Example sentences of "[adv] be [v-ing] in " in BNC.
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| 1 | It is like poetry : some people do not believe in its existence at all , others argue over whether certain arrangements of words are poetry or not : these zodiacs are as it were topographical poems , a poetic geography akin to legendary history , Like legends , with which they often link up , these poems in the landscape give an identity to a place , a personality which may especially be lacking in the urban wasteland of an area like the suburbs of London , so that the place is no longer just somewhere in the middle of nowhere that could be anywhere . |
| 2 | In doing so the student will not merely be preparing in the best possible way for his examination : he will also be developing his mind as a working instrument and preparing himself for legal practice . |
| 3 | Returning to academia he can recall the spatial remove as being ‘ out there in the field ’ ; so that much of the current anthropology at home may still only be practising in its own backyard , pursuing an exploration of ‘ exotic cultures at home ’ rather than looking into its own front room ( Cheater 1987 : 166 ) . |
| 4 | I 'll only be sitting in the coffee shop till five past five anyway like so |
| 5 | So the exact er nature of this balance and how waters between contact with the atmosphere are being mixed into the deep sea , cos remember this equilibrium can only be occurring in surface waters cos only they are in contact with the gas phase how that turnover of deep water 's occurring affects just how much capacity we 've got for absorbing C O two in the oceans and therefore mitigating the greenhouse effect . |
| 6 | VOTERS in the Middlesbrough Borough Council area have been reminded they may not necessarily be voting in the Middlesbrough constituency tomorrow . |
| 7 | As well as carrying food , the CARE airlifts , which will soon be taking in enough seeds and tools for 50,000 families so that people can begin to help themselves . |
| 8 | It was a pleasing thought , that I might soon be moving in more exalted circles . |
| 9 | My people will soon be moving in here . |
| 10 | Alliss himself brought the match to an abrupt end holing from 10 feet at the last in a manner which suggested that he might soon be trading in the personalised number plates on his car ( PUT 3 ) . |
| 11 | People came in the summer to walk and to sail and , if development plans succeeded and the roads could be kept clear , they 'd soon be coming in the winter to ski . |
| 12 | Notwithstanding experience and observation , she was still somewhere inside her convinced that if a man and a woman lived under the same roof , even if the roof covered a very large area , they would soon be cohabiting in a sexual sense . |
| 13 | Spouse unable to refrain from observing that Mrs Body 's body will soon be a-mouldering in the grave . |
| 14 | Not only that , the word from the Other Side is that a new man will soon be looming in Diana 's life . |
| 15 | However , reporting to a body of committed stakeholders , the auditor would no longer be working in a vacuum . |
| 16 | Korea , Taiwan , Thailand : all present big opportunities , but the view is that these must be handled professionally or the local publishers will step in and clean up , as in fact may already be happening in Korea . |
| 17 | It is true that even then he might still be acting in the course of his employment , but we must take it that this curious piece of metaphysics exempts the employer from vicarious liability for this particular tort . |
| 18 | We 'd still be living in caves like the half-apes we sprang from if the frightened little people had their way . |
| 19 | There would n't be any ethical problems to worry about , because as that young man in the audience said , we 'd still be living in caves or the trees . |
| 20 | In typical instances , in the cities a widowed and formerly more prosperous grandmother might still be living in a larger , now empty house : thus a Liverpool labourer and saltpacker 's family moved in the with grandmother , who kept a secondhand clothes shop . |
| 21 | ( It is curious that Mr. Cleaver is at pains to accuse Israel of war crimes , when his previous correspondence in the press has shown a soft spot for Nazi war criminals who may still be living in Britain ) . |
| 22 | OLIVER rolled his eyes back , lit a cigarette and said that the very phrase common sense was a contradiction in terms , and if Man — at which point he pretended to be extremely embarrassed and correct himself to Man-or-Woman — if Man-or-Woman had relied upon common sense over the previous millennia we 'd all still be living in mud huts and eating frightful food and listening to Del Shannon records . |
| 23 | Of these some would inevitably have been admitted to long-stay residential or hospital care , but perhaps 80 would still be living in the community , 30–40 on their own . |
| 24 | Change had to come , or we should all still be living in caves . |
| 25 | If your argument were to prevail , and to have prevailed , then mankind would still be living in primitive ignorance , habited in the skins of animals , for fear of new things . ’ |
| 26 | If the exploration of the galaxy had been left to the khthons , we 'd all still be living in caves , ’ Swarf said . |
| 27 | Mr Pallister believes Mr Freeman , who was from Darlington , could still be living in the area . |
| 28 | Without that Dublin goal they would still be languishing in the lower reaches , their morale severely affected since their championship challenge disintegrated with a New Year 's Day thrashing by QPR at Old Trafford . |
| 29 | There was no-sign of the witch , but Virginia knew that she might still be coming in chase of her . |
| 30 | Even that seemingly most child-aware artist , Dick Bruna , says ( 1984 , p.43 ) , ‘ I 'm sure that if the books had n't been such a success , I would still be continuing in the same way . |