Example sentences of "[is] [v-ing] [adv] [adv] [that] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Fairclough has proved in the past and is proving again now that he is an outstanding man to man marker . |
| 2 | The leaded petrol market is shrinking so fast that some major petroleum companies have discontinued refining leaded petrol . |
| 3 | He 's looking away so that you ca n't catch his eye ; he 's also looking away because what he can see over your shoulder is more interesting than your shoulder . |
| 4 | Although the latter 's earnings fell its dividend is handsomely covered , while a company like Rentokil is growing so healthily that it can afford to pay out the extra £1 million that its generosity has cost . |
| 5 | ‘ The widow , ’ replied Hank , with more than a trace of impatience in his voice , and then continued : ‘ And it 's selling so fast that I do n't know what to do with the money . |
| 6 | In the first kind ( which Friedmann found ) the universe is expanding sufficiently slowly that the gravitational attraction between the different galaxies causes the expansion to slow down and eventually to stop . |
| 7 | In the second kind of solution , the universe is expanding so rapidly that the gravitational attraction can never stop it , though it does slow it down a bit . |
| 8 | ‘ The cost of nappies and formula milk each week alone amazed me , although it 's getting less now that Rachel 's going on solids . |
| 9 | Bulmers is doing so well that it 's going to need an extra two hundred tons of apples a day from local growers … |
| 10 | He does this by saying things like , ‘ But Brutus says he was ambitious , And Brutus is an honourable man ’ He is saying very sarcastically that Brutus is always right because he is an honourable man . |
| 11 | What will happen in fact is that you 'll have a start date for your system , which was basically when N1 was , and what they will be looking for is that everything from that date forward is complying right so that a job that started before then , they wo n't look for the initial part of that job to comply right as of that date onwards they will look for it to comply . |
| 12 | The number of books , theses and bound copies of periodicals is increasing so greatly that many libraries have a serious storage problem . |
| 13 | We play football and I score a goal , mainly because everyone except Stewpid is playing so badly that it 's difficult to miss … . |
| 14 | ‘ He 's playing so well that he 's been a very big miss . |
| 15 | Fred Gillett of the American science team says that despite the sun 's heat falling on IRAS , the satellite 's insulation is working so well that there is ‘ less heat going into the system than is radiated by the tip of my little finger ’ . |