Example sentences of "[noun] [is] [v-ing] [det] [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ You 're implying that the KGB is running some big operation in Romania . |
| 2 | I 've got this smart suit on and Marie 's wearing this white wedding dress with all these frilly bits . |
| 3 | ‘ The college is getting enough unwelcome publicity already , without charging one of the fellows with burglary . |
| 4 | The motorbike industry is facing some hot competition — from the Chinese . |
| 5 | Headline is enjoying this lovely writer , but it is his Cornish sagas we are waiting for , which I am told will make up the next book . |
| 6 | Turn out in local elections is approximately forty percent , that figure is covering all local elections . |
| 7 | AT THE University of Centreville , Maryland , a research programme which its director admits he obtained the money for by a far from rare academic tactic is showing some surprising results about human behaviour . |
| 8 | ‘ It would be dishonest to pretend that the NSPCC is making any significant impact on the problem — even they would not claim it . ’ |
| 9 | Of course , we must remember that Anthony is considering all non-business organizations , not just governmental organizations as Drebin et al. |
| 10 | I 'll come following you He d yeah it was odd when Frank said that cos apparently what happened , he just sort of started saying that he did n't think that Frank had really been there for him and that he was being a bit sort of selfish and stuff which I mean maybe he has been but the thing is if you know if Frank 's making this massive effort to like fit in and meet new people and stuff then |
| 11 | However , it seems that leave is refused for between a quarter and a third of all AJRs , and this might suggest that the leave requirement is performing some other function such as keeping the number of pending AJRs down so that the delay between the granting of leave and the hearing is not too great . |
| 12 | ‘ I think Denholm is directing this whole business because it 's rolling so quickly , ’ said Susan ( 50 ) . |
| 13 | The right hon. Gentleman quotes job losses , but he fails to mention Tesco 's plans for 5,000 new jobs over the next year , Safeway 's plans for 2,000 jobs , Nissan 's plans for 600 new jobs in the north-east , and the fact that Toyota is providing another 3,000 jobs in Derbyshire . |
| 14 | Methodism is knitting those spiritual bands which will help to draw the scattered fragments of the English race into that great Confederation which every wise statesman desires . |
| 15 | By beginning with the ‘ duty to be publicly accountable ’ the GASB is allowing that financial reporting can be defined in part without explicitly referring to users ' needs . |
| 16 | you 've used a triangular bandage to cover a wound in the scalp , it 's not a chopping block wound right , it 's not the chopper in its wound right , it 's just a minor wound in the scalp , yes , and that came round and tied at the front , tucked at the back , you used these roller bandages to cover a graze or a wound on the end of an elbow or a knee or the hand , foot and then a straight one up the arm okay , so a lot of your bandaging is using these little roller bandages with the lint pad and do n't forget when you get into the exam do it , do n't do it the wrong way round , remember that you look at your bandage and you put the lint onto the wound , not the other way round right , yeah , you put the lint face down onto the wound , okay ? |
| 17 | The Everyman is making this exclusive offer to the Echo to promote the two for the price of one Bard Card ticket , which operates for its own Shakespearian production , Much Ado About Nothing , until Friday . |
| 18 | There is no point is souring such good memories . ’ |
| 19 | Capitalism is creating these superficial images . |
| 20 | The essential part of bomb-building is collecting enough weapons-grade uranium or plutonium . |
| 21 | The little dog 's going This little dog was mad , man , did you see it ? |
| 22 | But while the public library is fulfilling this immediate need , they are conscious of the long-term information needs of schoolchildren who will eventually require public library services as adults , and are conscious of the necessity of promoting the public library as a resource in its own right . |
| 23 | Claiming to have ‘ seen it all , ’ they say Fujitsu is doing some interesting things with Sparc , but the Cypress Semiconductor Corp/Ross Pinnacle effort is ‘ still a long way off . ’ |
| 24 | The tender is undergoing some further work and the boiler is the final obstacle in this protracted restoration . |
| 25 | To celebrate the launch , Sega is staging several massive promotions including an enormous airship which will fly over from France . |
| 26 | Word is circulating that Digital Equipment Corp will be laying off 1,000 software engineering staff in Europe over the next couple of weeks on top of the 6,000 redundancies worldwide that were announced last week . |
| 27 | The formula links firefighters ' pay to the top quarter of male manual earnings but the Government is insisting all public sectors workers are given rises of no more than 1.5 per cent this year . |
| 28 | Now , as the year-end deadline for removing the becaks from Jakarta 's streets approaches , the city government is facing some stiff resistance . |
| 29 | She might , at least , look a bit grateful at Mrs Beeding 's taking all this trouble over her . |
| 30 | Moreover , while there are good reasons for concern about the availability of services for ‘ revolving door patients ’ during the run down of the old psychiatric hospitals and while doubts remain over the capacity of district general hospital units to provide appropriate care to people in crisis , the relocation of the long stay population of psychiatric hospitals is achieving some successful results . |