Example sentences of "[prep] be [v-ing] [det] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Criminals are n't too bothered about the er problems they cause victims in the commission for their crime , but er as a general rule er they do draw a line somewhere , but I think to er rob a lady who is er presumably grieving over the loss of a relative , at the graveside , has got to be plumbing some new depth of er depravity and er I 'll expect the erm vast majority of the citizens of Banbury will think similarly . |
| 2 | erm sort of , at fir , you know , at first I thought sometimes you know oh , you know what 's the matter with you like but , she admits herself , her I Q , you know how they judge your intelligence has gone right down , she has to have tests every now and again , er she ca n't concentrate on things , or , you know some things she just ca n't do any more , so she 's at , supposed to be getting all this compensation and it 's been going on now , it was two years ago , three years ago that we met them and she 's only just had the first part of her money , she 's had five thousand pounds , that 's all she can get for the time being all the rest is , cos all solicitors and everything and doctors having to come and check things , so she knows , she knows she 'll get money eventually , but er , it 's just when , but is n't it an awful thing ? |
| 3 | Ah , but you 're going to be getting some extra police officers by taking them off er , paperwork , er you 're gon na get two thousand three hundred I see in the press , well that as shown , that of course will be twenty three , but if anybody here thinks the Chief Constable 's gon na produce twenty three new police officers through reductions in paperwork and through the other initiatives the Home Secretary has announced , well I do n't believe them , and we shall have to wait and see . |
| 4 | ‘ I must say , ’ said Elinor , sipping a gin and tonic , ‘ you seem to be getting some good vibes . |
| 5 | But erm , the position at the moment is that , I mean , the situation does n't seem to be getting any worse . |
| 6 | ‘ Does n't look right to me , and it does n't seem to be getting any nearer . ’ |
| 7 | Over on the M forty er the nearside lane is closed eastbound between junctions one and two , that 's between the A forty and the A three five five , but does n't seem to be causing any serious problems this evening . |
| 8 | A forty one , that 's the road between Banbury and Bicester , there are temporary traffic lights for resurfacing work , that 's just between the Soldern turn-off by the Bear public house and the Northants border , that 's going to be causing some long delays . |
| 9 | If the outstanding quality of the Limited is any guide , the Motorsport team is going to be bringing many more smiles to people 's faces . |
| 10 | I do n't even know you , so I 'm hardly likely to be harbouring some secret grudge against you ! ’ |
| 11 | Lady Roscarrock seemed to be containing some inner pressure that was about to erupt . |
| 12 | Erm I 'd like you to be considering those two points . |
| 13 | Ozone is an oxygen related gas and CFC 's are believed to be damaging this important layer . |
| 14 | Sir Patrick Mayhew , the latest incumbent of this difficult office , is not thought to be expecting any great political breakthrough . |
| 15 | The Great Spirit … seemed to be looking some other way , and did not see what was being done to my people . |
| 16 | Cobbett indicates that , at least in Kent , the working class was not yet reconciled to exchanging a cottage on earth for a mansion in heaven : ‘ they appeared to me to be thinking much more about getting houses for themselves in this world first : just to see a little before they entered , or endeavoured to enter , or even thought much about , those ‘ houses ’ of which the parson was speaking ; houses with pig-styes and little snug gardens attached to them , together with all the other domestic and conjugal circumstances . ’ |
| 17 | The rest of the time we are supposed to be thinking these big thoughts |
| 18 | Rod Wallace appears to be producing some good performances although he 's not putting all his chances away — those misses in the first half on Saturday would probably be crucial against a good side . |
| 19 | They later realized , however , that there was a much more general class of Friedmann-like models that did have singularities , and in which the galaxies did not have to be moving any special way . |
| 20 | However , syphilis is a systemic infection and , if the treponeme is looked for , it will be found to be affecting many different organs in the body , from the liver to the lungs and the brain to the bones . |
| 21 | Roadburg seems to be suggesting that certain characteristics of the British fans ' involvement in the game ( partisanship , segregation , collective identity and pre-match build-up ) give rise to a greater degree of passionate commitment ( and enhanced potential for disorder ) than in the American equivalent . |
| 22 | However , he often appears to be saying much more than this and he has certainly been taken as making significant generalisations about the nature of literacy as such . |
| 23 | No chances with the bus , and besides , he was n't going to be paying any more bills . |
| 24 | Speaker A appears to be offering some new elements as part of the conversational topic , again deriving from some personal reference ( as in my father ) which speaker B appears to accept . |
| 25 | ‘ Goran seems to be concentrating much more , ’ he says . |
| 26 | The social worker seemed to be dangling that last word before Gilly 's nose , as if expecting her to jump up on her hind legs and dance for it . |
| 27 | They reckon that if erm Australia lose another match it could mean that they wo n't even make the semi finals and erm they reckon like that , that channel nine that 's supposed to be backing all this |
| 28 | I 'm not prepared to accept that any more than I am prepared to accept the hogwash that we heard from Bob Morgan and his Liberal Democrats , because of course it may be extremely comfortable for him to be acting like a beached dolphin on the shores of Abu Dhabi , but the fact of the matter is , of course , that the Liberal Democrats , with or without the backs of their envelopes and cigarettes packets , are extremely unlikely to be making any national legislation , so they are quite comfortable in being able to observe how others might or might not do it . |
| 29 | Erm we do n't expect to be making any meaningful contribution towards erm employment provision around Greater York , I 'd refer you to er statements we made erm on erm the p on policy H one . |
| 30 | Was n't he supposed to be doing all this as a favour to her father ? |