Example sentences of "[adv] [be] [v-ing] [prep] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Having worked his way up via his own live spoof chat show Vic 's Big Night Out , he has latterly been guesting on television 's One Hour With Jonathan Ross , a show whose format bears a strong resemblance to Reeves 's own showcase . |
| 2 | If he had really only been looking for shelter and a place to doss down for the night , why look further than this ? |
| 3 | USL and Univel have apparently been working under non-disclosure with Intel to ensure the kernel wrings specific new performance possibilities from Intel 's anticipated 80586 chip , the P5 . |
| 4 | Economists have long been calling for safety regulations to be subject to cost-benefit analysis . |
| 5 | The NUWW and the LNA had long been campaigning for legislation to raise the age of consent to eighteen and to enforce more stringent penalties against procurers and brothel-keepers . |
| 6 | Other sectors , such as oil refining and petrochemicals , have been pretty depressed so contractors used to serving those industries have all been looking for business in the same markets as ourselves . |
| 7 | They had all been working at stone-gathering , keeping their pageant money out of sight for fear the constables mark them as robbers or miracle-workers . |
| 8 | Girls had obviously been standing in line for this man from the first day he 'd put on long trousers — or even earlier , she thought grimly . |
| 9 | In doing so they will not only be dealing with grief and loss , but also rethinking their own daily living arrangements . |
| 10 | So the exact er nature of this balance and how waters between contact with the atmosphere are being mixed into the deep sea , cos remember this equilibrium can only be occurring in surface waters cos only they are in contact with the gas phase how that turnover of deep water 's occurring affects just how much capacity we 've got for absorbing C O two in the oceans and therefore mitigating the greenhouse effect . |
| 11 | The hills below were rising into moorland , vast and brown , on which the sheep roamed more sparsely . |
| 12 | In addition the Roman masonry below is suffering from sulphate attack aggravated by the recent use of cement mortar and render . |
| 13 | 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 . |
| 14 | 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 . |
| 15 | ( Jacques had not been living at home at least from 1707 , the year his Principes was published , which gives his address as rue Christine . ) |
| 16 | ‘ Mr Taylor has completed ignored the fact that Catholics have been under the jackboot of the IRA and loyalists for over 20 years and it is ridiculous to say that they have not been living in fear . ’ |
| 17 | Remember the riot that broke out at Leeds towards the end of the 1970-71 season when Ray Tinkler allowed a West Bromwich goal to stand , ruling that Colin Suggett , standing offside when the attack crossed the halfway line , had not been interfering with play . |
| 18 | When the subject of education was brought up and it was pointed out that the girl had not been going to school he said that she was not learning anything at school anyway , that she was much safer here than at the school she had been to , where she had been threatened with knives in the playground and that she could learn all a wife needed to know better at home . |
| 19 | Your main problem , however , is that your plants generally are dying of starvation . |
| 20 | ‘ Most of these players took part last year and were delighted with the facilities and hospitality ’ says Sean Curtis : ‘ We aim to make this year 's tournament even better and , believe me , the phones have already been buzzing in relation to tickets even though they will not available until the end of this month . ’ |
| 21 | So Trumbull started moving the camera in and out , and stopped the lens down to a tiny aperture for maximum depth of field ( he had already been experimenting with zoom lenses for the cockpit readouts in other sequences ) . |
| 22 | The three islands councils , Highland Region and Highlands and Islands Enterprise , plus a representative of the district councils and possibly the health boards , will meet to thrash out a list of priorities , as has already been happening under Objective 5b . |
| 23 | The station was overflowing with badly wounded who had already been waiting for treatment for several days . |
| 24 | Though , it 's just that , one of the things that Caroline actually , er working on with Warwick University is a way of re-looking at public services and how there funded right , it 's basically to help David to make the case with Margaret Margaret for more money with the local Government , but erm I mean the sort of things we 've been getting into is like when you considering paying for public services , should you , should you pay like in advance like through the National Insurance System or like , like I mean the French Health Service for example , people pay it for ambulances when they use them , though they pay on a differential rate , but I mean it 's an issue to debate , it 's right , and I 've just been thinking about lavatory while you 've been speaking . |
| 25 | ‘ I have just been speaking to Officer Hassan . |
| 26 | I have just been watching on television the final scenes from the Royal Shakespeare Company 's performance of Nicholas Nickleby . |
| 27 | Indeed , as I write this , I have just been watching on television Lord Denning declaring with self-satisfaction that he puts all such letters straight into the wastepaper basket . |
| 28 | HCIMA 's own guidelines include advice on how to write a policy statement and start thinking seriously about Green issues ; current legislation ; and the new laws which will shortly be coming into effect as a result of the Rio Earth Summit . |
| 29 | Matthew Best is probably his most well known pupil in musical circles , a ‘ rising star in the music world ’ who performs all over the country and who will shortly be coming to Opera North , he says . |
| 30 | I could go on , but that 's enough , or I 'll soon be babbling about lime trees and pétanque and eating bread dipped in rough red wine — what they call la soupe à perroquet , parrot soup . |