Example sentences of "[be] [adj] [verb] [adv prt] [v-ing] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Only in the last ten years or so had he been able to give up going to the country towns and villages for uncomfortable , if lucrative , one- or two-day visits ; only then had he found it possible to move from Jewtown to commodious rooms in Patrick Street , Cork 's main thoroughfare , where he could live as well as have his surgery . |
| 2 | If you are happy to go on living under the constant threat of war , if you are prepared to see the discoveries of science perverted by inadequate people to the creation of foul weapons , what can I do ? |
| 3 | David began to think that it might be possible to go on living in the same house as Julia and Anthony without either betraying himself or suffering unendurable frustration . |
| 4 | If taxes are not providing the education , health-care and national welfare services that the public wants , will the public be willing to go on paying for them ? |
| 5 | Even if all goes well and recovery gets underway this year , unemployment is likely to go on rising for another year at least . |
| 6 | Even if all goes well and recovery gets underway this year , unemployment is likely to go on rising for another year at least . |
| 7 | As for the year ahead , he said he would be very happy to maintain growth at current levels , but reckons this in unlikely as ‘ it is difficult to keep on growing at such high rates ’ . |
| 8 | Labour is determined to create a ‘ skills-culture ’ in which everyone is entitled to go on learning throughout their working life . |
| 9 | GEORGE FOREMAN is ready to carry on fighting after his defeat by Tommy Morrison in Las Vegas on Monday night . |
| 10 | A book like that , it 's a great temptation fur a journalist who knows so much he 's scared to go on livin' in his own country . ’ |
| 11 | The thing is , it 's a vicious circle , it 's Catch 22 really , 'cos I used to have a good self-employed business , going painting and decorating and I used to have a good clientele and that and I found over the years that , when it became harder and harder to score and the prices rocketed and all that , it got out of hand , out of proportion , that I was spending more and more time off the job than I was on the job , looking round to get the stuff and I found I was unable to carry on working without the drug , because I just felt so bad and I could n't climb ladders and I thought I was a danger to myself and anybody else that I had working with me , y'know . |