Example sentences of "is [v-ing] [adv] [prep] [art] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Jordan is catching up with the Western world . |
| 2 | Time is catching up with the baldly-going heroes . |
| 3 | There is bound to be considerable upheaval among the blue-chip client list which Deloitte UK is bringing over to the new firm . |
| 4 | He could have destroyed Tottenham except for their world class goalie who is shaping up for a good World Cup eh Halvard ? |
| 5 | Lawrence was fuming after Barnsley beat Boro 1–0 on Monday , and a season that promised so much is shaping up for a disastrous finale . |
| 6 | This is stepping ahead to the next consideration of the Lady of the Hearth as she who lights and tends the fire . |
| 7 | In the UK , Barclays Computer Operations , Knutsford , Cheshire , which was set up in January 1991 by Barclays Bank Plc to provide in-house facilities management , is stepping out into the commercial marketplace with its own offerings — OPM ( Operator Presentation Manager ) , and DataPlace . |
| 8 | Now that Czechoslovakia is stepping out of the Stalinist ice-box , nationalist voices in Slovakia are beginning to be heard again . |
| 9 | Cop the name of the man ( above ) who is stepping down from a top job . |
| 10 | Ideally the Civic Society would like to see far more drastic policy change , possibly thinking in terms of forty hectares but we realize the minimum possible would be the thirty point five hectares which is hanging over from the first phase of the structure plan , and so that must of course be regarded as committed . |
| 11 | So of course it is proving already with the National Curriculum . |
| 12 | Siemens Nixdorf Information Systems Ltd , based in Bracknell , Berkshire is branching out into a new niche printing market with its 2140 MICR — hailed as the world 's fastest personalised Magnetic Ink Character Recognition printing system . |
| 13 | Though he still likes the animal and slapstick comics , he is branching out into the blood-and-thunder type . |
| 14 | BELFAST is limbering up for the big international fitness challenge . |
| 15 | Hewlett-Packard Co is well ahead of the pack in fitting out its Unix machines with the kind of operations management systems that mainframe users expect , but Sun Microsystems Computer Corp is galloping off down the same path and has gone to Legent Corp for an agreement under which Legent will convert Legent 's system management tools to run on Sparcsystems under Solaris Unix . |
| 16 | Mum is singing along with the last hymn . |
| 17 | Olympic decathlete Daley Thompson has left the world of track and field and is gearing up for a new career in motor racing . |
| 18 | Comedienne Marti Caine , star presenter of BBC1 's Joker in the Pack is gearing up for a hair-raising performance as the evil panto Queen in Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs . |
| 19 | The sportscar firm is gearing up for a multi-million pound windfall by having replicas of the dream machine on sale in the next few weeks for at least £5,000 apiece . |
| 20 | Buckinghamshire speedway ace Simon Wigg is gearing up for the new season with a new club … he 's signed up for Coventr |
| 21 | THE Royal Mail is gearing up for the General Election . |
| 22 | The Church is rowing hard against the mounting waves and winds of persecution and opposition , but is making little headway . |
| 23 | Transmission of infection is occurring both among the young , who may not have been fully exposed to the health education of the mid-1980s , and in older age groups , who may have changed to unsafe sex practices after previously heeding health advice . |
| 24 | Meanwhile , the kite that Lord Hanson has flown is bobbing around in the political and financial winds . |
| 25 | Now that the EC is cracking down on the ozone-depleting solvents used in dry-cleaning processes , you could face problems . |
| 26 | Hey hey I say all these kids are doing is walking round with a bloody turnip with a candle in it . |
| 27 | Mr Thomas reported optimism , however , that the situation is opening up under the new coalition government that came into being a few months ago . |
| 28 | Now he is driving slowly along a straight street cut like a slot between the towers . |
| 29 | Turn right into er what is a very busy er road in any event at that time but that the dangers is that many drivers are becoming impatient with waiting their turn in the queue and what they 're doing is driving down on the wrong side of the road in order to utilise a little back road that 's a service road which runs alongside road and leads into Nightingale avenue . |
| 30 | Yet all this time the front wheel is pointing dead ahead and the bike is driving hard towards the next , faster left . |