Example sentences of "[is] [v-ing] [verb] [adj] [adj] [noun pl] " in BNC.
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| 1 | A NEW breed of telephone is helping create 41 new jobs at the Darlington operation of telecommunications group Hutchison . |
| 2 | This can ( and occasionally did ) lead to a situation in which a linguist claims that the ‘ data ’ he is using illustrates acceptable linguistic strings because he says it does , as a result of personal introspection , and regardless of how many voices arise in disagreement . |
| 3 | Compagnie des Machines Bull SA is looking to cut another 3,000 jobs from its global payroll of about 35,000 , chairman Bernard Pache said yesterday as he presented the figures for 1992 ( see page six ) . |
| 4 | One particularly interesting example is the Ivy Leaved Cryptocoryne which he is growing using three different methods . |
| 5 | Er , to expend money on a project over , that is going to last thirty forty years , and expect the people today to pay for it . |
| 6 | However , if England do progress beyond the opening round — and with the first two from each group plus the four best third-placed teams going through , it is going to take some wretched performances to fail — they will then travel to Bologna , Genoa or Turin for the second phase , with the prospect of visits to Naples , Rome or Florence in the quarter-finals . |
| 7 | However , if England do progress beyond the opening round — and with the first two from each group plus the four best third-placed teams going through , it is going to take some wretched performances to fail — they will then travel to Bologna , Genoa or Turin for the second phase , with the prospect of visits to Naples , Rome or Florence in the quarter-finals . |
| 8 | Firstly the process of moving down towards our S S A needs to be facilitated because my own instinct is that the government , faced with all sorts of financial tribulations , is going to take a harder and harder nosed attitude towards local government expenditure , as it will unfortunately with an awful lot of the rest of what we have come to expect over the decades to be the responsibility of central government , clearly the current expenditure review is going to have some nasty shocks in it for consumers of account services , consumers of other assets of the welfare state but particularly I would suspect , the local government . |
| 9 | So who is going to buy all these buildings once they are finished ? ’ |
| 10 | We think it is going to achieve two key improvements in the house transfer process : It will speed things up and will improve the standards of service to the customer . |
| 11 | Meanwhile the charity 's centre in Herefordshire is waiting to take 26 rescued horses . |
| 12 | I do n't know whether we should bring those plants in tonight because erm they reckon it 's going to become frosty those ones that we have n't planted yet and the hanging baskets . |
| 13 | There are plans to bring in a similar scheme in Oxford — it 's going to cost eighteen million pounds and take five years . |
| 14 | It surely is n't too much to ask — not if it 's going to make two little girls happy and contented ? ’ |
| 15 | Sensible Mr Plod is beginning to see that chasing kids for getting high is n't really a goer . |
| 16 | It proved very successful in terms of the increase in exports [ Worswick and Ady , 1952 ] , though new research is beginning to suggest that official efforts ( largely through the agency of the Board of Trade ) made only a marginal contribution as compared with general forces leading to an expansion of international trade . |
| 17 | A campaign scandal is threatening to tar several Socialist leaders , including more than one minister and perhaps even President Mitterrand himself . |
| 18 | The union is fighting to reinstate 23 sacked journalists . |
| 19 | A grass-roots initiative supported by dozens of prominent writers , actors and politicians is trying to collect one million signatures urging more liberal citizenship laws . |
| 20 | But they need funds , the Dandelion Trust is trying to raise four thousand pounds a year to keep it going . |
| 21 | An RAF Hercules transport plane is trying to rescue thirty Russian sailors whose ship went down in a gale in the middle of the South Atlantic . |
| 22 | An RAF Hercules transport plane is trying to rescue thirty Russian sailors whose ship went down in a gale in the middle of the South Atlantic . |
| 23 | Plainly Gorbachev is hoping to achieve several different things by these radical plans . |
| 24 | He 's hoping to ride two hundred miles in less than eight and a half hours , beating the time set by an eccentric Yorkshireman in 1831 . |
| 25 | It is also becoming increasingly obvious that the company is needing to meet onerous legal requirements and indeed , our own commitment to better standards in areas such as Health & Safety , Quality Management , environmental matters , transport and training . |
| 26 | The company is offering to recycle any vinyl-backed carpets free of charge . |
| 27 | The Local Government Commission is working to consider appropriate new structures in consultation with local communities . |
| 28 | The council is planning to spend ten million pounds more than government guidelines next year . |
| 29 | The task force , funded by the Malaysian Timber Industries Development Council , is planning to use European public relations firms to present " Malaysia 's side of the story " . |
| 30 | The Dance Group is planning to hold regular open nights for all those interested in exploring movement in personal worship and the use of ribbons and flags . |