Example sentences of "to [be] [v-ing] [adv prt] [prep] [art] " 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 | Traditional patterns of family life and cultural values are said to be breaking down under the pressure of geographical and social mobility , and the power of the mass media . |
| 3 | The sole observation is indirect ; the orbital period of the binary pulsar 1913 + 16 is measured to be slowing down at a rate which agrees well with that expected if the system is emitting gravitational radiation . |
| 4 | ‘ Now I really ought to be getting back to the apartment . ’ |
| 5 | That 's my ambition to be roaring in against the Aussies next year . |
| 6 | ‘ The Archbishop seems to be harking back to the politics of guilt and the socialist faddism of yesteryear . ’ |
| 7 | But , whatever it is that her flooding liquid pigment does , one thing it always seems to be bringing about in the beholder . |
| 8 | 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 . |
| 9 | Dot remembered how sometimes there used to be singing down in the shelters in the dark . |
| 10 | And I used to carry out their meals to the men , and they used to be eating out in the field then . |
| 11 | We were able to help him … we can see their house from our bedroom and we just happened to be looking out of the window at the time , do n't you know . ’ |
| 12 | I shall have to be looking out for a second hand bike-y just for the occasional trip into town without getting Stuey out of bed so I be a bit more independent than just bothering you all time , if I just wan na pop anywhere . |
| 13 | He seemed to be gazing up at the night sky . |
| 14 | ‘ I do n't know exactly what we have up there , or what stuff we are likely to be sending up in the next few years … but I 'll take side bets on orbital weapons , either ready or in the pipe-line . ’ |
| 15 | I was supposed to be saving up for a car , but I 'm still too young to take my driving test , so I bought her instead — with the first payment of the advance for this book ! |
| 16 | Supposed to be saving up to a hundred quid ! |
| 17 | He seems to be cashing in on the goodwill of those who regret the party 's ‘ new start ’ last month when it renamed itself the Hungarian Socialist Party ( HSP ) . |
| 18 | Now said to be hanging out with the totally lovable Morrissey . |
| 19 | All the lights were on and people seemed to be moving about in every room . |
| 20 | I 'm nine hundred and forty-three , and that 's far too old to be chasing around like a S'ss'arian gyeet . ’ |
| 21 | But some quite surprising right-wing converts to the idea seem to be popping out of the woodwork , attracted by Mr Lawson 's mistitled idea of ‘ competing currencies ’ . |
| 22 | Chemistry in turn , even ‘ organic chemistry ’ , was considerably more advanced than the life-sciences , which just seemed to be taking off into an era of exciting progress . |
| 23 | It 's a challenge and it 's just fun to be swooping around in the sky . |
| 24 | McDunn again ; McDunn seems to be settling out as the Colley specialist . |
| 25 | Moreover one of them was bound to be reporting back to the Questore , and since there was no way of finding out which he would have to keep them all busy if he was to do what Bartocci had asked . |
| 26 | Even Mr Akers seemed slowly to be coming round to the sensible idea that IBM should be broken up . |
| 27 | It 's a bit late to be coming on like the Angel in the House now . ’ |
| 28 | They come out of the heart and branch like a wishbone , one to each lung , do you see that , now the arrow direction is away from the heart and that 's a vein and you 'd expect that to be coming back to the heart would n't you ? |
| 29 | But it is a bad time to be coming back into the side with results poor and confidence low . |
| 30 | Well , volunteers for the diet seemed to be coming out of the woodwork ! |