Example sentences of "[is] [v-ing] [be] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Yeah , but the trips he 's using are big . |
| 2 | The best way of achieving this is to secure that what the mirror is reflecting is interesting — perhaps plants , pictures , or even a fireplace . |
| 3 | ‘ But what is happening is shared internal experiences that become easy to share with somebody who has been undergoing the same kind of experience , then you can find out a lot more of what you 've undergone because people will find different ways of describing it , different metaphors . ’ |
| 4 | ‘ But what is happening is shared internal experiences that become easy to share with somebody who has been undergoing the same kind of experience , then you can find out a lot more of what you 've undergone because people will find different ways of describing it , different metaphors . ’ |
| 5 | They write , ‘ Deliberately prolonging a patient 's dying is unacceptable for any reason . ’ |
| 6 | Uncertainty features in two of the accounts of seeking an optimal income distribution , but the fact is that decisions about redistributions are made by those who know they are either winners or losers in life 's lottery and the unbiased perspective that Rawls is seeking is absent . |
| 7 | The European language user interfaces USL is developing are due in the second quarter . |
| 8 | Another champion fighter is Simon Bellettee from swindon … he 's kickboxing 's new british super welterweight king … |
| 9 | Some of the changes which he is describing are visible to everyone . |
| 10 | A bishop who can not make up his mind which side he is supporting is inconvenient . |
| 11 | Anybody with strong convictions that what he is doing is right is bound to stir up controversy . |
| 12 | Nobody , I will suggest to you Mr Parry , nobody will say that unless he is convinced that er what he is doing is correct , nobody . |
| 13 | I hope that people will realise that what Labour is saying is inaccurate . |
| 14 | The hon. Gentleman will appreciate that what he is saying is crucial to the livelihood of thousands of people in my constituency . |
| 15 | The salesperson first agrees that what the buyer is saying is sensible and reasonable , before then putting forward an alternative point of view . |
| 16 | There are occasions on which he forces one into rebellion simply because what he 's doing is wasteful and futile . ’ |
| 17 | Erm , I think Yeltsin 's threat as it were to the Ukrainian is actually a diplomatic move , he wants Ukraine to remain within the Soviet Union , er and if it does so he 's not going to make an issue of the border , but , er , if it does break away completely I think what he 's saying is well there 's a frontier that we 're going to have to reconsider because large Eastern areas of Ukraine including huge industrial towns are predominantly populated by Russians . |
| 18 | The time the ‘ study ’ is taking is worrying — and some key names in British industry are becoming restive ( This Week , p 357 ) . |
| 19 | The distinction between felonies and misdemeanours no longer exists but there seems no reason why the rule , if it is a rule at all , should not apply wherever B 's taking is criminal . |
| 20 | ‘ That guy 's putting is uncanny , ’ I said with not a little feeling and not a little envy . |
| 21 | Few people would wish to deny a woman 's right to know whether the baby she is carrying is disabled , and to decide — with counselling if needed - whether she wants to have it . |
| 22 | Some of the project 's opponents argue that the £220 million of state subsidies it is receiving are illegal and that they will take the matter to court . |
| 23 | Second , what he 's proposing is dangerous . |
| 24 | ‘ Some of those the ministry is proposing are questionable , while schemes to help maintain the typical English farm and protect rare crop varieties such as traditional orchards have been ignored . ’ |
| 25 | What Bush is proposing is risky . |
| 26 | The price he is offering is fair , based on operating profits without liquidiating the airline , said analyst Louis Marckesano of Philadelphia 's Janney Scott Montgomery . |
| 27 | The strategy that Freeman is following is similar to that of classical structuralism ( e.g. Lévi-Strauss 1963 ) now melded into a Lakoffian brand of cognitivism . |