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Example sentences of "[is] [adv] [v-ing] [prep] a [noun sg] " in BNC.

No	Sentence
1	English is finished as a common language , but that 's only according to a Frenchman .
2	But , if it 's only hanging by a thread , let it fall apart and build something new from the components .
3	he 's only coming for an hour .
4	He 's only , he 's only going for a couple of weeks
5	( Ends sufficient in themselves , it will be remembered , include for us anything chosen however briefly for its own sake , even if it is only lazing in a deckchair in the sun . )
6	This is a shame , for although he 's admittedly playing to a club audience , you do n't have to suppress the songs to maintain the groove — and the doctor has proved with ‘ Killer ’ and tonight 's storming version of ‘ Flashback Jack ’ , that he has some potent stimulants in his black bag .
7	This is a shame , for although he 's admittedly playing to a club audience , you do n't have to suppress the songs to maintain the groove — and the doctor has proved with ‘ Killer ’ and tonight 's storming version of ‘ Flashback Jack ’ , that he has some potent stimulants in his black bag .
8	But what their 1–1 draw at Olympia Leisure Centre yesterday did signify was that the champions reign throughout that period is finally drawing to an end .
9	The structure of the turbulence is thus changing in a way that produces a faster approach to laminar motion , perhaps because the generation of eruptions ( Section 21.6 ) is suppressed .
10	Give me patience , give me a little more patience , Alida thought , for it is soon coming to an end .
11	Africa is just serving as a mirror for the West 's new ideologies .
12	Despite his election triumph , John Major is already looking like a mug .
13	It is already leading to a resumption or the land improvement work carried out by the crofters in the sixties , with the help of the College of Agriculture and the Crofters Commission , working closely together .
14	Phena thinks recent developments entitle her to a newer , bigger house , which she expects me to pay for , with pleasure , despite the fact that the wedding is already running into a fortune .
15	‘ Planned it for years to give me pleasure in my retirement and now it 's just getting into a mess .
16	‘ He likes to be adored of course , and maybe he 's just lobbying for an extension of his fan club , but I would n't have thought he was that desperate .
17	He 's just going for a walk .
18	It 's just turning into a pattern .
19	She 's convinced he 's just waiting for a sign to pop over and propose ! ’
20	Now there 's a hot-bed that 's just waiting for an explosion .
21	You know Matilda is always looking for a reason to punish you . ’
22	Yet in the late 20th century sound recording is still developing in a way that older media are not .
23	Norwich defender John O'Neill is still proceeding with a claim against Wimbledon striker John Fashanu over a tackle which forced him to quit .
24	He is still smarting from a put-down in the magazine City Limits which condemned his Around the World in Eighty Days as an exercise in ‘ male back-slapping imperialism ’ .
25	Univel is still looking for a replacement for Righter .
26	David Elsworth is still looking for a jockey for Ghofar .
27	Even when the long elects to take the deposit , he is still locking in a rate of interest of 9.50 per cent .
28	MORE than 12 months after the closure of the Corporate Wardrobe and the selling off of the entire stock in a giant sale , Branch Banking 's Deputy Managing Director Bob McInnes is still searching for a solution to the uniform issue .
29	One month after Pamela took her life , her family is still searching for a reason .
30	The tie lines are so congested it is n't true , especially with accounts being at Stansted and apparently there has been a proposal in since last March with all the costings and everything which is still waiting on an answer for improved lines which would actually take some of the computer lines and everything .