Example sentences of "be [adv] [v-ing] and " in BNC.
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| 1 | Increasingly with voluntary bodies , and I know that this was discussed at length in the P A G , but will be of interest to members , increasingly with voluntary bodies , we are moving towards er , jointly providing services with them , in a partnership arrangement where we are effectively purchasing and commissioning services from them , and that is the way we would wish the policy to go . |
| 2 | Too often business has been inward looking and has not been sufficiently rigorous in pursuing the question of who needs to know of changes in its practices and needs . |
| 3 | They are constantly touring and have enjoyed concert hall acclaim in Australia , America and Canada as well as the UK . |
| 4 | ‘ But the Federal Communications Commission has recognised that mirror equivalence is an entirely unrealistic standard because telecommunications systems , markets and regulatory regimes are constantly evolving and can not be identical . ’ |
| 5 | The external factors affecting your business are constantly changing and you have in order to survive to adapt to these external changes . |
| 6 | Ideas about baby feeding and weaning are constantly changing and actual practice can have a profound effect on child health . |
| 7 | The flowers , appearing in late summer , are long lasting and may be dried for indoor display . |
| 8 | view is that one hopes that my hopes are that of the direct report you er worked for erm is equal and competent and is erm in a sense courageous and brave and that they realize that sometimes to get the best results you have to do things which are perhaps challenging and orthodox |
| 9 | The children become spoiled and materialistic in their attitudes and parents complain that they are so demanding and never satisfied . |
| 10 | Many early pigments are naturally occurring and brightly coloured minerals , usually metal salts , and often only minute traces remain . |
| 11 | These fish are naturally shoaling and like plenty of space . |
| 12 | UNDERSTANDABLY there has been much wailing and gnashing of teeth over the demise of West Malling ( West Malling Lament , October issue , et al ) but I am amazed that the people most affected by its loss made no attempt to save it from destruction . |
| 13 | The first priority was to re-establish the team unity that had been allowed to dwindle , with the result that there had been much arguing and bickering The old inter-island rivalries that Worrell had eradicated had surfaced again , and he knew the team would accomplish little until these disappeared . |
| 14 | Until she was sixteen they had been constantly moving and there had never been anyone left behind to pass on her address . |
| 15 | The other thing to avoid is swaying backward and forward so that you are alternately bellowing and whispering , fading out or disappearing entirely at intervals like a badly tuned radio station ! |
| 16 | While he was in Chinese captivity , and apart from writing poems in classical Chinese ( some of which , while they may not have been of the highest order classically , are nevertheless moving and rather beautiful ) Ho had also translated Dr Sun Yat Sen 's modern political classic the San Min Chu I into Vietnamese and this expedient flattery of China and Chinese continued after Ho 's release . |
| 17 | ‘ I am just hoping and praying he is not going to be used as a human shield . |
| 18 | I bear this in mind for my next visit and reflect that I am already learning and making mental notes about this hitherto unfished — by me at any rate — stretch of river . |
| 19 | Three are already running and three more will shortly be turned out of Wolverton . |
| 20 | You are just learning and have a very weak wrist . |
| 21 | It is too easy to say that the Opposition are just scaremongering and making it all up , and it will not be as bad as we fear . |
| 22 | If you think of what you do on a holiday , it 's a totally different lifestyle to when you 're normally working and obviously people desire to have that sort of experience more and more , and you 've got the rise of things like short breaks . |
| 23 | They ai n't eating yet , they 're just drinking and talking . |
| 24 | so consequently they 're still fighting and the chap still has n't got a penny |
| 25 | Asked about the reasons for his apparent about face , Hahn said : ‘ You 're always learning and I think in the past our view was wrong . |
| 26 | We 're always replacing and updating , so there will be changes . |
| 27 | They do cos you 're always looking and saying |
| 28 | In prison you 're always rushing and worrying . |
| 29 | Yes , well it 's Sunday night and they 're always fighting and that and he , he came out four rows of the bow wi , they were twelve inches square he kicked three of them in ! |
| 30 | That 's because you 're always working and you do n't have a chance . |