Example sentences of "is [adv] [v-ing] [adv prt] " in BNC.
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| 31 | Clarity Software Inc , the Mountain View , California-based company that when born promised to be the Unix version of Lotus Development Corp , is only limping along , a year after it first started shipping product . |
| 32 | Yet private investment , a critical test of success , is only trickling in . |
| 33 | therefore it is quite important to grasp at this stage that moving the lace carriage to transfer stitches is only setting up the pattern of holes that will next be knitted in by the main carriage . |
| 34 | Peter also commented that the MIG-15 currently sitting in a corner of TFC 's hangar is only transiting through and will not be flying with TFC . |
| 35 | This is only looking back close on fifty years . |
| 36 | In the event , however , the project occurred in neither of these areas : not in Barnet because the psychogeriatric service was still in the process of development ; nor in Southwark because , although there was an enormous amount of goodwill and enthusiasm for the project , the social services unions ( particularly the joint Home Helps Shop Stewards Committee ) decided that they could not endorse cooperation with the project , the main reason being that they felt — mistakenly in our view — that a project which employed its own carers might be a threat to the employment of local authority home helps , and that ‘ to endorse such a service is not helping the elderly in the long term , it is only carrying out this Government 's stratagem in closing Homes and hospitals ’ . |
| 37 | This is only going on very quietly |
| 38 | And people may be wondering why they 're going up by so much , when after all , the S S A , and that is the figure that we 're restricted to set by the government , is only going up by three point three percent , and half of this is for care in the community money , so that , all that care in the community money remember , pound for pound in that it 's added to our budget , is knocked off the budget of Social Security , that is not , not any extra money spent on people . |
| 39 | As we stumble in , Mad Richard from Verve is inadvertently pulling down chunks of the ceiling . |
| 40 | While private investors may be cautious about new issues , institutional demand is apparently holding up . |
| 41 | Open Systems World , to be written by Digital Review 's old staff , is apparently picking up some of System Integration 's circulation and advertisers — but for a book that 's supposed to debut in October , as space sales types say they have n't seen hide nor hair of its space reps on the street . |
| 42 | Digital Equipment Corp is apparently gearing up to launch its VAXft 810 fault-tolerant box , originally due in August , sometime in the first quarter : DEC has merged its fault-tolerant development unit into the general Alpha-VAX Systems operation . |
| 43 | The first Unix Reseller Show & Conference , set for May 4–6 , 1993 in Dallas , is apparently coming out of the blocks stronger than anticipated . |
| 44 | The ticket clerk , who is a villainous-looking Copt , is apparently adding up the monetary results of his last night 's murders , and dislikes being interrupted . |
| 45 | Why can not this Tory Government honour their pledge under the treaty to get rid of nuclear weapons , which will mean the withdrawal of Polaris — which is literally cracking up — and the saving of £10 billion on Trident , to be spent on the national health service to care for lives instead of threatening them with mass murder ? |
| 46 | It seems to me to be perverse in the extreme to attempt to resist the claim that the brain is literally carrying out these functions . |
| 47 | And while she might not have done herself a lot of favours over the last five years , it has to be concluded that she is better getting out while the going 's still good . |
| 48 | ‘ The work is obviously piling up , and there 's always the worry that my clients might get cheesed off and take their business elsewhere . |
| 49 | Sparc laptop house , San Diego , California-based , RDI Corp , is finally getting around to telling us that it 's out of the kidding around stage and trying to become a real company . |
| 50 | Thirty-nine years after Roy became a schoolboy football star on the front page of the then new comic , Tiger , he is finally bowing out of big time . |
| 51 | From a technical point of view this is mainly nip and tuck stuff , but Microsoft is betting that the innovative use of existing technology will be a winner and is finally cashing in on all the application programming interfaces , dynamic data exchange , object linking and embedding facilities that it has been burying in its applications and operating systems for the last couple of years . |
| 52 | But while it is easy working out how many bedrooms and bathrooms you want , arranging them into an attractive plan that suits your site is another matter entirely . |
| 53 | In a Court of Appeal decision , reported in the same volume as the case from which the passage above is taken , Lord Denning thought that there was a breach of the peace ‘ whenever a person who is lawfully carrying out his work is unlawfully and physically prevented by another from doing it ’ . |
| 54 | There is a breach of the peace whenever a person who is lawfully carrying out his work is unlawfully and physically prevented by another from doing it . ’ |
| 55 | The rest of me is just catching up . |
| 56 | Well the other thing that 's in the back of my mind is I happen to know that Cath is just taking on a new worker |
| 57 | ‘ The evidence is just piling up against him , ’ he said with glee . |
| 58 | I 'll get back from work and one of our boys is just getting up , or another day they 'll all be just sat there , and you 'll find all the bread 's gone . |
| 59 | Alan Murdoch , personnel director of NCR , cited the problems which even this unusually enlightened engineering company had come up against in trying to tap this under-used management resource — an apparent lack of ambition that drives women into ‘ support ’ roles , the fact that child-bearing age co-incides with that age-span when the potential top manager is just getting up to speed , the lack of female engineering-oriented managers from which to select . |
| 60 | I think all that stuff is just lying down in the face of the mass media . |