Example sentences of "[be] [adv] [v-ing] [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | While the nursing staff had been keenly following the implementation of the ENP , some of them did not seem to be familiar with my parameters of practice — I sometimes missed patients that I could have treated because they were not being filtered through to me . |
| 2 | Ormerods are successfully weathering the recession . |
| 3 | But even in the teeth of a recession , companies large and small are successfully gaining the backing of the venture capital funds and paying them back handsomely . |
| 4 | Even in the teeth of a recession , companies large and small are successfully gaining the backing of the venture capital funds and paying them back handsomely |
| 5 | Ironically , as ‘ our ’ crime problem gets worse , the demand for even more ‘ law and order ’ policies increases , even though these are blatantly having no effect on the level of serious crimes . |
| 6 | While most environmental health officers are keenly applying the new regulations , the shortage of staff coupled with the wide range of new products and processes which have to be assessed has resulted in a somewhat irregular interpretation and application of the Act . |
| 7 | Local authorities are nervously anticipating a flood of judicial review challenges over community care . |
| 8 | This means that we are effectively using the two-phase method , except that , where a choice of variable to enter the basis occurs in Phase I ( and such occurrences are very common ) , the choice is resolved by the true objective function . |
| 9 | Simply by providing a variety of equipment and allowing the children to experiment , we are effectively increasing the possibility for incidental mathematical experience and learning . |
| 10 | In the case of non-resident discretionary trusts the Inland Revenue are effectively increasing the amount of tax due as the flat rate of 35 per cent applies on the combined amount of the dividend and a notional tax credit of 20 per cent rather than simply on the net dividend as before . |
| 11 | Earlier that year it had been uneasily digesting the Soviet leader Nikita Khrushchev 's secret speech denouncing the excesses of the Stalin era . |
| 12 | Whereas Mancini 's version assumes a council increasingly split by faction , as the Woodvilles manipulated it against Hastings and other supporters of Gloucester , the council seems in fact to have been successfully holding a balance between the various elements in government . |
| 13 | Whereas Mancini 's version assumes a council increasingly split by faction , as the Woodvilles manipulated it against Hastings and other supporters of Gloucester , the council seems in fact to have been successfully holding a balance between the various elements in government . |
| 14 | They are mostly using a mixture of APL and assessment on demand to gain the award . |
| 15 | But I know that they are secretly changing the negatives of the photographs . |
| 16 | Here , on all sides where this softer rock breaks or underlies the surface , streams flowing down from the upper slopes , aided and abetted by heavy rain , have , ever since the landscape was formed , been slowly penetrating the ground and eroding a honeycomb of underground caverns and passages of amazing dimensions . |
| 17 | ‘ I 've been rather avoiding the flat except to call in once or twice to pick up mail , but I 'd a letter this morning from Rachel . |
| 18 | The conceptual basis of judicial review , that the courts are thereby enforcing the legislative will by ensuring that the authority remains within the limits of its assigned area , has never provided any sure guide as to the appropriate scope for review . |
| 19 | Second , it is clear from the Report that motorists are not keeping to the Park 's speed limits and are thereby abusing the privilege of vehicle access . |
| 20 | In essence the courts ' control over the conditions of jurisdiction is premised upon the assumption that they are thereby effectuating the will of Parliament ; they are ensuring that the tribunal or authority remains within the boundaries of what Parliament intended it to examine by ensuring that those conditions are present . |
| 21 | Now four English teenagers are dead following a canoeing accident off the Dorset coast , intensifying the concerns of parents all over Britain as they watch their children set off with their mates , while wondering what the chances are that something might go horribly wrong . |
| 22 | The motel weekends are slowly changing the basic bloodstock of the parliamentary party . |
| 23 | The unit trust industry has been vigorously lobbying the Government to allow them to introduce funds which can be put into a PEP which are solely based on gilts and bonds . |
| 24 | As only intelligent and articulate people can , they are deftly defending the Disney premise by inventing a new genre : the Architecture of Entertainment . |
| 25 | USL has been discreetly nurturing the unprecedented deal for the past two years , out-manoeuvering IBM 's attempt to get OS/2 adopted . |
| 26 | We are vigorously addressing the level of our overheads . |
| 27 | I am slowly becoming a travelling salesman called Pete . |
| 28 | Our research stations are constantly using the most advanced techniques to evaluate and improve products and systems for the benefit of all our customers . |
| 29 | ‘ In the West we are constantly telling the Third World to save the rain forests — rather hypocritical considering we are not even prepared to replace the tree cover destroyed over the years in Essex . ’ |
| 30 | We are constantly watching the property market and are alert to every factor which affects it , so you can be confident of getting the soundest marketing advice available . |