Example sentences of "be [adv] [adv] [v-ing] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The foods which are consumed very much in the way they were grown — many of the fibre-rich foods — are rarely potentially fattening . |
| 2 | Maureen O'Gara has been right there listening . |
| 3 | The Head Receptionist has recently been showing signs of some disquiet , however : he has invested in a home computer and has been rather tentatively advocating the advantages of word processing and computerized accounting . |
| 4 | Eva never speaks of being afraid as the various political situations blew up even though at times it must have been rather like walking a tightrope after UDI . |
| 5 | By phrasing control in these terms , the courts can preserve the impression that they are thereby only fulfilling the legislative will . |
| 6 | Although the router can make all sorts of accurate joints and decorative edge profiles , many users may find they are most often using a straight 6mm cutter to remove the waste from a groove or mortise . |
| 7 | According to Dr George Eisenbarth , who headed the Joslin team , a simpler version of the test may be developed within the next year , ‘ We and other labs are most certainly working on it , to predict who 's at the most risk of developing diabetes , ’ he declared . |
| 8 | She 'd have been down here telling dirty jokes to all the musicians . |
| 9 | When I 've been down there trying to get casual work , you know in Leith docks ? |
| 10 | been down there asking about er |
| 11 | It had been all right finding the hospital , but on the way back he took a wrong turn and ended up by the seaside . |
| 12 | Thank you Mr Gordon erm you stated I think in your opening , I think y your opening statement , can you confirm that the two year delay has in gaining the first flight has been in actually gaining the flight control system er certified for flight . |
| 13 | Receiving for me always contained a degree of embarrassment that I am only now beginning to come to terms with . |
| 14 | And yet Victoria has accused me of exactly the same sin as I am so lightly attributing elsewhere ( incidentally , to people who are more fiction than fact ) . |
| 15 | But I am so fond of the people in A Wreath of Roses and have so lately re-read it , that I am perhaps tiresomely asking you to do the same thing again . |
| 16 | With some of these sociological theories we are perhaps again witnessing the process we identified earlier with the aid of Raymond Williams . |
| 17 | But I wish to relate to the council a particular episode , which I hope will convey something to those people who are perhaps still wavering erm , and whilst we all have principle stands on issues it behoves us as members to consider the views of our constituents and the sorts of things that take place in our wards . |
| 18 | Here we have , of course , the explanation why these lines are so enormously moving . |
| 19 | In order to try and get a resident 's permit for the car you are so generously letting me have temporary use of , I need a mass of bumf for the Regional Council in due course — they require sight of , and in original , car registration documents , MOT certificate , insurance certificate , driving licence , evidence of ownership or tenancy lease of this house ( ! ) plus evidence of payment of property tax ! |
| 20 | I do not see why I should so deliver myself up to those who are so assiduously conducting the campaign of abuse and denigration directed at me . |
| 21 | Yet these side-effects will exacerbate powerful deflationary forces in the real economy , thus delaying the recovery which investors are so eagerly anticipating . |
| 22 | Parents ’ marriages are so often breaking up . ’ |
| 23 | Because the present British government are so totally encompassing , they 're such a dead hand , they are doing so much damage that the Liberal Democrat 's have got to be seen as a party that can help beat them or indeed , entirely on its own beat them . |
| 24 | We are only just beginning to recognize that if we take this attitude , we are denying to arts and letters , and to the criticism of them , any bearing at all on public life — including , for instance , public education . |
| 25 | We are only just beginning to see the first stirrings of a new debate on industry 's competitiveness . |
| 26 | It is a highly political issue with international ramifications which we are only just beginning to tackle and which will increasingly burden the agendas of the European Community 's new environmental agency . |
| 27 | Feminist cinema may be a ‘ global issue ’ , in Susan Hayward 's words , too large and bumpy and may be possible to argue that in theoretical and critical terms the truly global issues of a multi-racial international feminism are only just beginning to be addressed . |
| 28 | Intensive indoor rearing of livestock is relatively new and people are only just beginning to realise what it means for the animals . |
| 29 | Even though Plato wrote these words over two thousand years ago , we in the modern western world are only just beginning to resonate in harmony with his tune of truth . |
| 30 | Secondly , social scientists are only just beginning to develop procedures for evaluating the economic costs and benefits of innovative work design ; and , thirdly , little is known about the conditions under which these innovative job designs persist across time and diffuse across companies and countries . |