Example sentences of "[v-ing] be " in BNC.
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| 1 | In fact what he has been using are exactly the same as the cheap mass-produced lasers used in CD machines . |
| 2 | The only missiles they 're using are stones . |
| 3 | Even between technical peers as in a design team there can be difficulties in communication because the models which individuals are using are not identical . |
| 4 | Horizontal and vertical number lines like the ones you have been using are put together to describe or plot positions on a graph . |
| 5 | Yeah , but the trips he 's using are big . |
| 6 | Organizing , managing and administering are about controlling and co-ordinating the diverse contributions needed for the attainment of some collective goal . |
| 7 | The instructions provide a generative programme , the folding and unfolding are like the contractions and changes in contact in cell sheets in the embryo . |
| 8 | ‘ Support and involvement rather than nagging are the watchwords . ’ |
| 9 | The related themes I am pursuing are difficult to keep apart , and really require a contrapuntal or fugal exposition . |
| 10 | Doctors at the East London rehabilitation unit where he is recovering are sending him home for Christmas with his family in Chingford , Essex . |
| 11 | The most obvious signs that someone might be sniffing are : |
| 12 | The effects of sniffing are similar to being drunk on alcohol . |
| 13 | Most young people who try sniffing ( and remember , those who try sniffing are only a small minority ) will only do it a few times and stop without any help from adults . |
| 14 | Songs and styles of singing are handed down from mother to daughter , unchanged over centuries or even millennia . |
| 15 | The kind of songs I sit there and enjoy singing are like ‘ Eternal Flame ’ , songs that have rich melodies . ’ |
| 16 | What are you what are what are you singing are you singing things like erm like er , Oh Lonesome Me , Beautiful Dreamer these |
| 17 | ( f ) That daywork hours for such items as unloading are accurately checked . |
| 18 | ‘ You 're not fussing are you , old love ? ’ teased Travis . |
| 19 | The three main outlets for reselling are auctions , specialist shops , private individuals or dealers . |
| 20 | Techniques of consumer targeting are an important additional input to market analysis , segmentation and planning . |
| 21 | These techniques of consumer targeting are now so widely applied that a separate chapter must be devoted to them . |
| 22 | Chewing and sucking are comforting for the human being and the roots of this go right back into babyhood . |
| 23 | Very recent figures on the precise extent of subcontracting are difficult to obtain but the Fifth Basic Survey of Industry ( 1979 ) showed that over 60 per cent of small and medium-sized firms ( i.e. up to 300 employees ) were dependent on orders from other firms . |
| 24 | Simple social skills like apologizing are given no place because the most important thing is not to lose face . |
| 25 | last year I could n't believe my welcome , they 're coming out and apologizing are you alright to wait , you know , he 's , he 's got dentist in the surgery and oh it was amazing |
| 26 | It suspects that although the Viking is n't the so-called performance leader , the volumes it 's producing are higher than at Hewlett Packard . |
| 27 | On the other hand , when the amount produced is such that the demand price is less than the supply price , sellers receive less than is sufficient to make it worth their while to bring goods to market on that scale ; so that those who were just on the margin of doubt as to whether to go on producing are decided not to do so , and there is an active force at work tending to diminish the amount brought forward for sale . |
| 28 | But so long as no resources used in ‘ selling ’ or in producing are owned monopolistically , we are forced to conclude that this activity is essentially competitive and can not result in any kind of monopolistic control over production or any impairment of the competitive process . |
| 29 | Those who can not write have less power than those who can : their acts of naming are restricted to those who will listen to them , those in the immediate locality . |
| 30 | Mutations that affect corepressor binding are of two types . |