Example sentences of "[adv] [be] [v-ing] [prep] [det] " in BNC.
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| 1 | But our legal practice is not unilateralist in this way over the broad reaches of the private law that we have mostly been discussing in this book-judges very often decide for the plaintiff , as they did in McLoughlin , when according to conventionalism the plaintiff had no legal right to win . |
| 2 | Sorry I ca n't really sort of say I must admit I could n't really see why they should be like that really cos I mean it is a bit puzzling cos if they 've only just done anything , they 've only been tampering with this finger so |
| 3 | ‘ He had obviously been brooding on this incident some years back , ’ said Mr Denny . |
| 4 | However , a conspiracy theory may not only be arguing against those who are blind to , or specifically reject , the notion that a worldwide conspiracy explains most political events . |
| 5 | The panic buying forced the Moscow city council on May 28 to announce a temporary ban on the sale of food and consumer goods in city shops to anyone unable to produce a Moscow residence permit ( such restrictions had already been operating for many weeks in Leningrad and a number of other cities ) . |
| 6 | This scheme has already been operating in some London boroughs but it has prompted criticism from anti-poll tax campaigners who have branded the technique as ‘ harassment ’ . |
| 7 | This scheme has already been operating in some London boroughs but it has prompted criticism from anti-poll tax campaigners who have branded the technique as ‘ harassment ’ . |
| 8 | If a patent were to be granted to the second business , it could prevent the first from using what it has already been using for some time . |
| 9 | They 've already been walking for several weeks , many carrying their possessions in their school bags . |
| 10 | By the time that came along I had already been playing for some time . |
| 11 | Rumours had already been circulating for some time in the movie world that Madonna , whose big new movie will be Body Of Evidence , was discussing a new film with Sr Almodovar . |
| 12 | I 've , I 've just been dealing with that in a booklet . |
| 13 | As well as carrying food , the CARE airlifts , which will soon be taking in enough seeds and tools for 50,000 families so that people can begin to help themselves . |
| 14 | The main offenders here are non-indigenous natives who have cleared areas ad acres of the best soil , farming it very poorly and working it as though it were a private farm … there is no rotation of crops and no manure applied which means he will soon be looking for another 100 acres of good soil to ruin . |
| 15 | A malinger round the monument is worth your while , if only for the extraordinary view down Loch Shiel and to reassure yourself that you will soon be leaving behind all the people milling idly around their coaches , to whom 1745 means quarter to six . |
| 16 | For that reason , by the time these lines appear , you will no longer be reading about either my campaign for party leader or that of various other candidates for deputy . |
| 17 | You can do them all , just be looking at that . |
| 18 | What , one wonders , must the real world outside be making of any of this ? |
| 19 | most were set by several … [ and ] although one compositor might set a whole book , he would not normally be working on that book alone but would intersperse work on other jobs when it was called for … |
| 20 | Like Dean Acheson 's ‘ Present at the Creation ’ , which describes the cold war 's start , this book will remind readers whose memories may already be fading of some essential truths about America and world politics in the 20th century . |
| 21 | Exactly who , or what , triggered this Titanic blast , or what exactly was going on half an hour before it went off , we are not told . |
| 22 | If the river had still been working with any serious use of its productive capacity , this presentation of delightful monuments would not have been possible . |
| 23 | Indicate erm tt what the percentage was , because we 've always been sitting round this table patting ourselves on the back , saying that er |
| 24 | What she longed to ask him was : ‘ Have I ever been missing for any time , Steve ? |
| 25 | So then he gave them Visa , which he 'd hardly been using at all , and twenty minutes later they gave him a car . |
| 26 | Even Parr ca n't still be smiling after that ! |
| 27 | When one is asking questions , however , one must never forget that the answers come from the respondents , so one must always be thinking about those respondents . |
| 28 | ‘ I ca n't always be looking after all your property . ’ |
| 29 | Erm , what they could possibly be doing with these things I , I could n't imagine . |
| 30 | Such gigantic creatures could hardly be living in some remote spot unknown to European science , so they had either changed into something else or had become extinct . |