Example sentences of "[adv] [verb] to be [v-ing] " in BNC.
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| 1 | One favourite medium of attack in Iraq was the newspaper cartoon , with spectacularly uncomplimentary portrayals in the Baath Party newspaper al-Thawrah of the three chief objects of the leadership 's hostility — Israeli Prime Minister Menachem Begin , Syria 's President Hafez al-Asad and of course Khomeini , on one occasion presented , at a time when Iran was widely reported to be cutting oil prices to boost sales volume , as a door-to-door kerosine street pedlar calling out , ‘ Naft ! |
| 2 | She is holiday in Gers , a very exclusive part of France , but would much prefer to be going to Tobago . |
| 3 | There is a question of powerlessness , on the other hand there is the question that , you know , even if you 've got power do you constantly want to be having to police your own bodily boundaries , as it were , and I do n't think it is right to ask women to be doing that . |
| 4 | His words jarred Harriet and she swallowed at the ball of nerves that suddenly seemed to be constricting her throat . |
| 5 | It was as big as the island itself , if not bigger , and the rocks below seemed to be wobbling under the strain of holding it up . |
| 6 | He looked around briefly at the women with the scraggy necks in the Laura Ashley dresses , and the men who all seemed to be wearing red ties , and probably Seiko watches — but for a different reason from Bob . |
| 7 | Despite this chilly inconvenience , however , the place was crowded with people who all seemed to be talking at once . |
| 8 | I mean I er , if Wendy is dealing is goi well perhaps going to be dealing with a |
| 9 | So going to be talking to wo n't you ? . actually it does n't matter because it 's |
| 10 | ‘ He was told in writing that he was only going to be narrating for five minutes of the video , which is not what happened . |
| 11 | is it a contentious issue erm ho how is the criticized , very very short , because you are only going to be writing for about a page , a page and a half , right , so just make sure that every sentence or every other sentence carries a new bit of information and then people say , good , this person knows everything about this subject , full marks and you and er but it 's all too easy to , to focus on one or two aspects of say a question on trade or er er Harrison Todaro model of migration . |
| 12 | Yeah that 's the numbers linked to the division , erm Cynthia I mean I was only going to be looking at N Y C C and C S S S funded staff , yeah ? |
| 13 | So I 'm I 'm not only going to be asking the conference office about what 's there , but I 'm going to be going and asking individuals even if we ca n't record your keynote speech here , will you be able to record us interviews , will you be able to record us whatever else . |
| 14 | Moreover some individuals-do n't actually contribute a lot to the groups and only seem to be working . |
| 15 | It is unavoidable to begin by referring to Young and Willmott 's ( 1957 ) study of Bethnal Green , and to the much quoted chapter in which they itemize how mothers and daughters and sisters constantly seem to be doing each other 's shopping , drying each other 's washing and looking after each other 's children for the afternoon . |
| 16 | This whole idea of a subsistence economy is something I 'm not really , I 'm not really sure about it because erm what , what would exactly , you 're saying that if everybody was the same then erm then you 're somehow necessarily going to be producing at a subsistence level so erm so er and so it 's , so if you can only extract surplus by effectively taking it off something given to others . |
| 17 | We 've all got to be looking over our shoulders . |
| 18 | She nodded , wondering why on earth , since Liz was dead and they were obviously going to be sharing a room . |
| 19 | It had certainly been built to last , and although we could see it had lost a lot of windows and the stonework was damaged , it was obviously going to be standing there a few more years yet . |
| 20 | It is miffed that after struggling to get where it has , the industry suddenly seems to be rallying around an unproven — if conceptually similar — port by Apple rather than its own available technology . |
| 21 | His smiles , his glances , his gentle intimacies … somehow they had all seemed to be pointing in that direction . |
| 22 | Now remember that a helicopter , unlike a conventional aircraft , does not necessarily have to be pointing in the direction that it is moving and that the pilot must tell the tail where to go at all times . |
| 23 | He was apparently found to be running a temperature , but after a long season of competing in the best company , he may be past his best . |
| 24 | The original timetable had envisaged unification on Nov. 30 , 1990 , and the leadership in South Yemen was hitherto believed to be resisting pressures for an earlier formal announcement . |
| 25 | ‘ One faces a decision , I guess at such times , about how far to go with company instructions , and since the spirit of such meetings only appeared to be correcting a horrible price level situation , that there was not an attempt to actually damage customers , charge excessive prices , there was no personal gain in it for me , the company did not seem actually to be defrauding , corporate statements can evidence the fact that there have been poor profits during all these years … |
| 26 | ‘ One faces a decision , I guess , at such times , about how far to go with company instructions , and since the spirit of such meetings only appeared to be correcting a horrible price level situation , that there was not an attempt to damage customers , charge excessive prices , there was no personal gain in it for me , the company did not seem actually to be defrauding … morally it did not seem quite so bad as might be inferred by the definition of the activity itself . ’ |
| 27 | Like all basically lazy people he was content to let things be not only when they were going well , but also when they merely appeared to be going well . |
| 28 | But I so need to be walking up the stairs and pushing open the studio door , and seeing him at his bench , looking over his shoulder at me , as if he 's not in the least interested to see who it is . |
| 29 | You see yo really you 'd need to be you 'd need to be only need to be paying back about four grand you see , though ? |
| 30 | Turkey and Iran were widely seen to be vying for influence in the area . |