Example sentences of "[indef pn] is [v-ing] the " in BNC.
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| 1 | Be seen to is found quite often for instance in the sort of context alluded to by Bolinger in which one gets the impression that someone is establishing the facts : ( 67 ) Nobody had been seen to enter the house or leave it . |
| 2 | If someone is doubting the resurrection , it is irrelevant to assure him of Christ 's promise never to leave him — Christ never was with him if he has not risen . |
| 3 | This time of the year is the open season for demonstrations but we 're beginning to wonder if someone is co-ordinating the restlessness we 've got at the moment . |
| 4 | Everyone in the community believes that someone is shielding the two youths . |
| 5 | Outside I can hear a sound which is also achingly familiar to me : someone is trimming the grass outside with shears . |
| 6 | Someone is closing the double doors of the shrine , fastening the chain latch , and firelight flickers out dimly between the slats . |
| 7 | Does not the Minister realise that nobody is asking the Government to second-guess ? |
| 8 | Now you 'll be doing this before Christmas , and what it is is there , there are lots of different categories we can use but the standard one is dividing the population into six distinct categories . |
| 9 | Leaving aside the difficulty of not making a provision at the same time as one is undertaking the assessment , this approach has produced two serious difficulties . |
| 10 | It 's nice to think that one is eating the same grapes as Anne Boleyn and Nell Gwyn . ’ |
| 11 | In encouraging social workers to take this approach to understanding and assessing a vulnerable elderly person , one is recognising the significance of functional capacity and coping ability . |
| 12 | In being empathetic one is recognising the other person 's feelings , and one 's own answering response , but not being swamped by either . |
| 13 | For what object of thought is one referring to when one is asserting the existence of men ? |
| 14 | Strictly one should specify if one is requiring the freehold or leasehold title , but in practice to tick both boxes seems to work ( unless the position is obvious , such as with a flat ) . |
| 15 | At the level of micro-sociology , where one is considering the organization of local small-scale communities and domestic households , this pattern is the norm rather than the exception . |
| 16 | As will be argued more fully below , for many television ‘ reality ’ is political reality and so by negating the former one is controlling the latter . |
| 17 | In particular , if one is examining the effects of some early experience on adult behaviour , one must take into account the events in the intervening period . |
| 18 | Or , if one is applying the most charitable interpretation , simply larger than life . |
| 19 | Another one is covering the front desk . |
| 20 | Rugby Union is experimenting with changes in the points-scoring system ; Formula One is questioning the capabilities of its cars ; and cricket in this country is being revised according to the recommendations of the Murray Commission . |
| 21 | Bad roots of title include leases ( when one is conveying the freehold ) , wills and equitable mortgages . |
| 22 | Although I am convinced that the prime management problem is ‘ making it happen ’ , one has to accept that in life there is always at least an evens chance that one is going the wrong way . |
| 23 | This may go some way towards explaining the difference of opinion in the various ‘ recommended ’ lists ; it all depends from what point of view ( or various shades thereof ) one is approaching the task , and for whose benefit ? |
| 24 | And the profit you 've had from one is paying the expense of the other ! |
| 25 | Though it is never possible to be sure one is doing the right thing , he wrote . |
| 26 | In the present state of chaos no one is checking the passengers on that ferry crossing . ’ |
| 27 | If the brain is genuinely composed of complementary modules this is a perfectly legitimate procedure since one is selecting the behavioural task that most closely reflects the functions of the system under study . |
| 28 | If running strenuously , I wear a neoprene support , without which I feel as though something is hitting the muscle , with accompanying stiffness . |
| 29 | My initial motive in going to do something is having the desire to do it , thinking I can do it and moving towards it . |
| 30 | Something is troubling the curly-haired boy I 'm playing with in the backyard of my grandparents ' house . |