Example sentences of "[be] [v-ing] [adv] [det] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Perhaps it is because the fishermen have been demonstrating so much recently that they have not been catching so much fish . ’ |
| 2 | You 've just been seeing too many films . |
| 3 | Future generations are likely to deplore the way current societies are allowing so much of their heritage to be destroyed without record . |
| 4 | During the 20th century the average person in Western society has been eating too much fat and too little fibre . |
| 5 | That 's probably the trouble if you 've been eating too much . |
| 6 | 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 . |
| 7 | Clerk of the course Nick Lees said : ‘ It has been raining heavily all day and we had no option but to abandon the meeting . ’ |
| 8 | ‘ Quite frankly , Elinor- and in confidence — STG has been handling too many criminal cases for my liking . |
| 9 | ‘ 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 . |
| 10 | We realised we 'd been depending too much on verbal instructions so we concentrated on producing written safety procedures , including training and planning . |
| 11 | ‘ Ant sin one like that in years , ’ he breathed , ‘ talk is , the bloody Danes are catching too many of 'em as babees . ’ |
| 12 | FURIOUS anglers claimed yesterday their sport has been ruined because they are catching too many fish . |
| 13 | 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 . |
| 14 | That 's why your dogs are eating so much . |
| 15 | 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 . |
| 16 | They admit that some people are eating too much of the chemical plasticiser ( DEHA ) found in PVC clingfilm . |
| 17 | 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 . |
| 18 | Barry Moxton had been lurking there all the time , just below the surface of his consciousness , waiting to spring out at him . |
| 19 | And some are becoming too much of a good thing . |
| 20 | But yesterday , as she nursed the baby she had been praying so many years for , she said : ‘ I never gave up hope . ’ |
| 21 | By his early teens , he had been driving just such a cart ; clopping down the Dorset lanes , in the early summer sun … |
| 22 | I mean I sometimes when I 'm performing on stage and people are laughing so much in the audience I think god , you know why ca n't I go and sit in the audience and watch this , they 're laughing so much . |
| 23 | ‘ The different groups are keeping very much to themselves , ’ said a police spokesman . |
| 24 | S so it 's , it 's , it 's either that the cadres are being rightist , they are protecting the landlords so they are keeping too much , or the problem is that the cadres , what we looked at earlier , the cadres are getting in themselves and they are taking too much for themselves . |
| 25 | The report said for over 10 years , IBM has been booking immediately all the revenues from some long-term computer leases , getting a residual value guarantee from Merrill Lynch & Co to bring the total of the lease payments plus the residual value up to the 90% of the sale price that accountants regard as prudent for a sales-type lease . |
| 26 | And we 've been campaigning for years to try and get these laws changed , no-one seems to have been listening very much and that 's why we 've adopted this more upfront direct challenge to the law . |
| 27 | But she 'd been smoking too much , as well . |
| 28 | It any case , although all three services are hopeful numbers can pick up , they are training far fewer chefs than they were a decade ago . |
| 29 | ‘ The Captain and I are developing quite some expertise on the effects of explosives on metal . |
| 30 | One of the great problems for the future is that rich countries are developing so many synthetic alternatives that they no longer have so much need of raw materials . |