Example sentences of "[be] [v-ing] [adv] [det] " in BNC.
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| 1 | By the stage we define broadly as intermediate , learners are some way towards developing control of the language they are learning : their store of language has grown to a point where they can adapt , adjust and add to it with some facility ; they can transfer language use from one context to another ; they are building up more complex networks of language and the work we do in the classroom at this level is similarly more complex and less controlled . |
| 2 | Perhaps it is because the fishermen have been demonstrating so much recently that they have not been catching so much fish . ’ |
| 3 | You 've just been seeing too many films . |
| 4 | Future generations are likely to deplore the way current societies are allowing so much of their heritage to be destroyed without record . |
| 5 | When they have been eating out all the time they have been away , and are longing for an evening at home , the suggestion does not go down well . |
| 6 | During the 20th century the average person in Western society has been eating too much fat and too little fibre . |
| 7 | That 's probably the trouble if you 've been eating too much . |
| 8 | People will have been queueing up this morning to buy these stamps . |
| 9 | We are drawing up another list which includes ICL and Sun . ’ |
| 10 | The pressure which had been building up all weekend was nearing some sort of explosion . |
| 11 | Although some have done this display before , the tension 's been building up all week . |
| 12 | Tension 's been building up all week . |
| 13 | We are suggesting here that normalisation , over and above these many attempts to define it coherently and carefully , is open to different interpretations in practice . |
| 14 | Clerk of the course Nick Lees said : ‘ It has been raining heavily all day and we had no option but to abandon the meeting . ’ |
| 15 | ‘ Quite frankly , Elinor- and in confidence — STG has been handling too many criminal cases for my liking . |
| 16 | ‘ When you are sucking up all that filthy water from the River Orne into your tank , I shall be further along the river bank playing the bagpipes . ’ |
| 17 | ‘ In the concreted yard at the back of the flats at Water Eaton Road stood a light-weight , rubber-wheeled , aluminium wheelbarrow which one of the maintenance men had been using earlier that day . |
| 18 | So the pair of them have probably been mulling over all the old grievances — in their minds , if not openly . ’ |
| 19 | We realised we 'd been depending too much on verbal instructions so we concentrated on producing written safety procedures , including training and planning . |
| 20 | ‘ Ant sin one like that in years , ’ he breathed , ‘ talk is , the bloody Danes are catching too many of 'em as babees . ’ |
| 21 | FURIOUS anglers claimed yesterday their sport has been ruined because they are catching too many fish . |
| 22 | I know Harrods have a good selection and now McCormicks are bringing out many of the American seasonings in their range of spices . |
| 23 | In celebration of International Women 's Day , Apples and Snakes are bringing together many of the most popular and powerful woman poets and performers in the country , including many new performers , for a two week , nation-wide tour from the 1st to the 15th of March — THE MOTHER TONGUE TOUR . |
| 24 | Some say it is they who are bringing about these times that are upon us . |
| 25 | That 's why your dogs are eating so much . |
| 26 | If you think you are eating too much salt , the first thing to do is to go easy on the amount you sprinkle on food and use in cooking . |
| 27 | They admit that some people are eating too much of the chemical plasticiser ( DEHA ) found in PVC clingfilm . |
| 28 | The old debt has been nagging away these last 16 years , and Moore made a point last week of reminding Bobby Robson of the hostile reception England can expect on Wednesday . |
| 29 | ‘ We 've been walking around all night . |
| 30 | Who 's been tearing up all the newspaper that the wet wellies were on ? |