Example sentences of "[adv] [adv] [conj] [pron] is [v-ing] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Sheila admits that food additives are a great worry — so much so that she is investigating the possibility of growing her own exotic vegetables in a hothouse . |
| 2 | So long as yu is living an yu want eat food |
| 3 | So long as you know how far it is to the line , and so long as someone is calling out the time to the start , you just need to judge your speed correctly . |
| 4 | Planning each outing is good training for the patient : if he has difficulties with programming , you might go over the plan with him each time before he goes out , and ask him to say out loud exactly where he is going and how he is going to get there . |
| 5 | Footballers and all other competitive sports people stay out but cricketers scurry back inside just when it is getting interesting . |
| 6 | It is easy to be tolerant of members of other races if one is confident of one 's own standing in society ; much harder if one is competing against immigrants for a council house and a low-paid job . |
| 7 | ‘ I said when I came back to Williams that it was a two-year plan , so probably if it is going to happen it has got to be this year because of the way it 's been structured . |
| 8 | Nevertheless it seems to me that Gironella is right , or that he is right in so far as he is using ‘ mestizo ’ to claim for his work a Mexican , not a European identity . |
| 9 | She has spent much of the last ten years establishing herself and securing her home base , and it is only now that she is beginning to realize her potential . |
| 10 | Thus a car dealer does not obtain the protection and that is so even if he is buying the vehicle for his own private purposes and not for his business purposes , Stevenson v. Beverley Bentinck ( 1976 C.A. ) . |
| 11 | Although there are conflicting dicta it seems that an owner who is not in occupation of the land at the time when the thing escapes is liable if he has authorised the accumulation , and that anyone who collects the dangerous thing and has control of it at the time of the escape would be liable , perhaps even when he is carrying it along the highway and it escapes therefrom . |
| 12 | A tail-wheel with a rubber tyre will resist skidding sideways over tarmac , but it will not grip quite so well when it is bouncing over rough grass . |
| 13 | Multinationals , they have erm , , doing much better abroad than it is doing in France . |
| 14 | The next stage is to let the model drift slowly backwards until it is hovering alongside you or , in calm conditions , turn it until it is sideways on . |
| 15 | Yet conflict may be handled more effectively if what is going on within is taken into account as well as what is going on at the surface . |
| 16 | If the system does n't come up with them much more convincingly than it is doing at present , then they will probably be found outside . |
| 17 | Once again though she is enjoying pre-eminence in the taste or pre-adolescent spring — as evinced by the success of the song ‘ Stay ’ . |
| 18 | In all your efforts to help her at this crucial time the most important thing to remember is to try to reduce her anxiety by being as relaxed and quietly optimistic about her future as you can , and to restrain her from making any major decisions hastily , regarding such matters as the disposal of property or moving house , as she may regret this later on when she is feeling less depressed . |
| 19 | She added : ‘ From now on though it is staying firmly on my finger . |
| 20 | They may get away with a trick or two , but only for as long as nobody is watching too closely . |
| 21 | Secure the door to the archway so that it is ajar , and stick the pixie 's head behind so that it is peeping out from behind the door . |
| 22 | ‘ The human says that the end is now near and he is facing a curtain , ’ the Thing translated . |
| 23 | ‘ It 's going really well and everybody is enjoying making an effort for such a worthy cause , ’ he said . |
| 24 | But it too uses passive tests most frequently when it is studying female subjects . |
| 25 | You should , therefore , make every attempt to be in the first row , going fast as the gun goes and , ideally , with a space to leeward so that no-one is making you pinch . |