Example sentences of "is embarking on [art] [adj] " in BNC.
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1 | Adacom group , part of of Harris Adacom is embarking on a substantial product and organisational expansion . |
2 | If your centre is embarking on a European project , or if you have an enquiry where SCOTVEC could help , Moira McKerracher , European Development Officer will be pleased to hear from you . |
3 | Wilkinson Sword is embarking on a seven-fold increase in advertising spend for the launch of its Protector wet shaving system . |
4 | It is embarking on a two-stage effort to bring a data dictionary , and eventually a repository , to its relational database management system , fourth-generation language and CASE tool environments . |
5 | The European Commission is embarking on a four-year , £52 million study of climate change , named Epoch , as Europe braces itself for its third year of severe drought . |
6 | THE BRITISH Nuclear Energy Society ( BNES ) is embarking on a major recruitment drive . |
7 | A Microsoft Corp staffer is reported to have told Sun Microsystems Inc that Microsoft would make Windows such a moving target that Sun , with its WABI Windows Application Binary Interface , could not keep up ( CI No 2,147 ) : if the tale is true and Microsoft means it , it means that the company has learned a little too well from its long cohabitation with IBM , and that the seeds of its own destruction are now being sown — for years , IBM added features and tweaked its mainframes with no thought of improving them from the user 's point of view , but simply to trip up competitors , and once a dominant company starts resorting to such tactics , it fatally injures the regard with which it is held by the outside world , and is embarking on the slippery slope that leads to the debacle IBM finds itself in today . |
8 | Both are worried that Keith is embarking on the long downhill road to delinquency and even the nursery staff have resorted to clichés to describe his behaviour . |