Example sentences of "[adj] [prep] [be] [v-ing] a " in BNC.
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| 1 | A student of mine in a Spenser class which read A Present View suggested it seemed peculiar to be reading a piece by an author commonly hailed as one of the great writers of the English Renaissance putting forward views which makes him a type of war criminal within a twentieth-century perspective . |
| 2 | She feels too old to be sharing a tub with Xanthe , but she is staying the night at her grandfather 's , as often happens , and this is the drill , bath-time , bed-time , together . |
| 3 | He must be in his early forties , Belinda decided , while Faye , she knew was thirty-eight — fairly old to be having a first child , which added a greater sense of urgency and importance to the task of keeping her pregnancy on track . |
| 4 | Judge Peter Greenwood told Hilton : ‘ The supplying of drugs is a very serious offence and you are fortunate to be getting a short sentence . ’ |
| 5 | But Edward , delighted to be carrying a gun at last , hardly cared . |
| 6 | Even to the jaundiced eyes of veteran Washington reporters , this is mighty early to be planning a presidential campaign . |
| 7 | It is not too early to be planning a project as complex and elaborate as this one . |
| 8 | ‘ I only wear British clothes and I 'm extremely glad to be advertising a British car on TV , the Vauxhall Astra , ’ he said yesterday . |
| 9 | There is occasionally some truth in this , but very often the journalist 's deadline is looming close , and the PRO is supposed to be providing a service not a favour . |
| 10 | Erm somebody , and I think it was Derek , and I put down Derek as a guess , was supposed to be getting a list of local area MPs to whom I can then write . |
| 11 | He 's supposed to be getting a hearing aid or summat . |
| 12 | These duties had to be fulfilled alongside those of his conventional publishing business , and he was also supposed to be writing a scene for inclusion in what was to be a filmed version of Murder in the Cathedral . |
| 13 | I 'm supposed to be writing a feature , not a book . ’ |
| 14 | I 'm supposed to be calling a solicitor but I thought it was only fair I should warn you instead . ’ |
| 15 | You 're not supposed to be using a ruler Emmy . |
| 16 | Rolle 's great contemporary St Catherine of Siena ( 1347–80 ) once fell into the fire when she was in ecstasy though she was supposed to be cooking a meal . |
| 17 | In thirty-eight minutes flat he was supposed to be addressing a very high-powered seminar on enterprise . |
| 18 | But if I 'm supposed to be catching a train to Paris , where the Hell d' you think you 're off to ? ’ |
| 19 | He was supposed to be germinating a television programme for her , on her own topic , about the conscience of an escaped East Berliner . |
| 20 | I 'm supposed to be meeting a feller for the pictures at eight o'clock . ’ |
| 21 | At that point the band broke up , even though we were supposed to be doing a lot more touring . |
| 22 | The firm is supposed to be doing a RISC-based Unix mainframe and is already a licensee of HP 's PA chip which it uses in its 3050 line of Unix workstations . |
| 23 | ‘ They are supposed to be doing a job of work to house people not making residents ’ lives a misery . ’ |
| 24 | I thought you were supposed to be designing a |
| 25 | We 're supposed to be having a good time today ! ’ |
| 26 | ‘ You wo n't forget , Birdy ’ ( Birdy ? ) ‘ that you 're supposed to be having a headache , will you ? ’ |
| 27 | I am supposed to be covering a charitable fund-raising event at the City Temple . ’ |
| 28 | Try not to view flats when the present occupant is likely to be cooking a meal because that will effectively swamp all other smells . |
| 29 | If you needed a blood transfusion er you 're not likely to be driving a car straight afterwards . |
| 30 | Our study lends credence to the recent report of a family with many affected family members with only two to 40 colonic polyps , who were shown to be linked to the APC locus and are therefore likely to be carrying a mutation of this gene . |