Example sentences of "[adv] be [v-ing] [prep] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | But our legal practice is not unilateralist in this way over the broad reaches of the private law that we have mostly been discussing in this book-judges very often decide for the plaintiff , as they did in McLoughlin , when according to conventionalism the plaintiff had no legal right to win . |
| 2 | Sorry I ca n't really sort of say I must admit I could n't really see why they should be like that really cos I mean it is a bit puzzling cos if they 've only just done anything , they 've only been tampering with this finger so |
| 3 | The E-culture has only been raving since 1986 , so perhaps it is too early to tell if it can cause long term mental changes . |
| 4 | ‘ We will want to know if the warning lights had only been flashing for 10 seconds and not 30 . ’ |
| 5 | A number of experiments on bone modification in soil have been initiated , but they have only been running for five years and so far there is no good evidence of any change . |
| 6 | Erm my course has only been running for three years . |
| 7 | Cos it 's only been running for three years |
| 8 | The team has only been going for one term and we have only played two matches against other schools . |
| 9 | Although he has only been rallying for one year he has already appeared on the BBC Top Gear championship series when viewers saw him win his grand touring class . |
| 10 | The mobile radio truck , belonging to the Mass Communications Organization of Thailand , had apparently been interfering with military radio frequencies , and the armed forces sought the removal from the Cabinet of Police Capt. Chalerm Yubamrung , a Minister attached to the Prime Minister 's Office , when Chalerm publicly criticized the military over the affair . |
| 11 | US giants such as Microsoft have a strong commitment to multimedia CD-ROM publishing have long been searching for suitable properties . |
| 12 | Club sailors in the one-design classes have long been proving to one another just who 's best . |
| 13 | Wh erm Terry 's feelings there do they you 've obviously been speaking to large numbers of protestors do they marry with the other opinions that you hear ? |
| 14 | I heard some uncertain footsteps and he lurched on , waving a jug of orange juice , which was not the drink he had obviously been consuming in huge quantities . |
| 15 | He had obviously been searching for appropriate words of censure during the silence . |
| 16 | ‘ He had obviously been brooding on this incident some years back , ’ said Mr Denny . |
| 17 | Few venture capitalists feel that the UK equity market has the effervescence to be able to generate the level of returns seen in the past , and so are looking to continental buyers to supply the exit opportunities for cleanly-structured , discrete , well-managed UK companies . |
| 18 | All this would be understandable , of course , if these local forces had merely been dealing with minor coastal raiding , and one can not always be sure that their enemies were very numerous . |
| 19 | The office of census , populations and surveys estimates that three point four million people in England and Wales alone are missing from electoral registers . |
| 20 | It could only be damaging to commercial life . |
| 21 | Although this aquarium will hold a fair number of young fish , problems will rapidly arise when they grow , so we will only be dealing with three or four fish . |
| 22 | Thus the following , said on Thursday , can only be referring to next Thursday ( or perhaps some more remote Thursday ) , otherwise the speaker should have said today : ( 58 ) I 'll see you on Thursday The same holds if it is said on Wednesday , due to pre-emptive tomorrow . |
| 23 | I believe we should not only be looking at simple traffic calming , I believe we should be looking at er greater use of subsidised school transport and in fact transport called for a report and I gather going on right out . |
| 24 | However , a conspiracy theory may not only be arguing against those who are blind to , or specifically reject , the notion that a worldwide conspiracy explains most political events . |
| 25 | So that if our speaker for example had been John from the Halifax Building Society he would only be talking about Global Investments . |
| 26 | Well , I find nowadays , people are much better at planning their retirement than they used to be , maybe because people are more aware of the fact th they wo n't necessarily be teaching till sixty or that sort of erm age . |
| 27 | If all termites in the world behave like those in their lab , they might together be producing between 10 and 90 million million grams a year ( Nature , vol 301. p 700 ) . |
| 28 | SVR General Manager Michael Draper has confirmed that the problem was that the wheels of the 8F were coming into intermittent contact with the frames . |
| 29 | But the illusion is soon shattered … the moored sailing vessel alongside is heaving with 65 members of a film crew . |
| 30 | This was an idea that appealed strongly to me , though Unamuno had not been thinking of some of the ‘ brothers in solitude ’ — the outcasts from social and sexual ‘ normality ’ — who were the brothers that first sprang to my mind on reading that sentence in Corsham . |