Example sentences of "[is] [be] [vb pp] [adv] [adv] [subord] " in BNC.
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| 1 | That 's , that 's right , it 's being updated now even as we speak . |
| 2 | Recent indications are that hard look is being applied less intensively than hitherto . |
| 3 | As my hon. Friend the Member for Ryedale ( Mr. Greenway ) , who makes encouraging noises , has also said — and it is worth repeating — spending on prison buildings has risen by leaps and bounds , with many new establishments being opened , providing extra places , while fewer prisoners now share cells , and slopping out is being phased out earlier than anyone thought possible . |
| 4 | McAlpine says : ‘ The whole sector — commercial building , industrial building and civil engineering — is being hit worse now than probably at any time during this recession . ’ |
| 5 | It will be argued here that the above-noted tendency of the infinitival construction to imply greater subjectivity and possibility of doubt indicates that know is being evoked not just as the state of " being aware of a fact " in these uses but also as the condition for being able to attribute to the direct object of know the event denoted by the infinitive . |
| 6 | PRINCE Philip will share the Queen 's anger that the Royal Family 's laundry is being washed more publicly than at any other time in half a century . |
| 7 | The way in which the budgetary process is managed by the people involved may be as important as what is being managed as far as outcomes are concerned . |