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

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1 Even in the realms of technical and long document publishing the Macintosh is catching up with PC-based systems ; Interleaf Publisher usually needs a PC/RT or a Sun workstation yet it runs just fine on a Macintosh II .
2 Pipe Major John K McAllister is stepping down after 45 years service and Pipe Major George McFetridge after 35 years .
3 How the Queen is cracking down on young Royals
4 Due to be replaced next year by a huge new hi-tech complex , the original Cerruti mill is winding down after 110 years in production .
5 Fisher , 18 , is serving up to 15 years for blasting mother-of-two Mary Jo Buttasuoco , 37 .
6 More and more money has been spent on the police , and it has n't worked , and that 's why everybody 's looking round for new initiatives , that 's why Patrick Sheehy who after all is chairman of a very successful commercial corporation , was asked by your government to put forward recommendations , that a lot of very unsuccessful police forces rejected out of hand .
7 But the future is also looking good for veteran companies like Harland & Wolff , which is teaming up with overseas firms to assure its future prospects .
8 It takes science to come along and tell us that what is going on under these circumstances is a brain process , let alone to tell us which brain process it is .
9 knows what is going on at all times within the department ;
10 Much research along these lines is going on in various parts of the world ; the quantum Hall effect is an offshoot that derives from curiosity about the effects of a strong magnetic field applied perpendicular to the plane of the two-dimensional system .
11 That is a quite legitimate interest , but surely what is going on in other parts of the country should be of interest to all of us .
12 In general , it can often be difficult for us to be sure just what is going on in supposed examples of communication .
13 A great deal is going on in those regions , and people in the south who have not been north of Watford Gap for a few years should go and see what is happening there .
14 They guess at only the tip of the iceberg of what is going on in these firms .
15 Since the major component of auditors ' costs — the salaries bill — is going down in many firms , it is not unnatural that the audit fees themselves are also reducing .
16 Pooling of clients and vendors is envisaged : ‘ Both parties should know what 's going on at both ends ’ .
17 He 's going on about damn baths at the moment .
18 So er I hope what this er series of interviews will er serve to prove , is both the quality of thinking that 's going on about public services , and our very strong commitment to the customers and citizens we serve .
19 but if they really catch them cos they 're down here a lot now because of er what 's going on underneath those arches
20 okay , anybody got any other reasons why they think that maybe we ought to know what 's going on in other countries , why , why would we be interested in the roots in Kenya , India , why would we be interested in those countries ?
21 It also provides an opportunity , and I think this is quite important , for people to get to know what is happening within the fields of expertise , which increasingly in our society become more and more specialised , more and more hedged off from one another , and in a sense I think that there is a very great danger if intelligent adults in the community , laymen in effect , do n't have some idea , some coherent idea , of what 's going on in these fields of specialisation and expertise .
22 You never know what 's going on behind those burkas .
23 . Thank you , bye bye ! du n no what 's going on after those files !
24 Well it 's , I mean it 's letting them know what 's going off at other prisons .
25 Or they 're pun they 're pouring money into the countryside now forty five million , he 's going in for these developments er to create a better countryside just announced this week .
26 It 's going in at sixteen pounds .
27 It 's going in at thirty pounds the lot , thirty pounds .
28 It 's going in at thirty pounds the lot .
29 It 's going in at ninety pounds the lot .
30 Are you all finished now , it 's going in at forty pounds the lot .
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