Example sentences of "[noun prp] [is] [adv] [v-ing] " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ Perhaps we 're all wrong about Mons. Perhaps Napoleon is just swinging open the front doors and ignoring the back gate . ’ |
| 2 | Besides , why seek a deal on looser Soviet control in Eastern Europe when Mr Gorbachev is already loosening his grip ? |
| 3 | Mr Gorbachev is already pulling troops and tanks out of Eastern Europe . |
| 4 | As a result both agencies have to continue claiming that Russia is facing terrible threats from the West and therefore that their existence is essential despite the fact that Gorbachev is busily telling the Russian people that co-existence is not only possible but desirable as are many aspects of capitalist society . |
| 5 | For now Mr Gorbachev is just managing to continue what he does best : keeping his show on the road . |
| 6 | And Cap Gemini Sogeti SA is already suffering from the fact that so much of its own and Hoskyns Group Plc 's business is done in the IBM mainframe world . |
| 7 | You have to understand why Larry Parks runs live miles to work , why Fiona Isaacs is always smiling and Barry Greystone is always failing . |
| 8 | The DoH is also launching new practical advice for SSDs . |
| 9 | Social workers may be forgiven for feeling the DoH is continually shifting the goal posts on community care implementation . |
| 10 | Jeff is now recovering from his injury , and is organising the local Great Yarmouth half marathon which will take place on 25 July . |
| 11 | Brian Lawrie is also contesting a finding that he was negligent over the loss of more than £18 million by the local authority in the affair . |
| 12 | Borg is currently negotiating a pay-off for his second wife , Italian singer Loredana Berte , too . |
| 13 | Neil is now recovering in St James 's Hospital after Wednesday 's attack . |
| 14 | And Mr Mitterrand is already smarting over the British-backed Gatt deal , which he claims will ruin French farming . |
| 15 | Gaynor Summers is gamely attempting to knit again ; she 's still in some pain . |
| 16 | Adams is always harping on about her . ’ |
| 17 | However , according to Stefanini , a sale is some way off , Coalite is still preparing a prospectus , which should be available by the end of this month . |
| 18 | The experts say that for a woman over about 40 , SERPS is definitely going to be better , and if she has been paying into a contracted out PP scheme up to that time , she should change over then . |
| 19 | And Dennis is now going straight back to Chris and he 's going to give him |
| 20 | Dennis is personally providing a free pack with a poster , stickers , sponsor forms , and lots of fun ideas on how to take part . |
| 21 | I was , I recall , leaving the drawing room with an empty teapot in my hand when Miss Kenton stopped me and said : ‘ Mr Stevens , Dr Meredith is just leaving now . ’ |
| 22 | Bookmaker William Hill is now offering 6-1 , down from 10-1 . |
| 23 | Afterwards they had a wedding breakfast in the Escargot restaurant in Greek Street nearby whose proprietor was an unofficial father figure to my mother so far away from home , and then they sent my mother 's parents in Brittany a coded message via the free French radio : Marie is still eating snails and all is well . |
| 24 | Dr. Singh is currently leading a seven-strong applied chemistry research group at the polytechnic and is a referee for the chemistry committee of the Science and Engineering Research Council . |
| 25 | But Ann Veronica 's slow awakening , albeit eighty years ago , is not so unfamiliar to us now , when there is a sense that our own desire , our own pleasure , is something for which we have to struggle . |
| 26 | GRE is also suffering from losses in Britain caused mainly by rising mortgage indemnity claims on repossessed houses . |
| 27 | Effectively , García Márquez is here waiving any claim to be ‘ telling it the way it is ’ , for the new novelists no longer share traditional realist fiction 's confident assumption of man 's ability to understand and describe the world . |
| 28 | I believe Mrs McLellan is now enjoying this little book . |
| 29 | That was three years ago and Mrs Hilton is now relishing her new role as fundraiser for the Royal Liverpool Philharmonic Society . |
| 30 | In line with his unprescriptive manner of teaching about how to develop contemplative life which is governed by his awareness of the intensely individual nature of discretionary achievement , Hilton is deliberately leaving his terms open , or using those likely to be directly applicable to actives , so that the recipient should not be constrained by definitions as he develops in his contemplative life . |