Example sentences of "[adj] [be] [adv] [v-ing] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | People were breakfasting , some were just having coffee . |
| 2 | While the people of one region might still be using stone tools , those in another were already using bronze for all their tools and weapons and sometimes iron as well . |
| 3 | Thus , with regard to level of pay , ‘ the British were broadly speaking content ; the French dissatisfied . |
| 4 | National librarian , Brynley Roberts , says in his annual report this is already causing storage problems . |
| 5 | RICHARD ROGERS Ca n't Stop Loving You ( BCM ) ‘ Written and produced by Marshall Jefferson ’ says the sticker on the US version , explaining why this is already doing business on import . |
| 6 | The Consumer Credit Trade Association told us that in the experience of the smaller finance houses , chain stores and larger retailers who are members , this is clearly reducing payment problems ( thus making credit cheaper for their customers than it might otherwise be ) . |
| 7 | In the absence of a more specific standard a total count maximum of 100 ( cfu ) per 25 cm 2 is reasonable using nutrient agar contact plates . |
| 8 | 1991 was aground breaking year with the launch of the Fusion ; this year its propulsion plate technology is starting to filter down into more affordable shoes , namely the Mojo and Magnum . |
| 9 | Our assailants were now shooting fire arrows and these were already causing havoc amongst the defenders . |
| 10 | Of those patients still alive at follow up between four and 12 years later , 89% had a normal haemoglobin concentration , and only 23% of these were still receiving iron treatment . |
| 11 | Unless the horse is very sick or the swelling is severely affecting eating or breathing , it is sometimes better to delay antibiotics until the abscesses come up to a head and burst . |
| 12 | The poor are actually giving aid to the rich . |
| 13 | Twenty-seven for three overnight — Bill Athey spent the morning trying to hit Gloucestershire out of trouble … but when he went on forty-two — trapped lbw by Lampitt — Worcestershire 's first innings total of two hundred and seventy was still looking way out of reach . |
| 14 | Many physical factors influence a person 's ability to communicate by means of verbal and non-verbal language , and especially important are adequately functioning body structures in the nervous and endocrine systems . |
| 15 | Miss Whiplash and Bash the Barbarian are still doing battle over the right to reply , and judging by the amount of mail each receive it looks to be about even at the moment . |
| 16 | One to George II from the pasha of Tripoli in the 1750s had to be sent to the Netherlands to be translated ; and another from the sultan of Morocco to George III in 1779 was still awaiting translation several months after reaching London . |
| 17 | For the first years of the Whig period after The Reform Act of 1832 , the government 's financial policies had seemed successful , but a change for the worse was now taking place . |
| 18 | The tolerable was always becoming suspect , and the suspect often tolerated . |
| 19 | Mr Newbegin said Go-Ahead Northern is currently taking delivery of 30 new single deck buses which will bring the average age down to 9.1 years by May . |
| 20 | That is enough voting strength to change the outcome in more than 100 constituencies . |
| 21 | Er that 's just buying behaviour . |
| 22 | Erm , I was going to mention , as Rob has done the increase in new complaints , which I think is somewhat welcome erm , we 're still taking a long time from the averages over the last twelve months , I think that 's just reflecting being out some days over the ones you 've been talking about , er , we 're down on actual stage one equipments in the month erm , we 're not quite sure why that is , mm it 's just the way things have panned out . |
| 23 | No I think that 's just showing interest , that 's the questioning that 's just showing interest |
| 24 | That 's either getting worser or better int it ? |
| 25 | That 's either getting worser or better int it ? |
| 26 | That 's like saying piss off I do n't like you you stupid cow , why do n't you go and kill yourself basically . |
| 27 | I 've got , I 've had it for but no , it 's been round there and that 's now going look . |
| 28 | The two are now working side by side as Mr Tabiner gets to know the area and its people . |
| 29 | By the end of the fifteenth century Louis XII was already using French in his letters to other monarchs ( the only significant exception was Poland , whose ruler he wrote to in Latin ) , while at the same time it was the language of the imperial court under Maximilian I. The century or more which followed saw a tendency for it to be used increasingly as the language of diplomacy . |
| 30 | For the next two years fear of getting pregnant was constantly producing panic , misery and confusion . |