Example sentences of "[pers pn] is [adv] [v-ing] [prep] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | She is also lobbying for relief for nurseries from the uniform business rate , in the same way as educational establishments ; she wants them to be zero-rated for VAT purposes and provided with loans for safety improvements and training . |
| 2 | Every bride looks beautiful — this is partly because of what she is wearing and partly because she is usually glowing with happiness . |
| 3 | The young woman feels curiously as though she is only playing at house once more when she goes into the first flat or home that she can truly call her own . |
| 4 | Mrs Marcos agreed long ago to fly her husband 's body direct to Laoag , but she is now hinting at defiance . |
| 5 | The movement was not without criticism from those whose support might have been taken for granted ; Robertson Nicoll pronounced the 1894 Congress a ‘ failure ’ because ‘ it does not represent Nonconformity and it is wholly lacking in enthusiasm and initiative . ’ |
| 6 | And it is surely dying from cancer with dignity which requires bravery . |
| 7 | It is also asking for air-time on radio and television , and for access to national and provincial newspapers and magazines . |
| 8 | It is desperately looking for advice , help or just moral support from museums and institutions in the west . |
| 9 | As a result , abattoir owners are beginning to speculate that the operating framework of the beef sector could swing overwhelmingly towards exports — as it is already doing with lamb . |
| 10 | It is not responsive to the local communities and it is totally lacking in democracy . |
| 11 | At the moment it is still looking for funding from private and public sources ; the Netherlands has provided an initial grant of US$1.5 million . |
| 12 | Despite its problems ( see page 1 ) OSF says it is still shooting for self-sufficiency by 1994 . |
| 13 | The defence of a firm accused of predatory pricing is often that it is merely responding to competition : so evidence of its intentions may be quite important in deciding whether a firm 's conduct is predatory or not . |
| 14 | ‘ It is now moving towards balance sheet entirely . |
| 15 | Britain , of course , lagged behind the States , but it is now beginning to surface . |
| 16 | If the hon. Gentleman would listen rather than talk , he would learn that the price formula for gas has also been revised : where it was minus 2 on the controllable costs it is now going to minus 5 — another tough target . |
| 17 | There is already a KSR1 at Manchester University and the company has established a UK subsidiary ; it is now opening for business in Germany and France . |
| 18 | Nor do I feel compelled to depart from that conclusion by the fact that , under the present practice , a local authority which acts as a relator in a relator action is required to give an undertaking in damages even though it is so proceeding in order to enforce the law in the public interest . |
| 19 | She/he is also looking for initiative and indications that you have given some thought to what the job will involve . |
| 20 | Three months after becoming prime minister , he is already putting in place a vast programme to privatise the state-owned businesses that have been a drag on the country since they were nationalised by Zulfikar Ali Bhutto in the early 1970s . |
| 21 | ‘ He is completely lacking in sex appeal , ’ said Maya , of South West London . |
| 22 | He says he is now living in fear , having been told that an £80,000 contract has been taken out on his life . |
| 23 | He is now recovering at home in Barnard Castle after three operations and celebrated his 50th birthday on Monday . |
| 24 | He knows that he is only looking at ink on paper , yet his nervous system responds to it in the same kind of way as it might respond to a real woman . |
| 25 | He is currently resting at home in Las Vegas , before January 's Australian Open . |
| 26 | He is currently working on A-wing receiving new inmates … |
| 27 | He is always talking about style : he has yet words of the absurdest that occur in every page , bland , delicate , dainty ; one blushes to read them . ’ |