Example sentences of "is [v-ing] be " in BNC.
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| 31 | The best way to understand what is happening is to make a manual slip pattern on the machine , before we move on to electronic patterning . |
| 32 | ‘ Some argue that what is happening is a form of direct killing . |
| 33 | What is happening is that women have shown their competence in practice and this has helped to change machista attitudes . |
| 34 | And yes , it should concern you because what is happening is that our transports are disappearing . |
| 35 | What is happening is that the English rural landscape is slowly becoming divided into three major types in the lowlands . |
| 36 | But what is happening is that private care is beginning to recreate some of the practices that the statutory authorities have been working away from . |
| 37 | Yet already the urgent need to know what is happening is fading . |
| 38 | ‘ But what is happening is shared internal experiences that become easy to share with somebody who has been undergoing the same kind of experience , then you can find out a lot more of what you 've undergone because people will find different ways of describing it , different metaphors . ’ |
| 39 | Our assessment has always been , and continues to be , of a very … complex kind , because what is happening is that people are getting feedback from us all by working with us . |
| 40 | The point at issue is that what is happening is not only a tragedy of today but a portent of tomorrow . |
| 41 | What is happening is that generally the Black movement for liberation is defined from a male perspective . |
| 42 | It looks as if sex evolved because it 's in the interest of genes to constantly be re-combined self interest not always in company with the same others may want to be er mixing themselves up , so they launch themselves in continually different combinations , and this presumably each gene what , what , what is happening is a constant filtering process all the time , by means of which natural selection is working on basically random changes in the final point I want to make and that 's |
| 43 | An outcome such as 4 raises A's utility to and B's to Intuitively , what is happening is that A 's loss of utility from the reduction of her own income is being more than compensated for by the knowledge that B 's income is also falling . |
| 44 | ‘ But what is happening is shared internal experiences that become easy to share with somebody who has been undergoing the same kind of experience , then you can find out a lot more of what you 've undergone because people will find different ways of describing it , different metaphors . ’ |
| 45 | What I hope ( and would like to think ) is happening is that the children are aware of the onlookers , but that they 're making a choice to stay in role ; that their engagement with the issues and the problems of the drama is what is keeping them intent on their work . |
| 46 | The point of issue is that estuary and coastal zone management is a reality and what seems to be happening is all sorts of different plans are popping up on various estuaries and Geoff knows them well now because he 's been involved with the one on the Stour and Orwell and what is happening is that these are starting at local level so the first contact with sailors may be from a local authority or someone at local level . |
| 47 | Brampton is happening is it ? |
| 48 | What is happening is that the old orthodoxies are being softened , rather than up-ended . |
| 49 | Well I think I , I mean I do agree and I think that the that er that pressure is now getting on to these , these city institutions , but erm , but I still come back to the basic thing that , that really , you know what appears to me is happening is we 've we 're having literally millions of pounds taken out in , in issuing these massive massive writs you know , a hundred and seventy eight page writs are sort of being and really the money for those is coming out of the remaining money in our pension funds and really I feel that what wou what is happening is this , as far as I 'm concerned , is all due to the self-regulatory body being set under the Financial Services Act , and in a way I feel that you know we 're being made to pay for sorting out a mess that somebody else is making . |
| 50 | Well I think I , I mean I do agree and I think that the that er that pressure is now getting on to these , these city institutions , but erm , but I still come back to the basic thing that , that really , you know what appears to me is happening is we 've we 're having literally millions of pounds taken out in , in issuing these massive massive writs you know , a hundred and seventy eight page writs are sort of being and really the money for those is coming out of the remaining money in our pension funds and really I feel that what wou what is happening is this , as far as I 'm concerned , is all due to the self-regulatory body being set under the Financial Services Act , and in a way I feel that you know we 're being made to pay for sorting out a mess that somebody else is making . |
| 51 | Mr Beacham said : ‘ I think what is happening is a disgrace . |
| 52 | What is happening is they 're patrolling the areas intensively , they 're maintaining contact with these er terrified Moslems to try to avert any type of er foul play in the area . |
| 53 | Well the interesting thing which is happening is that we 're getting better at preventing these things happening . |
| 54 | But what is challenging is that again Peter did not allow this mistake to separate him and strangle the spiritual life from him . |
| 55 | What McDowell is challenging is the notion thus unanimously upheld that the belief-expressive feature of assertions is essential to our understanding of the extra-linguistic purpose of statements of a natural language : |
| 56 | I think the vogue is dying is n't it ? |
| 57 | The SparKit LSI is announcing is the self-same kit it was supposed to come up with almost two years ago — one that would have produced a Sparcstation 2 clone for $18,000 . |
| 58 | A little elementary knowledge of the geography of the area that one is searching is usually sufficient to solve the problem of correct identification . |
| 59 | Does he accept that that single-minded attitude about which he is boasting is the curse of British manufacturing industry ? |
| 60 | That will be the convenient and sensible course because what such a defendant is seeking is not so much to correct an error in the judge 's decision , for which appeals to this court are designed , but to have for the first time a hearing at which his evidence is considered . |