Example sentences of "[conj] is [adv] [v-ing] " in BNC.
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| 1 | A bald answer to a problem , even though correct , will not earn many ( perhaps not any ) marks , because the examiner can not tell whether the student has knowledge or is just guessing . |
| 2 | Whether he gave the command to open fire in Vilnius and Riga or is cynically refusing to condemn the thuggery of his troops in order to put pressure on the Baltic republics , he has taken the side of order against law , acting in defiance of those republics ' legally elected parliaments . |
| 3 | In another context Allen and Massey ( 1988 , p. 2 ) develop the notion of periods of structural change to describe this process , and one of the central questions around which this chapter is organized is whether the UK state has recently passed through ( or is still passing through ) such a period . |
| 4 | Select a strong healthy stem that has borne a good bloom , or is still carrying one that has gone over the top , and look at the stem lower down — to see if you can find nice plump axillary buds or eyes in the leaf axils — these are latent growth buds , and they are going to become your new roses ! |
| 5 | If not , and he 's picking the frog out of everyone who has or is still playing for the team , surely Strachan 's contribution far outweighs anything done by the Frog . |
| 6 | The current year , the ninety three ninety four year I have figures only up to the end of December and in comparison to the previous full twelve months the number of applications is almost as high in the first three quarters of the year but the fee income is about half what had been received for the full previous year and that is the problem that we 're facing , that the number of applications , the amount of work is , is staying the same or is indeed increasing slightly , er but the fee income , because of the nature of the the applications and the fee regime that is charged , is actually falling off quite rapidly . |
| 7 | Or is only pronouncing the element to be a metal ( or a non-metal ) classification ? |
| 8 | It is also often unclear whether it is being claimed that the bureaucracy is truly multifunctional or is merely recruiting and socializing its own members , articulating their interests , or acting as ‘ one of the main channels of political struggle in which and through which different interests are regulated and aggregated ’ ( Eisenstadt 1963 , p. 112 ) . |
| 9 | Non of that product is or ever has been or is ever going to be sold . |
| 10 | By eluting self-peptides from HLA-B53 we identified a sequence motif for bound peptides and have synthesized 60 octamer , nonamer or decamer peptides bearing this motif from the four pre-erythrocytic-stage P. falciparum antigens that have been cloned and sequenced : each of these antigens has been used in or is currently awaiting human vaccine trials . |
| 11 | Well the money would be very welcome at a company that is again finding that computers are a gurgling cash drain , and a single outside investor is very different matter to a host of fractious small shareholders and institutional investors . |
| 12 | AIRCRAFT OWNERS and Pilots Association ( AOPA ) continue their campaign to save threatened airfields , a campaign that is thankfully enjoying some success . |
| 13 | McDonald has some well known musicians , such as Pino Palladino and Benmont Tench , helping him out on the disc , but even their presence fails to add the bit of gloss that is evidently lacking . |
| 14 | Think of all the hands-on psychical research that is just coming at you free of charge . |
| 15 | And for yourself , and what we do n't wan na do is like I say , is spend money that is just gon na disappear and say shit ! |
| 16 | He was a real old country doctor , of a type that is fast dying out , and she knew that if she had been a few years younger he would have patted her on the cheek . |
| 17 | The collision was on a town centre route that is fast becoming an accident blackspot . |
| 18 | It is therefore not surprising that a number of the concepts underlying the accrual accounting method are not appropriate to decision-making that is forward looking . |
| 19 | Although the ledger solution , where available , is fine , for many small to medium-sized businesses it 's obviously not the best option within an organisation that is already using a variety of ledgers . |
| 20 | And burning it sends huge quantities of carbon dioxide into the air , adding to the ‘ Greenhouse Effect ’ that is already influencing world climates with such disastrous results . |
| 21 | But with the lure of free elections that is already proving difficult . |
| 22 | Will a new tier of decision-making help to unravel the sort of deadlock that is already strangling the prospects for any change in London ? |
| 23 | I plead with our commissioners and their counterparts in the Roman Catholic side to concentrate on this issue and not to dally for this I believe is the golden key to that greater , completer , richer and more effective church that is surely coming under God . |
| 24 | It 's a music that boasts some kind of spiritual superiority to the allegedly ubiquitous synthetic rubbish' that is elsewhere smothering our lives like nylon . |
| 25 | But the republics know that the help that is increasingly coming in technical assistance and the possible eventual macroeconomic help is tied to the prospect of reform and is dependent on the continued impetus of both political and economic reform . |
| 26 | In a given choice situation , there is no universal criterion that dictates a decision that is logically compelling for the ’ rational ’ scientist . |
| 27 | Mirth is part of the happy life for it confers an effervescence and scintillation that is otherwise lacking . |
| 28 | A high specification of housework rules can be seen as a common response to a common problem — the problem being how to make sense of work that is intrinsically unsatisfying under conditions where less and less of it need be done ( through automation , ‘ convenience ’ foods , better housing conditions , etc ) , but where the structural pressures which assign women to the home remain as strong as ever . |
| 29 | ‘ The marriage between Soviet Jews and Israel is a marriage that is probably going to happen , ’ argues Yuri Stern , ‘ whether or not the bride and groom feel they are really ready for it . ’ |
| 30 | Once again , it may be the impersonal that is being undervalued by an approach that is effectively denying inanimate objects their autonomy by trying to present them virtually as the organs of God 's body . |