Example sentences of "[v-ing] [is] [adv] " in BNC.
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| 1 | thrashing in n it ? |
| 2 | It implies nothing else : dowsing is not inherently more reliable than any other method involving the psychic senses . |
| 3 | Even dowsing is obliquely referred to in the official reports as ‘ probing with metal rods ’ ! |
| 4 | up there , for walking is n't it ? |
| 5 | Some gardeners will do anything to win prizes ( marrows filled with lead shot to add weight , for instance ) , but there 's one show where cheating is positively encouraged . |
| 6 | My guess is that you would draw a comparable , but equally misleading , conclusion from similar analysis of the human game of chess where cheating is not possible . |
| 7 | Cooling is usually done by passing the gas through pipes . |
| 8 | There is enough area there to call for a two-person crew , so launching is rarely a problem . |
| 9 | With the water high up on the beach the sea is very choppy and launching is very difficult because the waves break viciously on the steep upper slopes of the beach which is frequently a shingle ridge . |
| 10 | Launching is very difficult . |
| 11 | As Pierre will tell you thees booing is not for you , it ees for me ! ’ |
| 12 | ‘ Noticing is not a matter of choice , Nicholas . |
| 13 | A feature of village life that we can not help noticing is how people come together to share their common joys and griefs . |
| 14 | Anyone moving or laughing is out , and the last person remaining is the winner and probably has the worst sense of humour ! |
| 15 | What we hear as squeaking is only the lower end of a sonic signal mostly beyond the range of our human ears . |
| 16 | And we 're booked up to go and see Cats in January , oh we 've quite a few and then like , there actually spooling 's quite good at organizing for er charity . |
| 17 | ‘ To be honest no , lurking 's boring and if it 's all the same to you , Nigel old boy , lurking 's out . ’ |
| 18 | ‘ Knocking is certainly immoral , ’ says Muggleton , ‘ but without witnesses we have difficulty proving that the knocker boys have employed fraud . |
| 19 | An ideal utilitarian like Moore may claim to have the moral insight that promise keeping is only right or obligatory , where one can not do better or as well by breaking the promise ( taking general account of effects on human trust into account ) but he can not claim that this insight is merely into how words are properly used . |
| 20 | Like the relation between prominence and deviance , that between prominence and literary relevance or foregrounding is not a one-to-one match . |
| 21 | South Africa has the highest murder rate in the world but the area where the women were holidaying is relatively crime free . |
| 22 | Right , that 's that lot done , cor it 's never ending is n't it ? |
| 23 | The point at issue is that what is happening is not only a tragedy of today but a portent of tomorrow . |
| 24 | Oh it 's doing it again it 's doing it again , dear oh yes , doing it again erm I had the plumber up to look at that cos I thought the plumbing was all wrong and he said no he said the plumbing is wrong the waste pipe of the en suite shower and the bath are connected , and they should n't be they should be separate , but they had been connected and that is bad but no , he said , what 's happening is quite simple , he said erm the people using the en suite ca n't control the water it 's going out he said the curtain does n't fit flush against the wall , because the wall leans , you know |
| 25 | And wh why that 's happening is really what we 're going to be spending the evening on , and it 's related to international trade . |
| 26 | Steaming is not restricted to tube trains : it happens on buses , in shops and even department stores where large items are stolen en masse in broad daylight . |
| 27 | What seems to be occurring is not so much a shift away from the conspiracy tradition , but a shift — for reasons of tactics and internal politics — in the way the conspiracy theory is to be presented . |
| 28 | But since field staff can sample in a day only a minuscule proportion of the discharges and watercourses in their districts , the coincidence of sampling when a serious ‘ one-off ’ pollution is occurring is very unlikely . |
| 29 | Dying is not romantic , and death is not a game which will soon be over … |
| 30 | Wealth and technological superiority are by far its greatest military assets , dying is not popular among either American soldiers or civilians , and until Gorbachev came along , a world war against the Soviets was the only one for which the Pentagon prepared . |