Example sentences of "is [adv] [v-ing] [adv prt] " in BNC.
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| 1 | On the western side this was always an area characterised by a militancy which is presumably going out of fashion now too . |
| 2 | The resulting pollution is effectively killing off the rivers and poisoning groundwater . |
| 3 | With a lift , the carer takes control of the patient 's full weight , so that he makes no effort in the manoeuvre , even when his feet are on the floor and he is effectively standing up . |
| 4 | The Cheviot housing association is slowly taking over property in South Meadowell . |
| 5 | For tonight 's game , Burscough will welcome back Gary Winn , who joins a squad that is slowly getting back to full strength . |
| 6 | Like it or lump it , the world is slowly turning on to Graphical User Interfaces , whether they be Windows , the Apple Mac 's operating system , or the Next — not forgetting OS/2 v 2.0 , of course . |
| 7 | The union is constantly looking out for ways like this to show promoters , record companies and the rest of the music industry the right way to treat musicians , and to remind the business yet again of their responsibility to put back into music just a small part of the rewards which they enjoy , thanks to the skills of musicians . |
| 8 | It refers not only to a present which is constantly breaking down to form reveal the fragments of the past , but a view of our surroundings which may seem whole and contiguous , but which in fact is forever splintering and reshaping itself as our minds piece together the fragments that our eyes actually perceive . |
| 9 | But their daughter is constantly ringing up to suggest they go to her in Wiltshire until he 's caught . |
| 10 | Thomas Gibson , 32 , who owns the shop with his sister Linda , 28 , is constantly running out of peas . |
| 11 | He is constantly coming up with bright ideas for making money . |
| 12 | The cost of keeping a horse is constantly going up while prize money is static . ’ |
| 13 | On the other hand , those might turn out to be right who think that man is responsible for but a very small part of the destruction of fish that is constantly going on ; and in that case a boat starting with equally good appliances and an equally efficient crew would be likely to get nearly as good a haul after the increase in the total volume of the fishing trade as before . |
| 14 | However , it has to be recognised both in collecting unemployment data and in interpreting the figures that the unemployment pool is constantly turning over . |
| 15 | The force is rightly stepping back from the limelight . |
| 16 | She still belongs to Hannah , and is merely boarding out . |
| 17 | He is merely stopping over en route from the Republic to Italy , where he plays rugby for Rovigo . |
| 18 | The index is invaluable to the person who is merely seeking out information on a limited topic . |
| 19 | In making this comment , one is merely pointing out particular ideological characteristics in hard-working , deeply religious , and committed people . |
| 20 | With Mr Christopher 's speech , America is merely catching up . |
| 21 | I think legislation is merely catching up on some policies . |
| 22 | The child who is cast in role as abbot of the cathedral is not identifying with some fictitious character called ‘ Abbot ’ , he is merely taking on an abbot 's function vis-à-vis the situation of being in charge of other people in the community , just as the football captain in a game is not playing a ‘ character ’ of a football captain , he is functioning in the required role of being in charge of his team . |
| 23 | She added : ‘ Even if we do n't take an altruistic approach its clear failure to act now is merely building up a very expensive problem for the future ’ . |
| 24 | There is no doubt that performance can be improved in many cases , but the fundamental question has to be asked whether such foliar feeding or boosting is merely making up and filling a gap left by normal cultivation that is not as good as it could be . |
| 25 | And of course your parents not wanting you to do something is merely putting out a fire with gasoline . |
| 26 | ‘ That job belongs to Stella , for whom Lucy is merely standing in . ’ |
| 27 | Claiming that it is merely cleaning up a technicality , the government , in clause 50 of the current finance bill , is cheerily trying to rewrite the law , retroactively , five years after the event . |
| 28 | In this connection thought appears to be divided almost on a national basis , English authors having resorted freely to the assumption that the sea is capable of cutting wide platforms in their interpretation of high level terraces , while American and continental authorities have been much more inclined to doubt whether the sea can cut a very wide bench unless there is progressive drowning of the land or unless the sea is merely trimming up a subaerial surface . |
| 29 | The initial reaction has been that if the Chancellor is only taking out a token sum in higher tax , then the scope for further cuts in interest rates has been severely diminished , and fixed-rate gilt-edged stocks were marked sharply lower . |
| 30 | However , this nutritional " recovery " is only tidying up the physical consequence of the disease . |