Example sentences of "is [v-ing] [prep] [pron] [verb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Furthermore the ethnography must contain a recognition that the anthropologist within is stepping outside himself to describe how and why he performs within his own culture . |
| 2 | In my experience , even at this early stage when the process has hardly begun , the family trying to make sense of what is happening around them focus their general distress on what they see as the church 's preoccupation with making money , rather than offering help . |
| 3 | Two or three weeks away from the home environment in a tense atmosphere at the site of a recently crashed aircraft where everyone , officials and public alike , is looking to you to resolve the puzzle of how it came about can be stimulating , even exciting . |
| 4 | ‘ Your father is a worried man and he is looking to you to make a good marriage , that way at least your own future will be secure . ’ |
| 5 | It 's quite possible that there are one or two old gentlemen , but when one wants to find a new operative , one really is looking for somebody to come in the trade who will be with the firm , all being well , for a number of years . |
| 6 | Perhaps the Frank Slade role is a sign that Pacino is looking for something to stretch him , because he 's also about to embark on another slightly unusual project . |
| 7 | My uncle is looking for someone to replace a partner who 's retiring . ’ |
| 8 | The current NCT representative on the ( wait for it ) West Midlands Regional Health Authority 's Health Promotion Group 's Ante-Natal Care Action Group ( what a mouthful ) is about to retire and is looking for someone to take over . |
| 9 | This procedure obviously was not followed in this case and Turning Point is looking into what happened . ’ |
| 10 | A combination of pressure , staff shortages and the feeling that no-one is listening to them makes many more inclined to take a day off . |
| 11 | First , as we wish to encourage carers and strengthen families — even the extended family — if a person who is caring for someone loses them to a home , the person 's home should not have to go on the market to meet the cost of fees . |
| 12 | It is reassuring for someone to know that if they jump at shadows or can not sleep after an accident or a crime , it is part of a natural process and that they will get over it . |
| 13 | After all , it is yearning for you to grow . |
| 14 | 29 Growing Noble Metals through Total Quality a look at how Noble Metals in Royston is growing in what continues to be a depressed marketplace |
| 15 | And all these are going to sort of pile up so that your The chemistry that you do know is going to you know |
| 16 | That the form tutor shou , is going to be a conscience and really what we call a form tutor 's job is going to you know , talk to the children |
| 17 | but um I 'm a great believer that it 's rather nice to have that going on while the event is going on you know you sit and munch a corned beef butty as you dribble your coffee down the front of your shirt |
| 18 | I have started divorce proceedings , as we have been living apart for the last two months , but now he is pleading with me to take him back . |
| 19 | I have started divorce proceedings , as we have been living apart for the last two months , but now he is pleading with me to take him back . |
| 20 | The work with patients who had the delusion of being watched , and who spoke of the watcher as another person in terms like the following : ‘ He is waiting for me to go now ’ , or ‘ He thinks I should do such and such ’ , had first led Freud to suggest that a part of a person 's ego can keep watch over another part . |
| 21 | This can actually produce those distressing occasions when , for example , a husband and wife are sitting there looking at each other , the dying one trying very hard to get on and die because they understand everyone is waiting for them to do so , and the survivor trapped with their feelings of guilt about wishing their relative would die , whilst at the same time not being able to leave the person 's side in case they miss the moment . |
| 22 | As we turn a corner on to Forsyth Street , a handful of people is waiting for us to arrive . |
| 23 | Yet the army too is waiting for someone to die , and the different factions of the party leadership are replicated in its high command . |
| 24 | One is beginning with what exists not with what is needed . |
| 25 | He said he just wanted to know she was safe and well , and added : ‘ I hope she is staying with someone to have a bit of breathing space . |
| 26 | ‘ The people say it 's the Hound of the Baskervilles , which is calling for something to hunt and kill . |
| 27 | He can call his bluff and ask to see the quotations ; he can take the initiative by stating that he assumes the buyer is wishing for him to justify his price ; or , if flushed with the confidence of past success , he can say ‘ Then I advise you to accept one of them . ’ |
| 28 | ‘ To prepare for a fighter like Ruddock , you have to fight hard because he is coming at you to separate your head from your shoulders , ’ Bowe said . |
| 29 | Siemens AG has now acknowledged that it is looking for a strategic partner for its troubled Siemens Nixdorf Informationssysteme AG , which is facing growing woes over the next couple of years now that the German economy is plunging into what threatens to be deep recession . |
| 30 | The European Community is asking for what remains of Yugoslavia to be isolated from world organisations , like the United Nations , as violence continues in Sarajevo in spite of a ceasefire call . |