Example sentences of "is [v-ing] [adv prt] [prep] a [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | THE NORTH-EAST is gearing up for a bumper celebration of European arts and entertainment . |
| 2 | BARCLAYS , the biggest plastic card issuer , is gearing up for a blitz on card fraud in the run-up to Christmas . |
| 3 | The problem I get asked about most is ending up with a seam that is not the correct length , or is wavy . |
| 4 | He now firmly refutes suggestions that he is unhappy with the Yorkshire set-up and is looking around for a move to another county . |
| 5 | The third perspective is Kao yuan , in which the viewer is looking up towards a mountain scene , as William Willetts puts it , ‘ through successively receding heights represented by flat parallel planes , each with its own horizon ’ . |
| 6 | If blood is pumping out of a wound , use a clean pad to press on the wound , or if need be your bare hands or the pads of your fingers . |
| 7 | All I remember is waking up in a prison cell with a colossal headache . ’ |
| 8 | ‘ Speaking generally , ’ Bray wrote in Boy Labour and Apprenticeship ( 1911 ) , ‘ the city-bred youth is growing up in a state of unrestrained liberty ’ , and describing how ‘ the habits of school and home are rapidly sloughed off in the new life of irresponsible freedom ’ he agreed that ‘ the large amount of money he has to spend on himself is by no means an unmixed benefit ’ . |
| 9 | If you suspect that this is leading up to a tirade about vegetables suffering pain , flowers having feelings and ants being cleverer than humans , then I am sorry to disappoint you . |
| 10 | There is , perhaps , a feeling that there are so many factors , so many interactions , that the whole system is going around in a circle , almost out of control . |
| 11 | But failure to appreciate the force of this distinction can also shipwreck attempts by observers to understand religion — to read correctly what is going on as a person performs a religious ritual or speaks religious words ( see Chapter 10 where an assessment task on this is suggested ) . |
| 12 | The computer turns its interpretation of what is going on into a television picture — healthy tissue is coloured green , tumours show up red . |
| 13 | The imperfections. of these methods of plasma diagnostics — the term used to describe the art of measuring what is going on in a plasma — gave rise to persistent difficulties and ambiguities until the late 1960s , when lasers had arrived on the scene . |
| 14 | About half a mile away an attack is going in on a hill , I can see Commandos advancing up the slopes , shells burst a short distance in front of the forward troops , probably covering fire from the British Artillery . |
| 15 | ‘ The only problem is , my car is going in for a service , so maybe you could do me a favour and give me a lift there ? |
| 16 | Because there is every possibility that if the fund payers determine quality , they will tend to overlook areas in which quality is going down as a result of financial pressures — |
| 17 | And you get silences on the phone and you 're thinking this is going down like a lead balloon . |
| 18 | Like releases , captions should be kept short and to the point and unless the picture is going out as a photo-story with no separate release , this means very short indeed . |
| 19 | And the Isle of Ely college is going out for a meal , so that wo n't be back , so he ca n't have that one , so we have n't got one ! |
| 20 | If the patient is moving around in a wheelchair , some furniture may have to be removed from his room to allow enough space for manoeuvring . |
| 21 | A gorilla in a Canadian zoo is moving in with a couple of bachelors in Texas . |
| 22 | ‘ What we are seeing now is a public revulsion against violence in society which is feeding through to a desire for greater sensitivity by programme makers , ’ he said . |
| 23 | If all a child is getting out of a programme is a blank mind and confusion then , she says , ‘ Any other activity , even squabbling , might be more valuable from a social learning point of view ! ’ |
| 24 | Let mummy just watch the news then I think Playbus is coming on in a moment . |
| 25 | He is coming over for a tour which culminates in the Edinburgh Festival , and he will be promoting both this and his third Easy Rawlins tale . |
| 26 | Rudy Johnson , the guy on this month 's cover , is coming out with a deck , and there 's also a new Dune Pastras model . |
| 27 | In short answers unless it is crying out for a diagram do n't bother because you 'll spend five minutes drawing the diagram , labelling it , explaining what D P and D S means and it just wo n't work it definition , application , measurement problems , contention , |
| 28 | Does he agree with the Prime Minister who told me in a letter this week that even that does not justify a special economic initiative or does he agree with local industry which is crying out for a partnership with Government to take Britain out of recession ? |
| 29 | Birmingham is crying out for a venue for mid-size bands . ’ |
| 30 | East Stand ) Neither of them are now at leeds , one is playing in the USA and the other is dossing around for a year ( so he says ) before trying to get in with a lower division club . |