Example sentences of "[adv] be [verb] [pron] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Far-sighted high achievers have slowly been transferring their energy from employment to other activities , just to meet this moment . |
| 2 | Even though I 'd eventually been allowed my inhaler and eye ointment in Holloway , it had all been taken off me again . |
| 3 | They think I 'm reconciled , but I 've only been biding my time for a chance like this one you 've brought me now . |
| 4 | OSF has apparently been submitting its Motif interface to X/Open on a regular six monthly basis over the last three or four years , according to sources . |
| 5 | But religion had long been losing its power to shape and control behaviour and external forces had long sapped the traditional theocentric views of Europeans , even if it was only in 1882 that Nietzsche pronounced the notorious words : ‘ God is dead ’ . |
| 6 | And if it does not do that , we 've all been wasting our time . |
| 7 | I 've lost 4ins ( 10cm ) all over and my friends can not believe it — they have all been buying your book ! |
| 8 | Along with many others they have all been doing their bit for our Decade of Evangelisation . |
| 9 | So are getting his copyright are they ? |
| 10 | Harper had been right , they had merely been changing their aim , and now the French gunners concentrated their shots at the centre of the field . |
| 11 | They had supposed the threat of Naggaroth all but extinguished , but now it seemed that the Dark Elves had merely been rebuilding their strength . |
| 12 | Many companies in the Heavy Electrical Equipment conspiracy did not dismiss ‘ guilty executives ’ ( for they had merely been doing their job ) but even those who did , did not do so with the intention of ruining them . |
| 13 | But if the victuallers were to have their stores ready only by the end of August , and the king was intending , as it seemed , to continue his journey eastwards across the centre of England , equidistant from the possible battle-grounds of the Welsh and Scottish borders and the threatened south coast , and ready to move in whichever direction should first require his presence , then there was no longer anything to be gained by loitering here , and he had better be making his way over to Owen with what information he had , and whatever intelligent inferences could be drawn from that information . |
| 14 | In fact , so impressed am I with his performance that I shall personally be paying his train fare from Birmingham twice a week . |
| 15 | The ever-changing technical and professional environment of the Chartered Accountant demands that members must constantly be up-dating their knowledge and skills in order to maintain their professional competence . |
| 16 | Now , what I 'd like to do , I mean it 's only sun shining out there so you 'd only be wasting your time anyway , I 'd like to consult you about moving on and getting in the next four motions on union organization . |
| 17 | I was being utterly foolish ; my duty was to stay on , do A-levels , and go on to Oxford or Cambridge ( which took an extra term ) ; the local grammar school was not good enough to fulfil this latter purpose and if I went there , I would only be throwing my education away ; and , besides , did I not realise that , in the face of difficulties , one should never give up , but struggle on and thus establish a superior strength of character ? |
| 18 | Well we wo n't necessarily be using your package for doing this . |
| 19 | To do so is to forget our history too easily . |
| 20 | He identified his electricity bill and the telephone bill ( he hoped his colleagues had not been using his phone too much ) and a typewritten envelope which he took to be an advertisement . |
| 21 | In York , where the brutalists have not been given their head , only one building seems to attract disgust ; the Stonebow shopping and office scheme . |
| 22 | Obviously , Mr Gustafson has not been doing his homework , otherwise he would know that there are 48 UN resolutions calling for the withdrawal of all foreign troops from Cyprus , and the restoration of its territorial integrity and sovereignty . |
| 23 | Sentencing Clarke at Oxford Crown Court , Judge Francis Allen said he took into account he had not been driving his van fast or badly at the time . |
| 24 | He had not been cancelling his offer ! |
| 25 | Lord Aldington was asked why the Yugoslavs had not been told their destination before repatriation . |
| 26 | The situation is that Gaius Seius becomes heir to a half , and Mucius and Maevius to the other half : the logic of the problem makes clear that they are substitutes ( both pupillary and vulgar ) for the half originally destined for the children ; and since Gaius Seius has not been disinherited his entitlement still stands , as the text confirms . |
| 27 | I 'm very much aware I 've not been saying my name each time I 've been speaking but probably too late now . |
| 28 | The Wilsons were made homeless when the rented house they had lived in for three years was seized by the building society their landlord had not been paying his mortgage . |
| 29 | This biggest sister to the popular J/24 has already been proving her pedigree on race courses in Britain and the States |
| 30 | However , a paper read at the International Bar Asssociation meeting in the summer by the Spanish lawyer on the Thyssen Foundation 's board , Rodrigo Uria , and Richard Turnor , of the firm of Allen and Overy acting for Baron Thyssen , reveals that the Baron has been concerned to keep his options open : not a single work of art was sent into Spain until it had already been granted its export licence out of Spain . |