Example sentences of "[verb] [be] [adv] [v-ing] [prep] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | A couple who bought a flat which did n't officially exist are still fighting for compensation four years later . |
| 2 | There has been no obtaining by deception . |
| 3 | It is clear from Fig. 3.1 that the output gap has been steadily increasing in size since 1960 , apart from a period of full employment in 1973–74 . |
| 4 | On this basis , the utility reduction has been felt not when the real resources are used buy in the future when interest payment and repayments are made , i.e. there has been forward shifting in time . |
| 5 | According to colleagues , he has been seriously complaining for years about the parasitic passivity of arts television , which simply points a camera at a performance conceived and organised by someone else . |
| 6 | As we know , however , from the evidence contained in yesterday 's autumn statement , the recession has been deeply damaging to Britain 's economy . |
| 7 | Beebob has been gradually coming to hand this season , and can strike winning form in the Guildhall Handicap Hurdle . |
| 8 | Before leaving this interesting adjective behind , we may note that it introduces a minor discrepancy from a rather general tendency of qualification which has been gradually emerging by implication in the text so far . |
| 9 | This has been greatly increasing in popularity in recent years and , according to all the forecasts , looks set to become even more widespread . |
| 10 | Engineers of this discipline are in the greatest demand , and receive the highest salaries at an early age , Imagine also that the raw material used by these engineers has been rapidly increasing in abundance and dramatically decreasing in cost over a period of 20 years . |
| 11 | PC-NFS 4.0 , on the other hand , has been quietly shipping since March 19 , but SunSelect , a beta site for Windows 3.1 , could n't announce it until Microsoft officially unveiled 3.1 at Comdex . |
| 12 | Delta already has links with Singapore Airlines and Swissair , and American Airlines has been quietly talking with Germany 's Lufthansa about a possible partnership . |
| 13 | You know , we 're not direct enough in what we say is actually happening with parish council money . |
| 14 | I 'd told her I 'd been away filming in Scotland that night . ’ |
| 15 | Ride are just going from strength to strength — one of the bands that are really cutting through at the moment . |
| 16 | On his present form we really would have been better sticking with Chappie . |
| 17 | Transend are continually looking for shareware that spans a wide spectrum . |
| 18 | While , however , Admiral Hawke had been keeping a vigilant eye on Brest , Admiral Edward Boscawen had been busily patrolling off Toulon . |
| 19 | On 10 April 1982 , after Basrah crude had been regularly loading at Tripoli ( Lebanon ) and Banias for some while , the Syrian government — in a gesture of solidarity with Iran — closed the line and with it both ports . |
| 20 | For example , a woman highly committed to her parenting role would be particularly sensitive to an event which threatened her view of herself as a good mother , such as discovering her child had been regularly truanting from school . |
| 21 | He also said US airdrops so far had been grossly lacking in penicillin and anaesthetics vital for surgery . |
| 22 | For the previous ten months London and provincial cities had been bombed night after night ( on 10 May , three thousand Londoners were killed in the raids ) ; although the worst of the blitz was now over , no one knew it then , and at this perilous juncture in the war Eliot had been anxiously writing against time . |
| 23 | Relatives of the men had been anxiously waiting for news . |
| 24 | Our laboratory had been routinely screening with probes cf56a , cf56b , and 9–7 , which cover about 93% of deletions in our population . |
| 25 | It may be that if he had been actively working for Balston Ltd his activities might have been in breach of his implied duty of fidelity . |
| 26 | The family , as the main sufferers under his regime , clearly had every reason to seek his overthrow , and it would hardly be surprising if they had been hopefully dabbling in witchcraft — although this was a standard late-medieval smear . |
| 27 | The family , as the main sufferers under his regime , clearly had every reason to seek his overthrow , and it would hardly be surprising if they had been hopefully dabbling in witchcraft — although this was a standard late-medieval smear . |
| 28 | IT had been a cold spring and the trees had been late coming into leaf , but now to-day in the sunshine they were all misted with green . |
| 29 | I 've been mainly thinking about G.P. |
| 30 | They remained in control over the means of mass communications but those whose work or views they had long ignored were now clamouring for access . |