Example sentences of "[prep] [be] [v-ing] [adv prt] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Companies are likely to continue to be laying off surplus staff well into the recovery , as was the case during the last recession in the early '80s . |
| 2 | Only if it is ‘ blown ’ , for example on a tax-cut-financed consumer boom , can the government be said to be piling up financial trouble for future governments . |
| 3 | They seem to be buying up half Europe … ’ |
| 4 | I am not a councillor nor politician whose job ought to be sorting out this dilemma . |
| 5 | By the time Posi had established the ship at the specified position , Mala seemed to be thinking along similar lines . |
| 6 | We had , we had to conservative speakers so far , erm , and Councillor Brock seem to me , in a sense to be summing up that phrase about knowing the price of everything and the value of nothing , because there was the the the es essential arithmetical calculation about percentages , and savings . |
| 7 | Er if my choice , I 'd like to be in the docks , but things can not ha happen that way , we 've got a lot o , a lot of the yuppies moving in that area , and that seems to be taking over that area so no chance of a football stadium there . |
| 8 | When Kostomarov , probably in collaboration with kindred spirits , wrote an emotive tract which concluded by saying that " Ukraine will become an independent People 's State in a Slavonic union " , his cultural activities seemed to be taking on clear political overtones . |
| 9 | I seemed to be taking up more than my share of the space , and the grief was bad again . |
| 10 | In November Midland confidently expects to be handing over further substantial sums generated by the opening and usage of each Visa card account . |
| 11 | A force of 20 armed OMON troops entered the Vilnius central telephone exchange on June 26 , claiming to be carrying out presidential orders in searching for illegal weapons and found a pistol , ammunition and explosives . |
| 12 | Environment Secretary Michael Heseltine is believed to be sounding out potential US support for the strategy . |
| 13 | Indeed , as number one player the market , St Louis Park , Minnesota-based Digiboard Inc , seems to be revelling in the disarray — it claims to be mopping up many of Computone and Specialix 's European deals . |
| 14 | Anyway there I was , and the speech seemed to be going down ok , when I reached the end of page one . |
| 15 | There was an endless pause , as Roman seemed to be weighing up this piece of sheer bravado . |
| 16 | The drop in the number of people working has actually been greater in the latest recession than between 1979 and 1983 , a period when industry was supposed to be shaking out overmanned jobs . |
| 17 | ‘ I really think we ought to be following up one or two of those other leads , sir . |
| 18 | Meanwhile , at the shows themselves , more than ever this year people seemed to be running around confused , cynical as ever , while the future of the British catwalks was looking ever more shaky . |
| 19 | Where do you think that more money needs to be spent ? erm well , the government are in the process of launching a massive new initiative called Care in the Community erm I 'm afraid a lot of people working in my neck of the woods find this rather well not amusing , but erm it 's slightly hysterically amusing , because the amount of money that would be needed to fund the projects that are identified as being necessary is enormous , and the government is in no way going to be putting up that sort of funds erm so it comes down to money , and particularly in this community care area . |
| 20 | If you could have paper things … sometimes it seems to be putting out fresh plates , eating off them , washing them , and then putting them out again … some days you seem to be at it all day long . |
| 21 | It was too late to be worrying over any implications inherent in spending Christmas with the Danbys and now the day had dawned Meredith was rather pleased she was going to be with company , especially after her sighting of the whatever-it-was during the night . |
| 22 | ‘ Ought Faustina to be licking out that bowl ? ’ asked Mark . |
| 23 | He seemed to be poring over some papers and the room itself appeared to be tidier than when he had visited it earlier . |
| 24 | So erm but they se they seem to be working out okay . |
| 25 | Then , assuming " phantom " chains , the change in free energy per chain as the end-to-end vector R changes to is Averaging over all chains and remembering that we have For a network of n chains per unit volume the change in free energy will be n times this . |
| 26 | we 're gon na be clearing out those , thank you the rest |
| 27 | . This is you know , what we 're gon na be concentrating on next . |
| 28 | The consortium leaders say the best they can hope for is getting back half their money but many of the miners look set to reject the offer . |
| 29 | All we are really concerned about is picking up two more points to ease our way to the United States next year . |