Example sentences of "[is] getting [adv] " in BNC.
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| 1 | And I think what we 're doing here , is is getting ahead of that , and trying to look to the future of the consortium . |
| 2 | This is not unreasonable as CTS is usually used as a signal from a printer to indicate that the input buffer of the printer is getting nearly full . |
| 3 | I forgot the departmental meeting and I bawled out the wrong kid yesterday , there 's a stack of mail that I have n't even opened in my pigeon-hole , my marking is getting pretty cursory , and I have decided regretfully that I do n't have the energy to organize the third-year science field trip this year , nor the time to prepare properly for my A-level group . |
| 4 | Which is getting pretty close to near as dammit now . |
| 5 | Well it 's usually because the heart itself is getting either old or tired or it 's damaged in one way . |
| 6 | The process is painfully laborious , but with every announcement , IBM Corp is getting closer to acquiring the competitive edge that is the difference between survival and oblivion in the Unix business , and yesterday the company filled in a few gaps in its RS/6000 line , the most challenging development being a wind up of the clock on the single-chip Rios processor to create a 45MHz Model 230 , which starts at just $4,800 . |
| 7 | The process is painfully laborious , but with every announcement , IBM Corp is getting closer to acquiring the competitive edge that is the difference between survival and oblivion in the Unix business , and last week the company filled in a few gaps in its RS/6000 line , the most challenging development being a wind up of the clock on the single-chip Rios processor to create a 45MHz Model 230 , which starts at just $4,800 . |
| 8 | Does my right hon. Friend agree that the opinion poll improvement in the past few weeks reflects not only our excellent policy range but the fact that the election is getting closer and the best is yet to come ? |
| 9 | ‘ The world title has been the dream from day one ; the dream is getting closer . |
| 10 | ‘ The world title has been the dream from day one ; the dream is getting closer . |
| 11 | During the course of their conversation , to which Julia listened with only half her attention as she sipped her brandy , she learned that Jackson French was likely to be posted to London to play a part in the winding up of UNRRA later in the year and that Comfort herself was due to leave Venice in two days ' time ‘ now that Julia is getting well again' . |
| 12 | That she is more liable to leave work just when she is getting most useful [ in other words ] there are more changes in a crowd of women workers than in a crowd of men workers.32 |
| 13 | This is getting fucking regular this is . |
| 14 | This is getting positively incestuous . |
| 15 | Maddock reports that most firms are hostile to the idea of moving people between civil and military sectors : ‘ There already exists a large culture gap and it is getting even wider . ’ |
| 16 | The school-girl complexion is getting even duller ! |
| 17 | It is getting steadily worse and is moving westward with the stream of refugees , who , having eaten their last stores and sold everything that would buy a morsel of bread , are wandering they know not whither . |
| 18 | And the train is getting nearer |
| 19 | Finally the M forty is getting nearer . |
| 20 | Some will think him a spiritual butterfly , some an intellectual too ready to be hoodwinked ; but his searching has a definite progress to it , and the heights and depths encountered in this book make it clear that he is getting somewhere , often against his own will and inclination . |
| 21 | Can I just confirm with you Mr , that what I 've described in terms of geographical location , is getting somewhere near to meeting his objective . |
| 22 | At least one cave should be provided for the female to retire to if the male is getting overly aggressive in the courtship . |
| 23 | It is getting increasingly difficult to get into further education ’ . |
| 24 | Round-the-clock nursing , such as Elinor is getting here , would mean overseeing four nurses , organizing their schedules , plus providing meals , transport and the rest of it . ’ |
| 25 | My boyfriend is getting rather jealous . |
| 26 | I 'm sorry , it is getting rather hot in here . |
| 27 | I 've got better copies of the blank B one , but the handout is getting rather Right so if we 're looking at , we 'll complete the B one . |
| 28 | That is getting away from the old system whereby the County Council held a vast store of advisers in Macclesfield House , stacked up , and schools that needed them requested them and off they went , but schools in fact that wanted perhaps a different sort of advice , was n't able to get it from Macclesfield House , and could n't buy it outside because it did n't have the money to do so . |
| 29 | The situation is getting completely out of hand . |
| 30 | As you join us tonight , a torchlight procession is getting underway as doctors and patients protest against plans to cut services at their hospital . |