Example sentences of "is [v-ing] [adv] [prep] the " in BNC.
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| 1 | JULIA SOMERVILLE is recovering well from the removal of a brain tumour . |
| 2 | Siteke Ubial Susey is recovering rapidly from the bullet wound he received during an attack outside his house in Kinshasa in July ( see Action number 162 , page 1 ) . |
| 3 | The beast is gazing disconsolately at the ground , its architectural studies abandoned . |
| 4 | Maggie is drawing close to the bar . |
| 5 | This is stepping ahead to the next consideration of the Lady of the Hearth as she who lights and tends the fire . |
| 6 | So of course it is proving already with the National Curriculum . |
| 7 | I am delighted that the recently privatised Harland and Wolff now has the longest order book in its history , with £565 million worth of orders , that it is competing successfully with the Koreans and the Japanese , that the future of 2,500 of its people is assured and that it is the premier shipyard in the United Kingdom . |
| 8 | The Church is rowing hard against the mounting waves and winds of persecution and opposition , but is making little headway . |
| 9 | Transmission of infection is occurring both among the young , who may not have been fully exposed to the health education of the mid-1980s , and in older age groups , who may have changed to unsafe sex practices after previously heeding health advice . |
| 10 | I think that we should accept th that this island in which we live is in effect becoming smaller day-by-day , as it is becoming more and more open er we should accept that its population is becoming perhaps with the assistance of a little advice from myself from time-to-time , rather more mobile than it used to be and I must say that we should I think all accept and I 'm sure we do that criminals do not have any particular respect for local authority boundaries er indeed the existence of the motorway system er despite the M25 does encourage mobility of crime and criminals to a very great extent . |
| 11 | The labour force is becoming more like the military with the use of a limited age range and the screening out of anyone with any kind of disability who might not be able to work at a pace and with the flexibility and precision which will maintain the return on the very large capital investment . |
| 12 | Julian whose home is at Seamer , near Scarborough is currently the assistant cruise director in the Caribbean and is returning home for the presentation ceremony next month . |
| 13 | — Maxine Barrie , the Shirley Bassey lookalike who came out on top in the Granada TV Stars In Your Eyes programme , is appearing tonight at the Shotton Hall Banqueting Suite , Peterlee in a Valentine 's Night Special . |
| 14 | Although Shaker has become fashionable and ‘ Shaker style ’ furniture is appearing all over the place , very little of it bears much relation to the real thing . |
| 15 | Thus , while the north has suffered most of the job loss resuIting from deindustrialization , the south is gaining most from the rise of new sectors . |
| 16 | Meals that last longer than twenty minutes indicate that the child is gaining more from the parent interaction than from the food . |
| 17 | Carl is banging away at the drums , |
| 18 | Corporate yuppie culture is oozing insidiously into the development world and the old order is slowly and inexorably crumbling . |
| 19 | Mr. Davies : When the Secretary of State next meets the chairman , will he tell him of the deep anger and resentment in west Wales that British Coal is walking away from the anthracite coalfield , with its enormous reserves of high quality and saleable coal ? |
| 20 | The Minister is walking away from the problem , and he must stop doing so . |
| 21 | LEFT Here a dog is walking properly down the street . |
| 22 | THE HOME OFFICE is pressing ahead with the deportation of a Kurdish refugee , in spite of protests from the United Nations High Commission for Refugees that his life could be in danger if he returns to Turkey . |
| 23 | Instead , Cypress is pressing ahead with the 66.7MHz implementation of its chip-set , which will be generally available from January in Tape Automated Bonding ( TAB ) packaged modules . |
| 24 | You have a misplaced disc which is pressing hard on the top of your spinal cord . ’ |
| 25 | Well , we want to let you know that a new church is opening just down the road from you . |
| 26 | For lack of information about what is happening elsewhere in the world , people record ‘ screendiaries ’ or ‘ mimic minimemoirs ’ ( 7 ) on their ‘ chatterscreen[s] ’ ( 127 ) . |
| 27 | I often wonder if the rolling activity at such times is happening well below the surface ; so far below that there can be no visible signs of disturbance , even in calm water . |
| 28 | Instead , we should be in tune with what is happening environmentally in the most progressive countries in Europe and throughout the world . |
| 29 | Instead , the oceanic plate , slid past the North American plate , much like what is happening today with the San Andreas fault . |
| 30 | What it means is what is happening today in the hearts of families and of the peoples ’ ( Vallejo : 1970 , p. 66 ) . |