Example sentences of "be [adv] [v-ing] [prep] a [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | that and so on , erm , erm , I , it would be nice in fact if the er Ipswich evening tabloid which gave us prominence to this rule er would give just a little space to er this latest development , erm but I would like to , not being excessively caracole I mean reading this document I do feel a slight er switch on your comments on er Pipers Vale , er which you note , there are no er nationally er or er common species which sounds as though you have designs on it , erm I , I wonder if this would be the place to ask you , you know , to make some sort of statement about Pipers Vale , you know that we are basically looking for a route which does not touch on Pipers Vale |
| 2 | However , in parliamentary terms Mr Nelson has been long waiting for a call from a prime minister offering jobs . |
| 3 | I am merely asking for an extension of the logic which is already so well known to Marsham street . |
| 4 | ‘ The decision to do so was one of the hardest I have ever made : but now that I am committed ( by dint of posting the letter before I had time to change my mind ) I began to be afraid of opposite extremes — afraid that I am merely indulging in an orgy of egoism . ’ |
| 5 | If you are manually recording in a diary a secretary should check the dates three months in advance on a daily basis . |
| 6 | They are not considered to be non-viable either on the grounds of their isolation and remoteness from the communities they serve , or on the grounds that they are physically falling into a state of dilapidation . |
| 7 | Now she is standing on the edge of a deep bowl or crater , floored with the little rings across which the dragonriders are already strolling with a pendulum gait . |
| 8 | Its population is also growing and bucking the demographic trends , which are already resulting in a scarcity of young people in the rest of the country . |
| 9 | The club say they are already looking for a replacement . |
| 10 | But the authorities in Kampot are already dreaming of an influx of tourists , and have ordered the villagers in Kep to start clearing some of the undergrowth from the villas . |
| 11 | Some newspapers are already running at a loss in the hope that they will move back into profit when the economic situation improves . |
| 12 | If you are already working as a nurse tutor at a college , please approach your principal for further details on how to apply . |
| 13 | More important is the ability of companies to increase earnings per share by enough to push share prices any higher at a time when they are already trading on an average 18 times earnings . |
| 14 | " She 's right , " the maid grinned , " you are just looking for a body to practise on . " |
| 15 | people are just looking for a diversion so erm |
| 16 | Byrne reckons they 've been playing brill recently and are just waiting for a chance like this — but he was talking before they got turned over 0–3 by the makems last night . |
| 17 | so it is so easy when you 're only helping on a side line because you 're not doing any of the thought processing |
| 18 | Oh yeah I mean we 're only talking about a couple of initially er large erm thirty second spots if you like . |
| 19 | Tt and we 're obviously looking at a process of land reform which has , has undergone a number of changes and I think we , we 've begun to see some of the influences on those changes and particularly over the , the last week or so the this has . |
| 20 | It 's never going to rumble through the floor in the way that a similarly priced 4x10 would , but they 're obviously catering for a gap in the market which is n't being filled very successfully . |
| 21 | ‘ You 're already driving without a licence . |
| 22 | A mosquito probably registers about ten or twenty decibels , and this could be very annoying if you were trying to sleep and one was buzzing around you , but in our trade we 're normally talking about a level of perhaps sixty or seventy decibels which is tolerable and the sort of noise perhaps we 're making at the moment . |
| 23 | In Northern Ireland it 's against the law to leave your vehicle unlocked and unattended even if you 're just popping into a shop . |
| 24 | You know , nobody 's expecting three or four sides , right , you 've got quarter of an hour , not erm , you know , if , if you can write a side a half you , you 'll be doing much better than most people , alright , so you 're just thinking about a side really , depending on how big your handwriting is . |
| 25 | You 're just looking for a date of today . |
| 26 | Which does n't really matter , because just we 're just looking at a snap-shot of |
| 27 | This was a digitally-recorded album , so you 're just playing into a microphone and what you 're getting back through the headphones tends to be a little dry and sad . |
| 28 | ‘ People say we 're ‘ retro ’ , but as far as we 're concerned we 're just going through a learning process . |
| 29 | We 're just going for a ride on one , I hope . ’ |
| 30 | We 're just coming in a minute . |