Example sentences of "[v-ing] [adv] [adv] [adv] [adv] " in BNC.
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| 1 | This is because those two theories postulate a particular event — the spontaneous arising of a self-replicating entity — as occurring only once in about a billion years , once per aeon . |
| 2 | They show that " things are happening much more quickly then we thought " , according to Cindy Lee Van Dover , the head of the research team . |
| 3 | Driving once more as fast as she dared , she soon reached the pet shop and saw that Mr Miller was occupied with a customer . |
| 4 | It is happening now not just occasionally but increasingly on the continent , but not yet here in Scotland . |
| 5 | Many people believe that pensioners are becoming increasingly well off financially . |
| 6 | Maria inserted tempestuously , suddenly understanding that much quite instinctively . |
| 7 | To that earlier call Morse had listened with a grudging , half-engaged attention ; but he was listening far more carefully now . |
| 8 | Sad to say the recession overtook that but it 's , it 's developing strongly again there now . |
| 9 | I expect Hamish will be writing again pretty soon again too , but here I am sitting at the computer anyway , putting off writing a series of begging letters to friends and connections in various educational and other institutions and organizations asking them to submit to Chambers Harrap ( as we now are ) all partable-with unpublished bumf ( memos , minutes , notices , reports , etc , etc ) to swell the ‘ ephemera ’ ( new stretched meaning ) content of the British National Corpus of English . |
| 10 | Mark , if you think that Strach was looking that far ahead then we should snap him up immediately , as if he is that much of a thinker then he could make a great manager . |
| 11 | Commenting on the acquisition which forms part of the Retail Cleaning division , Peter Lloyd said ‘ It 's good to see our portfolio growing so significantly both organically and through acquisition . |
| 12 | Going much more slowly now as it records more conver conversations . |
| 13 | Yes , I have heard of her , ’ Belinda murmured , wondering painfully all over again how she could have let Tom capture her heart . |
| 14 | She was glad she was n't going away again just now . |
| 15 | Fletcher said : ‘ It 's bad that they are going away so soon after what has been a very hard and difficult tour . |
| 16 | The churn rate is now down to eleven percent , the result of positive action that we 've taken there and we expect to add a million homes during this year and the cable audience I am pleased to say is growing still very very slowly er but that should help as well . |
| 17 | ‘ I felt that it was going really well out there and I was enjoying it . |
| 18 | Aegina grew 700–800 tonnes of them in 1992 , nearly twice as much as in 1982 , and in principle looks forward to growing twice as much again by the late 1990s . |
| 19 | Monnet himself seemed to be rather more cautious about going too fast too quickly , and seemed to hanker still for sectoral integration in the first instance , especially in the developing field of nuclear energy , as a strategy which stood a better chance of succeeding in the short term . |
| 20 | It is right that in the negotiations , which must remain confidential , they should seek to prevent us from going too far too soon . |
| 21 | ‘ That 's going too far too fast , ’ said Ellen , getting into bed . |
| 22 | A third type of comfort to be drawn from an apparently stable system like Denmark 's lies in the reminder of how many of the current fears of British ‘ curriculum managers ’ are , precisely , ‘ current ’ : the transitory outcome of attempting too much too fast , rather than an intrinsic feature of centrally-defined curricula . |
| 23 | Finally , there is a third kind of solution , in which the universe is expanding only just fast enough to avoid recollapse . |
| 24 | The crew , moving rapidly yet almost soundlessly , carried out the few jobs required to convert the land vehicle to a boat , and within seconds the rigs slid rapidly into the dark water and powered away to swing out their ramps and couple together in twos and threes . |
| 25 | And that 's what you 're getting here so as far as I 'm concerned . |
| 26 | 604 this court was faced with the curious situation that by a series of decisions , each moving almost imperceptibly further forward than the last , it had created a rule of law for which , if one stood back and looked at the matter afresh , there was absolutely no justification . |
| 27 | Whereas most modern performance cars encourage aggression through their virulence , the Stag suppresses it while getting there just as quickly . |
| 28 | But I 'm always reminded of a large bomber aircraft coming in to land , moving very much more slowly than you 'd expect for something of its size . |
| 29 | Friendship networks so old and intimate that the differences and difficulties could collapse into wild mirth at any instant , or could flare into fights which , however vicious at the time , would not actually change anything nor prevent her and all her friends coming together again soon after , at identical but different pine kitchen tables , scattered in a loose lop-sided circle around central London . |
| 30 | Eleven minutes of the second half gone , Shrewsbury Town three , Blackburn Rovers one , Kevin , Steve with a penalty and Tommy the young Irishman doing so well tonight here to get those goals for Shrewsbury , we 're going off to Neil . |