Example sentences of "[noun sg] [is] [v-ing] [prep] [adv] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The wind is gusting to about fifty knots . ’ |
| 2 | The car is travelling at about 100 mph on the straights and braking hard before corners ; but it is stable enough for me to make notes and so quiet in the leather and teak-lined cabin that we can easily hear each other through out helmets . |
| 3 | It 's very difficult to speak with any degree of accuracy , but there is at least 1,500 known viruses at large and this figure is increasing by around 100 per month . |
| 4 | The iceberg is moving at about five miles a day , said Principal Met Officer Ken Ingermalls . |
| 5 | A reflection of this is the way they are all trying to develop their lager interests in a market where lager is growing at nearly 10 per cent per annum and is likely to command over 40 per cent of all sales this year . |
| 6 | when the child is wetting at least three times a week |
| 7 | The health and beauty business is flourishing with more sophisticated products than ever before . |
| 8 | Although some farmers are adopting more intensive systems of production this is not yet at a fast enough rate to generate the large increases in marketed output necessary to feed the towns , where the population is growing at over 6 per cent per year . |
| 9 | The rural population is growing at over 2 per cent per year and densities are increasing . |
| 10 | The Royal Navy is evaluating at least four types of missile for this role . |
| 11 | The reason for this difference is probably that the one wishes to justify cuts in welfare expenditure whereas the other is aiming for more direct state control of industry . |
| 12 | Families struggling on low incomes can get help from the scheme provided at least one adult is working at least 24 hours a week . |
| 13 | Families struggling on low incomes can get help from the scheme provided at least one adult is working at least 24 hours a week . |
| 14 | Families struggling on low incomes can get help from the scheme provided at least one adult is working at least 24 hours a week . |
| 15 | The first point to make is that Joint Planning is happening at very different rates and in very different ways across Scotland . |
| 16 | The chairman of the Police Federation is calling for much tougher action to deal with young offenders . |
| 17 | As the adventurers reach the side-valley proper ( which is only around 20 yards wide and approximately 100 yards long ) , the sky is darkening with yet another rainstorm . |
| 18 | Conservative writers have developed complex theoretical systems to explain the maintenance of social stability and legitimacy ( see pp. 20 — 21 on Talcott Parsons ) or how industrial society is evolving towards more complex and sophisticated forms ( see pp. 278 — 80 on Niklas Luhmann ) . |
| 19 | A small pilot is running with very few governing bodies . |
| 20 | At the moment computers are increasing in speed by an average factor of ten per annum , and the number of computers in use in the Western world is increasing by about twenty-five percent per year . |
| 21 | ‘ In a town where unemployment is running at about 20 per cent , the creation of jobs is important in itself , ’ he said . |
| 22 | THIS YEAR THE SOCIETY 'S Easter course is moving to yet another venue ; this time it will be held at Bath University and will run from Wednesday lunchtime to Sunday afternoon with time allowed for sightseeing in the beautiful City of Bath or the surrounding countryside . |
| 23 | There are currently fifty thousand undecided cases and the backlog is growing at over three thousand cases a month . |
| 24 | erm we 're not expecting to see a huge amount of discounting in the summer months , so erm because the capacity that was on the market this year is going to very much match the demand from customers |
| 25 | The new model joins the previously-announced 16-port model , although it has an earlier availability date : the company is aiming for late this quarter for the eight-port model , while the 16-port version is not expected until the third quarter . |
| 26 | At the end of the record , when the stylus is approaching the label , the groove is travelling at about twenty inches per second , yet the sound quality is very similar . |
| 27 | Not because of their undoubted erudition , acuity and ( not least ) charm have pre-empted everything we , their successors , might have to say on the matter ( culture is evolving at too vertiginous a speed for that to happen ) , but because we are n't alone in having read Barthes and Eco and assimilated their methodology . |
| 28 | Finally , if an animal is coping with extremely adverse conditions by self-narcotisation , I would say that its welfare is poor but the effect of the narcotic may mean that it is not suffering . |
| 29 | As the cost of hardware continues to drop ( productivity is increasing at about 30 per cent per year in that industry ) individualised computer programming and time-sharing would become expensive relics , he told the conference . |
| 30 | In fact , of course , even someone who is stationary on the earth is moving at about 18.6 miles ( 30 kilometers ) a second around the sun . |