Example sentences of "[v-ing] [adv] [conj] [be] [adv] " in BNC.
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| 1 | It was very much a family restaurant with children , teenagers and grandparents all eating together and was clearly somewhere to which the locals repaired for a weekend dinner . |
| 2 | The babies were developing properly and being well stimulated and doing the right things at the right age and they were really coping well . |
| 3 | That throughout the material part of that period the computer was operating properly or , if not , that any respect in which it was not operating properly or was out of operation during that part of that period was not such as to affect the production of the document or the accuracy of its contents ; and , |
| 4 | Secondly , since the optimal objective function value is not necessarily an integer , we can declare a node k inactive by bounding only if is no longer enough ) . |
| 5 | She was eating more and was more active while the other one was getting fatter . ’ |
| 6 | The inexperienced pilots often try to soar in unusable lift , and they concentrate so hard that they do n't recognise that they are drifting away and are not going to get back to the field . |
| 7 | It 's not growing as it should although it 's feeding well and is quite lively . |
| 8 | Most mothers felt they were coping better and were under far less strain ; tension had reduced between them and their children and spouses . |
| 9 | She continued to try to convince Mrs Singh that although Jeetinder was in the bottom set he was doing well and was not ‘ the bottom of the bottom set ’ . |
| 10 | The greatest difference between gybing long and short boards , though , is in the timing since the short board is travelling faster and is more sensitive to weight movements than a longer board . |
| 11 | Ouston summarizes such a view : ‘ Successful schools appear to prevent too many difficulties arising rather than being exceptionally skilled in dealing with them once they have arisen ’ ( Ouston 1981 ) . |
| 12 | He had been batting steadily and was well set , and since England , 328 ahead with three wickets left , were apparently in control they should have used all the time available to build up their score . |
| 13 | This means being capable of thinking quantitatively and being relatively happy at using figures in a variety of ways in order to : |
| 14 | There is a sense of all rational control or deliberation seeping away or being under much less deliberative control . |
| 15 | If it were found that more accidents occurred in the winter months between 6 and 8 o'clock in the evening compared with noon and 2 o'clock , is this because , during the early evening , lighting is worse , there is more traffic , drivers have been working longer and are more tired , or weather conditions are worse ? |
| 16 | The first set went to Taylor … she was hitting harder and was much quicker . |
| 17 | A BLIND eye is being turned to the number of children who are working illegally or are seriously underpaid , according to a report which is published today . |
| 18 | This may be because they are not working full-time or are not doing jobs which make full use of their abilities . |