Example sentences of "[vb mod] [adv] [adv] be [v-ing] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Like the reader who finds that the chapters of his detective novel have been printed in the wrong order , we may only now be beginning to understand why from the point of view of ego- and superego-development the crime which should be at the beginning ( that of Oedipus ) comes at the end , and why what comes at the beginning ( the oral period ) leads unintelligibly into what should otherwise have been the conclusion of the story ( anal stage , latency ) ! |
| 2 | Mr Moynihan should even now be pressing the football authorities to cast around for an island where The Problem can be contained . |
| 3 | Although UCTA does not say so , the section must here only be dealing with sales or hire purchase of goods made to the consumer in the course of a business , because s 6(2) only protects persons dealing as consumers , and a person can only deal as a consumer if the person with whom he is dealing deals in his turn in the course of a business . |
| 4 | Heads should therefore still be taking a key leadership role . |
| 5 | Well I , he 'll only just be getting in from work |
| 6 | Secondly , there was also the chance that the commotion of the brief struggle might have attracted other human enemies , who might even then be closing in on him . |
| 7 | She shivered as she thought of the creature who might even now be stalking the velvet blackness outside , looking up at the lighted windows , deciding whether or not to break in . |
| 8 | Of course it was just possible that something had delayed them ; they might even now be hurrying up the steep incline to the station . |
| 9 | The thought of what they might even now be doing to Ruggiero Miletti took the sparkle and warmth out of the morning and made Zen realize how exhausted he was . |
| 10 | He might very well be staying at the château , but that did n't mean anything . |
| 11 | But Floy said , in an expressionless tone , ‘ Do go on , ’ and Caspar looked at Floy doubtfully , because he was not altogether sure of Floy yet and he had the feeling that Floy might very well be thinking and assessing and generally not revealing all his feelings . |
| 12 | it might actually just be breaking the wire there |
| 13 | 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 ) . |
| 14 | Er , we did it erm , er just after 1919 when er , er we started backing the white Russians and erm , before we write off erm everything the Communist er Government of er Russia has done over the last seventy years as being evil , what I think we 've got to be aware of is that we may once more be unleashing the forces of nationalism , which in 1914 , and I think of going up er in the period in the thirties very much lead to erm two world wars , and er I 'd like to know more about er some of the forces the so called democratic forces that are backing erm Mr Yeltsin . |
| 15 | They 'd most likely be asking him if he 'd seen him . |
| 16 | They I 'd much rather be doing a hundred and three times seventeen . |
| 17 | Cos I asked them about it , and they said I 'd much rather be doing that . |
| 18 | ‘ Look , I 'd much rather be talking to you than … ’ |
| 19 | I 'd probably still be lying in a dazed heap in the corner if she had been — I 'm a definite sucker for green eyes . ’ |
| 20 | But I did n't like working at Johnny Walkers so I think it was quite a good thing at the time , although I did n't really like it I 'm glad now that it happened cos I 'd probably still be working in there . |
| 21 | And to think , darling Lily , my darling sister , if it had n't been for you , I 'd as likely be selling herrings on Orchard Street … |
| 22 | ‘ I dare say , but I 'd far rather be playing snooker with a few of the boys , accompanied by a few pints of beer — preferably Devil 's Dram . |
| 23 | ‘ If I choreographed it it would n't look natural and I could really just be taping it the day before . |
| 24 | Out in his Blackheath ranch he could even now be interviewing an empty-handed burglar , plus whoever dared turn up from Vinnie 's gang . |
| 25 | It could even now be starting the greatest revolution our British culture has ever known . |
| 26 | ‘ Worcester West , ’ he said , ‘ could very well be coming on the market . ’ |
| 27 | If we pursue this , we could very well be placing our heads in a noose . |
| 28 | When you experience distorted vision , bright lights , loss of appetite , nausea , a severe pain in the head or other symptoms you could very well be having a migraine attack . |
| 29 | Defeat would leave the Donegal men three points adrift and with three difficult fixtures remaining , they would most certainly be facing the grim prospect of another year in the lower division . |
| 30 | Dicke and Peebles argued that we should still be able to see the glow of the early universe , because light from very distant parts of it would only just be reaching us now . |