Example sentences of "[verb] [adv] be [v-ing] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The thing to work on is applying this same principle to the playing situation . |
| 2 | IBM had originally agreed to help finance the project through to the end of 1992 , and has since been helping Supercomputing Systems to meet its payroll on a week-by-week basis . |
| 3 | Although the UK market has only been contributing some £15,000 a month or so to the company 's coffers , Christoforou expects to appoint half a dozen sales staff by April and says he will be looking for the outfit to turn over £2m plus in its first year . |
| 4 | Jones has a lovely service but he has not been looking good behind a struggling pack . |
| 5 | Despite the decline in its popularity , homoeopathy has not been standing still for the entire twentieth century . |
| 6 | The law has not been standing still since Jorden v. Money . |
| 7 | ‘ My own department has not been standing still . |
| 8 | Against this dearth of local information , Cuba has nevertheless been receiving religious broadcasts and publications from outside the country , but these are frequently alien to the Cuban people 's own expression of the Christian faith . |
| 9 | The company has also been rethinking other aspects of library management . |
| 10 | Blohm and Voss has also been building six MEKO Type 1400 corvettes for the Argentinian navy . |
| 11 | Who would be dropped , if anybody , for Michael O'Neill ( Hibernian ) has also been producing consistent form since his transfer from Dundee Utd . |
| 12 | Ben has also been giving those Yorkshire boys a good seeing-to with an on-sight flash of Kleptomanis ( F8a ) at the Holywood Bowl , a one-day ascent of the Yorkshire Ripper ( F8b ) at Kilnsey , and he got Magnetic Fields ( F8a/8a+ ) first red-point . |
| 13 | Sir Richard has also been making final adjustments to his latest film Chaplin , the biography of Charlie Chaplin , the subject of a Royal Film Premiere next month . |
| 14 | The board has also been having ongoing talks with potential investors , but it was understood last night that the present worrying situation remained unchanged . |
| 15 | Mick Lovatt has also been doing some sterling work here re-equipping some of the older classics — in particular both pitches of Pierrepoint , a classic ( F7c+ , F7b+ ) have been completely rebolted . |
| 16 | After he graduated from London 's Faculty of Astrological Studies , his star talents were spotted by veteran astrologer Patrick Walker and he has now been casting daily horoscopes for The Sun for over ten years . |
| 17 | Which is odd , since he has n't been doing any work for me . ’ |
| 18 | Just because even though they do n't talk very much any more and stuff and he probably has n't been spending much time with her , |
| 19 | Leonard has again been saying this week that this is likely to be his final contest . |
| 20 | Now if you can just say on that , that that excludes any resources for the economic development action plan and for the time being resources for that initiative are being held centrally into Personnel and Finance sub-committee 's budget and as the action plans develop then money will be released from a contingency there to er go to the Planning Department or to whichever department that has actually been implementing that particular part of the action . |
| 21 | Funny I 'd just been saying that , just been reading a book allegedly written by erm Uri Geller , you know the |
| 22 | Companies in the countries which were accumulating rapidly were investing much more than their retained profits — borrowing the rest from the banks or money market . |
| 23 | Plumpton yesterday passed a 10am inspection , and prospects of racing tomorrow are looking good . |
| 24 | The key to success in heading abroad is getting these first planning basics right . |
| 25 | 'E seems ter be runnin' round wiv a right rough crowd . |
| 26 | These were simple little melodramas or lessons of everyday life but what mattered most was bringing these gifts for social detail into play in the grander sermons . |
| 27 | I took a siesta in the shade , and when evening rolled around was feeling fit enough to head back into Bandera for a few more beers at the Silver Dollar . |
| 28 | Labour too are seeking legal advice of their own and there is growing pressure for the Government to publish the advice upon which it has rested . |
| 29 | ‘ Ar , hey , ’ Vi said uneasily , ‘ do n't be saying that , queen . |
| 30 | ‘ And do n't be asking that poor child and upsetting her . |