Example sentences of "[be] [adv] [v-ing] [adv prt] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Indeed I am rather coming round to the view that the trouble last year was not that we failed to produce as good policies as our opponents but that we failed to produce policies for the issues the electorate was most interested in . |
| 2 | I mean increasingly small authorities are effectively opting out of the national negotiat now we ca n't ignore th |
| 3 | ‘ She 's been slowly going out of her mind stuck here day in day out , and do you care ? |
| 4 | The only other major commodity which is based on lump sum rates regardless of quantities used , is water and the Water Companies are slowly moving over to a metered system in order to improve the discipline of use . |
| 5 | Creatures that bestride the dividing line between amphibians and reptiles and between mammals and protomammals , are constantly turning up in the fossil record . |
| 6 | Increase the difficulty by simultaneously working on two pads which are constantly weaving around as your partner moves and forces you to adapt to sudden changes in range . |
| 7 | ‘ I 'm going to turn into one of those old guys who are constantly harping on about the war , about ration books and bomb shelters . |
| 8 | Well they had a particularly bad time many of them lost absolutely everything and now they 're protesting cos the Lloyds people are only coming up with a nine hundred million pound rescue package that might give them some of them back half of what they invested . |
| 9 | ‘ I would probably still be running anyway , but the Veteran scene has kept me motivated when I might have been just drifting around with my running . |
| 10 | Parnell was in jail , and the British authorities are desperately holding on to power as support for the Land League accelerates . |
| 11 | Proud of the rapid development time for the 601 , the two companies are nevertheless rushing on to complete work on three other promised iterations of the part , now under development at IBM 's Somerset plant in Austin , Texas . |
| 12 | It must therefore be recognised that the greatest protagonist of deregulation are largely acting out of self-interest , and that they themselves demonstrate remarkable inconsistency and reversals in their arguments — depending on which area of that self interest they may be pursuing at any particular moment . |
| 13 | They are making many staff redundant , and they are largely pulling out of the programme , thus leaving a huge hole in numbers and finance . |
| 14 | Users are finally coming round to the idea that applications are more important than the platform , he says , citing the UK supermarket chain , Sainsbury 's , which took ten months to decide that it would move to Unix , choosing its software before inviting companies to bid for the hardware contract . |
| 15 | Museums are finally coming in from the cold , to take their place alongside a whole range of other cultural facilities such as zoos , botanic gardens , planetariums , libraries , and the like — all of which are striving , in their own distinctive ways , to contribute to the informal education of the public as a whole . |
| 16 | There are some cases where I am just holding on to them and not cashing them in . ’ |
| 17 | I think I am just starting out on the steep , rocky — and lots of other corny metaphors — road to recovery . |
| 18 | Developers are already cottoning on to the trend by building houses with ready made work rooms . |
| 19 | What happens to those who are already going out with another boyfriend when they discover they are pregnant ? |
| 20 | Orders are already pouring in for the American-made scarves and bandanas that heat up when a liquid-filled pad is microwaved is placed into a pouch . |
| 21 | But these larger firms are already cutting down on the size of their student intake and , if the trend continues , will end up — as Grant Thornton has already done — recruiting and training only staff who are expected to make a career with the firm after qualifying . |
| 22 | Many of us are already cutting down on red meat , partly for health reasons but also because of , as Audrey Eyton explains ( see p.56 ) , the growing awareness that animals being farmed intensively are neither happy nor tasty . |
| 23 | But over and above this is a terrible fact that despite what they are already putting up with , they 've got more they 've got the seventeen percent coming on their . |
| 24 | The houses of Old Odborough are already lighting up for the evening , but it is not yet dark enough to see the lights farther away . |
| 25 | kids are fucking running around with just nothing on their feet |
| 26 | Some are summer or winter visitors , while others are just passing through on their journey north or south . |
| 27 | This is what your teachers will try to tell you is true but they are just sucking up to you . |
| 28 | Yes , but On the last comment that er Chris made er bringing us and the letter to county about the the failure of the meeting on the twenty second cos we feel that they are just lying down to the situation and not pursuing a pursuing the D A P about whatsoever and erm we are , certainly in John 's letter probably get it signed tonight complaining and asking for a a meeting as soon as possible because we feel that that they ought to be pursuing the question of these two sites , they 're dragging their feet ! |
| 29 | Those who are most likely to be affected by the Labour party 's proposals to surcharge savings are those who are just coming up to retirement . |
| 30 | So it 's an ongoing process that the first medical pra or some medical practice booklets are just coming up for their second resale . |