Example sentences of "[is] [v-ing] [adj] a " in BNC.
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| 1 | In order to test whether a student is using such a hierarchy correctly , the marker can make an eye-catching change to an element of the hierarchy ( e.g. section headings to be red ) and observe whether the document changes in the way it should . |
| 2 | DIRECTOR David Glass admits surprise that his stage adaptation of Mervyn Peake 's Gormenghast is proving such a success . |
| 3 | The TI buyout is costing half a billion pounds and job losses at Dowty seem likely to follow . |
| 4 | The Shared Earth Trust is developing such a blueprint at the Denmark Farm Conservation Centre , based on a 40-acre upland farm in West Wales . |
| 5 | It 's costing half a million pounds this year to pay for bed and breakfast . |
| 6 | The cartographic data must exist in digital format before they can be used within a GIS ; although the amount of digital map data is growing larger a considerable amount of manual digitizing is needed in practice to provide the database necessary for a successful GIS . |
| 7 | Fenwick is selling 800 a week ! ’ |
| 8 | It 's selling half a million snails every year , and they 're becoming so widely accepted as a food that they 're even being sold on the supermarket shelves . |
| 9 | During an Ad Limina address to Bishops in March 1992 , Pope John Paul II said , ‘ The National Board of Catholic Women can be of particular help at this time when the role of women in society and in the Church is undergoing such a radical questioning and transformation . |
| 10 | A new University is spending half a million pounds on TV advertising to attract more students . |
| 11 | Well , oh my mum 's having such a fit about like on our er , exam leads like er she goes to me this morning , like my da , her and my dad were talking about it she is saying , and she 'll do it ! |
| 12 | ‘ No wonder Souness is having such a difficult time . |
| 13 | No one is taking such a declaration at face value . |
| 14 | Asked by the All Africa Press Service why the NCCK , which groups together over 35 Protestant churches in Kenya , is taking such a leading role in the democratic process , Mr Kobia said : |
| 15 | ‘ Is learning Persian a good training for smuggling ? ’ |
| 16 | On the occasion of this first retrospective of his work — which runs until the end of the month — Shepherd is making available a book with forty-three colour plates , Subway Ceramics by Lee Stookey , as well as a fully-illustrated catalogue for the show . |
| 17 | It may explain why he is making such a mess of the job . |
| 18 | All those seeds and apples were V , virile , and X , extremely bitter to the taste — not to say inedible — because of all the insects in them , which , since , Ketone-Etone-Methyl-Tri-Di-Meta-post-Oxy-Chlorane had been banned , flourished alarmingly ; if there is one thing more off-putting than finding a maggot in your apple it is finding half a maggot in your apple . |
| 19 | The reason why Scottish Equitable is proposing such a deal is simple . |