Example sentences of "[adv] [be] [v-ing] of [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Relief has also been refused on the ground that the applicant has in the past behaved badly in dealings with the respondent and so is undeserving of assistance . |
| 2 | When Keynes had talked of the ‘ euthanasia of the rentier ’ he had not been thinking of cricket , but the MCC had to face the reality of the decline of the leisured classes . |
| 3 | Your main problem , however , is that your plants generally are dying of starvation . |
| 4 | Our friends will still be thinking of Christmas as chronos time — just another festival . |
| 5 | I had n't been thinking of stress or shock , I 'd been nursing a hangover . |
| 6 | She had again unwittingly revealed her misgivings , for on the face of it we had n't been speaking of marriage . |
| 7 | So all they had to do then was go on to Hollyhead and they were refreshed they 'd had a meal so they would n't be dying of hunger . |