Example sentences of "[adv] be [adv] [v-ing] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | He had only been half listening to the conversation but now he forced himself to be a more accommodating guest . |
| 2 | One facile explanation is that with the eradication of the infectious fevers people are living longer , and so are now living into the age groups where chronic diseases start to manifest themselves . |
| 3 | Public resources alone are never going to be available , nor enough , to fund all the development desirable . |
| 4 | A pupil may reach level 6 in Attainment Target 1 but only be partially achieving at level 5 in Attainment Targets 2 and 3 . |
| 5 | I remember one day we were at the studio doing The Long Duel and we obviously were n't going to work . |
| 6 | I warmed to it first of all because , like the Eggle New York elsewhere in this issue , it obviously is n't trying to be anything else ; it can stand on its own merits without any need for the usual identikit comparisons . |
| 7 | I would try and get people to work as a team together and then when it obviously is n't going to work properly , only then would I make the decision . |
| 8 | ‘ The point is , ’ he continued firmly , ‘ if Kemp is locked up he obviously is n't going to be available to do the job he was hired for . |
| 9 | Hungry and cold would have to wait until I could go back to the cafe , dirty was obviously going to be more of a problem . |
| 10 | The hon. Gentleman obviously was not listening to my answer . |
| 11 | He said this kindly , as if he meant it as a tip she could use on her next date — which obviously was not going to be with him . |
| 12 | She quite obviously was n't listening to a word of it . |
| 13 | Ideas which had already been darkly germinating in Ludens 's overcrowded mind came vividly into view . |
| 14 | Catching a fleeting expression on Lucy 's face , she persisted with ominous calm , ‘ This would n't be the Guy Sterne whose name we 've just been dutifully worshipping at the board meeting , by any chance ? ’ |
| 15 | The Act was a success , although the ‘ particulates ’ ( mainly soot ) raining down over Britain 's cities had anyway been gradually decreasing since the 1920s . |
| 16 | Guyana 's new Amerindian Peoples ' Association has warned that ‘ the state of our forests is rapidly changing , as the eyes of those who destroyed these resources elsewhere are now looking to Guyana . ’ |
| 17 | Hereford United meanwhile are just fighting for survival … on Saturday they drew one-all with York City |
| 18 | Terry B says it 's great to be back and he 's heard there 's a race for the over fifties which he may have a go at … he 's getting itchy feet and will soon be back riding for trainers … he 's also got his old job back as a steward at Worcester races and his public still love him |
| 19 | Probably because most of us were n't really , well , quite a few of us anyway were n't thinking about sex at that time , so I suppose it was kind of you know , you just started |
| 20 | I think this is a deal that could have been done ; we just were n't getting to the finishing line quickly enough . |
| 21 | ‘ Robyn , ’ he murmured roughly , ‘ this just is n't going to work . |
| 22 | Maybe what we should say at the end of the day is erm just is n't talking about that , he 's on about a completely different subject and we really should n't erm we should n't beat over the head for having a bad theory of the self . |
| 23 | There was always the point in the conversation where we knew it just was n't going to work . |
| 24 | The passageway outside was still reverberating from the crash when he started in on the door of the next apartment . |
| 25 | My friend Pauline , she has a daughter of eight , and her mother and father still are n't talking to her . |
| 26 | " But it 'll still be there waiting for you after the Christmas festivities are over . |
| 27 | See , right if he still was n't speaking to me properly I would n't have brought that off him ! |
| 28 | But he still was n't going to be intimidated . |
| 29 | I bet they probably be really competing with them in a way wo n't we cos they 've got all the same sort of stuff . |
| 30 | The argument was that in this instance , the police were under no obligation to assist a person to eject a trespasser from his premises , and hence were not acting in the execution of their duty when the constable was assaulted . |