Example sentences of "[be] [adv] [adv] [v-ing] [pron] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | But if you honestly ask for guidance — and are not simply giving your power away , asking for a decision to be made for you — then the reply will invariably be wise and appropriate . ) |
| 2 | These are not strictly speaking our responsibility , either as developers or as the management company , but the provision of such cover is a useful selling point . |
| 3 | If you are not regularly stretching your body aerobically in some form of continuous whole body exercise , then you are sedentary . |
| 4 | We are not just sharing our furniture , we are jointly building a new and bigger house . ’ |
| 5 | ‘ You 're not just wasting your time here , I take it ? ’ asks his father . |
| 6 | So we 're not actually changing your water tablets as such , we 're just knocking a little bit off and leaving you just on the Frusamide bit of your water tablet , okay ? |
| 7 | Trading standards officers are once again making their presence felt in the book trade with visits to a number of bookshops around the country . |
| 8 | Even so they are still honestly doing their thing from the only angle they understand . ’ |
| 9 | The dialogue between Fenwick and Susan establishes a point of origin for the plot since they are both consciously composing their story , drawing parallels with the ‘ wandering-hero myths ’ and arguing over the nature of flashbacks ( they even throw out a reference to ‘ something called postmodernism ’ ) . |
| 10 | Some large private companies are also quietly adjusting their pay structure to remove race and gender discrimination . |
| 11 | Since the final Munro has been with you all the way along , it 's only here that you feel you are now finally making your way towards it and the conclusion of the walk . |
| 12 | Most developing countries are now also improving their screening of blood for HIV . |
| 13 | We are now really moving our body in these exercises and are finding muscles we did n't know existed ! |
| 14 | We are now scientifically examining what man has cloaked in mystery . ’ |
| 15 | Ten days ago we had confirmation that a company was willing to offer a 7 night holiday in Cyprus which means that are now hurriedly getting our act together . |
| 16 | By stating provocatively , at the beginning of the book , ‘ Je n'ai jamais parlé d'autre chose que de moi ’ ( 1984 : 10 ) , Robbe-Grillet could not be more ostentatiously exhibiting his departure from a textual materialist perspective . |
| 17 | I 'm quite sure you 'd rather be up there strutting your stuff with the other ski gods . ’ |
| 18 | These men were not only violating my peace of mind but all other sorts of peace . |
| 19 | If they were not actively asserting their authority they were taking a role of judge and referee as a consequence of children 's requests . |
| 20 | Because of the delays in appointments to the Area Boards , much of the initial planning work on organisation had to be done centrally , but the chairmen were soon stoutly defending their autonomy . |
| 21 | You need have no fear facing the world , ’ as if she were already clearly seeing her happiness and her children in the fullness of the years . |
| 22 | Apart from the fact that she felt extremely foolish , her fears were now actually affecting her life and she felt that soon she would not be able to leave the house at all . |
| 23 | His early academic record was unimpressive , and his private life had been a disaster ; while he worked late hours in the animal house or grudgingly fulfilled occasional lecture commitments , two senior geography students and half the fencing team were back home screwing his wife . |
| 24 | We were n't exactly holding our breath for the arrival of these Lakewood flat-top guitars , but within five minutes of the boxes being opened , the two of them — and one of them in particular — were drawing noises of appreciation from all present . |
| 25 | Thirty yards away , the pack were even then thrusting their way in among the strip of bushes . |
| 26 | Those countries which had the best record of increasing productivity in the 1960s and 1970s , such as Kenya and Cameroun , are no longer maintaining their momentum . |
| 27 | Cairo 's city authority is only now training its sewer gangs properly . |
| 28 | There is one newcomer , however , that is only now finding its market but which could play a great part in feeding the world 's people ; and that is a man-made cereal , a hybrid , called triticale . |
| 29 | As the anxiety for each target is overcome so the client is only ever raising their anxiety by ten units by going onto the next target . |
| 30 | Unlike Courtenay , Finney is not yet wearing his character like a glove and as this was the very first public performance perhaps we should n't be expecting him too . |