Example sentences of "[adv] be [v-ing] the [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | After all , he 's only been experiencing the outside world since his vaccination course was completed a few weeks ago . |
| 2 | I 've er I 've only just I 've only been coughing the last couple of days , but |
| 3 | Durham born Gregory had only been playing the bass guitar for a few weeks when he joined . |
| 4 | Another company which has long been ploughing the higher resolution furrow is Printware . |
| 5 | Eliot had long been accumulating the anthropological knowledge which would affect the literature of his own future . |
| 6 | Like the good gossip he was , he had merely been marshalling the various elements of his anecdote to their best advantage . |
| 7 | By not addressing these issues school management would be failing to seize the opportunity of LMS and would merely be extending the previous resource practice into the new era . |
| 8 | For example , the modern female hostage who falls in love with her captor may not merely be manifesting the well-known defence of ‘ identification with the aggressor ’ ( particularly since it is not so much identification with him as submission to him ) , she may instead be giving way to her phylogenetic id and its demand that a female captured by a male should look to him for sexual satisfaction . |
| 9 | We 're saying that by 1995 , all UK beaches will only be reaching the bare EC legal standard in order to avoid being prosecuted . |
| 10 | I also consider ( though this may only be expressing the same conclusion in another way ) that , for the reasons given by Mr. Langley , the injunction as at present framed should be interpreted as not prohibiting compliance with the section 39 notice . |
| 11 | ‘ I do n't think so , thank you , and of course I shall only be staying the one night , ’ she said very firmly . |
| 12 | On a miles per scream basis , there are lots of competent cars at a fraction of the Bentley 's price that could go that distance before getting too strident , and a Mercedes S-class would still only be whispering the odd complaint after 1200 miles . |
| 13 | However , it is inefficient from a user 's point of view to leave course assessment to suppliers ( who will not necessarily be assessing the same thing as users ) , and inappropriate to expect individual users to be able to evaluate courses within any framework other than their own needs . |
| 14 | Not only was maintaining the British war effort imposing an ever-increasing burden , but subsidies to allies seriously inflated that burden . |
| 15 | ‘ Because he regarded you as a rival , both on the tracks and off , and by claiming paternity he was claiming he 'd made love to me first , before you , and so was claiming the superior position . ’ |
| 16 | Certainly , this has not been yielding the same profits as four years ago , but the Japanese are not entirely absent from the sale rooms nonetheless , even though more often in order to sell than to buy . |
| 17 | Cadfael had already been considering the same question , and could only conclude that the abbot had indeed total faith that the Gospels would justify Shrewsbury in possession of its saint . |
| 18 | Unbeknown to his stepson , the old man had already been scanning the local papers with a view to hiring some kind of enquiry agent to search far and wide for the son who had absconded all those years ago , but as yet he had not been given the opportunity to do anything positive . |
| 19 | I 've just been doing the wrong question . |
| 20 | Fr Morrow said he would soon be lodging the same application at Keighley County Court in Mr Bland 's home town . |
| 21 | If all goes well , you 'll soon be driving the new Saab Carlsson CD into the company car park . |
| 22 | These celebratory fanfares do n't sound as though they might just be heralding the very advent of Slavonic culture . |
| 23 | For in a day or two days you 'd just be returning the weary road for the funeral mass . ’ |
| 24 | And they would not be choosing the Communist Party . |
| 25 | Put in the language of this chapter , we should not be seeking the Holy Grail in the curriculum or anywhere else , but attempting to create relationships between management and professionality within structures which are good at bringing about change without exhausting or demeaning teachers in the process . |
| 26 | The Mayor of Whitby , Coun Maurice Hatton , will not be taking the official chain of office when he goes on a pilgrimage to the German town of Kleve on April 30 , because of its high value . |
| 27 | Servette though will not be taking the slightest chance . ’ |
| 28 | On the evening of April 15 the PRI announced that it would not be supporting the new government in parliament . |
| 29 | In a response to my hon. Friend the Member for Newham , North-West ( Mr. Banks ) on Thursday , the Prime Minister made it clear that he would not be supporting the Wild Mammals ( Protection ) Bill , which will come before the House on Friday , but did not clarify whether he is in favour of a ban on fox hunting . |
| 30 | I drained my mess-tin , got to my feet and went out across the cobbled farmyard , under the arch , and out along the road leading to Brigade H.Q hoping that I would not be requiring the special services offered by the medics . |