Example sentences of "is just [v-ing] [prep] " in BNC.

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1 And the actor says he feels that life is just beginning at 50 .
2 In reality , another story is just beginning for the victims of survivors , and until recently it was often a lonely or difficult one .
3 Because if you read the motion she is just looking for the rights of an individual and rule , rule six in the rule book applies the laws of natural justice , which we 're all for , the C E C agree , we 're all for it .
4 This is where we had some sort of car this is just looking at hardness of water actually , but this is , you 've got the C O three
5 I 'm taking here about pure , blind betting of someone who is not attempting to exercise any skill but is just looking at the odds offered by the bookies , and pointing out — and I 'll have a table to demonstrate this in the talk I give at the Open Day — the way in which the rate of return on bets made in this way decreases steadily the longer the odds are offered .
6 But Lewis said : ‘ George Foreman is just thinking about the Mike Tyson scenario .
7 Now I suppose this is just appealing to my sense of power or something , being able to walk in and take charge and in a minute or two they 've settled down and they 're not panicking because you 've arrived and all their burdens are on your shoulders and they do n't have to worry any more because the doctor 's there … this I find profoundly satisfying as long as I can , in fact , cope with what 's happening .
8 Across the region , the battle for power is just getting under way ; 4 County Councils are now hung .
9 ‘ A friend of mine , Peter Matthews from Dublin , came off one in the Isle of Man in May and fell on his head and is just getting over it now .
10 The only other comment I had in terms of the scale of settlement , which I think is just touching upon the next point , is that , I mean depending on the conclusions you reach as to the the amount of housing to be provided for in a new settlement , I take the point that Mr Brighton made that you 've got to have a longer term perspective I think that he f that in the ten year period ninety six to two thousand and six that the new settlements to be brought forward during , erm I think it 's really unrealistic to achieve more than twelve fifty , fourteen hundred houses in that period , if you say reach a conclusion there should be two thousand houses in that period in a new settlement , there might be some benefit in having two settlements , each of a capacity of say twelve fifty , f for erm twelve fifty to fifteen hundred that can have capacity for the next plan period , and in other words to assist in meeting the constraints that exist on York that are likely to exist into the future .
11 Indeed , the company is just drawing to the end of a five- year £150 million capital investment programme .
12 Africa is just serving as a mirror for the West 's new ideologies .
13 A BAND which chooses a lemon-shape as its logo is just asking for trouble .
14 And this is just asking for trouble . ’
15 The treaty has been signed , sealed and is just waiting to be delivered .
16 That beast is just waiting for his chance .
17 This looks as if the intervention is effective but it may be that the child is just responding to rewards rather than learning new behaviour .
18 The ‘ whistlation ’ lasted four days , as the pioneer had to repeat himself 808 million times , until someone realised he was whistling the words , ‘ this is just going to be a short whistle because I have very sore throat . ’
19 And they may not be able to cope with that , which is why I am always a little bit anxious if marriages break up very quickly , because it might indicate that what they 're really doing is just going into that second phase .
20 She tells me that ‘ the mother is just going through the process of grieving for the child she has n't had ’ ( the child is already eight months old ) : the health visitor 's instruction in the art of creating unpersons has been exemplary , and no doubt she is keen to pass this on to the mother .
21 And so that you could send them the information about it all , and then James is just talking into the camera , saying , oh I 'm really glad that this is happening , the band 's gon na be really happy , finally we 're on our way , bla bla , and then it ends .
22 and I think that is just gon na create you know , a bigger ignorance amongst young people erm , you know a bigger ignorance about contraception itself
23 they can say , yeah , th the project Q S is just gon na say , measure me all
24 This is just gon na secure my future when I retire .
25 They boss is just gon na keep sending messages until one finally gets through .
26 And for yourself , and what we do n't wan na do is like I say , is spend money that is just gon na disappear and say shit !
27 But the thing is , there 's been that many changes now , so having a bloody Labour government is just gon na be back to square one and into reverse you know , and go back .
28 A lot of what 's erm you know , going on now , I mean , is just gon na go off as far I 'm concerned cos I mean I 've already made up my mind .
29 But this elaborate operation it 's claimed only goes to prove that hooliganism rather than disappearing is just lurking beneath the surface .
30 In Durham , work on a £20 million contract secured in 1992 is just commencing at Rye Hill .
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