Example sentences of "[adv] [be] [v-ing] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | IBM had originally agreed to help finance the project through to the end of 1992 , and has since been helping Supercomputing Systems to meet its payroll on a week-by-week basis . |
| 2 | Thus , for all the vast growth in the range of government activities — which has meant that civil servants have effectively been making major business decisions on the allocation of resources — the Treasury made little attempt to devise fundamentally new and appropriate methods of training and re-training [ Fulton Report , 1968 ; Chapman and Greenaway , 1980 ] . |
| 3 | Rumour has it that The High had all been living separate musical lives — Andy in particular having just split with the Stone Roses — when they met in Manchester 's Hacienda club , and decided to put a new band together … |
| 4 | ‘ Had n't you better be getting ready ? ’ |
| 5 | Sometimes you may want to reach everyone on the list , but more often you will only be using certain sections or even picking out a dozen or so specialist outlets . |
| 6 | This bit of juggling is introduced into the process because you will necessarily be working blind — during the recording of the insert , the camcorder viewfinder will be displaying , not a playback of the original shot , but the material which is displacing it . |
| 7 | When Maggie tried to tell Phoebe about her gruelling embarrassment Phoebe just laughed and told her she was turning into a bourgeois little creep and should perhaps be taking domestic science and dress-making . |
| 8 | All of chemistry now basically is becoming explicable in terms of quantum theory … we are getting , have been getting in the past 20 years , into the age where a sizeable amount of basic chemistry can now be properly understood from basic quantum theory . |
| 9 | For instance only four-were living alone and all these people had much lower OBS scores than the three being sustained by the project ( one had a score of three and the other three of five ) ; they were also able to manage much more of their own care than the former group , being mentally and , to some extent , physically more capable . |
| 10 | Praying was ten times as hard as it had ever been in Africa , so was steering clear of hatred , a problem Isobel had never encountered before . |
| 11 | Xenly was becoming greedy for food . |
| 12 | Jones has a lovely service but he has not been looking good behind a struggling pack . |
| 13 | However , a substantial proportion of the long-term cases are children who have been taken into care against the wishes of their parents because they have not been receiving adequate care or control . |
| 14 | ‘ Others have not been getting initial appointments and have not been put on waiting lists because they are so long . |
| 15 | Sophia wished her sister had not been wearing tartan trews , but it would never do to say anything . |
| 16 | Keith Speed , MP , the former Admiralty Under Secretary , said on television ( BBC Newsnight ) that he would have been astonished if those ships , from Exercise spring Train , had not been carrying nuclear weapons . |
| 17 | Such was the emotion caused by the attack that it was some time before any of the defenders recalled that the Collector had not been feeling well and wondered what had become of him . |
| 18 | My wife and I are staying at the Danieli , but she 's not been feeling well and urged me to take up the offer of an observer 's seat here . ’ |
| 19 | The English had not been acquiring new subjects in the first century and a half of their overseas expansion ; for the next century and a half they acquired new subjects at a rate which would have been quite inconceivable if they had been dealing with men and women who thought about their political rights and obligations in terms of nationalism . |
| 20 | But the CLE had not been practising racial discrimination . |
| 21 | I would have fled if the Earl 's retainers had not been standing right behind me . |
| 22 | The world outside Whitehall had not been standing still since Thorneycroft took over . |
| 23 | Despite the decline in its popularity , homoeopathy has not been standing still for the entire twentieth century . |
| 24 | The law has not been standing still since Jorden v. Money . |
| 25 | ‘ My own department has not been standing still . |
| 26 | People all over are getting sick and tired of all these thousands of immigrants . ’ |
| 27 | I am pleased that the standards on the transport of live animals generally are approaching British standards and are no longer the low standards that once obtained . |
| 28 | By 1920 the government had already been giving public support to 7,667,769 children in need . |
| 29 | The night she got pregnant she had already been feeling depressed , and afterwards she immediately regretted what had happened . |
| 30 | So far we have just been using linear demand curves , with a linear demand curve the slope is constant , however , elasticity varies everywhere along its length . |