Example sentences of "[vb pp] [is] [adv] [v-ing] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The number of candidate words being discarded as too short or too long is quite small , and in fact the number of correct candidates being incorrectly discarded is slightly discouraging . |
| 2 | The form in which ‘ memories ’ are preserved and venerated is highly revealing : the ‘ memoire ’ implies something quite different from the ‘ oral history ’ . |
| 3 | Another type of work which is disliked is emotionally demanding work , a category not recognized elsewhere in the literature on the police . |
| 4 | I mean the exercise that we 've done is purely working on your salary |
| 5 | Now this year what I 've done is actually going to see the form teacher and look at the classes and they 've actually given me a lot more information this year and hopefully , keep our fingers crossed , the classes are very varied and we have good , we have middling , and we have the not so good and we 've tried to keep those like that . |
| 6 | The Administration is embarrassed that the Fed is not providing more support to its commitment to lower the dollar . |
| 7 | Every actor knows that whether or not collective benefits will be secured is not going to be influenced by his personal contribution . |
| 8 | And I think really what 's needed is actually going out , I mean , it could be a useful new thing that , a new departure that other people have n't done . |
| 9 | But the EQ as measured is probably telling us something about how much ‘ computing power ’ an animal has in its head , over and above the irreducible minimum of computing power needed for the routine running of its large or small body . |
| 10 | Free Range Total Freedom — The birds are grown to 81 days and the breed used is slow growing . |
| 11 | One of the most common problems encountered is simply deciding if two components in a machine clash . |
| 12 | It did more for Denby Dale than for George III as he soon went into a decline , but the tradition then started is still going strong , with the pies getting bigger in size every time . |
| 13 | ‘ What 's left is only trimming . |
| 14 | The difficulty for the historian is that evidence for how councillors were elected is often lacking , and one does not know how many freemen could participate in choosing them , nor when membership of councils came to be filled by the choice of the existing councillors . |
| 15 | The respect to which Sir Leicester undoubtedly feels that his house is entitled is evidently waning ; Mr Guppy is in fact intruding on his privacy , for his interest lies in Sir Leicester 's family secrets , not in his house . |
| 16 | Even so , asking to be charge capped is surely asking for trouble . |
| 17 | Unless the bank see new management , Virginia , the company your grandparents established is rapidly going to go down the pan — ’ |
| 18 | Native speakers of English typically use " have " in the present tense ( as in these two examples ) only when they want to imply that the event described is still happening or is still the case . |