Example sentences of "to be [v-ing] [adv] " in BNC.
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| 1 | OK , so I 've never seen Kurt look quite that pale before , and I 'm not sure it 's such a good idea for Courtney to be zipping about with Kurt on that hired motorbike while seven months pregnant but , hell , it 's not as if anyone 's dead . |
| 2 | ‘ I do n't think he is going to be stepping back from the front line , ’ he said . |
| 3 | Another way of playing this game is to send children out into a local park with a list of items that are likely to be laying around naturally . |
| 4 | Obviously for the average electrician , stockbroker , or humanities-trained academic to be laying down the law un the value of a human blood substitute from cows or the spread of BSE would , as things stand , be foolish . |
| 5 | ‘ I must not be understood to be laying down a rule that in no case where a wife acts on her husband 's instructions and under his influence is it necessary to show that she has received independent advice . |
| 6 | Companies are likely to continue to be laying off surplus staff well into the recovery , as was the case during the last recession in the early '80s . |
| 7 | There were signs , especially in 1988 , that the players appeared to be trying harder in the one-day internationals than in the Tests , and the traditionalists — who of course regard themselves as the real cricket lovers — feared for the future . |
| 8 | Margaret explained : ‘ Stephen seems to be trying too hard . |
| 9 | In the final analysis , the Swann Report not only put aside what it had already acknowledged about the relatively poor performance of students of Bangladesh I origin , but ignored evidence that students of Mirpuri Pakistani origin were also under performing , while students of East African Asian origin seemed to be achieving exceptionally well . |
| 10 | ‘ I 'm not sure that man Kennedy that Nicola was supposed to be meeting ever existed . ’ |
| 11 | Now a new breed of Who seems to be breaking through . |
| 12 | One difficulty encountered in verifying the explanation proposed above is a pair of sentences with the to infinitive cited by van Ek ( 1966 : 151 ) as examples of " see denoting physical rather than mental perception " : ( 51 ) It ( viz. Mrs B. " s death ) might be soon , for I can see worthy Mrs Bonner to be breaking visibly . |
| 13 | They seemed to be breaking up , and to the west a different valley - the one we would descend into the next day — was filling with a luminous gold haze . |
| 14 | The earth seemed to be breaking up , and as it did so a white vapour erupted from the soil . |
| 15 | We are also developing the handbook and expect to be breaking really new ground there . |
| 16 | Traditional patterns of family life and cultural values are said to be breaking down under the pressure of geographical and social mobility , and the power of the mass media . |
| 17 | Now it claims to be receiving up to ten a week , with Glasgow and Yorkshire emerging as illegal software hot spots . |
| 18 | Members heard how the number of offences has gone up by seventeen percent in the past year although the actual rate of increase does seem to be slowing up . |
| 19 | The pace of technological innovation in manufacturing does not seem to be slowing down . |
| 20 | The axial rotation rate of the Earth is directly observed to be slowing down , such that the sidereal axial period is lengthening by about 1.5 × 10 -5 second per year . |
| 21 | The sole observation is indirect ; the orbital period of the binary pulsar 1913 + 16 is measured to be slowing down at a rate which agrees well with that expected if the system is emitting gravitational radiation . |
| 22 | What was more the train appeared to be slowing down quite markedly . |
| 23 | What was more the train appeared to be slowing down quite markedly . |
| 24 | Just on that last point , it was suggested that we ought to be writing now , to these commissioners , saying that we as a parish council wanted to make comments to them when they were er in Nottinghamshire . |
| 25 | Szász laughed and said : ‘ Yes , now it is a totally different situation to be writing in . |
| 26 | TVS is rumoured to be teaming up with Carlton Communications ( a video distributor ) , Canal Plus ( a French cable-TV company ) , and the Compagnie Générale des Eaux ( a utility with various media holdings ) . |
| 27 | Many old galvanised cisterns will have rusted sufficiently for the water to be leaking through and showing damp patches on the ceiling . |
| 28 | Here are four to be getting along with : Melvyn Bragg 's Lake District , John Mortimer 's Tuscany , Jilly Cooper 's Somerset , Kingsley Amis 's Stomach . |
| 29 | It seemed to be getting nearer and nearer but we were still pretty cheerful . |
| 30 | 5 Which batsman seems to be getting steadily better ? |