Example sentences of "be [adv] [v-ing] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | President Jorge Serrano Elias on May 20 publicly dismissed the possibility of a military coup , rumours of which had been widely circulating in recent weeks . |
| 2 | Amid all this turmoil and red ink , the aircraft manufacturers ( America 's Boeing and McDonnell Douglas , and the European consortium , Airbus Industrie ) together with the jet-engine makers ( America 's General Electric and Pratt & Whitney , and Britain 's Rolls-Royce ) are nervously sitting on the biggest backlog of orders in their history . |
| 3 | That is especially so at this time , when we are effectively handing from Parliament to Ministers the right to decide , on private Bills , to lay orders . |
| 4 | An important point concerning all modules apart from the character recogniser is that they are effectively acting as filters in this context , i.e. they can not contribute further interpretations of the data . |
| 5 | To say that a certain village enjoys a certain level of accessibility is to summarize much too crudely the position of the middle-class person in a two-car household and the elderly person without a car because , as Moseley ( 1979a ) so correctly points out , these neighbours are effectively living in different worlds in terms of mobility . |
| 6 | They claimed that ‘ voices demanding Pakistan 's withdrawal ’ from these pacts were ‘ increasing ’ , and that ‘ the Iranian people are effectively campaigning for Iran 's withdrawal from the aggressive CENTO bloc , the abrogation of the military treaty with America and for Iran 's return to a policy of neutrality ’ . |
| 7 | Instead we are arguing that all academic texts are effectively working with a particular brief and it is important that this be either spelled out in the production of academic texts or taken apart systematically by the readership . |
| 8 | Simply by existing in a successful role , both bands are effectively working against that mentality . |
| 9 | The House will understand that , although we prefer these matters to be resolved by competitive tendering , in this case we are effectively talking about a single supplier , so it is vital to get the contract right . |
| 10 | On the one hand more men are effectively retiring in their fifties due to unemployment ( Walker and Walker , 1987 ) . |
| 11 | It must have pleased the powerful church of Canterbury , with which he seems to have wished to be on good terms , and been gratifyingly displeasing to that of London . |
| 12 | All of this ignores the nurses who have been unofficially deputising in medical roles for many years , according to senior nurse advocates . |
| 13 | Those on the brink of buying are mostly waiting until the election is out of the way before committing themselves to a new house , but City financier Christopher Moran thinks they are all wrong . |
| 14 | They are mostly heading for Israel , but a lot would prefer to stay in Europe . |
| 15 | And it brought home to me with a rush something which had been slowly dawning on me ever since I joined the Air Force ; that I had been spoiled for quite a long time now . |
| 16 | About 100 million years ago there was a big break-up of the land masses , and the continents have been slowly moving towards their present positions ever since ( they will , of course , continue to move in the future ) . |
| 17 | In the unlikely setting of an industrial estate near Stroud in Gloucestershire , the elephant , cast in bronze , has been slowly growing for the past year . |
| 18 | In the unlikely setting of an industrial estate near Stroud in Gloucestershire , the elephant , cast in bronze , has been slowly growing for the past year . |
| 19 | the axes are somewhere depending on these . |
| 20 | My window sills are badly rotting in places . |
| 21 | Unfortunately , in modern society , our ‘ own ’ are rarely living in the same town or even in the same county as us , which makes the ideal situation very difficult to achieve . |
| 22 | Brigadier Andrew Parker Bowles broke his silence following newspaper reports which suggested that Charles and Camilla had been secretly meeting for more than 10 years and that there was evidence of a ‘ passionate intimacy ’ . |
| 23 | On the software side , SunSoft Inc has been secretly working on writing a Microsoft Corp Windows application programming interface in a clean room so as to avoid the possibility of copyright infringement lawsuits , so that Solaris will be able to run a copy of Excel , let's say , bought from high street software shop . |
| 24 | SunSoft Inc has been secretly working on writing a Microsoft Corp Windows application programming interface in a clean room so Solaris will be able to run a copy of Excel , let's say , that 's bought from a high street software shop . |
| 25 | In sorry contrast to the Italian Village , several rows of two-storey brick houses are slowly rising from the ground . |
| 26 | Sir Geoff Mulcahy , the chairman and chief executive , sees a few tentative signs that shoppers are slowly emerging from their long hibernation , but they are doing so very warily . |
| 27 | Such interests are slowly diffusing to other feminist psychologists , who have previously been distanced from them by the constraints of the mainstream discipline . |
| 28 | Since they have been in Brazil things have not been easy but they have settled in well and are slowly coming to terms with the language . |
| 29 | The borings are concentrated high on the pillars but are remarkably lacking on the masonry lower down . |
| 30 | I am slowly getting to grips with the laptop , but sadly , on 13th , lost not only the biggest filling in my teeth but also twenty pages of type this size on paper this size . |