Example sentences of "to [be] [v-ing] [adv] [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ I must not be understood to be laying down a rule that in no case where a wife acts on her husband 's instructions and under his influence is it necessary to show that she has received independent advice . |
| 2 | Obviously for the average electrician , stockbroker , or humanities-trained academic to be laying down the law un the value of a human blood substitute from cows or the spread of BSE would , as things stand , be foolish . |
| 3 | " To be bossing up the school . |
| 4 | Ford rumoured to be bringing out a new Capri — a nation quakes |
| 5 | BRITISH Rail has launched an investigation to discover how a herd of cows came to be wandering down the Saltburn-Darlington line last week . |
| 6 | He had made a few calls , but could n't have chosen a worse time to be setting up a casual liaison . |
| 7 | No I asked her to start but that 's all , and I kept that in the meant to be setting up a place in the posh area but they got ta have |
| 8 | Er , let's , they are , seem to be setting up the s the administrative structures for regional government , without any democratic regional government taking part in the process . |
| 9 | The German barrage seemed to be slackening off a bit , though the Allied guns were still firing over our positions , their shells shaking the trees as they headed toward the German trenches with a loud swish as they passed overhead . |
| 10 | These BSL interpreters appeared to be using only a single register , and this corresponded to a signed version closely tied to the English of the original message . |
| 11 | Scotland seems to be producing quite an interesting crop of new players with Bernard Gallacher 's nephew , Stephen , the new Scottish Amateur Champion at 17 . |
| 12 | Where they repairing client , where there is hopefully an extremely good relationship , we felt that that was a bit dangerous to be sending out a form to the Chief Executive of saying what er do you think of the service . |
| 13 | But whereas normal grieving focuses on different aspects of the lost person , the depressed person seems to be grieving over an inner loss . |
| 14 | You can not tease us with a smidge of inside info on Jon , and not expect us to be hanging on every word . |
| 15 | As petrol prices are er reported to be rising again the oil companies are blaming the crisis in the Gulf . |
| 16 | But , by now , he would have had to be moving up the ladder , getting experience of command . |
| 17 | The storm seemed to be moving over a little . |
| 18 | If patients were known to be moving away a letter detailing their surveillance history was sent to their doctor or next supervising consultant . |
| 19 | Socialist Worker appeared to be soaking up the potential trade union readership , while the audience of students in revolt could dwindle — although with the formation of the Revolutionary Socialists Student Federation there were hopes that the ‘ new vanguard ’ might survive to detonate the proletarian uprising . |
| 20 | It was strange to be filling in the two forms at the same time . |
| 21 | Drug cartels and terrorists are reported to be taking over the counterfeit clothing business . |
| 22 | Events , at last , seemed to be taking on a constructive momentum of their own . |
| 23 | Who was I to be taking on a contender like Thomas Carter , a management consultant and the owner-occupier of a £500,000 property set in the accessible Arcadia of Boars Hill ? |
| 24 | No tote and with the betting shops closed , Sunderland appear to be taking quite a financial chance on their October 11 meeting . |
| 25 | " He seems to be taking quite an interest in you , this Mr. Lorrimer . " |
| 26 | For what it 's worth , Silicon Graphics Inc and MIPS Computer Systems Inc are understood to be drawing together a new executive-level technical committee of the Advanced Computing Environment . |
| 27 | She settled him in his chair , and was relieved to see that he seemed to be calming down a little . |
| 28 | This time he seems to be picking up the signals of some approaching hostility towards him . |
| 29 | This is followed by pushing the arms above the head , so that the cross breaks and the student appears to be holding up the ceiling . |
| 30 | It seemed far too insignificant to be holding back a lake large enough to stretch from London to the Scottish borders . |