Example sentences of "[coord] [pers pn] is [adv] [v-ing] [det] " in BNC.
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| 1 | If the character moves sideways with the head , body and arms in some way averted from the front , i.e. croisé , possibly with a twist of the shoulders , he or she is usually playing some evil or cunning person . |
| 2 | It is significant that in ( David Raymond ) Smith the Court of Appeal had first to perform some surgery on the relationship of mens rea to the actus reus of criminal damage to reach the desired conclusion and it is therefore unsurprising that adverse comment was expressed by some of their Lordships in Morgan . |
| 3 | And it is deeply revealing that recent scholarly research into what tribal art he could have encountered during the time of his first enthusiasm for it has demonstrated that he could not have seen most of the examples which art historians have previously compared and juxtaposed to his paintings.1 |
| 4 | But he is already doing that in clause I 3 , so the principle is already there . |
| 5 | BT can afford to take a smaller profit , of course , but it is only doing that because it has been shamed into doing so by its customers . |