Example sentences of "[am/are] [adv] [verb] a [adj] [noun] " in BNC.

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1 If you are overweight , but are happy with the exercises you do at least three times per week , then far be it from us to interfere — continue , you are obviously doing a good job !
2 The Cairngorm chairlift people are obviously making a great effort to try and limit the damage caused by erosion , by constantly replanting the worn areas with grass seed .
3 are all doing a futile side-stroke .
4 ‘ It 's like a holiday camp sometimes and we are all having a good time .
5 Even if you are only seeing a few people there should be someone to greet them on arrival and make them feel they have come to the right place on the right day .
6 Shop around for a reasonable estimate , or hire a van and the services of some friends and do it yourself , it is much cheaper , and worth while if you are only moving a short distance .
7 I am sure that you are only feeling a young girl 's modest misgivings at the approach of marriage .
8 ( ii ) Contents , in the case of sensation , lack such a connection , but are in a special way qualitative and are somehow assigned a bodily location .
9 First and foremost , we are intentionally considering a limited subset of the potential causes of recent longer-term climate change .
10 Three months after they were launched , the new awards are already generating a tremendous amount of interest .
11 Trials with electronic mail are already proving a big success in the UK .
12 He 's not impressed with the Lamont-Gregory briquette which he says is not the consistency the British market expects and adds that Indonesia and Brazil are already using a similar technique .
13 DEADLY rivals Stoke and Port Vale lived to fight another day after this passionate Potteries derby , and both camps are already talking a good fight before next week 's replay .
14 Union chiefs and angry workers are already threatening a bitter Winter of Discontent , furious that they are being asked to pay the price for economic recovery .
15 really answer the first part of the Noble Lord 's question by saying that er er it is a question of future cost , er we are er we are already spending a great deal of money on the first part er of this er library and er we will have to examine the future cost very carefully and I put it to you to the Noble Lord that it would be a really sad reflection where the field of creative endeavour in which this country is m has most excelled over the centuries , in other words literature to have no single focus for celebration , preservation and active use , it really is er very important that this library continues , but may I remind Your Lordships also that we 're not talking about the s the library in this question , we 're talking about the u the site at present used by the builders .
16 ‘ I suppose you are already planning a new house , monster that you are , ’ she observed .
17 The boys , who pay themselves £100 a month , are already planning a glossy revamp for the magazine .
18 British Biotechnology from Cowley are already testing a new drug .
19 They are already playing a crucial role in multimedia design and development .
20 Both plants are already working a four-day week .
21 But the reforms are already having a big impact on the politicians , who are deeply divided about how best to deal with the social tensions the reforms are expected to produce .
22 Wakeham rejected its plea on the grounds that the market is now functioning reasonably well , and pool prices are already having a restraining influence .
23 " Oh Jim , " we can say , " we are just having a little chat about the I.R.A . "
24 If you are just starting a new job of any kind this morning , your first day , then do n't worry , it does n't matter what you do , the odds on the first two things they 'll show you is , where the toilet is , and how to load paper into the photocopier .
25 But we 're only outputting a single line , so you that 's all you can do .
26 You 're only expressing a personal opinion Councillor ?
27 At that , at , at at that time we 're only talking a few years ago
28 ‘ And the senator tells me that you 're only doing a two-week trial with his kids , is that right ? ’
29 Cuts into the , it cuts into the we the weeks , I mean that sounds terrible , I 'll be , you 're only working a few days but it 's surprising the teaching days I do really , that really does cut into my time at home .
30 The teachers are all on strike , hardly surprising when they 're only paid a hundred dollars a month , so all Alejandro 's kids are at home getting under their mother 's feet . ’
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