Example sentences of "be [v-ing] [prep] [adv] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Fibre helps you slim ; and we should be eating at least 30 grams a day of it . |
| 2 | However , whilst asserting that the reporting accountant should already as part of his or her duties be auditing at least two reconciliations in detail they also argued that the process was ‘ highly unlikely to reveal a great deal that the reporting accountant would not otherwise pick up during the year-end work ’ . |
| 3 | This unit has a depth of sound that is difficult to describe , indicating that those nine 12AX7s must be cooking to very good effect indeed . |
| 4 | Some of chef/owner Melvin Rhodes ' recipes are included in the Les Routiers Cook Book and he will be cooking at least one of these for the lunch . |
| 5 | So , Knitmaster and Silver Reed owners , beware When you drop the ribber , do be careful not to also drop the pile levers into the ‘ closed ’ position or you will be knitting with too big a gap between the beds . |
| 6 | Once your family have tasted the unique flavour of Basmati rice , they 'll be clamouring for more ! |
| 7 | The banks are believed to be pressing for yet another rights issue of new shares at the company . |
| 8 | They must be nesting in here somewhere . |
| 9 | What are we supposed to be keeping in there ? ’ |
| 10 | A new act 's problem is that if they approach an established manager , he or she will already be representing at least one major act . |
| 11 | Come to our prayer group in July and find out which old and new friends we 'll be praying for then — and bring your own suggestions and concerns . |
| 12 | It will be looking for widely based skills but will still be skill-orientated . |
| 13 | The millions who would soon be looking for somewhere to spend their hard-earned break were his natural customers . |
| 14 | 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 . |
| 15 | But erm , that one you 'll be looking for about five hundred for the ways |
| 16 | In 1993/94 we shall be looking for more specific ways of measuring the performance of the Society towards its members . |
| 17 | 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 . |
| 18 | Right I think one of the things we 'll be looking at tomorrow is learning styles and people 's preferred learning styles and what we 'll find is that people in this room you 'll all , you might have a slightly different way that you prefer to learn . |
| 19 | Most of the scriptures we 'll be looking at today is very familiar with us we know them and some of them we may be able to recite without even looking at the words , but er , if we can try and get you to think a little bit about them , then we 've achieved something , if we can get you to think that , you know , well am I dozing or am I really awake as I should be , then we 'll achieve more , in verse eleven it speaks there about er , you people knowing the season , well what people are we talking about ? |
| 20 | Which we 'll be looking at briefly in a sec . |
| 21 | Investors provide the cash expecting high returns ; to get the money , a firm must be looking at pretty profitable investment opportunities . |
| 22 | er we 'd have to insist upon a extensive landscaping compensations , erm er to in order for it to be to go ahead , er so I think the increase we would be looking at environmentally sensitive site . |
| 23 | In any case , a shotgun fired into the undertaker 's neck at close range would have made a real mess ; we would n't be looking at just a cupful of blood . |
| 24 | There are two points that I , you would be looking at normally if you were investigating it . |
| 25 | Round about , as a erm a ball park figure , because it does vary on the dealer 's claims rate , but you 'd be looking at about a hundred and seventy five . |
| 26 | Thank you Mr Mayor I just wanted t to come in with two fairly quick points er as to why I will not be able to support this amendment , but the first is that the leader of the council has indicated that the efficiency savings erm has got as far as it can go and that , you know , we have been trimming at the margins and there is no more margin left and that leads you to believe that perhaps one should be looking at somewhat more er root and branch type of pruning in the spending that that the labour group want to actually erm deal with , er and the second point I would like to make , and er I thank councillor for giving us a a a a new word tonight obfuscation because that describes exactly what I think the labour group are trying to do by bringing this figure down it removes the embarrassment they would have from having to add on a substantial sum of money f due to the failure to collect the cou er the community charge in previous years and I think that they are trying by by this amendment with some very quick foot work to try and delude the people of this city . |
| 27 | In a month , she thought , in just a month , I might be looking at quite a different view . |
| 28 | A goalkeeper does not ‘ perform ’ his function in its theatrical sense , only in the sociological usage of ‘ perform ’ which we shall be looking at further in the next chapter . |
| 29 | Simply to like or dislike , be attracted or repelled , feel pleasure or pain , involves a quickening or a shrinking from awareness , a point which we shall be looking at more closely in the chapter Awareness and pleasure . |
| 30 | Erm , then it may well be for the benefit of Greater York that you might be looking at more than one settlement ? |