Example sentences of "be [v-ing] [adv] a [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | PA are building up a definitive database of companies and contacts interested in ESPRIT CIME . |
| 2 | The party had been roping down a hanging glacier . |
| 3 | The popular budget and mid-priced range from EB seems not to be with us any more , alas , but the importers are bringing in a good looking range from Gravity which they hope will take over from where EB left off — prices from about £45 to £55 . |
| 4 | IT 'S hard enough for a woman to discover her husband 's been knocking off a naive girl in the typing pool . |
| 5 | A few minutes later you are walking up a short wooden ladder , round the corner and you find a 200ft waterfall — bridges cross the torrent twice before you reach the top and continue along the path . |
| 6 | I am driving along a narrow main road , used by fast-moving traffic , with my children in the back seat . |
| 7 | The engineering unions have been seeking either a 35-hour week or a two-hour reduction . |
| 8 | Let us further assume that the charge distribution is uniform and denote the charge per unit length by pl ( we are defining thereby a linear charge density of dimension coulomb per metre ) . |
| 9 | MOTORISTS in the North-East are snapping up a new device in the battle to beat car crime . |
| 10 | I am saving up a full account until our return , for it is impossible for me to give it in writing . |
| 11 | And you 've put a lot of flower pots up and down Magdalen Road , well apparently those flower pots and the changes you 've made there , some of them very ill-advised , are costing about a hundred thousand pounds . |
| 12 | We 're seeing just a few cases and I do n't deny the fact that occasionally there are bullies in the Army . |
| 13 | Is the one you 're using now an old one ? |
| 14 | You 're becoming quite a leading man in this crew , George Merry . |
| 15 | In fact er just before I retired they were saying , you know , my job 's obsolete and that , and then and says oh we 're opening up a big depot in Japan . |
| 16 | You 're opening up a whole new can of beans as to why he married this young kind of Lolita-ish girl . |
| 17 | We 're picking up a strange noise on the sonar . |
| 18 | erm And as I said , we 're trying to , not that I 'm giving the opposite view to Doctor Plumtree , as I said , we 're trying to fund the people on the front line , you know , the foresters in their back yard , as it were , we 're trying to preserve it , and we also feel we 're not being patronising , it 's not like we 're writing out a large cheque and saying ’ here you are ’ , we 're actually putting a lot of time and effort into this , I mean , it 's now become a full time job for me and certainly for Dave Kester , and all the other people working on it . |
| 19 | Er I think I think probably they they 're going up a little bit later so |
| 20 | Let me just show you what it says , just get it straight , right that 's the service analysis for September nineteen ninety-two , alright so we 're going back a few months . |
| 21 | Oh yes you 're going back a few years ! |
| 22 | Er , we 're getting quite a few calls on that subject now , John from Erith , good morning to you John . |
| 23 | We get you 're getting quite a big celebrity on this programme people want to know you know whether they can come round and have a guided tour round the house and stuff |
| 24 | So , if you 're popping down a daily aspirin , keep the pop music down too . |
| 25 | You 're running down a long silent street . |
| 26 | I mean , a lot , I can say with on the youths , I think were doing , were , were , were walking with young people at the local levels of various places in the town you know , we 've got , we have n't got as many resources as we want yet , but were still trying to do that , well I actually feel , on youth we 're doing quite a good job you know , expensive job you know , that we are , and , and all that concerns you raise , were certainly aware of . |
| 27 | All the political parties have accepted the fact that social security has got to change we 're spending over a third of public spending on social security and each political party is reviewing it to find way of making it more effective and to make saving . |
| 28 | To soften the blow , then , we 're giving away a special 100-page C64 Tips Book with the first issue , as well as the two tapes ( which 'll feature the excellent Continental Circus AND Gemini Wing among others ! ) , and all for the regular price of just £2.95 ! |
| 29 | ‘ You 're taking rather a long rest , are n't you ? ’ |
| 30 | And I think that our concern is to try and see how that can be improved and , and possibly the underlying reason for that is that erm we all feel that unless we take it seriously , the kind of disasters that increasingly affect developing countries , and try to make our own assistance more rational , more respectful in a way of , of them and their cultures , then I think we 're storing up an enormous amount of trouble for ourselves in the future . |