Example sentences of "[adv] be [v-ing] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ Had n't you better be getting ready ? ’ |
| 2 | If you hire an exhibition space or organise an exhibition in your own home or a commercial or other space made available to you without charge , you will obviously be meeting all the costs involved yourself . |
| 3 | 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 . |
| 4 | and the deck , so you make what say , a hundred quid there , cos brand new speakers and a brand new record deck so you 'd only be paying four hundred quid for it |
| 5 | 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 . |
| 6 | 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 . |
| 7 | The Scottish Office will shortly be issuing new Planning Advice dealing with archaeology in the planning process . |
| 8 | It is hoped it will shortly be supplying 40 per cent of South Africa 's motor fuel requirements . |
| 9 | Let me repeat , in Darcy 's Utopia Church and State will be firmly separated : religious broadcasting will be forbidden on the grounds that it is divisive , racist , sexist , and an incitement to violence as belief structure clashes with belief structure — Christian at the hands of the Jew , Hindu the Muslim , Protestant the Catholic , Sikh of Buddhist , Capitalist of Communist , and of course vice versa — and no doubt the Moonies and the EST-ites will soon be kneecapping one another with a clear conscience . |
| 10 | Do n't tell Madeleine I said so because she 'll deny it just to be contrary , but I 'm very much hoping the two of them will soon be getting engaged . |
| 11 | Perhaps he was trying to butter up America and Britain , because the United Nations Security Council will soon be discussing tighter sanctions against Libya unless he hands over the people who are believed to have blown up an American airliner over Scotland in 1988 . |
| 12 | Meanwhile , the Community may soon be embracing Finnish . |
| 13 | I will soon be installing newer windows . |
| 14 | The proposal , which caused a storm at last week 's council meeting , has led to further suggestions that other organisations throughout Ards could soon be demanding free refuse collection . |
| 15 | Several other MPs on both sides of the House of Commons may soon be urging legal reform . |
| 16 | This viewpoint has been expressed as follows : ‘ the mere hint by anyone concerned that the law may come in is the surest sign that things are or will soon be going wrong . ’ |
| 17 | Instead , unseen operatives may soon be directing sophisticated agricultural implements by remote control from their firesides . |
| 18 | Now , another story that is er an interesting one this morning , and I 'd like to hear your view on , families with two television sets could soon be paying twenty pounds extra for their licence , to lessen the burden on hard-up viewers . |
| 19 | Families with more than one telly , could soon be paying twenty pounds extra for their licence . |
| 20 | Families with two tellies could soon be paying twenty pounds extra for their licences , to lessen the burden on hard-up viewers . |
| 21 | But the success of a small co-op in London called Computercraft could soon be changing all that . |
| 22 | Crowds in the bookies : punters may soon be backing sponsored horses as a result of the new tax deal |
| 23 | That famous cross of white neon would soon be glowing blue . |
| 24 | Wa looked at the man leaning back in his chair , his black-clad frame resting as nonchalantly as a Rimland puma on a jungle branch , and decided that Gorrin atop Small Gods temple would soon be joining those little deities in the multifold dimensions of Beyond . |
| 25 | The wolf crawled along on a stomach , that would soon be digesting some meat |
| 26 | Why should n't he just be getting old ? |
| 27 | He could be working something out , but he may just be enjoying emotional relaxation and a purely sensory level of play . |
| 28 | that we do and the courses that everybody goes on , I mean you 'd you you 'd just be spending all your time sort of |
| 29 | And it 's just not like me , I 'd just be feeling tired all the time . |
| 30 | Could n't Mr Hall just be having some kind of bad day ? |