Example sentences of "but is [adv] [v-ing] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Dr Barham is a polymer scientist in the Department of Physics but is fast becoming more famous for his public lecture on The Physics of a Black Forest Gateau . |
| 2 | As the government and many local authorities are striving to make the operation of the system quick , simple for the lay user and an encouragement to development when it is employment-related , so the public is not only taking a greater interest in its immediate environment , historic buildings and countryside and conservation generally , but is increasingly using the planning system to try to achieve its aims . |
| 3 | This is rarely under the control of the producer country , even less the actual direct producer , the farmer , but is increasingly coming under the control of the TNC conglomerates that manage the global food system . |
| 4 | Meantime Ing C Olivetti & Co — which has an interest in the ARM RISC via its 80% holding in Acorn Computers Plc , is developing its own personal communicator , but is also looking at the AT&T Hobbit , and may join the alliance with Eo ; its own product would be the next generation of the 2.2lbs Quaderno portable , which uses the 16MHz 8086-compatible NEC Corp V30HL chip . |
| 5 | The key man of the new venture is Ryoji Yamazaki , a 42-year-old who is not only financing the project through his business activities in Japan but is also acting as chief designer . |
| 6 | Well the door frame , I mean the bricks 'll be alright , but they 'll maybe just t sag down , and that , that , that 's what 's happened , the door frame has , has taken the weight , it 's sagged , but is also bulging , |
| 7 | For example , if the economy is in the deflationary gap situation illustrated in Fig. 9 , but is also suffering from a 15 per cent rate of inflation , an increase in government spending or a cut in taxation designed to combat the unemployment is likely to worsen the rate of inflation . |
| 8 | Mr Koorosh Khodabandehloo , the Director of AMARC , believes that research in this area will not only provide the technology for more successful and precise operations , but is also making a direct contribution to medical science . |
| 9 | A TALENTED teenager gets a kick out of football but is also hitting a high note as a singer . |
| 10 | The academic who describes himself at cocktail parties with the words ‘ I am a physicist ’ or ‘ I am a historian ’ is saying something about his self-perception ( essentially a researcher , not a teacher ) ; but is also saying that he subscribes to the disciplinary code imposed on its practitioners . |
| 11 | Chapmans has not yet signed up any authors , but is clearly hoping there will be an exodus of well-known names from Collins . |
| 12 | The Microprocessor Report notes that the Motorola Inc 88110 is now in production but is n't reaching its original 50MHz target . |
| 13 | But is n't saying ‘ in me ’ smuggling in ‘ I ’ by the back door , so to speak ? |
| 14 | Dell helped port Motif for SVR4.2 , but is n't saying if it will use the product . |
| 15 | The present exhibition is based on that show but is not aiming to provide a complete overview of the artist 's work , rather more a reflection on discrete themes and motifs . |
| 16 | Restricting information A member of the group implies he or she knows the answer to a group problem , but is not telling . |
| 17 | The president has kept the SSC in the budget , but is not providing the amount of money required to allow the programme to follow its original schedule . |
| 18 | For such patients we have adopted a policy of exercise testing on the one hand to convince them that they can often do a lot more than they feel like doing , and on the other hand to pick up the occasional patient who has severe residual ischaemia but is not declaring it . |
| 19 | But is not understanding music , poetry , an experience that accompanies the hearing ? ( 155–88 ) |
| 20 | The use of eye and brow liners is now more refined and less obvious than it used to be , but is nevertheless emerging as an important element in even the most natural looks . |
| 21 | If the bride 's mother has subsequently remarried but is jointly hosting the occasion with the bride 's father : Mr Charles Brown and Mrs David Green … their daughter . |
| 22 | I 'm taking here about pure , blind betting of someone who is not attempting to exercise any skill but is just looking at the odds offered by the bookies , and pointing out — and I 'll have a table to demonstrate this in the talk I give at the Open Day — the way in which the rate of return on bets made in this way decreases steadily the longer the odds are offered . |
| 23 | If the variometer is fluctuating and reading up on one side of the circle and down a little on the other , the probability is that the glider is not climbing at all but is just drifting further down wind . |
| 24 | Nationalism was , is and will be : it is , as Tom Nairn put it , the Janus-face looking at once forward to liberation and progress and backward to reactionary and often mythical notions of the past ; it is a force which should never be identified with the nation-state , a concept which nationalism has for a time inhabited , as a hermit crab inhabits a shell , but is evidently beginning to evacuate as the sovereign nation-state shows clear sign of obsolescence . |
| 25 | She is full of admiration for the care and attention she is receiving at the hospital but is already looking ahead to the time when she is strong enough to go on to a convalescent home . |
| 26 | Shopwatch only started at the beginning of the year but is already proving effective deterring some casual shoplifters . |
| 27 | It 's only just launched the Sigma but is already pressing Japan for more volume , and pretty soon will have the new-generation Shoguns . |
| 28 | This should be a feature of all powerful machines , but is often lacking . |
| 29 | The worst target of all is the one that seems to be near but is forever receding as one gets closer to it . |
| 30 | The New Wave films that do work tend to be those built around a single , larger-than-life character , like Tom Jones or Alfie ( 1966 ) , in which Michael Caine plays a cockney Don Juan who ‘ do n't believe in making anyone unhappy , not if you do n't have to do it ’ but is forever breaking the hearts of young girls , until the sight of one of his middle-aged victims going through an abortion forces him into repentance . |