Example sentences of "[v-ing] so [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | It was never true that the majority of local parties were under the control of the Left but the more active and vocal Constituencies were becoming so by 1939 . |
| 2 | Zapp is the supreme professional , who embodies , albeit comically , those ideals of professionalism that have long been dominant in the North American academy and are becoming so in the British . |
| 3 | Now to do that effectively I think it 's essential that I get you to participate in what 's happening so from time to time I 'm going to ask you to answer questions , sometimes by writing them down , sometimes by shows of hands erm sometimes by er reacting back erm to the questions that I ask . |
| 4 | I asked whether they did not find it inconvenient , living so near the French border , not to speak French , but they said not . |
| 5 | Instead of taking it over a thirty five year period , what you would then have is that you go up very steeply let's say by putting lump sums or er regular capital premiums erm which you 'll receive a tax refund and then it stops but the benefits of the fund keep going so at age sixty they would have the same effect of reaching your pension there with no contributions |
| 6 | He was a founder member of the Society of Chemical Industry ( 1881 ) , and became its foreign secretary in 1910 , remaining so for a number of years , and president in 1911–12 and 1914 . |
| 7 | Erm , but at the trot , when th the the legs are moving the diagonals are moving so of course the front and the hind foot come very close together |
| 8 | I was getting so with her ! |
| 9 | ‘ where a police constable ( or a traffic warden ) was for the time being engaged in the regulation of traffic ’ This point is proved by stating so in the constable 's or warden 's statement of evidence , e.g. ‘ I was engaged in the regulation of traffic to allow pedestrians to cross safely ’ . |
| 10 | Were we so I should have been happy to kill you for speaking so of my daughter . |
| 11 | Likewise , though Collins ( 1975 ) stresses as fundamental the scientific aim of explaining everything and of doing so via the method of controlled comparison , such aims and methods can , as we have seen , be found elsewhere . |
| 12 | They 've been doing so since bathing machines first appeared on Long Island in about 1794 . |
| 13 | All of us are experts in body language ; we give it out and receive it , and have been doing so since the day we were born . |
| 14 | They seem to have happened periodically over the last 900 million years , and may have been doing so since the early days of Earth ( the longer ago something happened , the less likely it is that we will have tripped over the evidence ) . |
| 15 | Even if progress is slower than expected , and it may not be , nothing that has happened so far gainsays General Colin Powell 's claim after six days of fighting that the allies , unopposed in the air , are systematically dismantling Saddam Hussein 's ability to wage war , and doing so at remarkably small cost to themselves . |
| 16 | So , for many years , the couple made their living as hired help , and were doing so at the time of the film 's success . |
| 17 | This would be a good point to stop and remind yourself of the kinds of situations and issues which have caused you conflict in the past and may be doing so at present . |
| 18 | They are doing so at differing speeds , faced by differing problems and with differing chances of success . |
| 19 | Estabrook retreated from the thieves , lighter in step and cash , but glad to be doing so at all . |
| 20 | Thus , even though the 12 member states are following the same rules , they are doing so at a different pace , which further complicates an already complex situation . ’ |
| 21 | There is plenty of experience now of varied class patterns , students working individually or in pairs from work-cards or other guidance material , proceeding through a series of experiments calculated to introduce and reinforce processes , concepts and information , and doing so at their own pace . |
| 22 | The process involves no more than threading a strip beneath another one that runs across it more or less at right angles , and keeping on doing so at intervals with dogged persistence , pulling the strip tight after each threading . |
| 23 | In the 690s Aethelred granted land in Hwiccian territory to Oftfor , bishop of Worcester , seemingly without reference to any local prince ( CS 76 : S 76 ; CS 75 : S 77 ) ; Aethelbald was certainly doing so at the beginning of his reign in 716–7 ( CS 137 : S 102 ) . |
| 24 | They are looking after their commercial interests , but unfortunately they are doing so at the expense of the tenants and customers , the very people who are supposed to benefit from the legislation . |
| 25 | The investigator is not at this point investigating how the child learns to program the computer although he shall be doing so at a later date . |
| 26 | I mean I actually voted for this contract , erm , rather reluctantly , but it seemed better than not , doing so at the time , but we were given assurances , and it was very well understood by absolutely everybody , that vigorous management would be needed in order to achieve the targetising and that was the only way that the savings were going to be made , and it does seem that , that , erm that has not been going on . |
| 27 | Mr Mates replies that the target date for doing so at Belfast Prison is not until the year 2000 . |
| 28 | They are briefing consultancies sooner and are doing so at a more senior level . ’ |
| 29 | There was a one per cent increase on the previous year in the number of people taking communion at Easter , but a slight fall in those doing so at Christmas . |
| 30 | In other words , when the New Ireland Forum was being assured by Bishop Daly of the intention of the Roman catholic church in Ireland to support full civil and religious rights for Northern Ireland protestants , the bishops were effectively reserving to themselves , as a body of luminaries with a direct access to the inner structures of social reality , the right to declare what actually constituted a civil and religious liberty or right and they were doing so on the grounds of what they considered good for society . |