Example sentences of "[be] [v-ing] [conj] [be] [adv] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Employers may have the same anticipations as workers about the general price level , but they are more directly concerned about the price of the products they are producing and are far better informed about that . |
| 2 | I am sure she knows what I am doing and is very proud . |
| 3 | This type of planning may be motivating but is not very effective . |
| 4 | When I arrived , he would be waiting and was always so pleased . |
| 5 | And it got , in the end , actually , if I was , if I had to do something that was urgent or I had to go somewhere I used to have to say to her something like , you know , erm oh I better get on , I got a lot to do this morning , or I 'm goi I 've to be shopping and be back in time to cook Jim 's dinner or something like that cos he 's starting , oh I 've got ta have his dinner ready at twelve before he goes to work and if I really was pushed otherwise she would have come in every day . |
| 6 | But I am managing and am still pleased to be living in my own home . |
| 7 | Within hours , they had vacated the flat which they were occupying and were not seen again . |
| 8 | That 's what the continentals were doing and are still doing . |
| 9 | Gandhi 's reference to people being allowed to follow their own desires , provided they were old enough to know what they were doing and were not subjected to force or material inducements , is an indication of the dubious conversion methods employed by some missionaries . |
| 10 | The key to a successful prosecution is proving that at the time of the offence the children understood the seriousness of what they were doing and were not simply behaving mischievously . |
| 11 | ‘ I think it is a shame that more people are not convinced by the results that care in the community is producing and are not prepared to move over in greater numbers , ’ says Mrs Polson , who was also a sister at Aycliffe Hospital during her 10 years there . |
| 12 | to tell his constituents that with London 's share of world trade in financial services is increasing and is now at twenty seven percent that the financial services sector round the U K four point three billion , that those employees that he refers to are in fact in an industry which even if it is redistributing employment it 's nevertheless growing . |
| 13 | Sometimes if the investigator is a native of the area s/he is studying and is also trained in techniques of phonetic and phonological analysis , s/he is likely to be able to articulate and use intuitions about relevant variables . |
| 14 | 577 and Dunton Properties Ltd. v. Coles , Knapp & Kennedy Ltd. ( 1959 ) 174 E.G. 723 related to information received by the estate agents in their capacity as agents of the principal who was complaining and was therefore not subject to any duty of confidentiality owed by the agents to other persons . |