Example sentences of "[be] [v-ing] [adv] [prep] [art] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ I do n't think he is going to be stepping back from the front line , ’ he said . |
| 2 | But trampolining wo n't be catching on with the other animals . |
| 3 | I will definitely be hanging on to the sweat-stained handkerchief that Tom Jones tossed to my mother back in the Sixties . |
| 4 | And by the evening editions every hack in town will be sawing away at the other end . ’ |
| 5 | Miss Clinton had taken it away with the wheel still loose and would soon be driving northward over a narrow moorland road that a few miles beyond the road-bridge over the river wound along the shelf of a mountain with a sheer , dizzy drop on one side . |
| 6 | Restlessly , she rose again and continued on around the house , following a cool stone path that seemed to be sloping down through the lush growth of shrubs and trees . |
| 7 | It need only be a few seconds of me singin' or something but you 'd be gettin' straight to a certain type of literate , intelligent audience . |
| 8 | If suffering a ropey marriage automatically led to that sort of state of grace , half the women in the country would be walking round with an outsize halo above their head . |
| 9 | But auditors will be looking carefully at the precise wording of the legislation and of the related guidance . |
| 10 | The Clinton administration is said to be looking again at the tangible objectives underlying the federal government 's support for research ( see page 776 ) , while the British government , in the shape of the Department of Trade and Industry , is seeking a more direct ( if a more avuncular than the American ) role in fostering industrial competitiveness . |
| 11 | While feeling a little sad at leaving , Mr. Offer said that for the first time he would be looking forward to an extra hour in bed in the morning . |
| 12 | Maybe in forty years time , people will be looking back at the good old days of the Nineties to see which rising stars started their careers playing North-East venues . |
| 13 | Saying he would be writing again to the Prime Minister on the matter , Mr Macdonald claimed the moral case for compensation was now overwhelming . |
| 14 | He must no doubt be acting not for the mere purpose of putting money in his pocket , but for some legitimate purpose other than the mere acquisition of money … … . |
| 15 | The American claims to be acting purely as a private citizen but clearly his fact-finding mission has some clout if both Taoiseach Albert Reynolds and Secretary of State Sir Patrick Mayhew agreed to speak to him . |
| 16 | His little blue bright eyes , hard and round , that seemed this morning to be protruding out of the shallow creamy lakes around them , were full of hate for her . |
| 17 | Nobody would be wandering about with the sharpened shaft of a golf club , just in case it came in handy . |
| 18 | B : ‘ That would be wonderful but I think we will be saving up for a long time . |
| 19 | And the self same people who shake their heads and utter these remarks are the ones who will be heading off to the Med or Florida on their holidays next year , doubtless piloted there by someone up front who began his or her career on a little grass strip flying those little aeroplanes that look so flimsy . |
| 20 | But their presence in the First Division will mean that every Saturday thirty non-English players will be turning out in the top flight taking up places which should be filled by Englishmen . |
| 21 | David Puttnam will be going round with a quiet smile on his face for a few days . |
| 22 | The history specialists in the secondary school for the area may also be able to offer advice , especially as pupils from the catchment area will ultimately be going on to the secondary school . |
| 23 | Gill will be going on to the Namarroi area to take part in an evaluation with the CCM . |
| 24 | ‘ Danny will be going on about the fair all night now , ’ said David as the bus disappeared through the factory gates , then as they turned away he asked , ‘ Are you on duty tomorrow ? ’ |
| 25 | The only place where this type of sedimentation seems to be going on at the present day is in the ocean depths , where the deposits consist mainly of the remains of minute pelagic organisms , literally raining down from a watery heaven , plus volcanic dust raining down more intermittently from the aerial heaven above . |
| 26 | In a system that encodes information in terms of patterns of activity information processing could be going on without a net increase in metabolism . |
| 27 | Something must be going on in the black box labelled ‘ consumer ’ . |
| 28 | So that that the leaflet 's going to be going out in a mega mailing . |
| 29 | ‘ She ca n't be going off to a big party before the Championship . |
| 30 | And indeed he would , very shortly , be going in to a great , gaping hole in the community . |