Example sentences of "[adv] be [v-ing] [art] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ The chefs who have signed on are leading a new golden era of culinary craft , ’ said Peter Taylor , associate director of the academy . |
| 2 | He had perhaps been expecting a tougher comment and he hunched his shoulders , muttering suspiciously , ‘ I have n't got no religion . ’ |
| 3 | After all , he 's only been experiencing the outside world since his vaccination course was completed a few weeks ago . |
| 4 | ‘ But , ’ she had said suddenly , ‘ I have only been ordering a dozen geranium plants . ’ |
| 5 | I 've er I 've only just I 've only been coughing the last couple of days , but |
| 6 | Durham born Gregory had only been playing the bass guitar for a few weeks when he joined . |
| 7 | Richard had only been climbing a few months , but he was as strong as an ox and had no respect for tradition ( he did n't know all the horror stories ) . |
| 8 | Another company which has long been ploughing the higher resolution furrow is Printware . |
| 9 | The Russian panslavist press had long been advocating a Franco-Russian alliance and in November 1887 Bismarck had forbidden the Reichsbank to float a Russian loan . |
| 10 | Eliot had long been accumulating the anthropological knowledge which would affect the literature of his own future . |
| 11 | Like the good gossip he was , he had merely been marshalling the various elements of his anecdote to their best advantage . |
| 12 | Since Dysart too had been to Oxford , it was possible that by taking Morpurgo on at Tyler 's Hard he had merely been doing an old chum a favour . |
| 13 | Certain ones of them , for instance the Brazilians may not be taking an awful lot of notice , or may not apparently be taking an awful lot of notice at the moment , but I think the pressure is on , and that things are changing , and more and more countries are going towards policies that will in fact support , sustained yield production and timber from the forests , and the reservation of the forests for that purpose , erm I mean in many countries have a policy where they just let tribal institutes use the raw material , and the forest is not reserved , and it 's not looked after . |
| 14 | By not addressing these issues school management would be failing to seize the opportunity of LMS and would merely be extending the previous resource practice into the new era . |
| 15 | For example , the modern female hostage who falls in love with her captor may not merely be manifesting the well-known defence of ‘ identification with the aggressor ’ ( particularly since it is not so much identification with him as submission to him ) , she may instead be giving way to her phylogenetic id and its demand that a female captured by a male should look to him for sexual satisfaction . |
| 16 | We 're saying that by 1995 , all UK beaches will only be reaching the bare EC legal standard in order to avoid being prosecuted . |
| 17 | I also consider ( though this may only be expressing the same conclusion in another way ) that , for the reasons given by Mr. Langley , the injunction as at present framed should be interpreted as not prohibiting compliance with the section 39 notice . |
| 18 | ‘ I do n't think so , thank you , and of course I shall only be staying the one night , ’ she said very firmly . |
| 19 | I agree with your correspondent 's sentiments regarding the Forth Road Bridge and the removal of the tolls , but he will only be arriving a few minutes earlier at Edinburgh 's infamous Barnton roundabout tailback , which I believe can only be resolved by switching transport policy away from cars and road freight . |
| 20 | On a miles per scream basis , there are lots of competent cars at a fraction of the Bentley 's price that could go that distance before getting too strident , and a Mercedes S-class would still only be whispering the odd complaint after 1200 miles . |
| 21 | However , it is inefficient from a user 's point of view to leave course assessment to suppliers ( who will not necessarily be assessing the same thing as users ) , and inappropriate to expect individual users to be able to evaluate courses within any framework other than their own needs . |
| 22 | This meant that people were no longer willing to put up with unsatisfactory Church officials ; laymen especially were developing a personal spirituality which gave them a new confidence and commitment to their faith and which also enabled them to form an independent view of theology and Church organisation ; they no longer had to rely on the educated establishment . |
| 23 | Two fundamental trends are at work : employee numbers are being gradually but drastically reduced — the Army alone is facing a 30 per cent by 1995 ; and all three services are coming to terms with their obligation to ‘ market test ’ support services with the result that a steady trickle of contracts has been going to the private sector since the early 80s . |
| 24 | So is having a good time . |
| 25 | Not only is walking the best , cheapest , all-round exercise available to everyone young and old , but it is ‘ green ’ , natural and organic . |
| 26 | Not only is starting a new career in accounting , but he is also a lead singer in a group called ‘ Cellardwellers ’ and will be starting a tour of 30 dates this summer , including Hamburg and America . |
| 27 | Wont Be Gone Long was making a belated seasonal reappearance due to a nasty cut on a hind leg , but now fully recovered , he loves this fast ground and obviously jumps for fun . |
| 28 | Not only was maintaining the British war effort imposing an ever-increasing burden , but subsidies to allies seriously inflated that burden . |
| 29 | The rocket motors were closer to the centre of the hole than the rest of the craft ( it was falling in backwards , remember ) so was experiencing a stronger gravitational pull than the rest of the craft . |
| 30 | ‘ Because he regarded you as a rival , both on the tracks and off , and by claiming paternity he was claiming he 'd made love to me first , before you , and so was claiming the superior position . ’ |