Example sentences of "is [v-ing] [verb] [det] [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Compagnie des Machines Bull SA is looking to cut another 3,000 jobs from its global payroll of about 35,000 , chairman Bernard Pache said yesterday as he presented the figures for 1992 ( see page six ) . |
| 2 | A prison governor is refusing to accept any more remand prisoners because accomodation for unconvicted inmates has reached bursting point . |
| 3 | Now , of course , we got problems now where they 've all been abolished and is virtually on a voluntary basis , and I say , it 'll be rather interesting to see whether Lamont actually is going to release some more money , cos you probably realise at the moment they 're cutting back on that particular budget . |
| 4 | If you think your — your wonderful offer is going to sound any better coming from you than from that — that pig — ’ |
| 5 | However , if England do progress beyond the opening round — and with the first two from each group plus the four best third-placed teams going through , it is going to take some wretched performances to fail — they will then travel to Bologna , Genoa or Turin for the second phase , with the prospect of visits to Naples , Rome or Florence in the quarter-finals . |
| 6 | However , if England do progress beyond the opening round — and with the first two from each group plus the four best third-placed teams going through , it is going to take some wretched performances to fail — they will then travel to Bologna , Genoa or Turin for the second phase , with the prospect of visits to Naples , Rome or Florence in the quarter-finals . |
| 7 | Short-changed on the sale , the taxpayer is going to get some bland programming too . |
| 8 | This has been referred to frequently and the panel meetings where I 've been present erm the authority has agreed that Council and what it 's doing is to using a review of the District Planning Procedure is going to list this entire process working in partnership with Hertfordshire 's own Organisation , County Council , the department of transport , and other relevant erm national and local government Organisations as well as of course with and are the owners of the site . |
| 9 | ‘ Who is going to tell that poor child ? ’ said the housekeeper . |
| 10 | ‘ And you really think someone like Chief Inspector Kuhlmann of the German Federal Police is going to swallow this absurd idea that you 're a murderer and a rapist ? ’ |
| 11 | It 's certainly something we 're all gon na have too er adjust too , thank you for pointing it out that the United States is going to have such enormous influence er from , from now on , we 're all going to have to get used to it and er get used to how to deal with it . |
| 12 | Firstly the process of moving down towards our S S A needs to be facilitated because my own instinct is that the government , faced with all sorts of financial tribulations , is going to take a harder and harder nosed attitude towards local government expenditure , as it will unfortunately with an awful lot of the rest of what we have come to expect over the decades to be the responsibility of central government , clearly the current expenditure review is going to have some nasty shocks in it for consumers of account services , consumers of other assets of the welfare state but particularly I would suspect , the local government . |
| 13 | Er the County Council can not look at an individual building and say , this is a particular piece of land which is going to be developed and this is going to have this particular impact on the environment . |
| 14 | Your book now is going to bear much more relation to reality than one in which the murderer has to perform two or three pretty unlikely actions so as to provide the impenetrable mystery . |
| 15 | So who is going to buy all these buildings once they are finished ? ’ |
| 16 | With any drug breaking down emotional barriers , there is always a risk that it is going to unlock some psychological problem . ’ |
| 17 | A lot will depend on your current theatre experience and whether you have done much acting , but finding the right kind of character to work in an audition is going to mean some careful thinking and planning . |
| 18 | Sensible Mr Plod is beginning to see that chasing kids for getting high is n't really a goer . |
| 19 | It proved very successful in terms of the increase in exports [ Worswick and Ady , 1952 ] , though new research is beginning to suggest that official efforts ( largely through the agency of the Board of Trade ) made only a marginal contribution as compared with general forces leading to an expansion of international trade . |
| 20 | To be fair , there is a significant Construction Training Programme in association with Canary Wharf which is beginning to make some local impact . |
| 21 | The work of Bakhtin has been ‘ taken up ’ in television writing — most problematically in some appropriations of the theory of carnival developed in Rabelais and His World — and the critical vocabulary of the ‘ chronotope ’ and ‘ the dialogic ’ which is developed in his extensive work on literature , culture and language is beginning to achieve some deserved currency . |
| 22 | The print run for the catalogue last year topped 5 million copies , and the BA is expecting to beat that this year . |
| 23 | A campaign scandal is threatening to tar several Socialist leaders , including more than one minister and perhaps even President Mitterrand himself . |
| 24 | Just to follow the correspondence in the September Question Time regarding Pelikan Mastercolour Oils , your readers might like to know that Artists ' Choice is continuing to stock this excellent product . |
| 25 | Nothing illustrates the blatant inequalities in society better than the fact that Durham County Council is having to close several old people 's homes . |
| 26 | They also need furniture , bedding , towels and clothing , separated for men , women , children and babies and labelled as top clothes , undergarments , jumpers etc. and , as he is trying to organise some basic schooling for the many children , he needs paper , pens and pencils . ’ |
| 27 | Plainly Gorbachev is hoping to achieve several different things by these radical plans . |
| 28 | The company is offering to recycle any vinyl-backed carpets free of charge . |