Example sentences of "[is] [v-ing] [pron] [adj] [noun] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Germany , for example , is building its own X-ray observatory , Rosat , to be launched in 1987 . |
| 2 | The use of the relay at this point may seem a bit odd as the switching could be electronically activated , but the use of a mechanical relay introduces a small but desirable time variation ( as well as possible bounce ! ) in the duration of the relays closure and so helps in enhancing the random operation of IC6 during the short time that the VCO is producing its high frequency output . |
| 3 | The Object Management Group is inching its Common Object Request Broker Architecture ( CORBA ) along with requests for documentation on extensions to CORBA and data on establishing interface definition language ( IDL ) mapping for C++ in the broker mechanism . |
| 4 | Amnesty International is launching its 30th Anniversary appeal for 30 prisoner cases around the world in 1991 . |
| 5 | Others believe that Mrs Aquino , by making a political decision on grounds of national security , is transgressing her own leadership principles . |
| 6 | The point is that in each case the woman is defining her own housework behaviour with reference to that of her mother . |
| 7 | However , it suffers from the drawback that each consultant is defining his own case type and will do it differently from another consultant in another hospital . |
| 8 | Her first target was the state 's car-insurance industry , which is seeking its largest rate increase in 32 years ; she reckons this is unjustified . |
| 9 | Like Payne and Haeggman who had 67 , and another Swede Anders Gillener caught McAllister on 140 , he is seeking his maiden Tour success . |
| 10 | Mal Donaghy is seeking his first Championship medal at the age of 35 as fourth-placed Chelsea try to extend a brilliant run of seven wins in their last 10 games . |
| 11 | We are in London 's trendy media haunt , the Groucho Club , where he has that day become a member , his celebrity enabling him to jump a one-year waiting list to his evident delight , and where he is promoting his new BBC travel series Pole to Pole , a sequel to the successful Around the World in 80 Days . |
| 12 | New contracts have also been won recently with tyre manufacturer Avon Tyres , which invested £1m in Promix , and Pan Britannica Industries Ltd , an agricultural and garden products manufacturer which is replacing its present custom ICL Plc-based system with Promix modules . |
| 13 | On languages , IBM is replacing its original program models for C and Cobol and its extended program model for RPG with the Integrated Language Environment , so that in OS/400 2.3 there will be a common block of routines and procedures that all language compilers use . |
| 14 | POP mogul Pete Waterman is turning his multi-million empire upside down searching for a spy . |
| 15 | SmithKline Beecham is selling its German-based UHU adhesive business to HSG-Vermogensverwaltungs GmbH of Frankfurt for £97.5million , of which £91million will be paid in cash . |
| 16 | San Jose , California-based 3C , now trafficking as Super Workstation with ex-Sony VP Mike Hilgenberg in as president , claims it is making the LSI/Sbus-based CPU and frame buffer boards for Goldstar 's Sparcettes in the US and shipping them to Korea for final assembly : it also says it 's planning a Viking-based add-in card and is designing its own Sbus/Mbus 24-bit and 32-bit graphics accelerators . |
| 17 | You state that Cuba is not testing its drug-users for HIV when in fact the country is testing its entire adult population for the virus . |
| 18 | Putting its money where its mouth is , Sun Microsystems Inc is downsizing its internal computer operations to the client-server model using Sparcstations and Sparcservers and is yanking out its mainframe . |
| 19 | In addition , QMH is renewing its existing franchise licences with Holiday Inn Worldwide , covering 19 continental hotels , on a ten-year basis . |
| 20 | THE National Theatre is breaking its long repertory tradition next March to stage a straight 16-week run of the Sondheim musical Sunday In The Park With George . |
| 21 | Meanwhile , the Science and Engineering Council is conducting its own robot research programme . |
| 22 | But today he 's holding his first phone conversation since 1987 . |
| 23 | Mr Pirrie has completed an introductory Novell course , and Mrs Lomas is considering his future training needs . |
| 24 | , Aware is holding its annual Daisy Day from September to and is appealing for volunteers to help sell Michaelmas Daisy and viola plants in aid of the organisation . |
| 25 | But the dates to be noted by the narrow gauge enthusiasts are June 20 and 21 when the Bala Lake is holding its annual summer gala at Llanuwchllyn . |
| 26 | Miltoun House , Guisborough , the residential care home for adults recovering from mental illness , is holding its first jumble sale at Sunnyfield House today from 9.30am to 12.30pm . |
| 27 | The International Telecommunication Union is holding its first World Telecommunications Standardisation Conference in Helsinki March 1 to 12 : the conference succeeds what was formerly called the CCITT Plenary Assembly , and follows the ITU 's restructuring announced last year . |
| 28 | Claret Technologies , a division of Claretian Publications , is holding its second Desktop Publishing Seminar in Quezon City , Philippines , 1–31 August ‘ 92 . |
| 29 | Meanwhile , Digital Equipment Corp is shifting its object-oriented software development into the commercial sphere by announcing object-oriented enhancements to its Cohesion software strategy . |
| 30 | The British Mountaineering Council is expanding its customised insurance cover for climbers and mountaineers with three new policies to choose from . |