Example sentences of "[is] [verb] [pos pn] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Bernard Jacobson , who is celebrating twenty-five years of activity , is devoting his programme for an entire calendar year to exhibitions of historic and modern British landscape painting . |
| 2 | A retired engineer who has collected information on card indexes over 30 years as a member of the World Ship Society is devoting his full time to implementing such a database . |
| 3 | He 's sucking his thumb ! ’ |
| 4 | Andrew Holmes is helping our Divisional teamwork . |
| 5 | Does he think that he is helping our farmers in their genuine plight by highlighting such diseases in this debate ? |
| 6 | The loss per share was 8.1p , against earnings of 1.2p , but Psion is maintaining its 2.4p total dividend with a 1.4p final on May 29 , and predicts ‘ resumed growth and good profitability ’ this year . |
| 7 | BRAMMER , the industrial services group , saw pre-tax profits tumble 19 p.c. to £9.16m last year , but with £3.4m of net cash under its belt the company is maintaining its dividend total at 13p , with payment of an 8½p final on July 1 . |
| 8 | The board is maintaining its final dividend at 1.8 pence per share , which makes a total of 2.7 pence for the year . |
| 9 | One assertion is that the world 's richest country is maintaining its high and raising standard of living by borrowing and thus depriving other countries — with very much lower living standards — of investible funds . |
| 10 | " In an ironic sense , " Beer declared , " Britain is maintaining its leadership . |
| 11 | With Rank Xerox having just announced that it is to set up its European research centre in the region in the autumn and the Euronews satellite channel destined for the area , Rhone-Alpes is maintaining its momentum . |
| 12 | FILM star Liz Taylor is using her expertise in gems and men to launch a male perfume — called Rough Diamonds . |
| 13 | All these people are doing is using their psychic faculties . |
| 14 | ‘ Either John and Angela have escaped , ’ Chris said , ‘ or someone else is using their car and pretending to be them . ’ |
| 15 | With competition for research funds now especially fierce , the Defense Department is using its bountiful budget for university based science to ‘ sensitise ’ — as one Defense official put it — university scientists to its security concerns . |
| 16 | If anyone is currently fighting a case such as this , I would also be pleased to hear from them as it does seem to me that the Revenue is using its muscle to try to remove one of the benefits of independent taxation . |
| 17 | This is not indicative of a urinary problem , but rather that the dog is using its urine to mark its new territory . |
| 18 | The company is using its global broadband network to link the services and is using them to launch a Global Managed Data Service which will compete with the likes of British Telecommunications Plc 's Global Network Service and Infonet . |
| 19 | Is this due to changing ideas about how the British system of government should be organised , widely held , or is it simply that the government of the day is using its power to change the system in the pursuit of its own political goals ? |
| 20 | It is using its applications engineering resources by offering " a total engine package " to those of its customers whom recession has forced to run down their own development activities . |
| 21 | ‘ Everything is charged to the card , providing an audit trail for the businesses ’ financial and cost controllers and supplying management information , which shows whether or not the company is using its resources efficiently and staying within its budget . |
| 22 | The Far Eastern Economic Review of Jan. 23 said that Akashi 's appointment had " given the impression that Japan is using its financial muscle to secure more senior UN posts " . |
| 23 | Another company , Société re de Missa , is using its Congo concession to keep its sawmill in Central African Republic running . |
| 24 | We think the government is using its powers much too fiercely . |
| 25 | Exercise is using your body in a way that will promote health . |
| 26 | Even if the interviewer is using your first name she/he will not expect you to return the compliment unless you are specifically asked to do so . |
| 27 | He is using your partner as divine sandpaper to take off the rough edges . |
| 28 | said yeah , Richard is using your address to put the banns in here with Angela |
| 29 | This became the first in a long line of medieval whodunnits featuring an unusual detective , a 12th-century Benedictine monk named Brother Cadfael : when he is n't tending his herb garden , Cadfael is using his knowledge to solve a seemingly endless series of murders and mysterious disappearances . |
| 30 | Letterman thinks that he is failing in love with her but he has the impression that she is using his cosseted and lineamented body in some sinister fashion . |