Example sentences of "[noun] [be] [v-ing] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The institutions are becoming superfluous . |
| 2 | There are also signs that in the new era of competitiveness between them , institutions are becoming reluctant to open their course offerings to the critical gaze of panel members drawn from institutions competing for contracts with the funding bodies . |
| 3 | SCOTTISH pound notes are saving hard-up guests a fortune at Asian weddings . |
| 4 | ST HELENS are taking legal advice after the Rugby League turned down their compensation plea for injured Test centre Paul Loughlin . |
| 5 | While some states are enacting certain parts of the convention verbatim , others are interpreting it and adapting it to suit particular national interests and policies . |
| 6 | Scottish training providers are already aware of this and those in other member states are showing increasing interest . |
| 7 | Students at Somerville are demanding free rape alarms and self defence classes … following the rape . |
| 8 | McDunn really wants to help , I can see that , but he 's under pressure , too ; the circumstantial evidence against me is so strong people who do n't know the details of the case are getting impatient over the lack of progress . |
| 9 | THREE FIRMS AN HOUR ARE GOING BUST |
| 10 | Ever increasing reproductive technologies are re-ordering social aspects of reproduction , specifically women 's fertility , sexuality and pregnancies , by taking them to an industrial level , making them more and more scientific/medical procedures in need of ’ expert ’ interference , and so moving them even further out of women 's control . |
| 11 | The implications of all this are that new military technologies are making conventional defence increasingly cost-effective compared with offence ( although this argument does not apply to nuclear defence , such as the Strategic Defense Initiative ) . |
| 12 | Such technologies are becoming available not only for the Macintosh , but also for Microsoft Corp Windows , and are likely to be in evidence at UniForum this week . |
| 13 | Such technologies are becoming available not only for the Macintosh , but also for Microsoft Windows , and are likely to be in evidence at UniForum this week . |
| 14 | Some of those who comment on subjects such as the safe disposal of nuclear wastes seem to work on the assumption that the relevant sciences and technologies are standing still . |
| 15 | Nevertheless , it seems to me that more than a few Frenchwomen are carrying powerful foglamps , and are doing a good job of raging against the dying light . |
| 16 | Yeah their stat statisticians are going mad . |
| 17 | St. Albans average two-and-a-half goals a game away from Clarence Park and ex-Dragons Steve Clark and Jimmy King are having excellent seasons , but they did lose 2–1 at home to Harrow Borough on Saturday and let Chesham go nine clear at the top . |
| 18 | Trading Standards in Yeovil have just submitted a report on Mrs Burt to the Office of Fair Trading and their counterparts in Swindon are warning potential customers to be wary . |
| 19 | Why , then , are some historians so busily proliferating new historically specific ‘ data types ’ by implementing them in proprietary software while the computer-literate researchers in disciplines are giving generic definition to their eccentric datum so they may be implemented on any platform which permits user-defined objects ? |
| 20 | The Department of the Environment and Ministry of Agriculture are providing technical advice for the project . |
| 21 | International : Exodus as Slavs pack their bags in ‘ little Switzerland ’ Their pride wounded and fears growing , Russians are leaving Muslim Central Asia . |
| 22 | IBM Corp and National Semiconductor Corp are pushing isochronous Ethernet , a new variant of the local area network standard that promises smooth multimedia communications . |
| 23 | The OECD , in its latest review of Ireland , forecasts that growth will fall by more than half this year , to 2.2% ; and it worries that the government 's hard-headed policies are going soft . |
| 24 | Numerous environmental campaigners have alleged that Fisons 's peat-cutting operations are causing irreparable damage to the fragile habitat of lowland peat-bogs . |
| 25 | Meanwhile , the scientific hypotheses for atmospheric change are becoming complicated . |
| 26 | Long Melford are running Open matches on both Friday and Saturday , March 12 and 13 on the Stour and Glem respectively . |
| 27 | All the major supermarket chains are selling strange exotic fruits . |
| 28 | Moore does not suggest that employers are wholly blinkered : it might be , for example , that employers are finding increased educational and job opportunities have meant a less able body of pupils are applying for apprenticeships . |
| 29 | As companies become more global , their policies towards corporate social responsibility are going global too . |
| 30 | ‘ Clubs are quoting ridiculous prices , even for average players . |