Example sentences of "[is] [v-ing] [adv] [prep] [art] [noun pl] " in BNC.
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| 1 | each cluster is careering forward like a bolas . |
| 2 | I am delighted that the recently privatised Harland and Wolff now has the longest order book in its history , with £565 million worth of orders , that it is competing successfully with the Koreans and the Japanese , that the future of 2,500 of its people is assured and that it is the premier shipyard in the United Kingdom . |
| 3 | Carl is banging away at the drums , |
| 4 | What it means is what is happening today in the hearts of families and of the peoples ’ ( Vallejo : 1970 , p. 66 ) . |
| 5 | Mark 's only mention of the Holy Spirit for Christians is , as we have seen , placed in the Apocalyptic Discourse in chapter 13 , where Jesus is looking ahead to the tribulations which will face his followers in the years running up to the fall of Jerusalem , and , interwoven with that theme , up to the end of the world . |
| 6 | It 's not just the automotive industry which is looking critically at the suppliers . |
| 7 | The Government is looking again at the payments system to try and resolve it and the Town 's MP recognises there is a problem . |
| 8 | It 's an inset problem , and therefore one is looking inevitably at the reasons for which you can moved an inset boundary , supposing that one already exists , which it does n't , but let us suppose it does . |
| 9 | Given the composition of Council , it is likely that only the DTI stands in the way of adoption of this proposal : if it is adopted , I hope we will be spared further sanctimonious claims to the high ground by the Institute , and that it concedes it is operating predominantly in the interests of ( some of ) its members . |
| 10 | ‘ The remorseless rising tide of Scotland 's unemployment demonstrates once again that the Government 's economic strategy in Scotland is sinking rapidly beneath the waves . ’ |
| 11 | That rap is snapping away at the threads that bind the hypocrisy of society is now an acknowledged fact . |
| 12 | Yet , at the end of a week of alternating euphoria and gloom , the sober verdict so far must be that the military side of this war is going well for the allies . |
| 13 | Meanwhile despite the uncertainty surrounding the future of London 's Docklands , the team is waiting optimistically in the wings to cater for staff at the new Texaco headquarters in Canary Wharf . |
| 14 | In His account of what happened to the rich man and Lazarus after they died ( Luke 16 verses 19/31 ) Jesus quoted the words spoken to the rich man in hell , by Abraham and in verses 29 and 31 we see Abraham referring to Moses and The Prophets and clearly he is speaking specifically of the scriptures attributed to them . |
| 15 | A species of tropical algae not native to the Mediterranean , Caulerpa taxifolia , is spreading rapidly in the waters of the French and Italian Rivieras . |
| 16 | A dream trip to Spain for 6 deprived schoolchildren from Gloucestershire , a year in the planning , is fading fast for the organisers at Cam House Special school at Dursley . |
| 17 | This panto is playing strictly by the rules . |
| 18 | Ian says , ‘ It 's an incredible challenge for the team but everyone is working hard against the odds . |
| 19 | He is illuminating both on the causes of the Arab-Israeli divide and on the competition within the Islamic world between two poles of development : the secular democracy adopted by Turkey under Ataturk and the Islamic state introduced by Khomeini in Iran . |