Example sentences of "is [adv] [v-ing] [conj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Now , with the proposed acquisition of CGI , IBM is effectively saying that despite its vast army of surplus employees , it ca n't find 4,000 among with the skills , or the ability to acquire the skills to be found in an unexceptional middle-ranking software and computer services company — and the move is hardly a morale-booster for all the people within IBM that ply their trade in software and services . |
| 2 | This is an interesting passage because Platt B. is effectively saying that an undertaking to pay this excessive charge had been extracted from the clerk before he commenced his search and that he could not honestly have gone back on that undertaking . |
| 3 | Just as the archaeological establishment is slowly changing and a willingness to try new approaches becomes evident , so Earth Mysteries enthusiasts have begun to undertake archaeological training . |
| 4 | It 's a fact that a dog 's senses will deteriorate with age , but because their senses are generally much more acute than ours , we do n't always recognise when one is slowly failing because the other senses adjust so well . |
| 5 | J. P. Morgan , a New York bank , is optimistically forecasting that the current account for the year will be in balance , compared with a deficit of $99 billion in 1990 . |
| 6 | Since the casework load at Latchmere is constantly rising and there is a two-week wait for an appointment with the welfare worker , the load can be contained only if common elements of the detainees ' problems can be drawn together . |
| 7 | Therefore if you 've got a relationship with somebody and all you seem to constantly to be doing is constantly arguing and it 's either I win or you win you 're never gon na get out of that unless other time . |
| 8 | It is difficult to feed hay from a rick so covered because the shape is constantly changing and the top can not be kept convex . |
| 9 | But our language is constantly changing and what is correct is only so because it is accepted as such . |
| 10 | The market is constantly changing and management should monitor these changes and react to them . |
| 11 | The format is constantly changing and classes are divided into four age groups ; walking to two , two to three , three to school age and Gymbobs to seven years . |
| 12 | And it is especially fitting that her statue should stand so close to the parade ring , the scene of such joyous pandemonium at Cheltenham after she had completed her unique double in March 1986 . |
| 13 | The combination of suggestion and statement is especially striking when the youth recalls the way the four had divided the treasure , on Brett 's insistence : |
| 14 | A warm , friendly voice is especially reassuring if a partially sighted person ca n't see your expression . |
| 15 | An emotivist will think that Butler is merely expressing and inviting an attitude whereby we favour this sort of system of self control , while an intuitionist will think that there is tacit appeal to an intuition as to what ought to be . |
| 16 | Do n't leave them until they are so developed and tough that they will not easily pull away and have to be cut ; this is merely pruning and you will thereby ensure that several adventitious shoots will grow to replace the one being removed . |
| 17 | It is also often unclear whether it is being claimed that the bureaucracy is truly multifunctional or is merely recruiting and socializing its own members , articulating their interests , or acting as ‘ one of the main channels of political struggle in which and through which different interests are regulated and aggregated ’ ( Eisenstadt 1963 , p. 112 ) . |
| 18 | Role ‘ It is only fitting that the standard of his office should reflect his role . |
| 19 | After all in an age where everyone is becoming more environmentally aware , perhaps it is only fitting that even artists are getting into recycling . |
| 20 | Integration in such circumstances is only enabling if communication is based on a classroom experience which is truly shared between all students and teachers , regardless of the source of that experience . |
| 21 | Before any committal warrant is issued , the magistrates court must hold a means inquiry , and it is only following that that a warrant can be issued . |
| 22 | He is only saying that after a certain point in his life he himself did not doubt . |
| 23 | ‘ Anyway , you know that Tim is only saying that because he wants you to marry him . |
| 24 | But of course it is only reassuring if the person can be relied on to be there whenever the need arises — and you can be sure that that is bound to be during the last class hour on the longest teaching day of the week . |
| 25 | The female , beating her wings as fast as 500 times a second creates the high-pitched hum that is so unsettling as you lie in camp trying to go to sleep without a mosquito net . |
| 26 | Galbraith ( 1976 ) put forward the idea that in the technological world the technology is so demanding that a given new technology is handled in the same way anywhere in the world no matter what the local culture . |
| 27 | It is entirely fitting that Dawn Run should share the statuary honours with the other two Cheltenham legends , for she was the first — and to date the only — horse to win both the Champion Hurdle and the Cheltenham Gold Cup . |
| 28 | It is perhaps fitting that he was carried to his pauper 's grave by the stonemasons then engaged in restoring Camborne Church . |
| 29 | It is perhaps unsurprising that the matter should have been challenged in the courts , given that it was an affront to the requirements of even the most basic conception of the rule of law . |
| 30 | In the light of these concerns , and the dismal outlook of many , it is perhaps unsurprising that only 28 per cent agreed that helping older people to live as long as possible should be a priority issue . |