into the Columbian world fair at Seville ; the Dominican Republic is hoping to build a 390-foot lighthouse for $10m ; 12 full-size replica ships will be setting sail for America ( presumably from their commissioning countries ) , and the fifth Genovese Columbian conference will be exhibiting every plant of the New World . |
| 7 | So your fish will be dashing towards us and our fish will be dashing towards you . |
| 8 | So your fish will be dashing towards us and our fish will be dashing towards you . |
| 9 | As fish are sinking back through the surface , other fish will be appearing through it , so that there is constant activity . |
| 10 | They 're asked to make two still images showing what the townspeople might be feeling at this moment — first , about their success in getting the railway to the town , and secondly , about what they have done to the old man , who is now homeless . |
| 11 | It is hard to disregard the problem in light of the 1992 OPCS national research findings that up to 400,000 elderly people may be suffering from this type of abuse , and the stress in the community care legislation on maintaining elderly people in their own homes . |
| 12 | PEOPLE may be flocking to the sales — not because the recession is ending but because they are seeing the most realistic prices in years . |
| 13 | Often the most useful thing we can do is something obvious and practical that other people may be overlooking in their attempt to be helpful . |
| 14 | Le Maître always behaves towards me with the utmost propriety , whatever people may be saying to the contrary . ’ |
| 15 | The winter sales may be coming to an end … but Gloucester 's rugby men are still looking for a few late bargains when they head north to Sale this weekend . |
| 16 | It is debatable whether the media should be indulging in this sort of leg-pulling by their effects departments , given that the programme is being watched by millions , not all of whom will be of a hardy constitution . |
| 17 | ‘ A few people might be looking for my head if we do n't do it , ’ he said . |
| 18 | You 've explained what are the erm objections which come from unions , and I would imagine there 's a political element in the sense of , roughly speaking , more conservative inclined people might be pushing against , more socialist inclined may be pushing for . |
| 19 | Er but in order to stretch out our hands , in order to turn the tap on er sometimes that takes courage er because s people might be laughing at us . |
| 20 | This meant many of the staff could be travelling for days on end , racing against deadlines , and , just when they were at their most exhausted , might receive a summons to fly to France the next day , which usually meant leaving at 5.30 am . |
| 21 | Otherwise people would be jumping over the Television Tower . ’ |
| 22 | In all the confusion , it was quite possible that some people would be flying on Virgin Atlantic for nothing . |
| 23 | The building of two council estates meant that large numbers of people would be moving into the area . |
| 24 | All through the valley people would be reflecting on the brevity of life and their own missed chances at happiness , and thinking of their common frailty in the shadow of the dark beast that had passed so close and taken someone so young . |
| 25 | Suddenly he remembered the dog — people would be looking for his dog as well as himself . |
| 26 | We are , he thinks , entering a period of new morality , when people would be looking for lack of stress , believing that the quality of life would transcend monetary reward . |
| 27 | He could stay at the Palm Springs home of Walter Annenberg , newspaper publisher , millionaire , friend of the Shah 's friend Richard Nixon , former ambassador tot he court of St James , Sullivan was told to convey the invitation in the name of the president and to ask how many people would be travelling with the Shah . |
| 28 | ‘ They relied on the fact that most of the people would be sleeping off the celebrations . ’ |
| 29 | In these schools , he implied , people would be falling over themselves to get jobs , and , in certain cases , they might be employed even if they had no formal teaching qualifications , though that was not expected to be the norm . |
| 30 | So people would be sitting round four corners of this , they had to have a napkin over all their laps which they did . |