Example sentences of "[is] [v-ing] [adv prt] [art] [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The secret of both recipes is bringing out the natural fruit flavours — why not try them soon ? |
| 2 | Ongoing promotion of Institute membership is bringing in a steady stream of enquiries from potential members . |
| 3 | No , her right one 's hanging down a little bit . |
| 4 | However , the company is still hauling 750,000 tonnes of potash each year from seams deep under the North Sea and is building up an increasing export market . |
| 5 | If Unisys Corp 's iAPX-86-with-everything Unix strategy succeeds in building a substantial customer base , particularly among the company 's long-standing mainframe customers , the strategists at AT&T Co , whose NCR Corp is galloping down the same track and has a more extensive Intel Corp-based product line , will have to start weighing up whether a bid for Unisys could be made to make sense : AT&T would likely want a recommended offer , coupled with arrangements for a management buyout of at least one of the conflicting mainframe lines . |
| 6 | Bad news about Eastern Europe is drowning out the good news . |
| 7 | His target was ‘ the spate of mean building all over the country that is shrivelling up the Old England — mean and perky little houses that surely none but mean and perky little souls should inhabit with satisfaction ’ ( p. 15 ) . |
| 8 | Here Barnett is opening up a whole store of perceptions , aims , and criticisms which marked out important features of the class relationship in the period ( and which were also relevant to age relations ) , such as the alleged pauperization of self-respect among the poor ; their grasping of excitement ; and the superiority of middle-class culture which made contact between the classes so crucial . |
| 9 | Move your arms as little as is necessary to achieve your purpose , and always move them together so that if the front hand is knocking down an incoming punch , the rear is executing a counter-punch . |
| 10 | Fairfax is driving down the same track in the opposite direction . |
| 11 | ‘ The fifty-metre array is picking up an odd waveform . |
| 12 | that 's looking out the front window |
| 13 | So far as is known , nothing definite came out of the meeting between Castro and Khrushchev in New York in late October 1960 , despite all the drama attached to the Soviet head of state 's seeking out the Cuban leader at his hotel in Harlem . |
| 14 | John Hutchinson is writing up an initial impressions report of the work in the region . |
| 15 | Part of the reporting and accountability process is filling in a monthly time sheet which reinforces the emphasis on tasks . |
| 16 | There is no indication that Hollywood is turning over a new leaf , free of bloodstains . |
| 17 | In other words , the author is turning round an obvious accusation made against fascists . |
| 18 | SUNDERLAND manager Malcolm Crosby is lining up a late assault on the promotion play-off places in the New Year . |
| 19 | PAUL McGRATH is lining up the ultimate act of revenge against former boss Alex Ferguson — by snatching the title away from the Manchester United manager . |
| 20 | ANOTHER dispute is looming over a five-a-side soccer development in Middlesbrough . |
| 21 | ‘ I think he 's testing out the new man . |
| 22 | well that 's going back a long time , is n't it ? |
| 23 | but that was an old woman 's tale really , that 's going back a few years ago |
| 24 | Hewlett-Packard Co is racing down the object-oriented programming road and last week it inaugurated a distributed-object-computing programme that it says will accelerate its efforts to develop and deliver a distributed object computing environment for heterogeneous networked systems . |
| 25 | The club is revving up a grand welcome for four-wheel fans from all over Britain . |
| 26 | Richard Dunn , chairman of the ITV Association and managing director of Thames Television , said : ‘ It is sending out the wrong signals . |
| 27 | ‘ What 's holding up the cashless society ? ’ asked New Scientist on its front cover , signalling a feature on the electronic possibilities in paying for goods and services . |
| 28 | In such circumstances , if the Bank wishes to sell the stock it is holding over a reasonable time period , it will often be unable to avoid reducing its price . |
| 29 | The French government is holding out an olive branch to the drivers by offering to negotiate how the new traffic laws are applied . |
| 30 | But cost is holding back a rapid introduction of the scramblers . |