Example sentences of "[adv] [pers pn] is [v-ing] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Only she is feeling desperately homesick . |
| 2 | Perhaps she is Swinging . " |
| 3 | Perhaps she is getting bored , ’ said Breeze , and read on . |
| 4 | Perhaps she is going to turn into a quietly spoken , normal human being . |
| 5 | In doing so she is reviving the ‘ great divide ’ theory that has been so discredited by social anthropologists and sociolinguists . |
| 6 | so she is coming |
| 7 | Her tone is soothing , her whispers slide like sighs , but gently she is uncovering the reproach she 's been hiding for days . |
| 8 | Can I direct the hon. Gentleman 's attention to the Islington crime survey , which gives rather different evidence about how much crime is being committed and how much it is rising ? |
| 9 | Switching the cabinet voicing off , you realise just how much it is working to condition the sound ready for tape ; because without it , you are straight back to the two gnats in a bottle sound , beloved of direct outputs on many amps . |
| 10 | L M Ericsson Telefon AB is to buy the remaining 28% equity it does not already own in its Teleindustria Ericsson SA in Mexico but does not say how much it is offering : the shares are held by Mexican and foreign institutional investors , as well as by individual minorities . |
| 11 | The Government-funded Housing Corporation will reveal how much it is giving about 70 housing associations in the region . |
| 12 | ( The BBC refuses to say how much it is spending on Artrageous ! . ) |
| 13 | Once you have decided what the extra staffing and other requirements are in respect of the two conferences , you can work out how much it is going to cost to accommodate them . |
| 14 | Most players like to have some relief but they know with him that no matter how much he is hurting he will go on . ’ |
| 15 | Apparently it is going outside . |
| 16 | Perhaps it is seeking to increase the audience , or perhaps it was lead astray for a while by the fact that , during the Conservative leadership contest , the exciting politics at Westminster were not in the Chamber . |
| 17 | The handle of the spade transmits the vibrations of the ferret — perhaps it is working on a rabbit — direct to your ear . |
| 18 | But perhaps it is asking too much to expect some sort of articulated political goal — especially of the young adolescents who are responsible for the bulk of working-class crime . |
| 19 | ‘ Perhaps it is saying something when I tell you he was aiming for the optician 's and ended up in the carpet shop , ’ he said . |
| 20 | Perhaps he is referring to some figures that were leaked a couple of weeks ago from the Industrial Development Board for Northern Ireland — a reference to 44 inward investment jobs . |
| 21 | Has he been taking lessons from the right hon. Member for Yeovil ( Mr. Ashdown ) in arm movements , or perhaps he is auditioning for a part in ’ Thunderbirds ’ ? |
| 22 | Perhaps he is bringing his forearm forwards and leaving the lower leg hanging down . |
| 23 | I do not know the latest medical prognosis of how long he will live , but perhaps he is hoping not to be around in 30 years ' time when the papers become available . |
| 24 | Perhaps he is mellowing a bit . |
| 25 | As to state of mind , Raskolnikov lives with his own continuously but inspects it only intermittently , like the rest of us ; whereas the author surveys the whole truth the whole time , so that we never find him wondering whether perhaps Raskolnikov is thinking this or perhaps he is thinking that : a fact which isolates Crime and Punishment among the mature novels , because elsewhere Dostoevsky loves the unsettled and unsettling narrative posture of ‘ perhaps ’ , particularly with his contracting and dilating collective voice , the ‘ we ’ swept by rumour and speculation which arrives in The House of the Dead and reaches its full flowering in The Possessed . |
| 26 | Perhaps he is working for someone else . |
| 27 | Perhaps he is leading the group into intercession ; perhaps towards confession ; perhaps towards proclaiming strongly the kingdom of God and engaging in spiritual warfare . |
| 28 | Maybe he 'd love it , obviously he is trying to take the club forward . |
| 29 | So he is bailing out in favour using his company 's graphical user interface expertise in the burgeoning Personal Digital Assistant market and its non-exclusive licensing deal with IBM . |
| 30 | So he is setting out to change that . |