Example sentences of "[adv] it is [adv] [v-ing] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Apparently it is still hoping to do something with some of the software it has developed internally . |
| 2 | Perhaps it is indeed learning that there is no escape from the shock — and such learning may be very important to its subsequent behaviour . |
| 3 | After all in an age where everyone is becoming more environmentally aware , perhaps it is only fitting that even artists are getting into recycling . |
| 4 | So it is mildly unsettling to realise that the richest regions of Europe also have their own inward investment agencies . |
| 5 | Nevertheless it is clearly playing a useful part in a prevention campaign ; indeed , the greater the number of elements in such a strategy the better . |
| 6 | Thus it is currently carrying out an environmental audit which will guide its policies in future on such matters as the use of energy , water purification , and fertilisers . |
| 7 | More controversially it is also proposing the introduction of a " social clause " into public contracts to prevent " social dumping " , and is preparing opinions and recommendations on the harmonisation of non-statutory social security , the establishment of a maximum working week and the introduction of a minimum wage . |
| 8 | Twenty years later it is still operating successfully . |
| 9 | Now it is mainly performing , though he still makes a few of his own . |
| 10 | Today it is increasingly surfacing in our country . |
| 11 | First , whereas the population of working age increased by 1m between 1981 and 1986 , today it is barely growing . |
| 12 | There is always someone somewhere who is going to say — ‘ Why must we have fund raising ? ’ — Unfortunately because of the financial climate today it is always going to have to be a part of our Medau way of life — anyway this ‘ do your own thing ’ method has proved so popular we plan to continued in to 1986 with your help , of course — but — if you have any brilliant ideas for our next venture please send them in to the Office . |
| 13 | Their widespread success convinced all but the bravest computer makers ( notably Apple , though even it is now seeking to make its machines compatible with Windows ) to join the DOS and Windows club . |
| 14 | It says it has n't passed on the cost of those decreasing hardware margins to customers via higher software and services cost , rather it is simply targeting those areas where customers are going to spend more of their money . |
| 15 | Anglo-Saxon archaeology has n't come to a crisis point as did prehistoric studies in the early 1960s ; rather it is gradually slipping into new directions with the establishment of a generation of archaeologists more aware that alternative approaches exist to be tried and which have been available for 20 years . |
| 16 | I think the most commonsense response to this objection is as follows : whatever may be the theoretical case about competing interpretations of low-level code in the machine , we need to remind ourselves that , if this machine is ‘ paying tax refunds ’ , as opposed to ‘ directing missiles ’ , then it is actually printing large rolls of cheques at its peripheral devices . |
| 17 | Lot twenty is a Pathe Gaulois glass horn , there it is now showing , Lot twenty and I have three hundred offered , three twenty three fifty three eighty , four hundred twenty fifty , four eighty at four hundred and eighty pounds any more at four eighty , five hundred and fifty five fifty , any more ? |
| 18 | Lot twenty five little red Peter Pan there it is now showing , thank you and I 've a hundred pounds offered for this , any more at one hundred ? |
| 19 | Lot thirty is a Peter Pan there it is now showing , Lot thirty a hundred pounds for it , one hundred anywhere ? |
| 20 | Lot thirty one is the Model four six one , Lot thirty one there it is now showing , thank you , fifty for it ? |
| 21 | Lot forty four there it is now showing , Lot forty four twenty for this , twenty pounds anywhere ? |
| 22 | Lot fifty one is a suitcase Home , there it is now showing , Lot fifty one , two hundred for this two hundred anywhere ? |
| 23 | Lot eighty one is the Victor thank you , there it is now showing , Lot eighty one a hundred and fifty is offered for this , one hundred and fifty pounds , any more ? |
| 24 | Ninety seven there it is now showing , Lot ninety seven , singing bird in cage I have three hundred offered for this , three hundred pounds and twenty , three fifty , three eighty , four hundred and twenty , fifty four eighty five hundred fifty six hundred and fifty , seven hundred fifty eight hundred eight hundred pounds seated now , any more at eight hundred and fifty nine hundred and fifty nine fifty nine fifty , one thousand new bidder thousand one hundred one thousand one hundred pounds , any more ? |
| 25 | Now Lot one hundred and four there it is now showing , thank you , Lot a hundred and four , Simplex fifty for it , fifty pounds anywhere ? |
| 26 | Lot a hundred and twenty six snuff box there it is now showing in a painted tin case and I have five hundred offered for this five hundred and fifty , six hundred six fifty , seven hundred and fifty , eight hundred eight hundred pounds , any more ? |
| 27 | Lot a hundred and thirty eight silver gilt box with micro-mosaic , there it is now showing , thank you and I have one thousand five hundred pounds offered to start me , six hundred , seven hundred , one thousand eight hundred , nine hundred , two thousand two thousand pounds , two thousand one hundred two thousand two hundred , three hundred thousand four hundred , five hundred , two thousand six hundred on my left at two thousand six hundred pounds , any more ? |
| 28 | It will be looking , indeed it is already looking , through the work of a business development section set up a year ago — at a range of options . |
| 29 | Worse , it was carried across the Andes into Peru 's provinces on the upper Amazon , whence it is inexorably moving downstream into Brazil — much richer than Peru , but with even worse social services . |
| 30 | In Edinburgh a clue emerges : ‘ Officially it is still hovering . |