Example sentences of "[am/are] [adv] [v-ing] [adv] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Indeed I am rather coming round to the view that the trouble last year was not that we failed to produce as good policies as our opponents but that we failed to produce policies for the issues the electorate was most interested in . |
| 2 | If your net margin on sales is 10 per cent and the discount offered for early payment is 2.5 per cent , you are effectively giving away a quarter of your profit . |
| 3 | The relevance of this little piece of history is considerable , we are effectively going through just such an evolutionary change today . |
| 4 | I mean increasingly small authorities are effectively opting out of the national negotiat now we ca n't ignore th |
| 5 | These men are bitterly wondering why they have not had more thanks for nursing Hungary towards democracy . |
| 6 | If people choose to hold money , they are thereby choosing not to spend it on goods and services or on acquiring some other form of asset such as stocks and shares or property . |
| 7 | Er and and therefore er unless we are changing the basis of the calculation of the housing need thereby the basis of which we are thereby judging how we meet the requirement . |
| 8 | The only other major commodity which is based on lump sum rates regardless of quantities used , is water and the Water Companies are slowly moving over to a metered system in order to improve the discipline of use . |
| 9 | All the stars in the galaxy are slowly moving around its centre just as the planets move around the Sun , taking some 200 million years — a ‘ galactic year ’ — to make a full circuit . |
| 10 | Now people are slowly moving away from these towns . |
| 11 | Now empty , decay and neglect are slowly eating away at the building 's fabric . |
| 12 | Meanwhile , the banks are slowly slipping over a cliff . |
| 13 | By 1973 , after the last major milking herd had been dispersed , only 70 purebred ( or relatively purebred ) Gloucesters were registered , but the breed society was re-established and , with the help of the Rare Breeds Survival Trust , the breed 's numbers are slowly building up again . |
| 14 | Timber trade world-wide is doing an enormous amount of work already to make sure that sustainable timber is supplied , and the horror stories are slowly going away , and a lot of people now do not buy timber in this country , from those countries who 've got a bad track record , but are buying from countries like Denmark and Sweden , where it 's a national law on their forestry policy . |
| 15 | The four were split up by injuries and suspensions in the dismal sequence of defeats which followed the FA Trophy exit , but things are slowly turning round , believes Hill . |
| 16 | There are so many tribes of Orcs that it is impossible to count them , especially as they are constantly breaking up and reforming under the leadership of new ambitious Orc Warlords . |
| 17 | And when the rangers are out on the patrol they are constantly looking around to see what has been happening around them as the seasons change and what work needs to be done . |
| 18 | ‘ No matter where you go , when you are shopping or socialising , you are constantly looking over your shoulder . |
| 19 | Experienced teams are constantly moving back and forth , speeding up by pulling hard on the lines or conversely running forward to slow the kites . |
| 20 | Creatures that bestride the dividing line between amphibians and reptiles and between mammals and protomammals , are constantly turning up in the fossil record . |
| 21 | They have given up reading texts and treat the water as their scripture , their Bible , their Koran , from which they are constantly teasing out ingenious interpretations of hidden , secret messages . |
| 22 | Increase the difficulty by simultaneously working on two pads which are constantly weaving around as your partner moves and forces you to adapt to sudden changes in range . |
| 23 | ‘ I 'm going to turn into one of those old guys who are constantly harping on about the war , about ration books and bomb shelters . |
| 24 | A typical Mercedes-owner would live in the hills of Buda , in one of the luxury apartment houses studded with satellite dishes that are constantly springing up . |
| 25 | Employment opportunities for graduates are constantly changing so you need to keep an eye on the situation throughout your time as a student . |
| 26 | He said : ‘ She appears when I am alone clearing up the bar . |
| 27 | As far as styling goes Lakewood are obviously borrowing heavily from the Martin heritage , since in outline these are millimetre-perfect dreadnought copies . |
| 28 | These questions are obviously getting far too easy , you 're er , answering them so well . |
| 29 | Sir , we are obviously dealing here with a new settlement of ve very extensive land take , I think that the there are certainly been quite a There 's been a lot of detailed work done by the various erm protagonists around around the table today about agricultural land quality . |
| 30 | Their trigger fingers are obviously becoming more itchy ; last year they took nine months to fire off 313,000 rounds at demonstrators with a total bill to the Korean taxpayer of $6.7 million . |