Example sentences of "[verb] be [adv] [v-ing] [prep] [noun sg] " 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 | Beebob has been gradually coming to hand this season , and can strike winning form in the Guildhall Handicap Hurdle . |
| 6 | 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 . |
| 7 | This has been greatly increasing in popularity in recent years and , according to all the forecasts , looks set to become even more widespread . |
| 8 | 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 . |
| 9 | You know , we 're not direct enough in what we say is actually happening with parish council money . |
| 10 | First release will either be the atmospheric ‘ Tomorrow 's Day ’ , or the livelier ‘ It 's Like This ’ but — despite attention from major labels — Reborn are n't looking for overkill . |
| 11 | Ride are just going from strength to strength — one of the bands that are really cutting through at the moment . |
| 12 | Transend are continually looking for shareware that spans a wide spectrum . |
| 13 | 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 . |
| 14 | He also said US airdrops so far had been grossly lacking in penicillin and anaesthetics vital for surgery . |
| 15 | 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 . |
| 16 | Relatives of the men had been anxiously waiting for news . |
| 17 | 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 . |
| 18 | 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 . |
| 19 | 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 . |
| 20 | I 've been mainly thinking about G.P. |
| 21 | 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 . |
| 22 | Just a few miles away at the Camas camp 1100 refugees with a different story to tell are also preparing for winter . |
| 23 | I have been actively looking for evidence for 12 years , ’ Tom said . |
| 24 | But women have been actively asking for ordination for more than sixty years and their patience is running out . |
| 25 | Even so , asking to be charge capped is surely asking for trouble . |
| 26 | After a moment or two , the maternity nurse , finding that her ruse of trying to get mother and baby more acquainted was not going to work , took him from her . |