Example sentences of "be [v-ing] [adv] [adv] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Er Welsh colts and things of that nature are coming back a bit now , they are building up now er but |
| 2 | For the GDR 's ageing leadership , the political pressures are building up inexorably . |
| 3 | OFF to a good start on the field , Crook 's cricketers are faring less well in the clubhouse . |
| 4 | The second round of ‘ Unity ’ talks between the two opposing Unix factions are faring much better than the ill-fated first bout , though actual unity is unlikely to result at least in the short term . |
| 5 | Second , they have to work harder than in the past to find out how they are faring in quite basic parts of the curriculum . |
| 6 | The extremities of the cloud are rotating so fast that the cloud would disperse if it were not held together by some force of gravity . |
| 7 | Excursions into inner space are proving far more dangerous than man 's ventures into outer space . |
| 8 | We have been eating together quite a bit , and also travelling to the University together on the bus — the University being about 8 miles from the city centre . |
| 9 | Things are shaping up nicely at Villa . |
| 10 | But if you are reflecting more deeply on them , you will see how the second and third levels , which centre on presuppositions and evidences , are closely related . |
| 11 | Tell you what we 'll sing it again and then you pick some bananas that look like bananas in pyjamas that are singing really well . |
| 12 | And he said that , since 1965 when the science Research Council took over the telescope , the observatory has been collaborating more closely with university researchers . |
| 13 | As the smoking characteristics of the two sexes become more and more alike , the rates of smoking induced diseases are drawing closer together [ 6,7 ] . |
| 14 | In manufacturing we are drawing ever closer to completely automated production systems , and these will be examined in Chapter 41 . |
| 15 | Even at this early stage of contact between white and black in Britain , it is clear that she would have been building on already existing racial caricature and prejudice rather than creating an artificial tide of hostility against black people . |
| 16 | At the moment I understand the Edinburgh agents are competing very strongly with solicitors . |
| 17 | ‘ When women in North Africa and the Arab world are struggling so hard for equality and respect , it is ironic that here in France a fundamentalist minority is pushing them to conform to tradition . |
| 18 | ‘ Farthingdales are struggling as hard as Chester 's in the current market . |
| 19 | For had it not been raining so hard on that Tuesday evening I would have arrived at the Philharmonia Hall in good time . |
| 20 | It has n't been raining very long , and the quicker we can move , the more likely we are to get them out before conditions deteriorate to the extent that the passages become impassable . ’ |
| 21 | Surely , she mused , it had n't been raining long enough for the water levels to rise that far , and even though the middle of the week had proved consistently wet she felt confident she would arrive at the cottage long before the possibility became a reality . |
| 22 | Bend from the waist until the torso is horizontal , and the arms are hanging straight below . |
| 23 | Bend from the waist until the torso is horizontal , the arms are hanging out straight below , and you holding the barbell with hands shoulder width apart . |
| 24 | ‘ Myself , Ferg and Noel have been hanging around together since we were fairly young , ’ says Mike . |
| 25 | And he 's been hanging around there ever since . |
| 26 | One lawyer in particular — an African woman — had been hanging around almost every day . |
| 27 | That is our timescale , I know the County members and certainly the the three district council members are eager to have this matter resolved because , let's be perfectly fair , it 's been hanging around now since nineteen eighty nine in a sense . |
| 28 | Oh what you 've just been hanging around too much . |
| 29 | The law firms within it have been competing very strongly with each other , there are six extremely good law firms in Leeds and their I think that that experience in competition over the last few years will stand them in very good stead . |
| 30 | Lee Jackson has been competing very well as hooker and deserves another chance . |