Example sentences of "[adv] be [v-ing] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ Had n't you better be getting ready ? ’ |
| 2 | Sometimes you may want to reach everyone on the list , but more often you will only be using certain sections or even picking out a dozen or so specialist outlets . |
| 3 | This bit of juggling is introduced into the process because you will necessarily be working blind — during the recording of the insert , the camcorder viewfinder will be displaying , not a playback of the original shot , but the material which is displacing it . |
| 4 | When Maggie tried to tell Phoebe about her gruelling embarrassment Phoebe just laughed and told her she was turning into a bourgeois little creep and should perhaps be taking domestic science and dress-making . |
| 5 | The Scottish Office will shortly be issuing new Planning Advice dealing with archaeology in the planning process . |
| 6 | Do n't tell Madeleine I said so because she 'll deny it just to be contrary , but I 'm very much hoping the two of them will soon be getting engaged . |
| 7 | Meanwhile , the Community may soon be embracing Finnish . |
| 8 | The proposal , which caused a storm at last week 's council meeting , has led to further suggestions that other organisations throughout Ards could soon be demanding free refuse collection . |
| 9 | Several other MPs on both sides of the House of Commons may soon be urging legal reform . |
| 10 | This viewpoint has been expressed as follows : ‘ the mere hint by anyone concerned that the law may come in is the surest sign that things are or will soon be going wrong . ’ |
| 11 | Instead , unseen operatives may soon be directing sophisticated agricultural implements by remote control from their firesides . |
| 12 | Crowds in the bookies : punters may soon be backing sponsored horses as a result of the new tax deal |
| 13 | That famous cross of white neon would soon be glowing blue . |
| 14 | Why should n't he just be getting old ? |
| 15 | He could be working something out , but he may just be enjoying emotional relaxation and a purely sensory level of play . |
| 16 | And it 's just not like me , I 'd just be feeling tired all the time . |
| 17 | I 'll give them the real Henry Farr , and he wo n't just be making witty little remarks about the London orbital motorway either . |
| 18 | Although these people will normally be leading/managing other contractors , not regular employees , it is unusual to find any agency secretarial/office staff who have a supervisory function . |
| 19 | Each step in the viral life cycle is catalysed by enzymes from the infected cell which would normally be performing similar tasks in the life cycle of the cell . |
| 20 | We will usually be treating individual instructions or groups of instructions in terms of the facilities that they control , so it is worth saying a few words here about the instruction set as a whole . |
| 21 | Morland said today : ’ The city fully expects us to survive the bid and we are confidant we will still be drinking Old Speckled Hen Beer on Friday . ’ |
| 22 | If he had kept his mouth shut I would still be eating rancid meat and plotting my own way out of Paris . |
| 23 | About 600 of England 's 2,619 Sites of Special Scientific Interest ( SSIs ) will still be receiving damaging levels of sulphur from acid rain in 2005 , according to English Nature . |
| 24 | So , even if you have slightly over-estimated your commitments , you will still be obtaining full value from the Account . |
| 25 | And yet 15 or 20 years ago he would still be playing non-League stuff and carrying a hod around for a living . |
| 26 | Without all these controls companies will still be making standard phone calls and writing them up afterwards into signed telephone logs and considering them the best records of a transaction . |
| 27 | From now on , she would touch him in any way she pleased , even when neither of them was feeling sexy , because she would still be feeling loving — for as long as the affair lasted . |
| 28 | However , you will be tired by all this flurry of activity because you will still be doing regular work and the proposal — writing may take you into late nights and weekend work . |
| 29 | We 'll still be doing spare strings in single packets , of course , so people can buy those and keep them in their guitar cases for breakages . |
| 30 | Then take a limiting case : if nobody but the original painter or painters of the great roof bison of Altamira had ever seen this work ( and comparable work may still be lying undiscovered ) , would any of us wish , on our first sight of it , to deny its status as art because it had not been consciously exhibited ? |