Example sentences of "is [adv] [adv] [v-ing] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The Gallery is also bending over backwards to boost attendance , and in doing so is rather alarmingly bowing to populist pressures . |
| 2 | It is all right complaining under the charter to the person who runs the service about which one is complaining as long as there is a further port of call — a further person to whom one can complain . |
| 3 | ‘ The world is only slowly emerging from recession and it is not certain whether Germany 's has been arrested . |
| 4 | The dismantling of that establishment is only just getting under way . |
| 5 | Operating in a bleeding French market , Compagnie des Machines Bull SA has a rapidly vanishing mainframe base , personal computer problems that only seem to have been exacerbated by the acquisition of Zenith Data Systems , which looks like a source of profitless volume , and a Unix strategy that is only just getting off the ground . |
| 6 | The ability to display airframes and artifacts within such a building is only just beginning to be capitalised upon by NAM . |
| 7 | ‘ The anti-angling movement is only just taking off it 's just a matter of time . ’ |
| 8 | WARNER CLASSICS — Warner Classics is only gradually getting into the mid-price market . |
| 9 | Although broadcasters may feel that RDS is user-friendly the consumer-industry is only gradually responding to the growing dislike of over-complex and often confusing controls ; c.f. video recorders easily set to record the wrong programme on the wrong channel at the wrong time , and teletext units that remain under-used . |
| 10 | The role of phospholipids in this process is only now beginning to be appreciated . |
| 11 | The festivities to mark the occasion on the weekend of 5 and 6 December were attended by museum directors from around the world , a valuable boost to a city which is only now emerging from the destruction of World War II and the Communist austerities which followed . |
| 12 | The movement became a tradition which is only now degenerating to a faction , and it is from that tradition Dr Runcie springs . |
| 13 | It is well known that the Princess wanted ‘ out ’ of the Royal Family , but to her fellow passengers it was also clear she is only now coming to terms with the fact that she really is out — and quite alone . |
| 14 | The full impact of last Thursday 's freak storm in Llandudno , Conwy and the surrounding areas is only now coming to light and it could be several months before some of the 500 people forced to leave their homes will be able to return . |
| 15 | This down-to-earth good sense has not been sufficiently stressed in the past ; there is a normality , a sanity , a state of psychological health which is so often missing in the more obviously ‘ Romantic ’ of Wordsworth 's contemporaries . |
| 16 | To describe this as sewing is perhaps slightly flattering to the bird , for the silken thread is never used for more than one stitch at a time . |
| 17 | However , in the interests of Western European stability and its own financial position , the British government is perhaps still putting off the final offer — either British withdrawal or some form of power-sharing with catholic nationalists — in the hope of loyalists coming round to what is seen as a more reasonable position . |
| 18 | The B version of the play is much less accommodating to this perspective . |
| 19 | It does nothing to reduce the damage because by the time the sucking has taken place the poison is already busily circulating through the victim 's body . |
| 20 | Since then Europe is once again living in societies of mass unemployment and job uncertainty . |
| 21 | And King is once again looking for backing from the crowd . |
| 22 | Town planning as we know it today was created out of the initiatives taken to tackle the problems of the late Victorian city , particularly its housing and environmental inequalities ; the late twentieth-century urban crisis is once again calling for a re-assembly of skills and methods of approach which cut across established ways of doing things . |
| 23 | Francis Thomson , the man who for nearly twenty years has been promising to write a biography of Alan Blumlein is once again appealing for more material on Blumlein . |
| 24 | Dr D Butler , who has been associated with these works since the beginning , is once again collaborating with Professor D Kavanagh of Nottingham University , a co-author since 1974 , to produce a full account of the political background , of the party preparations and other aspects of the campaign . |
| 25 | Tom Jennings , the marathon running weaver is once again heading for the London marathon . |
| 26 | It 's taken gravity-defying tightrope walking by boxing authorities to keep the title unified , even if it is once again threatening to be shattered into pieces by Bowe 's refusal to honour a deal to immediately defend against Lewis . |
| 27 | Mr Hitch 's son told me that there was a lack of enthusiasm a few years ago but , with new blood on the committee , it is once again gaining in popularity . |
| 28 | Ferreting is once again increasing in popularity . |
| 29 | She is usually just trying to be friendly and helpful and supportive when the love crazed imbecile is trying to explain that his wife does n't understand him … ( yawn ) . |
| 30 | But I guess , one is usually kinda suffering from some aborted love affair or association , rather than being at the peak of one . |