Example sentences of "[is] [verb] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | He seems pretty strong minded , so Im pretty sure he s got definate ideas of how hed like a team to play etc . |
| 2 | Thinking about it he s got some kind of ‘ hot streak ’ when it comes to the FA Cup . |
| 3 | Jones is probably the best choice … ok so he s had disciplinary problems recently — this is no time to start making petty examples of players . |
| 4 | He s had several really good runs — stopped by injury . |
| 5 | Thank god he s having more shots now too — that s been my only criticism of him over the last year , now he s looking to shoot more , and scoring ! |
| 6 | Er it 's not due to my expertise at all , it 's just mainly due to the fact we do n't go to shows these days we 've always in the good old days when we used to go to shows we spent probably a hundred and thirty to two hundred pounds a year so we never had very much money as we do n't go to these shows and spend this money it is it is a it is accumulating each year . |
| 7 | Worse , Labour is accumulating fresh odium from having 40 per cent of the votes in its electoral college cast by union barons , after varying unsatisfactory forms of consultation . |
| 8 | Their new king , Philip IV , is devoting all his energies and resources to building up alliances in Europe . |
| 9 | Now that Carol Phillips is no longer involved in the nitty gritty of running the company , she is devoting more of her time to the service area of Clinique . |
| 10 | With the other legal deposit libraries , NLS is participating in a preservation microfilming project funded in part by the Andrew W. Mellon Foundation , which is devoting some $2.5m to this purpose in the UK . |
| 11 | Oxford University is helping young mothers scale the academic heights by opening its first nursery . |
| 12 | To hasten this process , the Japanese government is helping private industry through its Computer Basic Technology Research Association . |
| 13 | A progressive inner-city school is helping black South African children to overcome their under-developed state education system . |
| 14 | New technology is helping deaf-blind people to communicate with others to a degree unimaginable even 10 years ago . |
| 15 | This is helping many people see that RE should have something more distinctive to contribute to the values education of pupils than what can happen within the teaching of other subjects . |
| 16 | With the Channel Tunnel looming ever larger in the news and Europe drawing ever nearer , SEL is helping two local companies get their products ready in time for the 1993 opening . |
| 17 | Explaining the move , IBCA said that the banks ' underlying operating profits were on a sharply improving trend which is helping offset asset quality problems . |
| 18 | MARKETING : How the IDB is helping local companies discover new outlets for their exports . |
| 19 | HOW THE IDB IS HELPING LOCAL COMPANIES TO DEVELOP THEIR EXPORT POTENTIAL |
| 20 | This is an impressive performance which provides a clear demonstration that through the provision of a comprehensive and carefully targeted range of marketing support schemes , the IDB is helping local companies of all sizes to develop their international competitiveness , expand their exporting capability and market share and win significant new international business , thereby creating growth and sustained and stable employment . |
| 21 | In another move to improve services for parents , principal child protection officer Evelyn Joseph is helping local voluntary organisations set up an advocacy project for black parents who come into contact with the child protection team . |
| 22 | Therefore , I give a simple diet , which is helping these children at this time of rationing . |
| 23 | Its initiative , SCEME — Scottish Companies Exporting to the Middle East — is helping 22 companies , including J&F Johnston , to gain a toehold in the Gulf . |
| 24 | In this article we take a look at how a commitment to Total Quality Management is helping Noble Metals at Royston to grow in what continues to be a depressed marketplace … |
| 25 | A COURT of Appeal Judge who cheated death in an IRA bomb explosion six years ago is to retire this week . |
| 26 | Even the engraving and writing on the top on , on , on the top of the viewfinder here is nicely lit , you can see that it 's er er , the light is catching all the various edges of the engraving on the top . |
| 27 | Second is that by ordering ahead of conventionally-defined need , the CEGB is comparing the economics of investing in Sizewell with the economics of doing nothing , that is maintaining old plant . |
| 28 | Excretion of administered interleukin-2 and difficulties is maintaining adequate fluid and electrolyte balance are the most common clinically severe toxicities encountered . |
| 29 | If you think you are eating too much salt , the first thing to do is to go easy on the amount you sprinkle on food and use in cooking . |
| 30 | To fail in marriage nowadays is to go bankrupt in a business of life in which everyone engages and in which the large majority at least appear to be successful . |