Example sentences of "be [v-ing] [adv] or " in BNC.
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| 1 | She gave a quick glance at her watch , put on an hour on the ferry to accommodate the time change , and saw that it had gone six , and that , apart for a stop for petrol and a brief stop in Aachen for a cup of coffee , she had been driving more or less continuously since just after nine that morning . |
| 2 | An estimated 12.5 million adults and children are living on or just above income support level , according to DSS estimates . |
| 3 | And is that for children who are living there or just go in for the day ? |
| 4 | The narrative maximizes Stepan 's vulnerability , perching him on a platform amid the malcontents and troublemakers and the much larger number of those humble , obscure people who are enduring more or less passively the chaos of the fête . |
| 5 | Whether you 're eating out or buying a take-away , heating frozen meals from the supermarket or knocking up a fresh pasta and salad in the apartment , quality and variety are excellent . |
| 6 | some support , you 're going in or you 're using one of the policy |
| 7 | Erm now okay I accept that erm what you 're getting now or starting to get through in some areas is a higher degree of expectation , but if we 're not achieving that then I think it 's something to do with what we 're , the way in which we 're , we 're operating rather than the fact that it is n't achievable . |
| 8 | If you 're moving in or out of a multi-storey block , try to arrange priority at lifts and make sure there 's a suitable place to load or unload the van . |
| 9 | That 's where I got them in Bewise they 're closing down or something or |
| 10 | will ultimately apply utilitarian standard , but he does n't make much of it here and he relies on a much more intuitive idea of what manage things well and he assumes that different branches of government will have different standards of success and that we will be able to tell pretty much whether they 're doing well or badly . |
| 11 | But not away what they 're doing now or but it 'd be sent down to their premises down in the in the shooting lodges in the south . |
| 12 | What they 're doing before or what they 're doing afterwards ? |
| 13 | Motions , right , black and smelly , okay , and according to how the different colour of the motion be there , or the different colour of the grains were there would give an indication of how long this 'd been going on or how far up the gut it was , and the damage was okay ? |
| 14 | I do n't know what , well the I mean it 's all paid for so we 'd either depending how many people are going away or whatever |
| 15 | I can tell what they are walking on , maybe ; perhaps whether they are going upstairs or downstairs . |
| 16 | It concedes that " many progress checks are intuitive , a " feel " for whether things are going well or badly . |
| 17 | Guidon says meetings are going more or less constantly — the X/Open Co Ltd-hosted COSE get-together in Menlo Park on Tuesday was likely used to take stock . |
| 18 | Guidon says meetings are going more or less constantly — an X/Open-hosted COSE get together in Menlo Park this Tuesday will likely be used to take stock . |
| 19 | ‘ Whether the market is buoyant or depressed and whether you are doing well or struggling , I strongly commend the practical advice contained in Cash Management . |
| 20 | Do you welcome the flats that are c the fact the flats are coming down or are you sorry about it do you feel ? |
| 21 | How do we know at the end of six months whether they are performing well or not . |
| 22 | Well the other evening they were showing something on T V , one of these doctors ' , doctors ' practices that are opting out or whatever . |
| 23 | Just because it is 21°C ( 70°F ) beside the hotel swimming pool does not mean that the weather is the same in the hills — it may well be raining there or the mist may be descending . |
| 24 | Rex , pardon me , but you do n't seem to be shrugging helplessly or shaking your head . |
| 25 | I mean , is this supposed to be happening tonight or |
| 26 | Bohannen ( 1971 ) describes six stations of divorce which may be happening simultaneously or in succession and which continue until some resolution is found . |
| 27 | Previously , my close relationships would have been with people where we would perhaps be living together or just lovers , but they would have been quite explicit that they would have been non-monogamous . |
| 28 | Assuming that I 'd been able to drag the dinghy in a fairly straight line — though I might have gone astray a bit when I was stumbling in the mud — Joanna should be lying more or less straight ahead , and a good deal nearer than when I 'd left , for it was near high water then , and now it was about the last of the ebb . |
| 29 | Neither was sure if one of us would be going home or if we 'd be split up and put with other hostages as had happened before with the Yanks and the Frenchmen . |
| 30 | ‘ It 's weird how people think that Craig and I are together — they assume we must be going out or having an affair , ’ says Jo . |