Example sentences of "[v-ing] is [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ Eavesdropping is despicable , Señor de Santis , ’ she said , her cheeks beginning to glow . |
| 2 | ‘ Walking is good for everyone whatever their age or level of fitness , ’ said Frank Kelly , the Health Promotion Agency 's physical activity programme manager . |
| 3 | Walking is good for the soul , it 's . |
| 4 | But if cheating is necessary , you can commonly get away with it for a time . |
| 5 | Cheating is easy . |
| 6 | It is easy to imagine cases where cheating is advantageous . |
| 7 | The Albion , representing is due to appear as part of a BBC Look East programme . |
| 8 | The picture of the meadows laughing is immediate ’ ( 1958a:208 ) . |
| 9 | Blending is useful when trying to obtain a smooth finish . |
| 10 | Blending is low because communication is low . |
| 11 | However , the degree to which this is actually happening is minimal . |
| 12 | ‘ 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 . ’ |
| 13 | ‘ 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 . ’ |
| 14 | Now scarcer than Bewick 's Swan and not recorded every year , although no change in the number occurring is apparent . |
| 15 | A recent decline in the numbers occurring is apparent . |
| 16 | Some recent increase in the numbers occurring is possible . |
| 17 | Some increase in the number occurring is likely . |
| 18 | And dying is mean |
| 19 | They write , ‘ Deliberately prolonging a patient 's dying is unacceptable for any reason . ’ |
| 20 | Dying is easy , as her old man used to say , it 's the coming back that 's hard . |
| 21 | Ask your dealer if the species you are purchasing is captive bred or wild caught . |
| 22 | In real life , blurring is common . |
| 23 | Plenty of studies , and my own experience of talking to people in the construction industry and especially small businesses , have shown that the fear of poaching is constant . |
| 24 | Sunbathing is akin to smoking ; the immediate psychological effects outweigh the long-term risks . |
| 25 | Also returning is Junior Gaultier , the sportier range from Jean Paul Gaultier , who is probably the most influential French designer of the past 15 years . |
| 26 | Underpinning is expensive and inconvenient , and involves the addition of new foundations or short concrete piles without demolishing the building . |
| 27 | To this the applicant and his advisers respond that however understandable the authorities ' current attitude may be the course which they are adopting is unfair , for two cumulative reasons . |
| 28 | Pressing is difficult with pile fabrics . |
| 29 | Driving is easy . |
| 30 | The story is highly symbolic as the action of anointing is Messianic . |