Example sentences of "[det] is [adv] [be] " in BNC.
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| 1 | This is presently being investigated and will be published elsewhere . |
| 2 | The use of successive pumice or ash deposits in building up a history of the eruptive activity in an area is known as tephrachronology , and this is increasingly being used to add precision to the study of the history of volcanic areas . |
| 3 | This is not being facetious ; the subject is not straightforward . |
| 4 | The extent to which this is not being accomplished reflects the competing pressures on those authorities . |
| 5 | The clerk of works ought to visit the centre on a monthly basis and sign the log book but this is not being done . |
| 6 | It 's a scandal that this is not being adequately treated at the moment . |
| 7 | This is not be say that courses are all similar , for the methods of covering the ground are probably very varied , giving as much variety as in any other course of study . |
| 8 | This is probably being excessively pedantic ; it is fairly clear what " such payment " is intended to mean , but it does illustrate another problem — the difficulties which the word 'such " may cause . |
| 9 | This is where is lacking in a little bit of er you know authority or she 's not quite sure right . |
| 10 | ‘ This is already being reflected in the strong advance in sales and reservations we have experienced in recent weeks , ’ said Bellway 's chairman , Kenneth Bell . |
| 11 | This is already being openly described as the most stringent exercise in public spending constraints for decades . |
| 12 | And she was sort of telling Sue to do this , and Sue said this is n't is it ? |
| 13 | The till , the till locks , and erm we used to assemble those as well and er it was a fortunate one who used to do the lacquering , there was a big er big erm heated table and er it was easy work to do the lacquering you see and you used to have to put them on the top of the heated tower to dry before they were packed to go away , but erm they were , it was a hard place to work for but er the one son Mr he was always in London and er this is n't being recorded now is it , is it ? |
| 14 | There are indeed many fields where this is actively being pursued , but the work at present lacks cohesion . |
| 15 | It has not proved possible as yet to get a Homeopathic lecturer but this is still being followed up and will be fitted into a future programme . |
| 16 | The other question I 've got is presumably all this is still being done within what we 've got in the budget , or is it , are there going to be extra bids ? |
| 17 | This is currently being drafted by Colin Herridge , the club 's secretary , who said : ‘ Deliberate foul play can not be condoned . ’ |
| 18 | This is currently being undertaken in Britain , which has the fourth largest telephone system in the world . |
| 19 | Metrocast already needs frequency-agile paging to cope with the fragmented US market , and this is now being extended for British businessmen who travel to the States . |
| 20 | Feminists have , until recently , paid scant attention to their older sisters but this is now being remedied . |
| 21 | A dirt track drops from the Tizi n'Test to Souk Sebt , but this is now being extended too produce can flow in and out : an extraordinary effort . |
| 22 | DEC appears to have chosen not to publicise the fact — reported here back in February ( UX No 423 ) that its preferred Unix implementation , OSF/1 , can also run Unix SVR4 and Ultrix applications natively — the built-in compatibility framework that allows this is now being called Habitat . |
| 23 | This is now being reflected in the high rates of lung cancer and heart disease among women . |
| 24 | Record Companies : The state recording company has held a monopoly up to now , but this is now being eroded by the emergence of independent labels . |
| 25 | All this is now being challenged by the more aggregative metaphors associated with modular courses , student choice , accessibility and flexibility , credit transfer and part-time study ( Squires 1979 ) . |
| 26 | This is now being managed by the Chief Executive . |
| 27 | This is now being reflected in all parts of a transaction , including the legal documentation , and legal advisers are expected to respond accordingly . |
| 28 | The mayoress appealed to them to drop the case and this is now being considered by the Crown Prosecution Service . |
| 29 | That was then and this is now was the message from ministers and harassed officials yesterday . |
| 30 | This is only being put forward , not because it 's a spare capacity , but because it 's a choice between selling something and getting income , or cutting a service somewhere else . |