Example sentences of "is [adv] [v-ing] [adv] [prep] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | On the western side this was always an area characterised by a militancy which is presumably going out of fashion now too . |
| 2 | VINTAGE car enthusiast Gordon Smith , a commissionaire at Barlaston , is eagerly looking forward to running is 1920 Humber Tourer out on the roads again this spring . |
| 3 | AFTER a five-year delay , the Government is finally bringing forward for legislation the 1984 Warnock Report 's agenda on human embryo experimentation . |
| 4 | he tries to arrest her , but she bravely defies him until some guerrillas arrive , and he is soon begging abjectly for mercy . |
| 5 | I think that 's all I need say by this time the next our next speaker is usually arriving so to sort of develop and not that there 's a real need for it nor am I capable of doing so . |
| 6 | ( So that 's why the river is always freezing over in winter ! ) |
| 7 | John Smith is still moving crabwise towards modernity . |
| 8 | ‘ The use of bed and breakfast is still hovering close to record levels , ’ says Pawson , ‘ It is only through the boom in short-term leasing that boroughs have been able to avoid further increases in hotel placements . ’ |
| 9 | Although the great ice sheets which covered much of North America and northern Europe in the recent past had largely disappeared by 10000 a BP , the landsurface in these regions is still rising rapidly in response to the removal of this load . |
| 10 | While some of last year 's stockpile has vanished , a lot of oil is still sloshing around in storage . |
| 11 | But Japan is flat as a pancake and the European market is still sinking deeper into recession . |
| 12 | Everybody is still crying out for rain ; no one is ever satisfied . ’ |
| 13 | Though turnover leapt from £122.2 million to £239.1 million , the UK market is still responding slowly to recovery , its profits almost halving to £4.1 million . |
| 14 | The attempt to understand and to find suitable words for these different types of property is one that is still going on in anthropology and is proving extremely difficult [ Goodenough , 1951 ; Goody , 1962 ; Gluckman , 1965 ; Bloch , 1975 ] . |
| 15 | In the absence of domestic reprocessing facilities , waste is rapidly piling up in storage . |
| 16 | Gas is also competing directly with coal for the heavy fuel oil market . |
| 17 | And that is why — now that human dominion is seen perhaps to be rather too complete , as we progressively eliminate the natural world on which our very survival depends — meat is now falling out of fashion . |
| 18 | The agricultural experts pushing crop substitution programmes may congratulate themselves on Pakistan 's declining opium output , but the truth is that the country is now specialising more in processing and marketing . |
| 19 | ‘ Citroen has done a lot of work in this area , starting back with the BX and this is now paying off with insurance quotes across the model range . ’ |
| 20 | With its current penchant for clamping down on perceived violations of its copyright , AT&T 's Unix System Laboratories Inc is now coming down on Unix Solutions for its use of the Unix logo in its company name . |
| 21 | Has my right hon. Friend had an opportunity to look at the study in The Financial Times on 6 January which pointed to the fact that the northern region has very much benefited from the economic restructuring of the 1980s and is now coming out of recession faster than any other part of the country , due to the success of the regeneration programmes that the Government have put in place in the region ? |
| 22 | His partner is now waiting anxiously for news at their home in Radley . |
| 23 | Throughout Ireland as a whole , there has generally been an anti-comprehensive ethos in the education system supportive of both class and sectarian divisions in schooling and which is now eroding only in part . |
| 24 | Polygamy is now going out of favour , especially as the risk of contracting AIDS through multiple sexual partners is high , and as women become more liberated they are demanding that it be made illegal . |
| 25 | Junk bond inventor and former jailbird Michael Milken is reportedly getting together with singer Michael Jackson to create an interactive television education network . |
| 26 | Assuming the Daventry nuns have been subject only to the same controls being applied to all other British egg producers , the protest by the United Kingdom Egg Producers ' Association ( Ukepra ) , the only organisation within the UK egg industry not represented among BEIC members , is potentially damaging both to egg consumers and to egg producers . |
| 27 | There is a strong possibility that once again amphetamine-type drugs are being manufactured in secret laboratories around the UK , and that in fact there is no falling off in demand and use of this dangerous substance . |
| 28 | Now I know I 've actually seen the paper that the Labour Party is actually putting out in discussion documents on regional policy and it 's very good . |
| 29 | The number of injuries is actually going down in proportion to the increased number of skiers . |
| 30 | Siemens Nixdorf has the edge because it is currently working closely with Telekom to develop the Ocis office communication software , which is already installed in several sites . |