Example sentences of "be [adv] [v-ing] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Whilst other object players such as Objectivity Inc and Object Design Inc are successfully licensing persistent language products to majors like Microsoft Corp and Sun Microsystems Inc ( UX No 405 ) , it is only a matter of time , Andrews argues , before they no longer need the services of third parties . |
| 2 | All these 4 projects are effectively providing residential settings so they are not community care in the most exciting way . |
| 3 | GTF have been successfully running popular day-trips to Colditz castle for quite some time . |
| 4 | The pink lacy curtain had been slowly turning green and rolling up into a thin worm , studded with tiny thorns , that hung in mid-air . |
| 5 | Fortunately , modern enclosures are slowly replacing these cages which are cramped and provide nothing for the animal . |
| 6 | The lumps are slowly getting bigger and I have a new one at the top of my leg , the size of a pullet 's egg . |
| 7 | ‘ We are slowly realising that fat is a very effective means of making you put on weight . |
| 8 | In spite of their being only a minority of the pensioner population , affluent , active , newly retired people are slowly changing public attitudes . |
| 9 | And taking your life as a whole , with all your innumerable choices , all your life you are slowly turning this central thing into either a heavenly creature or into a hellish creature . |
| 10 | But I am slowly getting better , with Anita 's help . |
| 11 | when you start learning a language you are constantly collecting new words , so even if you have a computer and intend to use it for producing a dictionary you may still wish to have your vocabulary in a more accessible form than on a computer disk , at least for the first few months . |
| 12 | Rome 's traffic planners are constantly exploring new ways of rerouting traffic that will free the amphitheatre from fumes and vibrations while allowing the tourists to gain access . |
| 13 | Also , employers are constantly employing new staff so the return on selection has to be calculated over a longer period of time to get a true picture of the effects of selection methods . |
| 14 | You are kind of dozing but you are not asleep because you ca n't get to sleep because there is a needle sticking in your arm and you have got a drip going on and they come and change the bag and you are constantly feeling sick . |
| 15 | So it is that the prospects for four political-reform bills are suddenly looking good . |
| 16 | Well , if they are obviously moving closer to attack you , then the moment they come within range , use all your available weapons against them . |
| 17 | With expressions such as these , we are obviously approaching another transitional area bordering on idiom . |
| 18 | One woman said : ‘ They are obviously doing this with the children in mind . |
| 19 | But I mean the main the main I mean in it in certain quarters we 've been down playing that aspect of it simply to get it through . |
| 20 | So we are basically wasting another twelve to eighteen months , sitting around waiting for a decision on the the new settlement . |
| 21 | So you are better insuring these expensive possessions on your home insurance . |
| 22 | When our children say , as they all do , ‘ but my friends are all doing this ’ , parents invariably say , smartly , ‘ and if they told you to jump off a cliff , would you ? ’ |
| 23 | ‘ And the kids are all having such fun together , building sand-castles and swimming in the sea . |
| 24 | The people involved are apparently drawing technical inspiration from Carnegie Mellon University 's PI project . |
| 25 | Our main European markets would appear to be around the Mediterranean , but with statistics showing that northern European summers are apparently becoming warmer I 've decided to launch our system in the United Kingdom as well . ’ |
| 26 | The solvents persist for many years , and can take a long time to be degraded or removed ; the good news is that , unlike some other forms of pollution , spillages of volatile organochlorines are apparently becoming rarer as awareness of the consequences of poor practice increases . |
| 27 | However , the Ulrich hypothesis does not explain why trees growing in a wide range of soil types , even calcareous soils , are apparently suffering acidic deposition effects . |
| 28 | I am only insisting first that this need not be the only justification for the power ( the normative power ) to commit oneself , and second , that one encourages reliance through knowingly undertaking an obligation . |
| 29 | Until the recent arrival of Joanna Lumley , the only thing Lovejoy was likely to leap into was his open-topped Morris Minor , but for the last few episodes he 's been gleefully doing more bedding than bidding . |
| 30 | In pointing into the flower-vase and saying , ‘ Here ’ , I am obviously distinguishing one place from another as the place where the thimble is . |