Example sentences of "[verb] be [v-ing] [adj -er] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Genetic Engineering : This is a first attempt to legislate in this area , currently dealt with by voluntary codes of practice , because science has been moving quicker than the law makers . |
| 2 | The Co Londonderry school has been promoting greater European awareness since September and has arranged two foreign trips to mark their continued efforts . |
| 3 | The result of all these changes is two-fold , that the UK has been getting richer , but not as fast as the rest of the industrialized world . |
| 4 | BUT THE ROYAL SCANDAL OF THE CENTURY HAS BEEN GETTING CLOSER … |
| 5 | He says that the river has been getting cleaner over the years so this is a setback . |
| 6 | He says that the river has been getting cleaner over the years so this is a setback . |
| 7 | Colchester and North East Essex Headway , which is affiliated to the National Head Injuries Association , has been seeking larger premises for some time . |
| 8 | The rise means that wealth has been increasing faster than incomes . |
| 9 | The proportion of one parent families dependent on supplementary benefit/income support has been increasing faster than the increase in the number of one parent families . |
| 10 | And he 'd been getting worse , no doubt about that . |
| 11 | Though I can see why you must find that disappointing … ’ she let her gaze drift over his white trousers and faded T-shirt , the same white trousers and faded T-shirt he 'd been wearing earlier ‘ … after all the trouble you 've gone to changing for me . ’ |
| 12 | NEIL Kinnock and the party he leads are looking better than they have done at any time since he took office in 1983 . |
| 13 | Perhaps they should have been using better cutlery , thought Robert , or calling Hasan ‘ sir ’ and making sure he had the best chair . |
| 14 | Oxford United 's boy wonder … two more goals against Millwall won the headlines last saturday and the queue of premier league clubs coming to watch is growing longer … |
| 15 | Yet even in those halcyon days the signs of trouble were there for those with the will to see them : the multi-media and multi-disciplinary avant-gardes were beginning to show up every NEA programme area ; the clamour for the funding of life-styles rather than art as traditionally defined was becoming louder , and the accepted definitions of art and the arts were everywhere coming under attack in grant applications as well as in panels . |
| 16 | Matilda was the first English princess since the seventh century whose year of birth is precisely known ; as for her youthful marriage , this appears to have been becoming commoner as marriage alliances were sought with ever more reckless haste by the great dynasts of the twelfth century . |
| 17 | • It was the year , too , when I decided my fish had been eating better than I had . |
| 18 | It was then getting on for three in the morning , but in the last quarter of an hour things had been getting better . |
| 19 | Over the past few years , that phobia had been getting worse . |
| 20 | But the ‘ cat and mouse ’ feeling had been growing stronger , ever since yesterday 's confrontation in his office and the subsequent tour of the marina . |
| 21 | The plan contained no provisions for the long-term clean-up that would have been necessary if the tanker had been carrying heavier crude . |
| 22 | Rovers had been feeling better on Monday , November 1 , when the F.A . |
| 23 | If she had been feeling fitter and healthier , she certainly would have been better equipped to deal with the stresses , and to control her weight gain before it got out of hand . |
| 24 | But I 've been getting faster as the years go by . |
| 25 | ‘ Like all hospitals , we do n't have as much money as we would like but generally speaking things for us have been getting better , ’ she said . |
| 26 | A spokeswoman for the independent Kings Fund Institute said : ‘ There 's a myth that old people have been getting fitter . |
| 27 | Since the end of the Second World War people have been getting fatter . |
| 28 | In common with families in general , one parent families have been getting smaller . |
| 29 | Business fluctuations have been getting larger and larger . |
| 30 | While the strongest ( American , United and Delta ) have been getting stronger , the weakest ( Pan Am , Continental and Eastern ) went bankrupt . |