Example sentences of "is [v-ing] [coord] [pron] [is] " in BNC.
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| 1 | It 's a word which everyone is using and it 's almost like confetti . |
| 2 | Either it is raining or it is not raining . |
| 3 | It is raining and he is hostile but beauty always moves the goal-posts ; no sooner has he said , ‘ Go away . |
| 4 | He answers , ‘ She is cooking and she is eating . |
| 5 | The expansion of forestry by means of a policy of attrition and isolation of farms is occurring but it is not necessarily a process which in the long term will lead to a reasonable balance of land use . |
| 6 | Well , I think we should tell national office that this is , you know , this is happening and it 's not on ! |
| 7 | Yet this is exactly what is happening and it is also happening with the schools in a reactive stance . |
| 8 | Mr Brown 's girlfriend is dying and he 's really cut up about it . |
| 9 | Through collecting up-to-the-minute information on what is selling and what is n't , and then making it available to suppliers via EDI , it becomes possible to achieve a stock replenishment process that is highly responsive to customer demand . |
| 10 | Both days were a great success and it was good to see so many people looking round the plant and seeing for themselves where our effort is going and what is being achieved . ’ |
| 11 | Denis Smith says he 's always been a Stoke fan and his name always comes into the reckoning when the job is going and he 's made no secret of the fact that he 'd like to manage the club |
| 12 | That confidence is lacking and there is nothing — except Sir John Wheeler 's unwise comment about the IRA 's defeat — to suggest that it can be restored . |
| 13 | If your man 's hair is thinning or he 's bald , he can cut down the chances of getting a burnt head by using high-protection skin suncream or get on the hair and scalp . |
| 14 | I thought I had some information here on prices I ca n't seem to find it no no , ca n't find it , never , never mind I 've got some figures here that looks at erm the growth in in trade , er it 's quoting , it says between nineteen eighty and nineteen eighty nine the volume of agricultural trade grew by twenty six percent alright , however that was that represented one third of the growth in manufacturers so agricultural trade is rising but it 's rising much less rapidly than manufacturers here are the prices , at the same time , so between nineteen eighty and nineteen eighty nine er food export prices fell the prices actually fell from eleven percent , t , by eleven percent whereas the unit value of manufactured exports , so essentially the prices of manufactured exports rose on average by twenty percent okay so over the , over that period agricultural prices were actually falling in real terms but if we widen erm s the window that we 're looking at , erm , agricultural prices probably have n't fallen er say over the post war period or if we er go back to the beginning of the century , agricultural prices probably have n't fallen erm but relative to manufacturing they certainly have okay . |
| 15 | The deficit is rising and it is time , to use a phrase coined by the Wall Street Journal , to end these ‘ fiscal follies ’ . |
| 16 | Khovanshchina is so : you see what happens , someone is coming or someone is angry or unhappy or he 's making a political move or it 's coming from the heart . |
| 17 | It 's not always easy to remember these principles when you are tired , someone has soiled themselves yet again , another person is crying and it 's time to start serving lunch . |
| 18 | Yes erm but it is begging and it is it is pagan . |
| 19 | It is running but it 's not showing us anything |
| 20 | I think a good example to use with younger people with er pe with pensions as well is that the , the er the cutting down of funding that the government is making and it 's going to be hitting like the younger people and another important thing is like with the , with the Australia issue , I mean in Australia now it 's compulsory for everybody under the age of twenty five to have a personal pension and that r and that age rise is going to , that age limit is going to rise each time because they want to abolish the State pension completely and it was only , what , what about two months ago that there was , that there was er articles in I think it was The Times about them doing a similar operation in this country , you know ? |
| 21 | ‘ Poverty is increasing and it 's being called dependency . |
| 22 | B. Life in Britain is changing and it is changing more and more quickly . |
| 23 | His life expectancy is falling and he is seven times as likely to be murdered as a white boy . |
| 24 | ‘ The IRA are sure that somebody in the organisation is talking and it 's really put the wind up some people . |
| 25 | World trade is fallin' an' there 's a lot of unemployment about . |
| 26 | ‘ It 's been a fine day , the sun is setting and somebody is telling you your daughter has been murdered . |
| 27 | There was the distorted thud-thud of someone who is n't certain if their microphone is working and who is tapping it experimentally . |
| 28 | • Check that your child 's heart is beating and he is breathing regularly and , if necessary , give artificial respiration ( see Not Breathing ) . |