Example sentences of "[be] [adv] [v-ing] [prep] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | That is especially so at this time , when we are effectively handing from Parliament to Ministers the right to decide , on private Bills , to lay orders . |
| 2 | They claimed that ‘ voices demanding Pakistan 's withdrawal ’ from these pacts were ‘ increasing ’ , and that ‘ the Iranian people are effectively campaigning for Iran 's withdrawal from the aggressive CENTO bloc , the abrogation of the military treaty with America and for Iran 's return to a policy of neutrality ’ . |
| 3 | They are mostly heading for Israel , but a lot would prefer to stay in Europe . |
| 4 | My window sills are badly rotting in places . |
| 5 | Since they have been in Brazil things have not been easy but they have settled in well and are slowly coming to terms with the language . |
| 6 | I am slowly getting to grips with the laptop , but sadly , on 13th , lost not only the biggest filling in my teeth but also twenty pages of type this size on paper this size . |
| 7 | In nature small fish are constantly looking for food , and will eat small amounts whenever they find them . |
| 8 | Catering establishments of all types are constantly looking at ways of saving energy without reducing performance and there are a number of areas within the kitchen where such savings can be made . |
| 9 | As for the future he said : ‘ We are constantly striving for ways in which to improve quality and efficiency and to eliminate waste and mediocrity . |
| 10 | In the course of our social lives we are constantly learning about ways of thinking and behaving considered appropriate by those other members of society with whom we come into contact ( as well as those considered inappropriate by them ) and this learning process only ceases when social life itself ceases — on death . |
| 11 | Silent battles are constantly waging as coral colonies fight each other for living space and , as with fish , every species of invertebrate has its predators and many of these are other invertebrates . |
| 12 | We are constantly searching for ways to better the nutritional quality of our menu , whilst retaining the characteristic taste and flavour of our food . |
| 13 | ‘ Then there are those who work in manufacturing , in police forces or hospitals who suffer because they are constantly functioning below par . ’ |
| 14 | The methods available are constantly increasing in number and their utility is greater as the complexity of contemporary processes is revealed . |
| 15 | In many cases the onset of symptoms is found in situations where water quality has deteriorated , where aggressive fish are constantly battling for territory or where opportunist parasites find a weakened fish and multiply rapidly . |
| 16 | General practitioners have always had to manage and plan their businesses and are constantly adapting to changes in medical care . |
| 17 | Quantum mechanics implies that the whole of space is filled with pairs of ‘ virtual ’ particles and antiparticles that are constantly materializing in pairs , separating , and then coming together again and annihilating each other . |
| 18 | This has been greatly increasing in popularity in recent years and , according to all the forecasts , looks set to become even more widespread . |
| 19 | Not all people who use enforced vomiting as a method of avoiding the consequences of overeating ( or who use it simply as a method of slimming in order to follow the dictates of fashion ) are necessarily suffering from bulimia . |
| 20 | If all that does n't stop the person , they are obviously looking for trouble of some sort and you must quickly decide whether to lash out first or run for safety . |
| 21 | On his present form we really would have been better sticking with Chappie . |
| 22 | Extensive grassland based systems are especially sparing of energy use ( 14 ) and could well assume an increasing importance not only for this reason but also because the rate of expansion of production has now declined to around 2% per annum in lowland agriculture and may not increase ( 15 ) . |
| 23 | Thus Anderson may have been more prophetic than was realized at the time ( Earley 1988:61 ) : Parents are basically looking for reassurance about their children 's schools and teachers . |
| 24 | But potentially devastating revelations about big-money transfer deals in soccer are apparently lurking in Sugar 's evidence . |
| 25 | ‘ If some of our visitors are somewhat lacking in restraint , ’ noted an RCM report euphemistically , ‘ it must be remembered that many are overwrought with anxiety . ’ |
| 26 | Today , it is difficult to define a particular Hautvillers style : all have a good fruit content , and although some are perhaps lacking in definition , the finest attain great distinction , balancing high extract with a delicacy of flavour . |
| 27 | In contrasting the earnings during the French wars of a mill-employed Lancastrian family with those of a southern farm labourer 's family , we are perhaps dealing with extremes . |
| 28 | That would give him a chance to reduce tax on lower incomes , which are so discouraging to people caught in the poverty trap . |
| 29 | However , once we start to distort the operation of open justice and the consideration of the matters , we may very well , through the operation of rumour and all its insidious effects that are so damaging in libel cases — the only justification that I know for the high damages granted in such cases — inflict more damage on justice than we realise . |
| 30 | I am merely placing on record , as precisely as possible , the conditions that determined the starting-point of our inquiry . |