Example sentences of "[is] [v-ing] [prep] a [adj] [noun] " in BNC.

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1 Malvern-based chartered accountant Alan Kay is helping with a detailed investigation of the activities of certain copier companies that are widely criticised for malpractice , as well as the leasing companies that finance them .
2 This utility will total up the number of bytes each directory is using across a given path .
3 THE cab driver who was forced to carry an IRA bomb to Downing Street is recovering with a double birthday celebration .
4 Patrick , who joins Michael and EastEnders actress mum Lizzie Power for a family holiday in Sardinia on Wish You Were Here , was born with cerebral palsy and is recovering after a major hip operation which his father describes as ‘ monstrous ’ .
5 I also regret to say that our chairman , Mrs Dorothea Garnons Williams , who would I am sure have liked to attend , is recovering from a serious operation .
6 And three-times 1930s champion Perry , in a letter from the American hospital bed where he is recovering from a triple heart bypass operation , added : ‘ To the youngsters who will use this centre , I say , use it with pride .
7 The chough , the rarest member of the crow family in Britain and Ireland , is recovering from a severe decline in numbers .
8 Paul Dodge , once the hard centre amongst England 's backs , is recovering from a pulled hamstring and expects to make the Orrell trip , but there are still doubts about the fitness of John Wells , the England B flanker whose hamstring problems may keep him out for two more weeks .
9 And for the biggest test of the season Town are missing three regulars Micky Hazard … is recovering from a minor knee ooperation … and with Craig Maskell still out Steve White has the task of leading the goal hunt
10 But he 's singing like a romantic lead .
11 Has the Secretary of State read the last sentence of the Cardiff Business school report , which states : " If as we are led to believe , Wales is drawing on a new era , nobody has informed Mountain Ash about it . " ?
12 Cynical readers might be forgiven for thinking that concentrating on the minutiae of standards is a convenient way of avoiding the subject of how the industry is faring in a depressed market — but they would be wrong .
13 His 'ead 's hanging in a funny sort of way . ’
14 More usually , this is done by attaching lights to the wrists or to other parts of the body , if the light is flashing at a known frequency the relative time of particular positions as well as the sequence can be measured .
15 He dismisses fears of a second-half slowdown and is sticking with a year-end profit forecast of £417m ( £364.5m ) .
16 Phil Clarke , Andy Platt , Martin Dermott , Steve Hampson and Jason Robinson are already out of the televised first round encounter , while Joe Lydon is struggling with a twisted ankle .
17 Using that technology — which it picked-up from its acquisition of Multiflow 's Customer Support Division — Bell says it is collaborating in a joint venture with an unidentified ‘ up and coming ’ multi-processor specialist which will roll-out a Sparc system of that genre by 1993 .
18 Oh well usually when you get T C P it 's because the chlorine 's reacting with a phenolic compound within the tap washer .
19 But she 's being encouraged in her fightback by a young rider who 's recovering from a similar fall .
20 ‘ No , you wo n't have to , ’ I told him , ‘ my luck 's on the turn ; it 's going to be a tremendous year , though it 's true that just now one 's recovering from a few debacles . ’
21 Jonathan also successfully attended a course at Dartmouth naval college and is competing in a national contest to be chosen for a month 's holiday in South Africa organised by the sea cadets .
22 Ken is rowing at a constant speed , he covers eighteen metres in three seconds .
23 All of the world 's savannas have been affected by human activity and , as Table 7.2 shows , deforestation is occurring at a rapid rate due to agricultural development and fuelwood collection .
24 Given the revival of interest in local radio and the fact that this is occurring within a general context of economic and financial difficulty in the country as a whole , it is rather surprising that so little attention has been paid to the potential role of radio in contributing to local economic development .
25 ‘ The Government is railroading through a new contract which depends on the comprehensive computerisation of practices .
26 YOUNG mum Angie Wilson is praying for a speedy end to her homeless heartache for she is expecting a third baby in just nine weeks time .
27 Contemporary dealer Marwan Hoss , absent from last year 's show , is returning with a mixed bag comprising drawings by Torres-Garcia , Helion and Gonzalez and charcoal works by Riopelle .
28 Whether we take the retail prices index minus mortgage interest payments or producer prices , the rate of inflation has declined sharply in the past year and I suspect that the underlying measures of inflation will continue to decline in the next year — I can tell the right hon. and learned Member for Monklands , East ( Mr. Smith ) , who is interrupting from a sedentary position , that the underlying rate of inflation compares extremely well with the position under the Labour Government of which he was a member .
29 But does Randy have the right to say such things when , to put it bluntly , he is trading as a self-confessed copyist ?
30 But Dustin 's confidence in the play was so shaky that he insisted that the stage manager announce to the audience every night that , ‘ Mr Hoffman is appearing with a cut finger ’ , even after it had healed .
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