Example sentences of "[noun] be [v-ing] a [noun pl] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The Peat Producers ' Association is discussing a peatlands strategy with English Nature , the government advisory body for England . |
| 2 | Already equipment and furniture were being delivered from central stores and technicians were installing a communications unit . |
| 3 | For the first time in its history D'Oyly Carte is receiving an Arts Council grant , support denied to the old company because of both its sliding standards of production and its refusal to widen its brief beyond Gilbert and Sullivan . |
| 4 | ‘ Our research showed that over half our customers were using a Windows operating system , ’ commented , managing director of HTFS , a joint venture between AEA , NEL and the Atomic Energy of Canada . |
| 5 | So the landlord 's holding an after-hours booze-up as usual ! ’ |
| 6 | Scientists are developing an anti-aids vaccine which could be used to immunise millions of people . |
| 7 | The National Trust is producing a Gardens Handbook to enlighten on matters horticultural and historical , opening times and seasonal interest , plant sales and facilities in 150 of its prime gardens . |
| 8 | If a country was facing a payments deficit , then short-term capital outflows would tend to increase because of the potential capital gains accruing to holders if that country devalued its currency . |
| 9 | Contrary to Europe , the young churches are experiencing a vocations boom . |
| 10 | It is in this latter sense that very often it is claimed that the Conservative Party is advocating an incomes policy , by which is simply meant that the policies which we advocate would , we believe , have as a result the stability of money values and thus have the effect that increases in earnings were real and not merely monetary . |