Example sentences of "this is [adv] [v-ing] " in BNC.
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| 1 | As for printers the most common requirement is to print a table with a great many columns and this is easier using a wide carriage printer . |
| 2 | If organic is what you seek — and this is fast becoming big business — then try Dr Hugh Tripp 's fully organic Seyval wine from Avalon in Somerset ( 0749 86393 ) . |
| 3 | This is incredibly damaging . |
| 4 | Doubtless this is partly owing to echoes of the ending of Love 's Labours Lost , and also of Ambrose Philips 's ‘ Winter Piece ’ . |
| 5 | But this is surely nitpicking , in what can be viewed as a significant contribution to our knowledge of so many aspects relating to the ordinary citizens of Florence over a period of more than 200 years . |
| 6 | This is when knowing what is value-for-calories can really pay off . |
| 7 | ‘ This is however nearing the end of its useful life and is therefore currently under review . |
| 8 | This is strictly speaking an impossibility , in that it is impossible to do and have what we recognise as a knot without at some point letting go of the rope . |
| 9 | This is not aiding a suicide , since the patient is not , I submit , committing suicide , but only declining further medical care . |
| 10 | It may be said that this is not imagining the activity of a postman at all . |
| 11 | This is not catering for the indigenous population of Ayrshire and Arran . |
| 12 | The first one , I mean , er , this is not casting the stone , but this is the way I see 'em all . |
| 13 | With this lot , we 've got A add B , that 's one number , take away A minus B. That 's going to come to A add B , A take away A or A minus A and then take away A minus B , taking away A minus B is the same as adding a B. So the A take away A go out and this comes to two B. Now this is not using a long way , a long way round to do it . |
| 14 | MILLIONS are staked every week but officially this is not gambling at all . |
| 15 | This is not proving easy . |
| 16 | This is not proving easy . |
| 17 | ‘ Although this is not binding upon your Lordships , the United Kingdom is , of course , a party to the Convention for the Protection of Human Rights and Fundamental Freedoms and it is urged that it is at least desirable that the domestic law of the United Kingdom should accord with the decisions of the European Court of Human Rights under the Convention . |
| 18 | The report comments that with vigorous efforts it may be possible to raise this proportion this decade to say 20 per cent , but even this is not certain' . |
| 19 | This is not scaremongering . |
| 20 | He said : ‘ This is not scaremongering . |
| 21 | It should be noted that this is not looking ahead in the move-by-move sense . |
| 22 | This is not telling me much about the far side of the hill , he thought . |
| 23 | It must have been three or four seconds in before we both came simultaneously to the thought : this is not stopping . |
| 24 | While this is not measuring the effectiveness of the advertising , merely memory of it , it is possibly indicative . |
| 25 | This is not hitting from the top . |
| 26 | By itself this is not microteaching but the same principles can be applied even if a full programme is not being followed . |
| 27 | This is not bargaining with feelings or providing conditional love contingent on good behaviour . |
| 28 | This is not adding up ! |
| 29 | The uncomposed art informel of Gillet and his friend Maurice Ronet ( who left art for the theatre ) has its moments , or rather its small passages , but this is not painting that makes one reconsider painting . |
| 30 | Fortunately , this is not asking too much . |