Example sentences of "be [prep] [adv] [v-ing] " in BNC.
Next page| No | Sentence |
|---|---|
| 1 | Erm you already had , er , the opportunity to read my letter of the eighteenth of April er , circulated with the report and accounts , which fully explains the proposals being put forward and which are for firstly increasing the authorized share capital of the company creating two new classes of preference share er , renewing the board 's authority to allot shares renewing the board 's power to modify preemption rights authorizing the company to purchase its own er , ordinary shares reducing the company 's share capital by repaying the existing preference shares er , making certain amendments to the company 's employee share schemes increasing the aggregate sum available for directors ' fees and authorizing the company to issue summary financial statements . |
| 2 | But they are for ever moving and , where they meet in head-on collision , in what is known as a subduction zone , they produce one of the great geological dramas of the planet . |
| 3 | ‘ We are for ever saving each other 's neck , you and I. ’ He halted , striving to get his breath . |
| 4 | That 's the way with scribblers , they are for ever borrowing other people 's quotations . |
| 5 | This may sound obvious , but it is surprising how many editors say they are for ever clearing out photographs which have no identification . |
| 6 | Erm in your opinion er how how suitable do you think the flats are for actually bringing up s a family . |
| 7 | How wrong she had been about not needing it . |
| 8 | ‘ They 're for ever repeating themselves . ’ |
| 9 | You 're for ever stuffing your face |
| 10 | ‘ And now you 're in here costing the taxpayer even more money ! |
| 11 | If they 're in here working all day and everyday and they see the other girls taking exams and they know I 'm going to make them work , quite often they 'll take the exams because there 's no point in not taking them , whereas I think if they were at home they would not have the same incentive . |
| 12 | Whether it be welfare , gas bills , housing , you name it and we 're in there fighting to , to keep them above the water , their heads above the water . |
| 13 | But I I du n no , I see it 's not once you 're u actually up here , looking I think it 's different when you 're up here looking back as when you 're over there looking up here . |
| 14 | For the chick , it must have been like suddenly landing in the Sahara . |
| 15 | He would have been in there swinging with the best . |
| 16 | Reason they 're mixed up he , he must 've been in there messing about with them . |
| 17 | Gerald said : ‘ I suppose somebody could have been in there doing the old man while I was trying to get in . |
| 18 | Gerald , pretending to a savoir faire he did not possess ; ‘ I suppose somebody could have been in there doing the old man while I was trying to get in … ’ |
| 19 | How long has he been in there doing nothing ? |
| 20 | Instead , it reflected how successful they had been in aggressively promoting their rather indifferent work . |
| 21 | In view of the high incidence of these arrangements in Leeds , and their adoption and dissemination during a period when the massive resourcing of PNP appeared to have little impact on reading test scores , it might be worth carefully pondering HMI 's finding , referred to towards the end of the previous chapter , that |
| 22 | The publisher , traditionally , needs to sell at least a thousand copies of that to be worth even advertising it , but this means that you can print an extra copy whenever you want and this then implies perhaps and even larger and larger growth and more and more specialised information , which only computers can manage , and one hesitates to work out where the end of all this is . |
| 23 | The publisher , traditionally , needs to sell at least a thousand copies of that to be worth even advertising it , but this means that you can print an extra copy whenever you want and this then implies and even larger and larger growth in more and more specialised information which only computers can manage , and one hesitates to work out where the end of all this is . |
| 24 | Might be worth just thinking about that for me , actually , have a a future negotiation . |
| 25 | Would it be worth actually having a , having a sort of a planning meeting , say you know for the first half hour of one of these meetings , the next one say that we have , you know , a wall planner , you know , a chart and |
| 26 | With each increase in the average rate of pay , the minimum wage itself would have to go up and it would be for ever chasing its own tail . |
| 27 | In large-scale national surveys , as carried out regularly by market research firms and government agencies , interviews may be carried out over the whole country and the people who have the task of making the analysis of several hundred or thousand schedules can not possibly be for ever phoning through to the interviewers to ask what some cryptic little scribble opposite question number 15 is supposed to mean . |
| 28 | If spots or downlights are to be inset into a very high ceiling , make sure you have the longest-lasting bulbs possible and that they are very easy to change ; otherwise you 'll be for ever climbing ladders to deal with them . |
| 29 | It would be like arbitrarily changing all the colours and smells of the world . |
| 30 | SERAFIN : You mean that if we did n't have the machine she would have to be in here taking a shorthand note ? |