Example sentences of "to [be] [v-ing] [prep] [adv] " in BNC.
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| 1 | So you wo n't need to be searching through anywhere else . |
| 2 | For example , although Rampton-type surveys suggest that Asian pupils are performing as well as white pupils , there is growing evidence of wide variations in school achievement within the Asian communities : in particular , children of Bangladeshi origin appear to be achieving at much lower levels than other Asian groups ( House of Commons Home Affairs Committee , 1986 ) . |
| 3 | It would not be healthy still to be mourning after so many years . ’ |
| 4 | It is also necessary for the firm to be operating at above minimum efficiency scale ( MES ) , the low point of the average cost curve . |
| 5 | This behaviour looks on the surface like a complex communication system , and the participants seem to be acting at least intelligently , even rationally . |
| 6 | I happened to be looking for somewhere to mount a small African sculpture I had bought and came upon De Biasi in Tottenham Mews just off Tottenham Court Toad . |
| 7 | True , he was quite relaxed and , as always , full of bonhomie , but somehow he seemed to be looking with far greater intensity towards the past than the present . |
| 8 | On present trends both major political parties appear to be moving towards more means-testing , weeding out claimants and clients , and lifting the more affluent out of the welfare state . |
| 9 | In general those operating from grass strips ( mostly those below the best fit line ) seem to be passing at least some of the savings on to the customer . |
| 10 | To be sure that a patient is truly regaining their health , it is of no value just to know that the symptoms of his complaint have been relieved , rather the focus of his disease has to be seen to be shifting into less important areas , that is , moving down the hierarchy . |
| 11 | Now , on the handout is says child sex abuse and that 's what we g we 're going to be dealing with today . |
| 12 | Oil does not appear to be emanating from either the filler cap or the dip stick tube and no obvious cause is apparent . |
| 13 | It seems to be taking for ever . |
| 14 | She seems to be settling in quite nicely actually . |
| 15 | Well if through the winter months when there 's no fire in there , no nothing in there the damp is bound to be coming through there . |
| 16 | It appeared to be coming from somewhere to the right , the bullets were hitting the house high up and smashing through the windows of one of the bedrooms . |
| 17 | ‘ And when you look at some of their shops and you see the same old wooden table that has been sitting out the front for months priced at £10 , or £20 , you realise the money has got to be coming from somewhere else — and we know it 's coming from knocking . ’ |
| 18 | Another growling seemed to be coming from outside , and the sound of something breathing heavily . |
| 19 | The explosion in the orchard seemed to be coming from further away , from the other side of the orchard . |
| 20 | It seemed to be coming from everywhere — and nowhere — at once . |
| 21 | Oh well when I got back from I sat in there for about an hour cos the new girls that were meant to be sleeping in there slept in Zoey and Lucy 's room . |
| 22 | Ideally have to be recruiting before then really . |
| 23 | Even if he was still paying off a mortgage , he had to be making at least £2,500 a year out of us , not counting the fact that the property had quadrupled in value . |
| 24 | Pretending you 're sexist or racist , which a lot of comics seem to be doing up here at the Festival , is n't good enough . |
| 25 | In these violent thermals it is possible to be flying with a good margin of speed at one moment and to be falling with virtually no speed the next . |
| 26 | Despite this chilly inconvenience , however , the place was crowded with people who all seemed to be talking at once . |
| 27 | And finally what we 're also going to be talking about today is online distributed database management systems as we move towards enterprise-wide client server which we 'll talk about in a lot more depth in the following presentations . |
| 28 | So that 's what we 're going to be talking about now . |
| 29 | ‘ It is nice to be going over there in this position . |
| 30 | ‘ It 's pretty fast and I expect everyone to be going at quite a lick from the start , ’ he said . |