Example sentences of "is [adv] [v-ing] [prep] [pron] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The wait until September before she starts another novel is mostly owing to her publicity commitments . |
| 2 | Prince Charles is sitting with his legs spread but there is a give-away sign of his unease : he is nervously playing with his cuff-links . |
| 3 | With Hartie mortally wounded by the vengeful NZRU council , Kirwan has now made himself available and the newly appointed backs coach Earle Kirton has been heard suggesting that ‘ King John ’ might be assigned a new role at centre , a position he is successfully filling for his second division Italian club Thiene who are coaches by another Kiwi , John Boe . |
| 4 | The whole idea of large hospitals for the mentally handicapped is indefensible : there is evidence that many patients do not need , and do not receive , treatment , and a hospital routine is wholly damaging to them . |
| 5 | For all our participants , and undoubtedly for many of this age-group , a central issue that is constantly recurring in their interpretation of the day-to-day practices they encounter in their social lives is the extent to which they are recognized as persons of independent dignity and standing . |
| 6 | The city 's mayor , Vincent Schoemel , who is white , is constantly squabbling with its leading black politician , the comptroller , Virvus Jones . |
| 7 | The ‘ ego ’ ( itself linked and responsive to the id and the superego ) is constantly searching for what Freud and later Freudians call ‘ defence mechanisms ’ to protect and enhance individual personality . |
| 8 | The Ego is constantly chattering about its fears , worries and doubts , cluttering up our head with thoughts that go nowhere — just in case we decide to think for ourselves , to question , to explore new possibilities , to feel our suppressed emotions , to reach beyond our old ways of being , to develop a new vision . |
| 9 | He is constantly talking to you about your performance , about how you are reacting , building up your confidence throughout the training session . |
| 10 | The narrator is basically reflecting on what happened to him during childhood , adolescence and into adulthood . |
| 11 | The communicator who has not interacted with the material and is merely passing on what he or she has read or been told functions as a tertiary source . |
| 12 | To the end , he is merely listening to his subjects , respecting without judging them and keeping us , as readers , flush against them , indulging in their foibles and sharing their fantasies . |
| 13 | Perhaps then Britain is only losing from its delay in moving to ‘ post-Fordism ’ , and creating the flexible small modern factory . |
| 14 | The point is summed up in one of Aesop 's fables : ‘ The rabbit runs faster than the fox , because the rabbit is running for his life while the fox is only running for his dinner . ’ |
| 15 | One reason for this is summarized in the Aesopian moral : The rabbit runs faster than the fox , because the rabbit is running for his life , while the fox is only running for his dinner . |
| 16 | Taking pills or powders for headaches and stomach upsets is only adding to your system 's toxicity . |
| 17 | Will my hon. Friend give greater and more sympathetic consideration to the question that has just been asked , because those of us who understand cask-conditioned ale — real beer — know that it is extremely damaging for it to be dispensed under pressure ? |
| 18 | I think w w what I 'd urge the panel to consider is is perhaps looking at it from that perspective , to encourage the County Council to review the phasing provision of policy H one erm in terms of er how the the committed land is going to be released for development . |
| 19 | The voluntary movement seems determined to retain its traditional role , and the government is apparently relying upon it to do so . |
| 20 | But the whole idea of neutralisation presupposes the continued existence of a world polarised between East and West , a world which is literally disappearing before our eyes . |
| 21 | If the gritty Hugh is away opening for his country , then no doubt there is a stronger case for testing out the leadership qualities of Maynard , who has himself been the subject of some speculation concerning the furniture vans . |
| 22 | The little dove is finally stirring in her makeshift nest . |
| 23 | An analysis of interpellation and legitimation which would underpin the central claim that subjects are constituted by ideology is thus striking for its absence . |
| 24 | 45755 : As before , Mravinsky 's Tchaikovsky Fifth is utterly compelling in its desperate urgency and irresistible momentum ; like the 1963 Olympia version ( 8/88 ) it is a fraction less fanatical , more humane than the famous DG issues . |
| 25 | Now I suppose this is just appealing to my sense of power or something , being able to walk in and take charge and in a minute or two they 've settled down and they 're not panicking because you 've arrived and all their burdens are on your shoulders and they do n't have to worry any more because the doctor 's there … this I find profoundly satisfying as long as I can , in fact , cope with what 's happening . |
| 26 | ‘ A friend of mine , Peter Matthews from Dublin , came off one in the Isle of Man in May and fell on his head and is just getting over it now . |
| 27 | That beast is just waiting for his chance . |
| 28 | Think of all the hands-on psychical research that is just coming at you free of charge . |
| 29 | Miss is just saying to me that a quick review of her chart , er could indicate that we have n't got any clear er how shall I say , clear indication , using the same word twice , that would point us to one sector only . |
| 30 | The powerful aggregates industry is already leaning on him hard to prevent him from doing so . |