Example sentences of "to be [v-ing] [adv prt] " in BNC.
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| 1 | OK , so I 've never seen Kurt look quite that pale before , and I 'm not sure it 's such a good idea for Courtney to be zipping about with Kurt on that hired motorbike while seven months pregnant but , hell , it 's not as if anyone 's dead . |
| 2 | ‘ I do n't think he is going to be stepping back from the front line , ’ he said . |
| 3 | Another way of playing this game is to send children out into a local park with a list of items that are likely to be laying around naturally . |
| 4 | 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 . |
| 5 | ‘ 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 . |
| 6 | Companies are likely to continue to be laying off surplus staff well into the recovery , as was the case during the last recession in the early '80s . |
| 7 | Now a new breed of Who seems to be breaking through . |
| 8 | They seemed to be breaking up , and to the west a different valley - the one we would descend into the next day — was filling with a luminous gold haze . |
| 9 | The earth seemed to be breaking up , and as it did so a white vapour erupted from the soil . |
| 10 | Traditional patterns of family life and cultural values are said to be breaking down under the pressure of geographical and social mobility , and the power of the mass media . |
| 11 | Now it claims to be receiving up to ten a week , with Glasgow and Yorkshire emerging as illegal software hot spots . |
| 12 | Members heard how the number of offences has gone up by seventeen percent in the past year although the actual rate of increase does seem to be slowing up . |
| 13 | The pace of technological innovation in manufacturing does not seem to be slowing down . |
| 14 | The axial rotation rate of the Earth is directly observed to be slowing down , such that the sidereal axial period is lengthening by about 1.5 × 10 -5 second per year . |
| 15 | The sole observation is indirect ; the orbital period of the binary pulsar 1913 + 16 is measured to be slowing down at a rate which agrees well with that expected if the system is emitting gravitational radiation . |
| 16 | What was more the train appeared to be slowing down quite markedly . |
| 17 | What was more the train appeared to be slowing down quite markedly . |
| 18 | Szász laughed and said : ‘ Yes , now it is a totally different situation to be writing in . |
| 19 | TVS is rumoured to be teaming up with Carlton Communications ( a video distributor ) , Canal Plus ( a French cable-TV company ) , and the Compagnie Générale des Eaux ( a utility with various media holdings ) . |
| 20 | Many old galvanised cisterns will have rusted sufficiently for the water to be leaking through and showing damp patches on the ceiling . |
| 21 | The NRA argues that women are the first victims of the collapse of the criminal-justice system , and the message seems to be getting through : gun-dealers say that their fastest-growing market is among women . |
| 22 | At last she seemed to be getting through to him . |
| 23 | After years of increasingly dramatic campaigns the message does appear to be getting through … |
| 24 | But back at the police lecture room , the message seemed to be getting through . |
| 25 | This time we have by no means exhausted the resources of invention , but these possibilities contain perhaps enough plausibility to be getting on with . |
| 26 | Some of us have work to be getting on with . ’ |
| 27 | Now , I have much to be getting on with and would appreciate your not following me about and interrupting me like this . |
| 28 | You seem to be getting on pretty well . ’ |
| 29 | You know — unrequited love , more unrequited love , and a bit of rampant lust to be getting on with . |
| 30 | At least the kids seemed to be getting on . |