Example sentences of "[noun sg] [be] [adv] [adv] [v-ing] [to-vb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | This aspect of his practice is only just beginning to change , but he intends to persevere with it , spurred on by the personal satisfaction he has derived from ‘ seeing them do their maths ’ . |
| 2 | AS the busy part of the tourist season draws to a close , the Ravenglass and Eskdale narrow-gauge railway on Cumbria 's west coast is once again preparing to receive a visiting locomotive to its tracks . |
| 3 | But then came the ‘ troubles ’ and a series of body blows from which the village is now only beginning to recover . |
| 4 | They have weathered every kind of financial storm over the centuries and have skills which the public sector is only just beginning to learn . |
| 5 | The , another point is that that having raised the hopes of the housing associations the council is now actually trying to close a door that that we ourselves opened and this is tantamount to paying lip service to the health and the housing associations , yes , we 'll support you but not if it means that we have to sell you our houses . |
| 6 | The steady gaze was only just beginning to show a hint of scorn . |
| 7 | Angel was now desperately trying to make his way as a professional polo player . |
| 8 | Data for gall stone recurrence after extra corporeal shock wave dissolution are only now starting to emerge but the initial results showing 11–15% gall stone recurrencerates one to two years after lithotripsy certainly confirm this prediction . |
| 9 | Statistically , half of them are women , and that third of the world 's population is only now beginning to feel that they have a say in the running of their lives . |
| 10 | Coulommiers is a small Brie , eaten very young when the surface mould is only just starting to appear , and Fongeru is similar but ripened in fronds of bracken and very difficult to obtain . |
| 11 | With managed floating there is a risk that speculators will suffer capital losses since the monetary authority is no longer attempting to defend a rigid par value , and so the exchange rate can move in either direction in response to market pressures . |
| 12 | The traffic is very slowly starting to ease up now . |
| 13 | The retreat movement is only just beginning to establish itself north of the Border and I feel strongly that a quiet space can be of real benefit in today 's hectic and stressful lifestyle . ’ ‘ |
| 14 | By a quirk of human nature most right-handed pilots want to turn left ( it 's all in the mind ) , while your clockwise-rotating , forward-flying helicopter is still stubbornly trying to yaw to the right ( Fig. 5.11 ) . |
| 15 | Although I 'm persuaded , Thatcher 's government is probably not going to listen ; nor will most Britons . |
| 16 | The Nigerian government was now reportedly attempting to mediate between the two SPLA groups . |
| 17 | One thing all the armies had in common was a careful explanation of their presence , a specific mandate set out in such complex detail that officials of the Lebanese Foreign Ministry were sometimes still trying to decipher its true meaning when the army in question was retreating out of Lebanon . |
| 18 | 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 . |
| 19 | They seem to creep up on us gradually for reasons that medical science is only now beginning to understand . |
| 20 | Mr Simon Heffer argued in last week 's Spectator that welfarism is once more coming to characterise the British , having been repulsed during the Thatcher years : ‘ The plaintive , dependent-relative voice of the something-for-nothing society , heard on almost every street in this campaign , was a little harder to find five years ago . ’ |
| 21 | FA Cup Final fever may be dissipating but excitement is only just beginning to mount over plans for a croquet centre of excellence . |
| 22 | The company is no longer going to run freight trains in Western Scotland because British Rail has increased the transport rates by 50 to 80 per cent to cover fixed costs from an ever decreasing user base . |
| 23 | Simply having er an access problem is quite severely going to affect your production rates , whether you like it or not ! |
| 24 | This aspect of evaluation is only just beginning to receive the attention it deserves . |
| 25 | At this time West German rearmament was only just beginning to gather momentum . |
| 26 | Balor was still clumsily trying to scramble to his feet , but the twining roots held him firmly . |
| 27 | In any case , at that time the head of the chancery needed to be acquainted more with Roman law , or at least with canon law , than common law , for chancery was just then beginning to function as a court of equity , a notion unfamiliar in the common law . |
| 28 | The battered Premier was today desperately trying to reassert his authority after Mr Lamont 's devastating attack . |
| 29 | Islander was now really beginning to clock up the miles . |
| 30 | Maybe that luck was now finally going to run out . |