Example sentences of "[is] [adj] [v-ing] " in BNC.
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| 1 | I think he s a bargain specially as he s good looking to which lets face it is the only way to judge a player anyway . |
| 2 | It 's hopeless trying to plan for tomorrow . … |
| 3 | Oh it 's hopeless trying to help you in n it , you 're so independent you wo n't have no one help you and the pen 's not coming out , see you 're not doing it right I do n't mind helping you , but you 've got to let me show you , now go all the way along , round the Q , come round here , come round here , round here , back along , stop . |
| 4 | The accused is dishonest if his conduct is dishonest according to the current standards of ordinary decent people and if the accused knows that his conduct is regarded as dishonest according to those standards . |
| 5 | After all shoplifting is dishonest according to current standards of ordinary decent people . |
| 6 | We completed the first four Munros with relative ease , since there is little rising or dropping between peaks , and cruised along a gloriously flat section of the ridge having fantasies about lunch . |
| 7 | On to the main road , which runs through the island and , apart from the sheep eking out a sparse living on the dead heather , there is little moving until I come to the head of Whalfirth , a long arm of the sea which pushes in from the west until it nearly cuts the island in half . |
| 8 | There is little , if any , authorial commentary on the events of the story , just as there is little signposting as to how one event precipitates another . |
| 9 | There is little leaching from the catchment area , which is small and covered with perennial ice , bare rock or scree , with hardly any mineral soil or vegetation . |
| 10 | The latter dyads are also more compatible than female — female pairs , although in the latter case there is little fighting in the convening sequence . |
| 11 | There is little strong anti-European feeling in Britain , but there is little liking for being told how much better the Europeans are . |
| 12 | The head deals with the first , class teachers with the second , and there is little blurring at the edges . |
| 13 | Just turning briefly to the issue of affordable housing , you 'll see from my H One submissions the City Council has a target , er which is in the the York area housing strategy , which is currently with the D O E for its consideration , of something like a hundred and fifty dwellings a year , giving over the fifteen year period a two thousand two hundred target , how we will go about achieving that is primarily , where it 's possible using land we already own , or is in ownership of housing associations , and taking into account the the seven dwellings outside the current city boundary , we believe in total they will contribute some fifteen hundred dwellings towards that two thousand two hundred target , this will leave clearly a significant shortfall , and it will therefore be necessary to seek to negotiate , if I can use the terms of P B G 3 erm with house builders as sites come forward in in the local during the local plan period . |
| 14 | On this occasion Mr David Butler will have an even finer collection of predictions to record in his book about the election than he did in 1970 , when almost every distinguished political correspondent of the time echoed Peter Jenkins of the Guardian in asking ‘ Why is Labour winning with such apparent ease ? ’ , just before Ted Heath won by a majority of 43 . |
| 15 | Now that all this complication is unnecessary owing to the introduction of valves , one horn is universally used for notation purposes . |
| 16 | There 's little dawdling to sniff flowers now , just giddy , breakneck pop ; ‘ In Love For The Very First Time ’ is gushing and gossipy , while ‘ Be Your Baby ’ is '60s girl group sentiment wised up and flung into the backroom of the Camden Falcon . |
| 17 | The work has been quite hard , actually little short of the 24 hours ' teaching a week which I originally feared we might have to teach , but it 's a pity not to offer the course as we prepared it in Peking , complete with extra lectures , as there seems to be a great demand for anything we teach , which is understandable considering that it 's a chance of a lifetime for some of the teachers ; in fact , some have never spoken to a foreigner in their lives before ! |
| 18 | Right , from Highgate has said if the good lord wanted cats to fly he would 've given them wings , it 's cruel doing things like that to animals . |
| 19 | she 's awful looking |
| 20 | say that about people mum 's awful saying that ! |
| 21 | ‘ It 's awful having to creep around all the time . ’ |
| 22 | It 's awful having a set of bells there which are almost in working order but ca n't be used . |
| 23 | No that 's not mine , mine 's only got fifteen on the back one there I thought , that 's strange having one |
| 24 | Is that eating the food or eating the weed ? |
| 25 | I mean by just doing this sort of settling of accounts is that creating it for them ? |
| 26 | Er I mean is that creating a sparkle ? |
| 27 | Is that , is that staying there ? |
| 28 | Why is that getting pregnant and asking for maternity leave can be seen as a crime ? |
| 29 | Is that getting him down ? |
| 30 | Mr Grigson , is that moving in the direction which you wished to get an answer to your question ? |