Example sentences of "is [v-ing] [num ord] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Then Bjorn Again say ‘ thanks ’ in accents that make them sound like the chef out of The Muppet Show , and an Australian voice tells us to hurry up and spend our money on tickets for their next gig in Manchester , which , due to overwhelming demand , is happening next week . |
| 2 | I am conscious of the groups of people inside the flats and rooms , in their own isolations , watching Ethiopia without knowing what is happening next door . |
| 3 | It is turning first to the Oracle Corp Financials world , a niche market , it admits , but one that has helped nurture the rapid growth of database server companies like Sequent Computer Systems Inc . |
| 4 | Shirley Robertson is lying second in the Europe Dinghies , Stuart Childerley is third in the Finns and Will Henderson is third in the Flying Dutchman . |
| 5 | They are now second to the Conservatives in 145 seats ( against Labour 's 186 ) ; but while 90 per cent of Lib Dem second places are in seats with massive Tory majorities , mainly in the south-east , Labour now has double the Liberal Democrat popular vote and is lying second in 144 seats where the Tory lead is less than 4,000 votes . |
| 6 | Mr Davies ' employer , Brian Harley , who is lying second in the tournament after the first round , was unavailable for comment . |
| 7 | Down , currently races in the Far East and is lying second in the Japanese Formula 3000 championship . |
| 8 | It will also give him a chance to recharge his batteries and have a look at where he is going next . ’ |
| 9 | Mr John Wakeham , the Energy Secretary , is considering eleventh hour changes to electricity privatisation to allow new private power companies to make money from energy conservation as well as electricity generation . |
| 10 | The 29-year-old Scot has arrived for the World Cup in Madrid after hearing that tests on the baby his wife Eimear is expecting next spring have shown everything is fine . |
| 11 | I 'll be saying something about them in the lectures , not today but next week , and er now which reminds me , who is performing next week ? |
| 12 | Well what , what I suppose we should do is find out what R N I B is doing first , that 's what we should find |
| 13 | Safety is coming second . |
| 14 | The broken , Monkish phrases , lean , understated tone with a faint quaver to it , and unerring sense of placement are to be heard on five Monk tunes , and the trumpeter , Don Cherry — a musician of whom it is distinctly difficult to say you know what is coming next — is available on some of them . |
| 15 | ‘ Brigadier Bedwelty 's coming today , to teach us shooting , and Miss Gatehouse is coming next week , to start the riding ? ’ |
| 16 | This will stop your eyes wandering about the page but still allows peripheral vision so that you are able to anticipate what is coming next . |
| 17 | We listen more quickly than we speak , and when we can anticipate what is coming next then we switch off . |
| 18 | Altogether , then , we can say the tune is predictable , not in the sense that without knowing it we are sure exactly what is coming next but in the sense that when we hear the next phrase , our reaction is , ‘ yes , I thought something like that was coming ’ . |
| 19 | In other words , in visual word recognition , preceding context is not used to predict what word is coming next , but , rather , to see whether the latest word to be identified is semantically coherent with what has gone before . |
| 20 | For example , with music of the Mozart period we often know what is coming next , even on the first hearing of a work . |
| 21 | What we are saying is , the patient ought to be able to determine at any stage of their illness what care they receive , and they ought to know what is coming next . |
| 22 | ‘ She is coming next week . |
| 23 | She is coming next week ? |
| 24 | The Clearprint rep. is coming next week . |
| 25 | We were gon na go this we , coming weekend actually erm an , because that would have been easier to put everybo , move everybody this week but are coming , is coming next weekend ! |
| 26 | Reid on loan FOOTBALL : Leicester midfielder Paul Reid is joining Third Division Bradford on loan until the end of the season . |
| 27 | Martin Henderson , of Baltasound , Unst , who is starting third year studies for a BEng ( Hons ) degree in electronics and electrical engineering at the University of Edinburgh ; |
| 28 | ‘ I would n't like to say that such an idea has never occurred to him , but , if it has , I suspect he is having second thoughts . |
| 29 | Budhoo asserts that the IMF and World Bank are key elements in an economic order that is deepening Third World poverty , the debt crisis , and a flight of capital from developing to developed countries which has soared in recent decades : in 1986 it amounted to well over $30 billion from the Caribbean and Latin America alone . |
| 30 | It 's tragic that the Health Service is taking second place to a holiday camp . ’ |