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

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1 Often the key to success is maintaining at least a pair of species , and sometimes even a small group with one male and a few females is desirable .
2 It 's hanging in there
3 Who 's who 's drawing over here ?
4 Mrs Varden is hinting at possibly dismissing Miggs .
5 Further readings are more favourable ; the strange cry and the endless sobbing remain in our minds , and it seems that Alice is weeping for far more than she or her unimaginative protector can understand .
6 He 's returning to somewhere safe when he does that , she thought .
7 There is a difficulty , however , if the seller is disposing of only part of his holding represented by a certificate or if he is disposing of all his holding but to several buyers .
8 The exemption will not apply to a mere agreement for the sale of specific assets or where the vendor is disposing of only part of his interest in the business .
9 that 's the speed and she 's tearing into about erm five five strips of sheet metal .
10 It 's happening to more and more people and right across the social spectrum .
11 Er , and that 's , that 's the sort of light you do need for landscapes , and that 's happening over here .
12 With the yahoos and the screams and the what 's happening over there ?
13 Let's have a look in and see if your brains are expanding or what 's happening in here .
14 The first point to make is that Joint Planning is happening at very different rates and in very different ways across Scotland .
15 This is happening for totally different reasons .
16 Your thing 's winding in here .
17 The community is looking at possibly following up on this initial media enterprise by becoming involved in the sponsorship of drama and the visual arts .
18 ‘ It does sound as though there is , ’ answered Brown Owl , ‘ and it keeps circling , almost as if the pilot is looking for somewhere to land . ’
19 David is looking for somewhere to put his croquet club .
20 Riverside is looking for about 50 to 60 franchisees in the next year and they estimate it is possible to earn about £1,500 a week .
21 Georgina Philippou , at stockbroker Marshall & Co , is looking for more than £30m ( £18.5m ) for the year .
22 In this recession , it is peaking at only 43 per cent .
23 So it 's , it 's looking at very small parts of the graph if you like .
24 One looks at a star , one sees radiation from an object which may have a surface temperature of many thousands of degrees — in fact , internal temperatures of millions of degrees , but with a radio telescope one 's looking at very , very cold regions and these were totally inaccessible before the advent of radio astronomy , or of this type anyway , and for the first time one was able to see material spread between the stars rather thinly , but in fact in a very cold state .
25 Rocetta the ones that mum 's looking at now
26 Now it 's looking like about ninety one .
27 You do that all the time but it 's remembering to actually
28 The initiative coincided with a ‘ Switch-on Campaign ’ by the campus radio stations , which is lobbying for more open access to broadcasting .
29 And Henderson is pushing the door from here , and the Today man is pushing from there : ‘ Let me talk to her , ’ he is saying , and Henderson is panting and pushing the door , saying , ‘ That 's enough , that 's enough , she is with us now ’ . ’
30 WHO IS ‘ Ian Cheek ’ and what 's all this crap he is writing about All ( Sounds October 27 ) ?
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