Example sentences of "is [v-ing] [prep] this " in BNC.
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| 1 | That erm the county council is pursuing at this er at this alteration . |
| 2 | Then one cold afternoon later that winter when we were all huddled round the fire for warmth from the snow falling outside , Dad sighed , looked at his mother 's photo and said , ‘ I wonder how yer Granny is faring in this cold weather ? ’ |
| 3 | If anyone shows deep concern that he is doubting in this way , it is a sure sign that he is not . |
| 4 | He is sticking to this view . |
| 5 | The consensus among observers has been that IBM Corp will find it needs to cut many more than the 25,000 positions it is targeting for this year , so there was little surprise when both the New York Times and the Wall Street Journal last week came out with independent stories saying the cuts would go much higher . |
| 6 | This has been one of the central preoccupations of ethnographic police research , especially that inspired by phenomenology and ethnomethodology , and so apposite is policing to this focus that many theoreticians from within phenomenology and ethnomethodology have used it for the application of their ideas ( Cicourel 1968 ; Pollner 1987 ; Sacks 1972 ; Sudnow 1965 ) . |
| 7 | BRAIN surgeon Fred Nath is competing in this year 's gruelling Yorkshire Moors Race in a bid to help two handicapped Romanian children . |
| 8 | An opinion expressed by Karen Brutents , the senior Soviet official and Third World specialist , is revealing in this context . |
| 9 | We are delighted that Anke Rohlfs , guest teacher at our 1982 Summer Course , is returning for this year 's International Summer course , and once again we are able to use the facilities at Green Park Centre , Aston Clinton , Bucks . |
| 10 | ‘ I 've come to use the fair as promotion , and I think everyone is returning to this idea after the end of the bonanza period . ’ |
| 11 | WACC is cooperating in this respect with the Professional Education Section of the International Association for Mass Communication Research ( IAMCR ) and their partners in the South . |
| 12 | This aspect of Relativity is difficult fully to understand , but in simplest terms we can say that it is impossible to consider whatever is happening at this moment on & alpha Centauri , about 4.5 lightyears away , as sharing a ‘ now ’ with whatever is happening here . |
| 13 | Tony , but there is an accepted group of members who are taking a very close and efficient interest in what is happening at this er |
| 14 | I would , before passing on the next part of our programme , I would like to warmly thank Judy and Simon and Richard and Tony , not only for their presentations , their carefully thought out presentations to give us as broad a span as possible of how they see the priorities , what is happening at this time , but for everything else they do in leading their teams and initiating so many of the exchanges that take place , which adds so much , as has been said by , both by Judy and by other speakers , to carry N C V O forward . |
| 15 | When it flies away it may be Pursued until it has left the vicinity — as is happening with this beleaguered golden eagle being chased by a group of aggressive ravens . |
| 16 | What on earth is happening in this mysterious house ? |
| 17 | We should beware of supposing that , if Pound from the shades is looking at this present occasion , he is unreservedly gratified by what he sees . |
| 18 | Part of the pleasure of reading Lewis , when it is a pleasure , is meeting with this figure . |
| 19 | There are many signs that Ian Smith himself is seeking for this guidance . |
| 20 | It is according to this . |
| 21 | Finally , the variety of ways in which linguistic terms have been applied to literary narrative suggests that even in the most linguistically conscious theories of literature , the role of linguistics remains subservient : it can never supply literary analysis with prescriptive procedures when it is operating at this level of the literary text . |
| 22 | But though the machinery of government is developing in this direction , there is insufficient willingness to face the facts , to give up some of the pretences left over from the old period of vigorous , participatory democracy in order to remove the anomalies and rationalize the system . |
| 23 | Linguistically and culturally they are related to the Semai about whom Robarchek is writing in this volume . |
| 24 | ‘ I warn you , the man called Carnelian is hurrying towards this spaceport . ’ |
| 25 | By analysing the products he is selling in this way , a salesman will communicate in terms which are meaningful to buyers and therefore be more convincing . |
| 26 | ‘ Everybody is going after this market , ’ says Gary Eichhorn , head of Hewlett-Packard 's workstation group . |
| 27 | See how the pain is going from this man ! |
| 28 | The gardens outside my window are bowing down to the heat of the afternoon , but my mind is racing in this stillness , like a dust devil on the apparently windless plains . |
| 29 | Took a walk in the fields saw an old wood stile taken away from a favourite spot which it had occupied all my life the posts were overgrown with Ivy & it seemed so akin to nature & the spot where it stood as tho it had taken it on lease for an undisturbed existance it hurt me to see it was gone for my affections claims a friendship with such things but nothing is lasting in this world last year Langley Bush was destroyd an old white thorn that had stood for more than a century full of fame the gipsies shepherds & herdmen all had their tales of its history & it will be long ere its memory is forgotten . |
| 30 | What is lacking at this stage is for some imaginative research laboratory or university department to contact serious UFO researchers and design an experimental study for these UAPs . |