Example sentences of "be [v-ing] [adj] the " in BNC.
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| 1 | Erm the Aldershot method works or appears to work very well with structured thoughts the two merge together very well and erm again that 's the putting down on paper I did n't believe that had actually talk at all and yet it works and as you read it things come into the brain and when you combined all that with the coaching and you can see what you 're doing wrong the rest of it . |
| 2 | When things are going wrong the Government 's supporters call it a failure of presentation and everyone trots out the old excuse that ‘ we are not getting the message across ’ . |
| 3 | Well , she had wanted him to be hopping mad the next time she saw him , and she was pretty sure she 'd succeeded . |
| 4 | Pupils at Bredon School on the Worcestershire Gloucestershire border are making sure the otters are made welcome by building an artificial holt . |
| 5 | Mist lay in shallow patches over the hollows and where the fields were lying fallow the hay was nearly ready to be cut , but it was not yet cut . |
| 6 | Full discussion of this model is outwith the scope of the present paper , and we are leaving vague the discussion of types of role-mapping which might be important : for the present purpose , by role-mappings of atomic discourse elements , we mean any mapping between a description and an underlying knowledge structure which has been invoked during the understanding process ( and , of course , there may be more than one ) . |
| 7 | Their principal duty is making sure the two little princesses are safe and well . |
| 8 | If markets fail to allocate resources efficiently because of the existence of externalities , then the first prerequisite for efficient government intervention is making good the market 's informational failures . |
| 9 | Bukharin was making clear the distinction between the period when means of production were gathered into the hands of certain groups , who then used them as capital and thereby began the process of the accumulation of capital , and reproduction o f capitalist relations of production . |