Example sentences of "is [adv] [be] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Hardly a colour combination to enhance or blend with the pinks and reds of roses by underplanting ( see question number 15 on page 160 ) , but a nearby border or patch of it is widely being reported as being responsible for clearing out all the greenfly ! |
| 2 | But the hearer still has to act on this indication and find which particular farmer is thereby being referred to . |
| 3 | This interweaving of pre-Christian , reformation and contemporary religions gives Lewis its unique flavour and an opportunity for a lot of us to take stock of all that is slowly being eroded in our own cultures . |
| 4 | At the start of the plateau a side road leads to Estanquinhos , a forestry station , from which a new road is slowly being built to Ginjas and São Vicente on the north side of the island . |
| 5 | From here the road is slowly being extended to Encumeada . |
| 6 | But , if the entire republic is slowly being submerged , individual citizens can not afford to ignore their collective fate because , in the end , they all drown together if nothing is done ; and again , as with Venice , what needs to be done is far beyond the powers of any one individual . |
| 7 | The Dowty group is slowly being slimmed down . |
| 8 | In other words , whether a pixel is ON is influenced by whether neighbouring pixels are ON . |
| 9 | ‘ The only side Vargas is on is the one with the biggest bank book , sir . |
| 10 | Further study is necessarily being completed ; but the evidence of linkage between the simultaneous appearance of climatic phenomena in Kansas , Chad , Bihar and in the south — eastern Pacific Ocean suggests what all geographers have known for many years — that the globe works as one complete system , one vast interactive machine , and that the divisions man has forced upon it are no more than crudely artificial devices for our own intellectual convenience . |
| 11 | From this steady stream of data , the number of television and radio broadcasts of every registered song , tune , or any other piece of music , is constantly being counted by the PRS . |
| 12 | But the role of the woman , both cultural and economic , is constantly being shaped and shifted by economic and structural forces — those of colonialism and capitalism for example . |
| 13 | This is because of the continuous cycle of separation and togetherness , when the relationship is constantly being renewed . |
| 14 | The owner says he is constantly being approached to sell the clothes for hundreds of dollars , but he prefers the publicity they generate . |
| 15 | ‘ He is constantly being thrust down our throats by the BBC and others as an ace pundit . |
| 16 | Even in the pristine atmosphere , unpolluted by humans , this layer appears highly unstable since it is constantly being formed and broken down , mainly by the action of ultraviolet radiation . |
| 17 | Another road runs south , through the oilfields , and is constantly being extended into virgin forest . |
| 18 | The formulation is constantly being improved as new information comes to light . |
| 19 | Since the awareness from which we recoil is constantly being forced on us by pain or misfortune , no doubt many or most people can take every opportunity they have to avoid the unpleasant without being in any danger of becoming more aware of the bright side than the dark . |
| 20 | This is hardly the best example to set to an electorate that is constantly being urged to display pay and other financial restraints . |
| 21 | The landscape is like a book that is constantly being edited and rewritten . |
| 22 | With a product line-up of over 400 items ( which is constantly being updated and reviewed ) every d-i-y task — from one-room decorating to a full-scale renovation — is catered for . |
| 23 | They enact a transaction , one that is constantly being made , broken , and remade , coming under doubt and suspicion , collapsing with proof of infidelity or betrayal by either side , being slowly rebuilt as doubt gives way to confirmation . |
| 24 | The nutter , in contrast , is constantly being caught by the police because part of being ‘ nutty ’ is absence of any real form of self-preservation . |
| 25 | But you can not expect another to carry out a task if he or she is constantly being observed by someone else . |
| 26 | Burman positions the body and the self image as one that is constantly being fashioned and remade . |
| 27 | It is extremely difficult for workers in Community Mental Health Centres to focus their efforts effectively for a dispersed community of people with long-term problems if their work is constantly being interrupted by crises and emergency work . |
| 28 | According to this scenario , the maintenance of oppositional structures is constantly being protected by the masculine aspect , while its feminine counterpart strives to undermine them , and even to undermine this constitutive definition itself by the use of reversible structures echoed in the novel 's metaphoric construction . |
| 29 | His move to the Isle of Wight was part of a campaign of harassment , making it harder for him to receive visitors , and he is constantly being threatened with placement in the psychiatric wing of the prison . |
| 30 | system is constantly being updated and is available on-line across the University 's own computer network as well as via JANET and the national and international networks ; the Main Library 's older guard-book catalogue , which also contains many entries for material in the Faculty Libraries , is available on microfiche . |