Example sentences of "[Wh det] is [v-ing] [noun sg] is " in BNC.

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1 Food which is undergoing irradiation is placed in front of an opening in a lead box full of Cobalt-60 or Caesium 137 , both radioactive substances .
2 That it must be language acquisition therefore which is taking place is clear , not only because of these simple observations but because of the fact that the rules of BSL have never been researched sufficiently until now for there to be a language learning situation .
3 Others argue that what is taking place is the withdrawal of ‘ extraordinary means for survival ’ .
4 When humans exchange information using language , one way of accounting for what is taking place is to see the process as the generation of a model of discourse by the participants .
5 On Feb. 10 , at a press conference in Amman , Hammadi dismissed the Iranian peace proposals , saying : " We have told Iran that what is taking place is unrelated to Kuwait .
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