Example sentences of "and [be] [adv] [v-ing] [adj] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | We have done this and are now putting more emphasis on expanded sales to the private sector home market and specific overseas markets , as our recently published results show . |
| 2 | Emil and his crew , including me , immediately began setting the tables round the passengers for dinner , and were soon serving warm goat 's cheese and radicchio salads followed by circles of rare Chateaubriand with snow peas and matchstick carrots and finally rich orange sorbets smothered in fluffy whipped cream and nuts . |
| 3 | SELLAFIELD 'S new hi-tech laundry opened this month and is already attracting international interest . |
| 4 | Ending months of speculation , Santa Cruz Operation Inc says ‘ the process to do an initial public offering has begun ’ : the Unix-on-iAPX-86 software house reported revenues of $160m to September last year and is still digesting last week 's acquisition of Cambridge firm , IXI Ltd ; Santa Cruz has appointed an unnamed investment banker to handle the US flotation , but no further details were available as went to press . |
| 5 | With mainframes , for example , ICL has won compliance with X/Open Co Ltd standards , and is currently seeking XPG-4 accreditation . |
| 6 | He is even signed to a UK-based record label , Invasion , and is currently touring British rock venues with support from wry , introspective folkies Balloon . |
| 7 | This page : Rap styles first came to the UK via films like Wildstyle and Breakdance , and is now enjoying new interest from Hollywood after the huge US success of Kid N' Play 's House Party ( left ) . |
| 8 | The government 's watching the outcome of this case and is now taking mental stress at work very seriously . |
| 9 | While Data General Corp made a net loss of $63 million for fiscal 1992 , the company maintains that it has been through the worst in its transition from proprietary to open systems , and is now seeing considerable growth in demand for its high-end multiprocessor AViiON servers . |
| 10 | It also recognises the quality work in the companies run in schools under the Young Enterprise scheme and is now offering junior membership of the Quality Scotland Foundation to those which demonstrate awareness and commitment to quality principles . |
| 11 | He tried to persuade his master to be stricter with the children , and was always complaining that Heathcliff and Catherine did not spend enough time studying the Bible or attending church services . |
| 12 | She required continuous inotropic support and was now developing interstitial emphysema . |
| 13 | A friend of mine called Sue from the Liberation Network had moved to London and was now living next door to Patricia , another stroppy feminist with a disability . |
| 14 | Just before Christmas I was intrigued to get a letter in careful dictionary English from Kenya , saying that the sender had read my book and was now putting some kit together along the lines I had suggested . |