Example sentences of "[verb] [adv] be [v-ing] [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | IBM had originally agreed to help finance the project through to the end of 1992 , and has since been helping Supercomputing Systems to meet its payroll on a week-by-week basis . |
| 2 | Although the UK market has only been contributing some £15,000 a month or so to the company 's coffers , Christoforou expects to appoint half a dozen sales staff by April and says he will be looking for the outfit to turn over £2m plus in its first year . |
| 3 | Against this dearth of local information , Cuba has nevertheless been receiving religious broadcasts and publications from outside the country , but these are frequently alien to the Cuban people 's own expression of the Christian faith . |
| 4 | The company has also been rethinking other aspects of library management . |
| 5 | Blohm and Voss has also been building six MEKO Type 1400 corvettes for the Argentinian navy . |
| 6 | Who would be dropped , if anybody , for Michael O'Neill ( Hibernian ) has also been producing consistent form since his transfer from Dundee Utd . |
| 7 | Ben has also been giving those Yorkshire boys a good seeing-to with an on-sight flash of Kleptomanis ( F8a ) at the Holywood Bowl , a one-day ascent of the Yorkshire Ripper ( F8b ) at Kilnsey , and he got Magnetic Fields ( F8a/8a+ ) first red-point . |
| 8 | Sir Richard has also been making final adjustments to his latest film Chaplin , the biography of Charlie Chaplin , the subject of a Royal Film Premiere next month . |
| 9 | The board has also been having ongoing talks with potential investors , but it was understood last night that the present worrying situation remained unchanged . |
| 10 | Mick Lovatt has also been doing some sterling work here re-equipping some of the older classics — in particular both pitches of Pierrepoint , a classic ( F7c+ , F7b+ ) have been completely rebolted . |
| 11 | After he graduated from London 's Faculty of Astrological Studies , his star talents were spotted by veteran astrologer Patrick Walker and he has now been casting daily horoscopes for The Sun for over ten years . |
| 12 | Which is odd , since he has n't been doing any work for me . ’ |
| 13 | Just because even though they do n't talk very much any more and stuff and he probably has n't been spending much time with her , |
| 14 | Leonard has again been saying this week that this is likely to be his final contest . |
| 15 | 'E seems ter be runnin' round wiv a right rough crowd . |
| 16 | These were simple little melodramas or lessons of everyday life but what mattered most was bringing these gifts for social detail into play in the grander sermons . |
| 17 | Labour too are seeking legal advice of their own and there is growing pressure for the Government to publish the advice upon which it has rested . |
| 18 | It was as though she had secretly been waiting all evening for this moment , for this invitation to walk along the beach with him . |
| 19 | And that did n't surprise Graham one bit as he bluntly admitted : ‘ I 've got tired players on my hands , and we 've only been playing five weeks . |
| 20 | The hon. Member for Stockton , North said that , when he had only been going two minutes , Richard Holt was already on his feet challenging him . |
| 21 | By 1920 the government had already been giving public support to 7,667,769 children in need . |
| 22 | In the 1940s an interest in genetic studies came to the fore , although several German investigators had already been following this line for some years . |
| 23 | I had not been counting own goals for more than a few minutes when I heard extraordinary sounds coming from my wardrobe . |
| 24 | Sigsworth had not been receiving any medication at the hospital to help him over his withdrawal . |
| 25 | She had not been receiving any fertility treatment and it was only after a routine scan that all was revealed . |
| 26 | Thin , pale , intense , he had not been speaking many minutes before we were electrified by this man . |
| 27 | Sophia wished her sister had not been wearing tartan trews , but it would never do to say anything . |
| 28 | If Rosemary had not been suffering any stress that night , though , it was not long before the situation which had begun with Travis Hepwood became stressful . |
| 29 | The English had not been acquiring new subjects in the first century and a half of their overseas expansion ; for the next century and a half they acquired new subjects at a rate which would have been quite inconceivable if they had been dealing with men and women who thought about their political rights and obligations in terms of nationalism . |
| 30 | But the CLE had not been practising racial discrimination . |