Example sentences of "[adv] [adj] [conj] [pron] is [v-ing] " in BNC.
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| 1 | They are interrupting my fixed gaze into the third ring of the electric fire , or my autistic pacing around the living room , as I try to determine whether the print that I thought was beautiful is in fact so vulgar that it is lying in wait to expose me to ridicule . |
| 2 | It is especially weak when it is pulling against the expectations of firms and consumers , and when it is implemented too late . |
| 3 | Sony 's position is less dangerous because it is building on the foundations of an already established physical format . |
| 4 | The psychologist Jeffrey Gray , who is also quoted by Askwith , more clearly distinguishes these , although perhaps unaware that he is doing so : ‘ How can you know , in advance , whether an experiment will be relevant ? |
| 5 | John Lennon 's ‘ Imagine ’ , so powerful when one is listening to it , may afterwards be quite easily broken down into fairly disparate elements : radical text ; rock-ballad melody , harmony and orchestration ; singer-songwriter ( ‘ confessional ’ ) piano ; soul/gospel-tinged singing . |
| 6 | I had not yet learnt that a German is not necessarily angry because he is shouting , and so was surprised when he added in a gentle cooing voice : |
| 7 | The tension-relieving effect of cutting may be extremely important when one is considering therapeutic strategies to counter the behaviour . |
| 8 | We are extremely pleased that it is coming to our own Festival , as part of its Irish tour . |
| 9 | How can the Prime Minister be so complacent and so indolent when he is receiving advice that something now needs to be done ? |
| 10 | A mother who has put her daughter on the stage and made her into a teenage star is obviously aware that she is moulding something special . |
| 11 | Gardens , said Gertrude Jekyll , ‘ may either be fashioned into a dream of beauty , a place of perfect rest and refreshment of the mind and body — a series of soul-satisfying pictures … or they may be so misused that everything is jarring and displeasing . |
| 12 | How can the Secretary of State for the Environment be environmentally benign when he is introducing the Heseltax , as it is known in Wolverhampton , and disastrous standard spending assessment being inflicted on Wolverhampton ? |
| 13 | Gradually his attitude changes , partly for the almost absurdly simple reason that the weather changes from uncomfortable cold to pleasant warmth and partly because he is too intelligent to be totally unaware that he is learning , whether he wants to or not . |
| 14 | A person who makes the task of the constable more difficult when he is seeking to carry out that duty is obstructing the constable in the execution of his duty . |
| 15 | Arguments about absenteeism ( not borne out incidentally by the surviving wage-books ) are hardly relevant when one is talking about piece-work in large firms . |
| 16 | This sort of bureau is most happy when it is handling the complete job from design through to the final artwork and , in some cases , will even do the printing as well . |
| 17 | I have today won a concession from the Secretary of State for Trade and Industry , in as much as he is going to give a delegation from the Southampton and district licensed victuallers an opportunity to see him at the Department to talk over some of these matters . |
| 18 | The extension of VAT was ‘ fairly predictable and he is phasing it in so it does not look quite so bad ’ . |
| 19 | The scene is n't as great as everyone is making out . |
| 20 | MI5 is able to extract any information it wants about individuals , which is often useful when it is smearing someone 's character . |
| 21 | To be really sure that one is dealing with a fossil fern it should be possible to see the spore cases , because other kinds of plants can produce fern-like foliage . |
| 22 | People see you on TV and give you a " celebrity " status that is as crazy as it is flattering . |
| 23 | If that is starting again , it is as bad as what is going on in Mogadishu . |
| 24 | ‘ She is really intelligent and she is going to make something of her life , I know . |
| 25 | It is equally important when she is wearing a soft tunic or one-piece tights and leotard . |
| 26 | That is particularly relevant when one is considering a diverse range of hazardous wastes . |
| 27 | This means that , despite the constraints , CD-ROM is increasingly regarded as a viable multimedia platform , particularly attractive because it is going to fast become a standard , built-in feature of mass market microcomputers . |
| 28 | It is precisely this that she is seeking to obtain in this case . |
| 29 | It is quite clear that nothing is missing from the other end of the Interludium as it was copied on to this vellum : the vellum had already been cut to its surviving top edge by the time the Interludium came to be written on to it . |
| 30 | But these ‘ less-eligibility ’ arguments are surely at their weakest when applied to food , and virtually untenable when one is talking about people incarcerated for fourteen years or more . |