Example sentences of "[is] [v-ing] be " in BNC.
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| 1 | Doctors at the East London rehabilitation unit where he is recovering are sending him home for Christmas with his family in Chingford , Essex . |
| 2 | The song he is refashioning is another of Bilbo 's , though it is ‘ to a tune that was as old as the hills ’ . |
| 3 | Today , the Foreign Secretary could only say that the Prime Minister is still ’ mobilising ’ — though what he is mobilising is not at all clear , because very little appears to be happening . |
| 4 | What he is suggesting is that the relationship between symbol and symbolised is not only referential , does not simply describe , but is productive , that is it creates . |
| 5 | I , I think what Richard , what Richard is suggesting is the very sensible way forward in the longer term , whether it makes sense right at this instant is , is another matter . |
| 6 | What Mr Laycock is suggesting is that a proposal will significantly improve or |
| 7 | That 's perfectly true , it is a system of the end of the world and my only consc my only complaint is that I do n't think that what my Right Honourable Friend is suggesting is in fact a destruction of the tripartite system . |
| 8 | Another target that one designer is pursuing is ‘ screen animation in geometry as a means of getting children to say what they see ’ . |
| 9 | Yeah , but the trips he 's using are big . |
| 10 | If I could illustrate from two medieval theologians , the two traditions following them in the Tomas tradition righteousness and the moral law of God is seeing is seen as being part of the very being of God himself . |
| 11 | So plastics erm ya I think that 's re-using is better than recycling . |
| 12 | A number of decisions have suggested what appears to be an alternative Approach : to ask whether D 's touching was ‘ hostile ’ . |
| 13 | Because admitting your relationship is foundering is to acknowledge that your home , your security , your way of life and your dreams of the future are all heading for the rocks . |
| 14 | And I just have the feeling w the point is w what that is proving is we 're good enough , we can compete . |
| 15 | Obviously , the flavour which whisky gives to a sauce differs from that produced by cognac , armagnac or Calvados ; certainly the aromas coming from the pot while the whisky is cooking are also very different ; but by the time the alcohol has been burned and cooked away I wonder how many people would spot what precisely the difference is . |
| 16 | In the meantime , the hot product that is cooking is a duplex version of the 3900 , which will have two print engines and will be able to print on both sides of the paper as customers are demanding . |
| 17 | Rebekah 's scheming is as cruel and as ruthless as Sarah 's treatment of Hagar and Ishmael . |
| 18 | The best way of achieving this is to secure that what the mirror is reflecting is interesting — perhaps plants , pictures , or even a fireplace . |
| 19 | It suspects that although the Viking is n't the so-called performance leader , the volumes it 's producing are higher than at Hewlett Packard . |
| 20 | What is puzzling is why the United States should hand such a diplomatic prize to China at a time when the original strategic basis of the friendship , mutual hostility to the Soviet Union , seems more tenuous than ever . |
| 21 | What is puzzling is why these inequalities have widened over the years . |
| 22 | As far as TV work is concerned , one critic claims the only interesting work the agency is producing is Kiss FM — from an inherited BBDO creative duo . |
| 23 | Software for most econometric analyses that should be included in the packages which the Centre is producing is already available from academic sources . |
| 24 | Thus , given the way the word " I " is used , there is no startlingly new information to be derived from a person 's statement " I actually exist " If " Socrates is eating an apple " is true , then clearly there is nothing that can usefully be added to this statement by saying that the apple Socrates is eating is not fictional . |
| 25 | 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 . |
| 26 | The businesses that Laporte is acquiring are mainly in Germany . |
| 27 | One of the two motorists Mrs Branch is sueing is Justin Biddle , whose van was the first vehicle to crash . |
| 28 | One of those Mrs Branch is sueing is Justin Biddle , whose van was the first vehicle to crash . |
| 29 | What he is asserting is that ‘ I have toothache ’ has meaning in virtue of pain-language taking the place of moaning ; and what he is denying is that saying this commits him to an experiential explanation of the meaning of pain-language . |
| 30 | What 's happening is that I have a reason for rising , for living , for laughing . |