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

No	Sentence
1	Mm , it 's not not rotating somewhere is it ?
2	Weeping alone is painful .
3	In general the gap between lip-reading with fingerspelling , and lip-reading alone is greatest for comprehension of larger units such as sentences , and least for single words .
4	Eating sensibly is vitally important for health , and good health will help you enjoy life to the full .
5	IT 'S AEROBIC — The key to walking aerobically is to walk at a pace of 3.5 — 4.0 miles per hour for a minimum of 20 minutes , during which time the heart rate is elevated to 60–85 per cent of its
6	Therefore a person who kills while driving carelessly is not guilty of this form of manslaughter , but may be guilty of reckless manslaughter .
7	Fear of dying alone is , of course , the most basic and primitive fear .
8	Driving away is hard to do .
9	I keep forgetting that … that what 's been happening tonight is all new to you .
10	In the singulative mode there is a balance between the number of times an event occurs and the number of times it is narrated ( an event occurring once is narrated once and an event occurring x times is narrated x times ) .
11	With 158 still needed from the last twenty-two overs , the later batsmen never had a chance , perishing quickly is they threw the bat .
12	Driving home is a dangerous chore .
13	The argument that a ban will drive ivory trading underground is plainly absurd , since up to 90 per cent of all ivory currently in trade has come from elephants illegally slaughtered by poachers .
14	And lurking also is the eventual tax effect .
15	But what is happening now is worse than discretionary whim , it is an echo of the power of the means-test " nark " of the 1930s who could make people sell their goods and chattels before qualifying for relief .
16	Yeah , not used to driving behind is he ?
17	In summer 1984 a Commission scientist wrote in Coal and Energy Quarterly , a journal funded by and used as a mouthpiece for the National Coal Board , that ‘ there is no damage [ in British conifers ] that can be defined as new ’ and ‘ the chances of similar damage [ to that in West Germany ] occurring here is considered low . ’
18	Opening tomorrow is the centre 's shop , tearoom , demonstration garden and exhibition hall .
19	Its sheer size , mountain locality and NE aspect mean climbing here is of a serious nature .
20	‘ I hope that what is happening here is not happening all over the country .
21	What is happening here is barbaric and totally unnecessary .
22	Intuitively , what is happening here is that the force which argues for an increase in output ( fall in prices ) from the double marginalization position in monopoly is being outweighed by a force which argues for a decrease in output ( increase in price ) from the duopoly position .
23	What is happening here is that a medrese , normally of the grade , is being turned , into a medrese .
24	And wh what tends to happen is the dreams are , are , are repetitive , although they often vary in small details , and the idea is , or this was Freud 's , Freud 's idea , and basically it 's the same as his explanation of anxiety dreams , that , that what is happening here is that the mind has got a very disturbing latent content that it ca n't forget .
25	They usually do n't stop dead , they usually dec decelerate , so what 's happening here is I 'll just draw it up here .
26	What is happening here is simply that the additional real money supply is being held in speculative or ‘ idle ’ balances .
27	Well what 's happening here is all the cars are stopped and there all one behind the other
28	Well it 's in keeping then is n't it ?
29	‘ Besides , Crocker says walking upstairs is the best exercise in the world for me with my high blood pressure . ’
30	Most walkers use the good choice of refuges , hotels and gîtes — though booking ahead is not easy and you 're committed to reaching a bed each night .