Example sentences of "that [is] [v-ing] [adv] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Nor is this just a problem that is eating away the character of historic towns and conservation areas . |
| 2 | This is even more confusing because the predator receives the impression that it is approaching a fish that is swimming straight towards it . |
| 3 | Israel is thrilled at the pace of absorption , and accuses the Arab world of manufacturing false conflict and fear ; a conflict that is whipping up greater hostility among two peoples who claim the same land . |
| 4 | Guglielmi reckons that it is the system software that is slowing down innovation for applications and hardware . |
| 5 | No country has yet settled on how to rid itself forever of the thousands of tonnes of highly radioactive nuclear waste that is piling up at power plants . |
| 6 | In the central offices of the Relief and Rehabilitation Commission , Shimelis Aduna , the head of the organisation , puts in perspective the aid that is getting through . |
| 7 | Until quite recently , the Japanese had very few problems with back pain ; now it is a problem that is getting rapidly more common . |
| 8 | Is it some aspect of your work or your life that is getting out of control ? |
| 9 | Finally , it is quite in order to conclude with a brief mention of any potentially useful information that is lacking either because it is not available to you or because it has never been collected ( but could be ) . |
| 10 | This gives it a bite that is lacking in much sociological research , which remains descriptive and under-theorized , and which sees all meaning systems as logically equal . |
| 11 | Out of the European Cup and the Coca-Cola Cup , he wants to strengthen the side quickly to rescue a season that is fading fast . |
| 12 | In a spirit of friendship across the Floor of the House , I have to say that if the hon. Gentleman really thinks that he advances the cause of housing by denigrating my hon. Friend the Minister for Housing and Planning , he displays an ignorance that is staggering even by Labour party standards . |
| 13 | ( Ironically , now that the extent of this leakage is being understood , there are too many reservoirs , collecting too much water for a depressed industrial market that is switching away from water-guzzling businesses like iron and steel . ) |
| 14 | NCR Corp has finally abandoned the traditional mainframe business , driven out of it by another company that is hanging on in there by its fingernails . |
| 15 | It is this attempt to redesign the genetic instructions of living organisms and utilise them on an industrial scale that is creating so much excitement and concern " . |
| 16 | The fluctuations are superimposed on a baseline that is drifting steadily downwards . |
| 17 | Silla took its name from the $1b Korean conglomerate that is providing much but reportedly not all of its funding . |
| 18 | It is the question of how this transition takes place that is holding up the calling of an extraordinary general meeting for the purposes of formalising the arrangement . |
| 19 | The circulating system wanders a little closer , deepens , is classified under a new title — a moderate tropical storm — and is given a name , Agnes perhaps , or Bob , an innocent , unassuming , rather cosy , old-fashioned sort of name that makes no connection in anybody 's mind with a swirling mass of warm air and piled clouds that is bearing down on the coast , thunder and lightning flickering from its belly , the waves beneath it being whipped up into a fury . |
| 20 | ‘ Trine Micheson , ex-Miss Denmark and currently Europe 's top glamour model , is set to smash the drug culture that is destroying so many young lives today . |
| 21 | There is always a danger of war when you have a face to face confrontation that is building up in the Gulf at the moment . |
| 22 | One that is tasting particularly well at the moment is 1989 Nobilo 's Dixon Vineyard Reserve Chardonnay , which is available from Asda for £8.99 , the Australian Wine Centre ( £9.49 ) and Averys of Bristol ( £9.26 ) which supplies by mail order ( 0272 214141 ) . |
| 23 | A reasonable model for Sgr A is the corona of a black hole that is accreting very subcritically , with synchrotron radiation extending to the mid-infrared . |
| 24 | His target was ‘ the spate of mean building all over the country that is shrivelling up the Old England — mean and perky little houses that surely none but mean and perky little souls should inhabit with satisfaction ’ ( p. 15 ) . |
| 25 | Have you been of work for a while then with the dreaded flu ? ? . i hope your little one did not catch it it is a particularly strong virus that is going around at the moment . |
| 26 | Nearly half a century after those dark days , 300 girls attending secondary schools will spend time over the next two weeks on a bus that is going nowhere . |
| 27 | The only one that is going ahead is in the Fens , north of Cambridge , at Westmere . |
| 28 | Concentration has nothing to do with gritting your teeth and braving it out ; it 's the secret of being more and more relaxed and aware of everything that is going on at the same time . |
| 29 | It enables everyone involved to understand the Process that is going on , it makes it possible for grieving people to be looked after for a while , but not to sink into a chronic mourning state , because everyone knows when it is meant to be finished , and when the bereaved people are meant to pick up their responsibilities again . |
| 30 | Mutuality is at the heart of the Godhead , ‘ the divine litany , the Father to Son to Spirit communication that is going on in the life of God himself . ’ |