Example sentences of "is [v-ing] [prep] [art] [adj] time " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ Painting is drawing at the same time , ’ Mauve had told him . |
| 2 | This time an overseas crew from South Africa is competing for the first time . |
| 3 | And the whole market — dominated by six firms including Argos and Great Universal Stores — is shrinking for the first time in years . |
| 4 | ‘ This genuine shortage is occurring for the first time ever . |
| 5 | This is occurring at the same time as the Commission is using the single market as an excuse to augment its power for political means . |
| 6 | The promotions business is going through a rocky time , and the Hoover jinx has now hit the Coca Cola Co in the UK , the Guardian reports : customer services at the company 's British headquarters are besieged with callers believing they have won Sega Enterprises Ltd games machines because one batch of bottles appears to make every purchaser a winner ; any bottle cap with the letter M , G or B printed on it wins a Sega prize , but the problem batch have all three letters inside the cap as part of a code to identify consignments , and the company is having to spend thousands of pounds on advertising to make it quite clear that its only caps with only one of the letters that win , and that all three are no good . |
| 7 | Long-term unemployment , defined as people out of work for more than a year , is rising for the first time in five years . |
| 8 | Often the hypertext system is running at the same time as other systems , exchanging documents dynamically with them . |
| 9 | Er Er this motion is not an attempt to preempt applications Mr Chairman come before us that 's Mr said time is indicating for the first time that er September might possibly be months . |
| 10 | THE number of marriages between a divorcee and someone who is marrying for the first time is on the slide . |
| 11 | ( Short , happy , slightly humorous speech when the groom is marrying for the first time to a divorced woman . ) |
| 12 | Home ownership in America is falling for the first time since the Depression , just as the savings-and-loan collapse has made the government the largest single owner of property after foreclosing on bankrupt thrifts . |