Example sentences of "is [v-ing] [prep] the [num ord] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The lynch mob is gathering outside the Last Chance Saloon . |
| 2 | Barclays ' support of the National Trust continues to include a secondment of a Donations Administration Manager based at the Trust 's head office and the annual 48-page full-colour booklet Information for Visitors with Disabilities , which the bank is sponsoring for the sixth year running in 1991 . |
| 3 | This time an overseas crew from South Africa is competing for the first time . |
| 4 | And the whole market — dominated by six firms including Argos and Great Universal Stores — is shrinking for the first time in years . |
| 5 | ‘ This genuine shortage is occurring for the first time ever . |
| 6 | Tell the candidate what is happening at the next stage in the selection and/or the date when you will be letting people know your decision . |
| 7 | With careful arrangement you can see what is happening in the next room ( with an open dividing door or glass panel ) or behind you or in the hall , even in the garden , thereby extending your range of vision and your range of information . |
| 8 | Radio operator Paul , who is serving with the Second Battalion Royal Irish Regiment , said : ‘ Gillian is the perfect bride I only hope I can be as good a husband . ’ |
| 9 | He/she must not only offer an accurate description of the death-like oppressiveness of the capitalist world as it is developing in the first half of the twentieth century , but must also depict accurately and without facile romanticism or glib sentimentality , the angry and determined political struggle of men and women refusing to acquiesce to the oppressive forces of capitalist society . |
| 10 | ( Freud is writing in the first decade of the twentieth century , about men and women in the middle- and upper-middle-class Austria who would have been brought up in the latter part of the nineteenth century . ) |
| 11 | The loss-making company is moving into the second stage of its restructuring with the establishment on April 1 of four system units and six additional business units in an effort to give the company an organisation that reflects an increasingly differentiated market . |
| 12 | TOWARDS the end of a week of stocktaking at the Stuttgart Classic , in which some of the world 's leading male players have expressed mixed feelings about the way professional tennis is moving into the next decade , Boris Becker was asked to name his player of the 1980s . |
| 13 | Long-term unemployment , defined as people out of work for more than a year , is rising for the first time in five years . |
| 14 | The Racial Equality Council in Cleveland is calling on the next government to strengthen the Race Relations Act . |
| 15 | I say this having lived in such a time , and am GLAD that if such is coming upon the FIFTH DOMINION again . |
| 16 | Oil slicks in Alaska and elsewhere helped Vikoma , the group 's environmental cleaning equipment manufacturer , which specialises in separating oil from water , and although Salvesen brick , is suffering in the second half from a 30 to 40 per cent cut in demand as housebuilding nosedives , the first half was prosperous and full year trading profit should be on a level with 1988 , says finance director Brian Fidler . |
| 17 | Do you realise that there is dancing in the next room ? |
| 18 | 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 . |
| 19 | This is clear from a passage in Dixon J. 's judgment where he is dealing with the second class of case : ‘ But , where the substantial or only ground for impeaching the instrument is misunderstanding or want of understanding of its contents or effect , the amount of reliance placed by the creditor upon the husband for the purpose of informing his wife of what she was about must be of great importance . ’ |
| 20 | This is playing of the first order . |
| 21 | He is playing in the Second Division at the moment , but my priority is to get him to come to the club . ’ |
| 22 | THE number of marriages between a divorcee and someone who is marrying for the first time is on the slide . |
| 23 | ( Short , happy , slightly humorous speech when the groom is marrying for the first time to a divorced woman . ) |
| 24 | 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 . |
| 25 | ‘ Have you heard about this new senator everyone is proclaiming as the next President , John F. Kennedy ? ’ |
| 26 | The horse is leaving ‘ home ’ so make sure that he is going forward and is concentrating on the first fence ahead . |