Example sentences of "be [v-ing] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | They ended with loss-making Continental involvement and directors said to be drawing two lots of salaries and dividends for the same service . |
| 2 | right so if you er draw a make sure you have got at least half a page , right , you are going to be drawing two quite familiar diagrams , right , you er , first of all just draw a normal total product curve , what we are going to do , because we are looking at a fixed level of output , sorry fixed level of capital what we are going to be analysing is the relationships between the total product of labour , the average product of labour , and the marginal product of labour , right , for a given level of capital okay , so the total product curve just tells us what happens to output as we increase the level of our variable factor labour keeping capital fixed at some constant constant level |
| 3 | to be drawing most of those people out . |
| 4 | He heard vespers sung in the deep dusk from his father 's church , and his heart stilled and quietened in him with wonder , as though at last he felt himself to be drawing near to the heart of a mystery . |
| 5 | We will be scrubbing this launch attempt for Thursday morning . |
| 6 | It always was a surprise , the pure majesty of the scene approaching the Alps , more especially in moonlight ; it seemed odd to me , whilst devouring this special panorama that in a short time we would be raining all the horrors of war down on people not seriously willing to fight . |
| 7 | Before the summer , SCOTVEC will be contacting all centres to discuss the programme for Quality Audit visits . |
| 8 | Most of the sediment in fact seems to be accumulating close inshore and very little gets to the outer shelf or the deeps . |
| 9 | ‘ It would be courting double standards to remove that status from Vic Williams ’ , she said . |
| 10 | My mother said , ‘ Lili , you ca n't be suggesting that Syl … ’ |
| 11 | Roadburg seems to be suggesting that certain characteristics of the British fans ' involvement in the game ( partisanship , segregation , collective identity and pre-match build-up ) give rise to a greater degree of passionate commitment ( and enhanced potential for disorder ) than in the American equivalent . |
| 12 | Certainly Hudson seems to be suggesting this . |
| 13 | Following consideration of admission prices by the Scottish League Management Committee , secretary Peter Donald confirmed yesterday : ‘ We will not be suggesting any change . ’ |
| 14 | Finally we 'll be helping 24 readers combat chilly summer evenings with our sixth prize of chunky woollen sweaters . |
| 15 | Furthermore you will be helping conservation twofold as WWF and the David Shepherd Conservation Foundation both receive a proportion of the selling price . |
| 16 | All these big , strong , wise doctors were supposed to be in charge , they were supposed to be helping me-that was the only compensation for the humiliating procedure I 'd had to endure . |
| 17 | Why Oxford 's speedway team wo n't be competing next year . |
| 18 | I stare ahead knowing I will be subsidising this cash loss . |
| 19 | ‘ We ought to be subsidising public transport , Lewis ! ’ |
| 20 | The Institute will be devoting considerable time and effort , in the coming months , to taking a leading role in the consultation process and preparing a coherent and comprehensive response to the important issues the APB has raised . |
| 21 | Rather than concentrating almost exclusively on the training of direct service practitioners , they should probably be devoting more resources to training professional personnel who will function in indirect service roles , directing , co-ordinating and supervising the work of paraprofessional personnel and providing appropriate in-service training for them . |
| 22 | The government should be devoting more time to considering how the wartime counter-inflation policy could be continued in peacetime . |
| 23 | The science report suggests that in the fourth and fifth years pupils should be devoting 20 per cent of their time to science . |
| 24 | I can only suppose that commercial flights fly to where the VCR should be using inertial navigation , but this was not quite within our capabilities . |
| 25 | Sometimes you may want to reach everyone on the list , but more often you will only be using certain sections or even picking out a dozen or so specialist outlets . |
| 26 | I believe you 'll be using that gun sooner than you think . ’ |
| 27 | I think if I was a rich peasant I would be using that to argue that you could take my rented land , it was |
| 28 | ‘ Of course they still have time and may be using that to prepare their case . ’ |
| 29 | Now there 's one thing that I have to alert us all to the rest may not have been important , perhaps only to some of the larger churches but groups are advised and churches are advised to make sure that in buildings that are used ah , for many different groups that young children under the age of eight do not come into contact with any casual people who may be using that building . |
| 30 | Oh I could be using that , that |