Example sentences of "[adv] [noun] is [v-ing] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | As to state of mind , Raskolnikov lives with his own continuously but inspects it only intermittently , like the rest of us ; whereas the author surveys the whole truth the whole time , so that we never find him wondering whether perhaps Raskolnikov is thinking this or perhaps he is thinking that : a fact which isolates Crime and Punishment among the mature novels , because elsewhere Dostoevsky loves the unsettled and unsettling narrative posture of ‘ perhaps ’ , particularly with his contracting and dilating collective voice , the ‘ we ’ swept by rumour and speculation which arrives in The House of the Dead and reaches its full flowering in The Possessed . |
| 2 | So Daedalus is inventing novel ‘ X-ray stains ’ to make bacteria , etc. , absorb X-rays strongly . |
| 3 | So Daedalus is squirting one such solution through small round nozzles into the other . |
| 4 | It claims that only Lothian is providing extra payments to maintain standards of care , even though all authorities are receiving Scottish Office grants . |
| 5 | Now the eighteen-forties sees the development of manufacturing process , clothes are getting easier and easier to make , cheaper and cheaper , so fashion is changing faster because people can afford to , whereas in earlier times , if you wore a woollen dress , it had been you know , you know , somebody had done the sheep for you , had spun the wool and woven the wool and you were damned if you were going to take this dress off until it fell to pieces round you . |
| 6 | Meanwhile Equity is adding new fields of jurisdiction . |
| 7 | Meanwhile Puffin is launching Ready , Steady , Read ! , a new series designed to move readers from picture books to ‘ chapter ’ books . |
| 8 | He always puts up with Lennie , and is there whenever Lennie is feeling ashamed or unwanted and produces his ‘ I could just go to the hills and ’ I could find a cave , and pet mice ’ speech . |
| 9 | And now Nigel is fighting another slump that threatens Graham Taylor 's fading grasp on the manager 's job after four games without a win . |
| 10 | Now Oxfam is urging thousands of supporters to lobby the Treasury appealing for more , not less , money to the Third World . |
| 11 | ALCOHOL dehydrates the body by making drinkers pass more urine and by now Liz is feeling these effects , so she visits the bathroom . |
| 12 | While girls are at higher risk than boys , increasingly research is suggesting more boys experience sexual abuse than was at first thought . |
| 13 | Perhaps the book of lamentation is not the book you normally turn to , to find words of encouragement , but there are tremendous encouragements to be found in it , listen what the profits says there , in the third chapter , he says this I recall to my mind , and he 's talking about the time of his own affliction , the time when he is going through it , the time when nobody loves him , the time when everybody 's against him , when he 's suffering and he 's in pain the time when life is full of bitterness for him , he says this I recall to my mind , therefore I have hope , the lords loving kindness indeed never ceases for his compassion 's never fail and here Jesus is demonstrating that , he 's compassion 's never fail , he 's loving kindnesses they never cease , here in his dying hour Jesus is showing that in reaching out to this man but as we said the other week the , the deepest , the most important significance of what Jesus did then , of what Jesus said then , its not just of the historical account , but that he is able and willing to say and to do exactly the same today in your experience and in mine , what he did for that man on the cross he 's ready and willing to do for every one of us the incident may of happened nineteen hundred years ago , but there 's the old hymn , the verse reminds us , picks out that very story and it says the dying thief rejoiced to see that fountain in his day and there may I , though via us he wash all my sins away , and that verse from William Cowper 's hymn , it takes up that great historical event , that tremendous happening in that man 's life and he links it with a present and it applies it to you and to me and says this can be our experience as well . |
| 14 | And here Jesus is demonstrating that . |
| 15 | If an average is taken , then D.R. is producing enough yarn to manufacture 65,000 square metres of carpet each week . |
| 16 | And yet the fascination among ( overwhelmingly white ) rock music critics with the big , scary black man ( talk about perpetrating stereotypes ! ) survives , to the point where NME is getting all teary-eyed about Brave Little Time-Warner , heroically standing up to the Huns of censorship . |
| 17 | But their tandem ride comes at a time when unity is becoming more of a possibility in South Africa . |
| 18 | Doubtless Williams is getting five times the salary of everyone else in the movie — but that 's fair : he 's playing five roles . |
| 19 | The business experience will be invaluable , especially in an era when Canada is setting high priority on Pacific Rim links , with their first priority coming to terms with the language . |
| 20 | If these figures are right that we 've been given by the department and I 'm not saying them whether they 're right or whether they 're wrong but well we have to r rely on what we 're getting this is why Mr is sending this lot to the Chief Executive for him to do some work I think it 's very important that it is done independently , not by the independent sector but by done independently . |
| 21 | Having made a comparison with Polaris , how does the Minister reconcile having a strategic deterrent which is primarily devoted to NATO purposes when NATO is abandoning nuclear weapons to a considerable degree and when NATO per se would have no Soviet target for Trident ? |
| 22 | The challenge comes at a time when competition is getting tougher . |
| 23 | Yet Europe is growing greener . |
| 24 | Reports come from Sudan , where the harshness of nature is compounded by man 's inhumanity to man — or rather to women and children ; and from Zimbabwe , where drought is putting many lives at risk , especially , as usual , those of young children . |
| 25 | Currently Alan is having extreme difficulty in getting hold of any dried blood . |
| 26 | They are becoming increasingly more important as they want to er and try to impose policy on travellers , and therefore price is becoming much more of an issue with them . |