Example sentences of "[noun sg] [is] [v-ing] [verb] [adj] [noun pl] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Each side of the politician-media professional partnership is striving to realize certain goals vis-à-vis the audience : yet it can not pursue them without securing in some form the co-operation of the other side . |
| 2 | If the plaintiff can prove immediately and convincingly that the defendant is intending to publish palpable untruths , an injunction could be granted . |
| 3 | The proposed new contract for general practice is trying to force general practitioners to spend far more time sitting in the surgery waiting to consult with patients . |
| 4 | If it sounds like the industry is trying to argue all sides at once — it is . |
| 5 | The Department of Industry is trying to tempt more companies to enter this area . |
| 6 | Some observers suggest that the Western nuclear industry is hoping to win major contracts to improve Eastern bloc plants , at a time when nuclear power is becoming less fashionable in the West as a whole . |
| 7 | Despite the barriers , the online industry is beginning to generate substantial revenues . |
| 8 | By March 1991 three orphanages had been renovated and work is continuing to help those youngsters . |
| 9 | So Alan must have had well in mind the fact that any Rokkaku bout is going to offer short odds on a kite crash ! |
| 10 | Just as the Barnes disputes seem closer to resolution , another Pennsylvania museum is seeking to challenge accepted practices and deaccession an important work of art . |
| 11 | The Institute is planning to hold similar festivals every two years . |
| 12 | The Council is continuing to collect these arrears from individuals and to pursue debtors by all the means available under the legislation . |
| 13 | For example , the technical teacher is trying to convey various models to his pupils , some of the models will be physically based as in describing particular machines or systems and some will be functionally based as when he talks about thermodynamics or communication . |
| 14 | The initial target of 120 members for the co-op has already been achieved and the group is aiming to market 70,000 lambs and 6000 head of beef cattle in its first year . |
| 15 | The alliance will apparently tout Prolog , popular with the European Esprit programme and the Japanese Fifth Generation project , as superior to C. The group is working to establish common guidelines for cross-platform development including user interfaces , object-oriented extensions and database interfaces . |
| 16 | If the plaintiff is going to seek additional damages for loss of earning capacity this , too , must be specifically pleaded in order to give the defendant proper notice ( Chan Wai Tong v Li Ping Sum [ 1985 ] 2 WLR 396 ) . |
| 17 | An electronic bug the size of a staple is helping protect valuable antiques . |
| 18 | ‘ My friend is going to ask some questions . |
| 19 | ‘ As far as I can see , ’ he said , blinking magisterially , ‘ this decision by the European Court is going to have far-reaching consequences . |
| 20 | ( He makes the half-hearted suggestion of Lothar 's having studied notarial arts . ) |
| 21 | The Police Complaints Authority is going to investigate three complaints against officers involved in the Hillsborough football disaster which killed 95 people last April . |
| 22 | High standards of accuracy become important if the investigator is going to employ sophisticated methods of analysing the flight recording , such as making a double integration of the vertical acceleration recording to obtain an accurate description of the shape of the flight-path perpendicular to the pitch attitude . |
| 23 | In these examples , the speaker is aiming to answer different kinds of questions about the phenomenon . |
| 24 | A CLEVELAND drugs advice centre is expanding to provide weekly sessions for people seeking confidential advice . |
| 25 | The dismissal of the Foreign Minister Argaña in July for publicly stating that the ruling Colorado Party would never give up power [ see p. 37651 ] did not dispel fears that the government 's undertaking to hold free elections in 1993 would be broken by his " stronista " ( Stroessnorist ) wing of the Colorado Party . |
| 26 | THE ETHIOPIAN army is failing to halt northern rebels advancing rapidly southwards to the capital and its vital lifeline road . |
| 27 | ‘ The Government is trying to promote small businesses and to cut out some of the bureaucracy and red tape which is strangling us . ’ |
| 28 | Not an easy thing to say when someone in the grip of an alien being is trying to make scrambled eggs out of your brains . |
| 29 | However , research in cognitive psychology , cybernetics and comparative linguistics is beginning to shake old assumptions and to provide guidelines for investigation . |
| 30 | Italy 's central bank is planning to allow commercial banks to take stakes in non-financial institutions , a strategy denied them since a banking crisis in the 1930s . |