Example sentences of "[be] [adv] giving " in BNC.
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| 1 | If your net margin on sales is 10 per cent and the discount offered for early payment is 2.5 per cent , you are effectively giving away a quarter of your profit . |
| 2 | It just shows how much people take for granted in contemporary society where kissing has become as ordinary as a handshake and the media are constantly giving us the message that sex is only exciting if it is different or forbidden . |
| 3 | And so the media are constantly giving the impression that there 's something that the British government should be doing . |
| 4 | Nor is it the case that in saying ‘ I promise to meet you ’ I am merely giving expression to — or reporting or describing — an inward , mental act . |
| 5 | In saying ‘ Do such-and-such ’ I am not giving expression to a belief . |
| 6 | ‘ I am not giving her up . |
| 7 | No , I am not giving way . |
| 8 | I am not giving way . |
| 9 | I am just giving priority to those who were most instrumental in shaping my life and my general outlook in all matters appertaining to living . |
| 10 | Strategic uses of networks are already giving companies extraordinary competitive advantages . |
| 11 | Indeed , many pension schemes are already giving these increases on a guaranteed basis . |
| 12 | There are a number of aspects about this privatisation which are already giving cause for alarm . |
| 13 | Naturally , you can not say you are not giving credit because you think the applicant is not trustworthy . |
| 14 | The auctioneers Phillips have asked us to point out that they are not giving up on the continent , although they are reducing their representation there ( The Art Newspaper No. 21 October 1992 , p. 27 ) . |
| 15 | We are not giving them special instructions to sell into schools , and in the main it is run on a party plan approach . ’ |
| 16 | New products are not giving the return on investment that is the company norm . |
| 17 | It may be that you are not giving yourself enough challenge in the learning goals you set yourself , and that you are attaining them without any stretching of your ability . |
| 18 | ‘ You are not giving us a chance . |
| 19 | The Government are not giving the police the tools they need to do the job , certainly in south Wales . |
| 20 | Certainly looking that way by Forest are not giving up until that final whistle . |
| 21 | They also believe that the northern industrialised countries and the larger developing countries are not giving sufficient priority to preventing the rise of sea levels . |
| 22 | Try reading it , try reading it some time because what it says to the people of is , if you do n't like the level of services being provided by your Council , if you feel your Council are not giving you value for money , then we 're gon na give you the right to complain about it and do something . |
| 23 | First , the family are not giving him any legal ‘ threat ’ . |
| 24 | Distinguished artists Benjamin Luxon ( baritone ) , Linda Finnie ( mezzo soprano ) , Robert Cohen ( cello ) and Sir Charles Groves ( conductor ) are generously giving their services free , and the programme with its maritime theme will include Elgar 's Sea Pictures , Stanford 's Songs of the Sea , Arne 's Rule Britannia and a unique performance of Lord Berner 's The Triumph of Neptune , from his famous ballet for the Diaghilev company . |
| 25 | Sotheby 's are generously giving their services free for both these events and proceeds will go to The Ladies League , The Royal Hospital for Sick Children . |
| 26 | →Yeah , but you 're only giving us half the story . |
| 27 | I mean if they 're only giving three marks for it you 're not going to do a lot of geometry and all sorts of constructions and complicated things . |
| 28 | Yeah , but you 're only giving us the |
| 29 | but Julia said to me before she came round with Hayden she said er , cos her mum and dad are still there , not her mum and dad , her mum and step dad are still there , they 're only giving them forty pounds for nine weeks , forty pounds towards the mortgage like you know , been there since after Christmas and erm , anyway she said ooh she said , Steve said er , that 's her husband , said to me ooh is n't Emily well mannered she said , she does n't walk in the house , she waits in the doorstep you know |
| 30 | Well , we 've I would like we 're basically giving you all your cow requirement and all your oil requirement . |