Example sentences of "[be] [v-ing] [adv] [prep] a [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | 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 . |
| 2 | 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 . |
| 3 | 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 . |
| 4 | At the end of the day it 's a political decision from the council of ministers , but it seems to be going there with a firm endorsement of support from the commission . ’ |
| 5 | ‘ They will have their tails up and I do n't think we could be going there at a harder time . |
| 6 | Although the haze had restricted visibility forward Spencer recalls that he could see down quite well and everything seemed to be going smoothly for a controlled emergency landing . |
| 7 | By calculating which gods would be marching together on a given day , the priests could determine the combined influence of all marchers and thus forecast the fate of mankind . |
| 8 | I was doing things I knew that I would be doing properly in a few years . |
| 9 | The investigator is not at this point investigating how the child learns to program the computer although he shall be doing so at a later date . |
| 10 | Perhaps the best way of tricking readers into seeing but not seeing what you put in front of them is by stating your fact in a way that seems clearly to be doing so for a different purpose than that of playing the game . |
| 11 | At least this time he could justifiably claim to be doing so in a higher cause than that of his own political survival . |
| 12 | Tom Bull-Dwyer 's middle managers stared unhappily out through the forest of tangled masts at the Needles , which seemed to be travelling past at a brisk walking pace . |
| 13 | The difficult problem for him is why those people ( especially the working class ) who seem to be suffering most from a particular political regime actually support it . |
| 14 | The pod appeared to be descending directly towards a winding ribbon of water . |
| 15 | WWF will be campaigning hard for a total halt to the ivory trade when the organisation responsible for controlling wildlife trade — the Convention on International Trade in Endangered Species ( CITES ) — meets in Switzerland this month . |
| 16 | His magnificent grey velvet suit seemed to be floating aimlessly in a raging sea , as if petrified in the expectation of waking . |
| 17 | I was pleased to be sitting here with a strong drink , pleased that I was n't staked out on the basement floor , playing the romantic lead in a snuff movie . |
| 18 | From April social workers , the CPNs — community psychiatric nurses — and a psychologist should be working together in a new community mental health resource centre in the middle of Worksop . |
| 19 | I was merely surprised to note that someone who professes to take such a high moral stance should be cavorting freely with a married woman . |