Example sentences of "[adv] [be] [v-ing] the [adj] [noun sg] " 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 | 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 . |
| 7 | 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 . |
| 8 | 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 . |
| 9 | ‘ I do n't think so , thank you , and of course I shall only be staying the one night , ’ she said very firmly . |
| 10 | 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 . |
| 11 | 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 . |
| 12 | Not only was maintaining the British war effort imposing an ever-increasing burden , but subsidies to allies seriously inflated that burden . |
| 13 | ‘ 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 . ’ |
| 14 | 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 . |
| 15 | I 've just been doing the wrong question . |
| 16 | Fr Morrow said he would soon be lodging the same application at Keighley County Court in Mr Bland 's home town . |
| 17 | These celebratory fanfares do n't sound as though they might just be heralding the very advent of Slavonic culture . |
| 18 | For in a day or two days you 'd just be returning the weary road for the funeral mass . ’ |
| 19 | And they would not be choosing the Communist Party . |
| 20 | 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 . |
| 21 | 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 . |
| 22 | Servette though will not be taking the slightest chance . ’ |
| 23 | On the evening of April 15 the PRI announced that it would not be supporting the new government in parliament . |
| 24 | It is a matter of great regret that you will not be overseeing the next stage in the development of the department , but you have laid a sound foundation for the future . |
| 25 | Becky assumed that she would not be seeing the young officer again . |
| 26 | Black says he is happy to stay at the City Ground , and will not be joining the big-name exodus of Forest players which includes Roy Keane , Nigel Clough and Stuart Pearce . |
| 27 | Cost-saving exercises may not be tackling the real problem which is the need for a structural change . |
| 28 | We should not be having the same speech from the same group on the same issue at any point and also I would hope that where there is agreement between the groups that there is not time spent in |
| 29 | Since they will not be viewing the whole picture comprehensively , since they will perforce be selectively choosing values and acting on limited information , it is all the more important that the reasons why they have chosen a particular course of conduct should be articulated . |
| 30 | The reader will already be sensing the close relationship between play and story-making ( ‘ storying ’ ) , and between play and reading stories and poems . |