Example sentences of "it is [v-ing] [to-vb] [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Precisely because it is seeking to bring some awareness of spirituality to those mostly brought up in a spiritual desert , great care is needed to avoid conveying misleading impressions . |
| 2 | He would prefer to see Africa 's debt obligation reduced to no more than the $10 billion it is managing to pay each year . |
| 3 | It is rewarding to get positive feedback and comments from these people who find the sales centre a pleasant place to visit . |
| 4 | has found sales targets outside the UK snack market difficult to achieve but it is hoping to obtain new sales from recent new initiatives . |
| 5 | It is looking to open further offices abroad too , to complement the distributor network it has set up across Western Europe , the Pacific Rim and Australia . |
| 6 | It hails from a strong mainframe background , which still represents 85% of it sales , though it says it is looking to downsize this commitment to 70% over the next two years . |
| 7 | It does this by altering the supply of Treasury bills on offer , at times when it is trying to reduce liquidity ; or by altering the amount of bills ( eligible commercial bills and local authority bills as well as Treasury bills ) it is prepared to buy , at times when it is trying to provide more liquidity . |
| 8 | Now it is aiming to recruit 100 runners for London 1991 and is eager to increase contributions from various other regional running events . |
| 9 | ABBEY NATIONAL intends to refuse to pay the remaining £7m it nominally owes Lloyds Bank Registrars for the handling of its share distribution and it is planning to claim additional compensation for the bungled flotation . |
| 10 | It is working to ensure that management training is relevant to the sector 's real needs and is more widely available . |
| 11 | While Mid-Glamorgan county council 's £2 million investment in the Cardiff-Aberdare Valley line has traffic exceeding expectations , it is having to buy three trains to get the Maesteg line re-opened , bringing its input to £3 million . |
| 12 | ‘ I have already been told I will need an operation and it is going to take some time to sort out my problem . |
| 13 | In brief , yes , you can , but it is going to take some doing . |
| 14 | Among brothers and sisters it is becoming to entertain each other with witty remarks , hoaxes , family games and jokes , unbecoming to be solemn , to monopolize the conversation , to talk shop , to create emotional scenes . |
| 15 | And when we remember what Eliot did with the gibe , taking it over in the title of Old Possum 's Book of Practical Cats , that collection of whimsical fireside charades in verse , we may well think again about Auden 's comment that in English family life ‘ it is becoming to entertain each other with witty remarks , hoaxes , family games and jokes ’ . |
| 16 | In view of Leicester Energy Limited 's continued interest in the establishment of a combined heat and power scheme in Leicester , will the Minister give his wholehearted support and instruct his officials to give their wholehearted co-operation to Leicester Energy Limited in the tremendous efforts that it is making to promote that scheme ? |
| 17 | Prime Computer Inc said it is continuing to weigh various capitalisation schemes , ‘ including capital market transactions ’ but would not confirm a report in the Wall Street Journal that it is in the midst of talks that would lead it to going public again , Reuter reports from Boston . |
| 18 | The firm also says it is continuing to make steady progress on Iceberg , and that it expects to enter the internal beta test portion of the programme in July or August , and hopes to ship production units a year late , in the fourth quarter of this year . |
| 19 | In particular it is revealing to consider two principles in deterrence theory which are considered to inhibit ‘ conventional ’ crime — these are ‘ the certainty of being caught ’ and ‘ the severity of the punishment ’ . |