Example sentences of "[adj] is [v-ing] [coord] " in BNC.
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| 1 | At present its imports are extremely limited , diplomats and tourists consuming some 150,000 cases a year , but this is changing and the market potential is for 35,000,000 cases , similar to the UK . |
| 2 | It is not the fault of the gypsies this is happening but short-sighted legislation . ’ |
| 3 | To know if this is happening and is likely to continue , use a cash flow chart . |
| 4 | Well , I think we should tell national office that this is , you know , this is happening and it 's not on ! |
| 5 | The number of unemployed is increasing and human beings have failed us , ’ he said . |
| 6 | Your care will mean that you 'll probably know if anything untoward is happening and you 'll be able to deal with any problems early on . |
| 7 | I find , tell you what I find difficult is thinking and learning in that class . |
| 8 | So I think we are actually obliged , and it 's right that people should be consulted , but there is a point about it that it takes an awful long time and that is actually the reason why we 've got er a whole programme of urban safety management schemes that er are taking a long time to develop , it 's almost two years now , and the main reason for that is toing and froing with different designs with members of the public and the worst thing we could do is actually put in a package of schemes which people say , well that 's not what we wanted anyway . |
| 9 | That is proceeding and I welcome it . |
| 10 | One of the major causes of water hardness , calcium ( and magnesium ) bicarbonate has the very useful property of buffering , that is preventing or reducing pH changes resulting from addition of acids or alkalis . |
| 11 | Hypnosis is rather like the former situation ; you are aware of all that is happening but , because it feels so right and so pleasant , you allow it to happen . |
| 12 | As soon as I see that a patient 's breathing pattern is changing dramatically or that the eye movement behind the closed lids is altering , I instruct him to be aware of and to understand all that is happening but to see it as if on a film or television screen , so that he is completely detached and feels no physical or mental distress whatsoever . |
| 13 | The UGT , together with a smaller union , the Sindicato Libre Ferroviario ( SLF ) that merged with it in 1984 , was predominant only among ‘ movement ’ staff ( that is signalling and station staff handling the control and movement of trains ) , and among the scarcely unionized technical and managerial staff ( Encinas 1986 : 182 ) . |
| 14 | Maybe summat special is happening and they 're rushing to get there , cos they look real excited and busy and hurrying to get some place . |
| 15 | Sun Microsystems Inc is licensing and deploying internally The Bristol Group 's Open Look/Sparc-based network fax system IsoFax and its new companion workgroup information manager PowerBase . |