Example sentences of "[is] [v-ing] [adv] [adv] [subord] " in BNC.
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| 1 | But he s doing remarkably well considering he is a natural right winger . |
| 2 | He s doing better now than Speed did in the side when he first came in — Speed tended to be rather anonymous ( something Wilko actually said too ) , but he had the potential to ‘ have people leaving the ground saying ‘ That No. 11 was a good little player ’ ' , those were Wilkos very words . |
| 3 | Caught here by Peter Chick on September 11 , despite its age it is faring much better than the much younger , but cocooned , Citation executive jet behind ! |
| 4 | Gloucestershire is faring much better than many other parts of England . |
| 5 | Claims lawyer Leslie Perrin is wading through more than a hundred cases of people who say they 've fallen victim to the virulent chryptosporidium bug and he believes that 's just a small percentage of the number who could eventually seek damages . |
| 6 | It 's contracting not only as regards the Walsall trade , but for the simple reason that hides and skins at ma v very largely found in the countries of Asia , Africa and South America . |
| 7 | In other ways , however , the pattern is becoming less rather than more linear . |
| 8 | And , just like a spent rocket , the plummet to earth is happening even faster than the upward rise . |
| 9 | Well , as you can see for yourself , not much is happening out there as yet . |
| 10 | ‘ It is curious that he is dying as picturesquely as he lived , ’ wrote Mr Gosse . |
| 11 | The motorist is driving too fast because he does n't expect any children , or he expects them to be careful ’ |
| 12 | In order to ensure that the Society is operating as efficiently as possible , Council asked the secretary general to arrange for a management review of the efficient working of all areas of the Society . |
| 13 | And they told me about Azul , in Jersey , and before that I think it was before that they showed me the forensic photographs of all of them : Bissett skewered on the railings , grotesque and spread and limp ; the blood-smeared vibrator used on the retired judge , Jamieson ; the drained shapeless white body of Persimmon , tied to his grid above a pool of blood , then nothing when there should have been something ; then what was left of Sir Rufus Carter , blackened bones , distorted and bent , the black skull 's jaw hinged down in a blind scream but the flesh all gone very much a dental-records job and it was all black , the nails , the wood and the bones too but it 's their mouths their jaws I remember , their silent screams , hanging slack or jammed open and it gets worse because they show me the fucking video they show me the video they think I made or that I think they think I made but I did n't ; they make me watch it and it 's horrific ; there 's a man and he 's dressed in black or dark blue and he has a gorilla mask on and he keeps sucking on this little bottle he 's carrying which must be helium because it gives him that baby voice disguising his own voice and he has this fat little guy strapped to a chrome seat , his mouth taped , one arm tied down onto the arm of the chair , shirt rolled up and the little guy 's shrieking as hard as he can but it sounds quiet because the noise is having to come down his nose while the man in the gorilla mask looks from the camera to the guy in the seat and holds up this huge fucking syringe like something from a nightmare from an old movie from a horror film and I can feel my heart beating wildly because that 's what this is . |
| 14 | While its former parent , Tandy Corp , announces plans to open a second SuperCenter computer store in Sweden ( CI No 2,167 ) , InterTan Inc , the company that owns the Tandy name outside the US is pulling back sharply after losses became unsustainable . |
| 15 | Describing the market as ‘ unquenchable ’ , UK managing director of Precision Visuals , Nick Lewis , says the European market is growing proportionately faster than that in the US . |
| 16 | The student population at polytechnics is growing much faster than that of universities . |
| 17 | There are signs that the current-account deficit is growing more slowly than last year . |
| 18 | They appear to show that , at least in the richest countries with the toughest environmental standards , municipal waste is growing more slowly than the economy as a whole . |
| 19 | Also VDEW ( Vereinigung Deutscher Elektrizitatswerke ) , the association of German utilities , points out that electricity is gradually increasing its share of the industrial market and total consumption is growing more quickly than energy consumption . |
| 20 | Further development work is going on even as the pilot progresses . |
| 21 | I do n't think it is going as fast as it can . |
| 22 | The rise in long-term unemployment and the increase in child poverty since the mid 1970s is likely to mean that the health of the lower social classes is improving more slowly than it should and would have done , rather than that it is getting worse . |
| 23 | And the plane 's going slightly faster than the Hercules or Andover . |
| 24 | On the wording of the statute it would seem that an effective entry into the building is sufficient without the accused 's going so far as to be in a position to effect his ulterior intent . |
| 25 | money in but in actual fact it 's , it 's going out faster than it 's coming in . |
| 26 | Britain 's manufacturing base is declining not just because the Conservative party seems to care so little about it but because of so many companies ' wilful refusal to respond to changing market signals . |
| 27 | Now I am sure that some readers will write to say that if the player is moving forward then if he drops the ball it must be moving forward also . |
| 28 | The slight variation of the longitudinal velocity in Fig. 21.19(b) , as indicated by the spacing of dye patches , implies that fluid close to the wall is moving much faster than average . |
| 29 | Though his current technique is based on the battle against fast bowling ( he is moving back rather than across in an attempt to eliminate his Achilles heel , the lbw decision ) , he plays slow bowling with rare arrogance . |
| 30 | Though his current technique is based on the battle against fast bowling ( he is moving back rather than across in an attempt to eliminate his Achilles heel , the lbw decision ) , he plays slow bowling with rare arrogance . |