Example sentences of "[be] [adv] [v-ing] [adv] [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | If your net margin on sales is 10 per cent and the discount offered for early payment is 2.5 per cent , you are effectively giving away a quarter of your profit . |
| 2 | Meanwhile , the banks are slowly slipping over a cliff . |
| 3 | He said : ‘ She appears when I am alone clearing up the bar . |
| 4 | ‘ But you are kinda running up a backlog in my favour account . ’ |
| 5 | I am merely pointing out the disadvantages of a romantic trip without romance . ’ |
| 6 | And a lot of people of course do n't go into our shops , so we feel that there are a lot of people out there who have a lot of sympathy for Oxfam 's aims and objectives , but are only lacking just the opportunity to give , and that 's what we hope to provide them with . |
| 7 | In compulsory competitive tendering the Government are merely bringing up the rear and ensuring that local authorities that have not yet taken advantage of those techniques are brought up to the level of the best . |
| 8 | Then he said : ‘ I hope I am not trespassing over a duty ascribed to someone else present here , but then I had heard no proposals for anyone to give a toast in thanks to our host , the most honourable and kind Lord Darlington . ’ |
| 9 | By examining social processes , I am not throwing out the baby with the bath water : I do concede that inherited properties play a part . |
| 10 | I am just filling in the days , she thought — until Edmund returns . |
| 11 | At the moment I am just making up the numbers . |
| 12 | Word is coming in that rival hamlets are already filling in the forms as fast as they can put pen to paper . |
| 13 | His eyes are already lining up the entry point as he begins to ease off the front brake and apply handlebar and footrest pressure to steer the bike . |
| 14 | I am concerned that many young people with learning difficulties are not taking up the assessment offered in their final year of education . |
| 15 | They are not investigating why the company wishes to move from Barrhead . |
| 16 | I am happy to give my hon. Friend the assurance that we are not going down the route of a federal Europe . |
| 17 | Alan Tonke who has set this one up says that it has n't been easy getting together a viable collection of items to auction . |
| 18 | At this point we 're only bringing in the Cherokee and the Viper , but ultimately we 'll bring in the Grand Cherokee and the minivan [ MPV ] , although we wo n't do those until we have right-hand drive versions , which may come before the next generation models . |
| 19 | So they are they 're being harsher on landlords but on the rich peasants they 're just taking back the land instead of |
| 20 | We 're just running out the material that we 've got here . |
| 21 | Because we 're massively speeding up the evolutionary process , we may well create destabilisation within the ecosystem . |
| 22 | I 'm surprised that we 're not picking up a bit more a few more highlights , it 's a bit . |
| 23 | Perhaps you 're not picking up the tone . |
| 24 | Whether it 's because they feel they 're not taking up the valuable time of a doctor , they can go at their own pace , who knows ? |
| 25 | As long as you 're not going up the village |
| 26 | You 're na you 're not going down the pit ? |
| 27 | I said No , no-one at home was , Everyone at home had said , You 're not going down the pit . |
| 28 | And we 're not doing yet the things that it was planned that we 'd be doing of in a year . |
| 29 | ’ We 're not turning over the phetam to the FedPol , ’ I told her . |
| 30 | So er we 're still hovering around a hundred but instead of being four over the hundred the present total is ninety six by my reckoning . |