Example sentences of "is [adv] [v-ing] " in BNC.
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| 1 | We have always said that it is not for nothing that the Unix prompts are dollar and percentage signs and at last somebody out there has the common sense to recognise that fact too : the new Unix Reseller Show , set for May 4 to 6 in Dallas , is blatantly promoting itself with the slogan ‘ How To Make Money With Unix ’ ; if that does n't bring the punters piling in , nothing will . |
| 2 | The new Unix Reseller Show , set for May 4–6 in Dallas , is blatantly promoting itself with the slogan ‘ How To Make Money With Unix . ’ |
| 3 | The wait until September before she starts another novel is mostly owing to her publicity commitments . |
| 4 | AMERICAN ( whose girlfriend is furiously snapping ) : Yeah , know what you mean . |
| 5 | AWHITEHALL investigation has been launched into allegations that the Government is secretly flouting European Community law by awarding contracts worth millions of pounds to British companies on an exclusive basis in advance of a privatisation sale next summer . |
| 6 | ‘ I heard this morning , through Guy 's fiancée Nicola Schreider , that Guy is secretly negotiating with Farthingdales , ’ she said shakily . |
| 7 | And they perhaps fail to understand just how crushing it is to make beds and casseroles for one who is secretly making whoopee . |
| 8 | If George Bush or Saddam Hussein is secretly preparing to climb down , neither gives any sign of it . |
| 9 | He has signed a deal worth £500,000 with Sony and is secretly recording a new album at the studios owned by Ray Davies of The Kinks in Muswell Hill . |
| 10 | ‘ Miss Kenton ’ is properly speaking ‘ Mrs Benn and has been for twenty years . |
| 11 | Prince Charles is sitting with his legs spread but there is a give-away sign of his unease : he is nervously playing with his cuff-links . |
| 12 | Others , and this is most telling in the religious context , abandoned Christianity and became Muslims . |
| 13 | What is most telling here , however , is the sense of history and lineage that both the Omar and Young Disciples albums exude . |
| 14 | A touching 86% agreed that ‘ sex is most fulfilling with the person you love ’ . |
| 15 | ‘ I feel extremely anxious about you , being well aware that this time of year is most trying in England . |
| 16 | It is most demanding in terms of irrelevant information — the information I think is irrelevant , all the extras — bits and pieces … |
| 17 | Drummer Steve is most looking forward to visiting Liverpool and seeing the relatives and friends he left behind when emigrating to Australia ten years ago . |
| 18 | This is another sign that , so far at least , the Opposition is rather getting the better of the ratings ' war . |
| 19 | Of course , he is rather enjoying flying again . |
| 20 | In a world where British influence is conspicuously waning it might not be in the interests of a secure national identity to throw it open for young Britons to gaze on . |
| 21 | When , in One Hundred Years of Solitude , the last Aureliano Buendía tries to persuade others of the truth of his version of certain events , he runs up against the scepticism of the local priest who , ironically , is conspicuously lacking in the certainties which he is supposed to embody : |
| 22 | Doubtless that is not so much a reality as an ideal — and one for which due respect is conspicuously lacking in the ethos of the STV . |
| 23 | But much , in any case , must be allowed to a man who is single-handedly fighting against the times . |
| 24 | On the western side this was always an area characterised by a militancy which is presumably going out of fashion now too . |
| 25 | And all this minor misery is occurring in an island set in a leaden sea of even greater misery , in a world which is presumably going to end , sooner rather than later , in some cataclysmic downpour of misery beyond imagination . |
| 26 | I find it to be an irritating reminder that the solid rail service taken for granted by this part of the country , the one that provides an essential lifeline spring , summer , autumn and winter , is eventually going to be lost to these seasonal theme-park trucks full of florid , truffle-guzzling lounge lizards . |
| 27 | And do n't forget that the money it costs to go to LA and to live there is eventually going to come out of your royalties , not the record company 's . |
| 28 | Altho , although if one is eventually going to talk about the report one could to make it clear to the parents that what one is a subject report and the other is a summate report . |
| 29 | If the end result is eventually going to be thrown away ; memos , reports , flyers , price lists and so on , then page printer output is probably more than adequate . |
| 30 | Through a cracked squinting window high up in a cracked squatting tenement , a 25 watt woman is wearily flattening her husband 's future shirt with a nearly-steaming iron in an environment where the purple sweat and aggro must eventually print its feeling on the creamy-browny ever so piled up non dish washy ever so squashy piled up feelings ever so — ironed out onto the stove under the sink beyond the plug-hole of anyone 's conception . |