Example sentences of "is [adv] [v-ing] [verb] a [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | After playing catch-me-if-you-can for so long , it looks as though Sun Microsystems Inc is only going to get a month 's headstart over the pack of Sparc-compatible builders which will be gunning for its superscalar Sparcstation 10 market — if US firm Pinnacle Data Systems Inc , Columbus , Ohio , has its way . |
| 2 | ‘ It is like this , ’ said the Town Clerk as they left the Town Hall together , ‘ This arch-smuggler , Cut-throat Jake they call him , is apparently planning to receive a load of contraband liquor this very evening , at dusk , by the rocks below the Baddie 's Tower . |
| 3 | The problems of Scotswood continue , and although various people are trying to tackle them , it is obviously going to take a lot of time , money and effort to solve them . |
| 4 | The interesting thing is that while the hard core fan is obviously going to buy a strip , we are selling more and more of them as fashion and leisure garments , and not just to kids . ’ |
| 5 | It is nevertheless beginning to demonstrate a willingness to fight its corner should things get tough either after the election or at the periodic review of price limits in three years time . |
| 6 | He lives in a sort of gavotte where no one is ever going to drop a glove . |
| 7 | ONE of the candidates in last week 's Irish elections is still hoping to become a member of both the Irish and British parliaments . |
| 8 | He is still trying to arrange a concert for it in London . ’ |
| 9 | Despite this apparent endorsement , SCO wo n't say whether it has even made a decision yet , suggesting that it is still trying to picture a future for OSF/1 , given the lack of industry support for it and the shadows cast by OSF 's re-focusing . |
| 10 | So , Freud says , trying to build morality on the basis of religion , is like trying to build a house on sand , because the foundations wo n't hold . |
| 11 | Now , assuming they 're true , Blufton is hardly going to shop a drug smuggling ring he 's in on , so it 's safe to assume Nicola had another source of information . |
| 12 | Looking forward just a few years , multimedia is clearly going to become a standard , highly influential feature of a vast range of computer applications in all sectors of our personal , professional and business lives . |
| 13 | He is also trying to finish a commerce degree at university , but the remarkable series of events which has seen South Africa catapulted into the cricketing limelight means that studies might have to take a back seat for at least 1992 . |
| 14 | He is also trying to find a manufacturer for a porcelain razor he designed for an exhibition in New York . |
| 15 | Unesco , despite Russia 's $56 million debt to the organisation , is also intending to help a number of institutions including the Hermitage , the Russian State Library and the Bolshoi Theatre . |
| 16 | And the midfielder is also bidding to continue a scoring streak that has seen him hit the target in his last four League matches . |
| 17 | Since he has been in Deerbolt , he has passed his GCSE 's and is now trying to get a place catering college when he gets out next year . |
| 18 | Thus , AEA is now beginning to contemplate a future in which it becomes an independent business , and its management is excited by the prospect . |
| 19 | Chinese herbal medicine — for 4,000 years a mystery to the west — has become phenomenally popular in the USA and is now beginning to establish a foothold in Europe . |
| 20 | Christian Hosoi , who was meant to be getting some sort of subsidiary company through Vision , is now working to get a sub-company set up through H Street : this will eventually be similar to Chris Miller 's Planet Earth . |
| 21 | The college is now working to develop a HND in European Studies with Marketing . |
| 22 | Worse still for ITT , the company is now starting to sell a Digivision television set for broadcast and television studios . |
| 23 | Olivia — whose hits include You 're The One That I Want , Physical and Xanadu — still has a tough fight ahead , but she is a born fighter and is now planning to write a book to help other breast cancer sufferers . |
| 24 | At this point he said , quite rightly , ‘ Sod this for a lark ! ’ and is now planning to have a batch of tensile steel rods made up by a colleague who owns an engineering firm . |
| 25 | The government is plainly trying to generate a sense of nationalism , previously absent in this tribally divided country . |
| 26 | In conjunction with other bodies in the Stirling area , STEP is currently seeking to develop a plan which will ensure that the provision of business support services locally is targeted and coordinated in an effective manner . |
| 27 | The Object Management Group is currently working to provide a definition of related object linking and embedding services . |
| 28 | On enquiry the Inspector contends that as the transactions were not recorded in the accounting records in March 1991 , no cognisance can be taken of the dividend , and he is therefore seeking to raise a s 419 assessment . |
| 29 | The academy is certainly having to reject a lot of highly qualified applicants . |
| 30 | So how we handle the foal is certainly going to make a difference between whether the mature horse will be friendly or not , and in my experience , horses that have not been well handled as foals are never as friendly , trusting , and confident as those who have . |