Example sentences of "[is] [v-ing] a [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Whats more he s becoming a bit of a crowd favourite . |
| 2 | IBM is maintaining a disdain for using NT . |
| 3 | Mrs Gibson , who lives with her sons in Moffatt Close , Darlington , is maintaining a vigil by her son 's bedside . |
| 4 | Hitachi has been talking about a ‘ Unix mainframe ’ using the RISC for a couple of years now , but is using a Sparc front-end for OSF/1 Unix on its existing mainframes ( CI No 2,144 ) . |
| 5 | If you write a spreadsheet for somebody else , you might be using a sixty six megahertz four eight six duel processor erm , spaceship , and , somebody is using a steam driven I B M A T or something , and it runs quite acceptably on your machine , a reasonable speed , and you give it to somebody else on that steam driven thing , and it takes ages to do anything , and er , you press a button and they wait half an hour sort of thing . |
| 6 | A DOCTOR who was made redundant from ICI last month is using a collection of 1,700 cartoons as aids in a private occupational health company . |
| 7 | When suing a debtor who is using a trade name without disclosing the names of the partners or proprietors of the firm , the LBA could usefully contain an extra paragraph : |
| 8 | So the company is using a marketing strategy aimed at corporate customers combined with relatively high connection charges as ‘ a protection against unbridled demand ’ , which sounds perhaps , a little optimistic . |
| 9 | If your engine is using a lot of oil it sounds as if a replacement or rebuild is required . |
| 10 | When I look at a Picasso which is using a lot of colours and I look at something else , for some reason I know that Picasso is using colour well , and the other person is n't . |
| 11 | When I look at a Picasso which is using a lot of colours and I look at something else , for some reason I know that Picasso is using colour well , and the other person is n't . |
| 12 | A farmer is using a shire horse to pull the millstone which crushes the fruit . |
| 13 | If he can not stand , the patient might be transferred to his bed before being cleaned , but if he is using a commode , it is usually possible to clean him from under the commode seat , once the pan of the commode has been taken out of the way . |
| 14 | Pity , Emma 's decided she 's bringing a camera now and she reckons he bringing his ! |
| 15 | Yet his passion , untempered by Clinton 's overscripted if articulate jargon from the policy think-tanks , is touching a chord . |
| 16 | Here , the draughts-person is drawing a scale plan of an Anglo-Saxon cremation urn . |
| 17 | So this is this is drawing a scale diagram . |
| 18 | For the purposes of sub-paragraph ( a ) to ( k ) of paragraph ( 4 ) of this regulation , where a mechanically propelled vehicle is used on a public road by virtue of a trade licence and that vehicle is drawing a trailer , the vehicle and trailer shall be deemed to constitute a single vehicle . |
| 19 | There is no pronounced tug of any kind , just a tremor coming up the line that feels as though someone is drawing a hacksaw blade across it . |
| 20 | A disabled rider who 's accusing a horse trader of cheating her out of twelve hundred pounds says more than a hundred and fifty people may have suffered a similar fate . |
| 21 | Does he not understand that , at a time when even he is forecasting a Europe of up to 30 member states by the end of the century , it is inevitable that the Scottish nation will demand to be a full part of that process of change ? |
| 22 | On the debit side , the Henley Centre is forecasting a rise in book prices of 33% , on a par with music products but greater than that for home computer products ( -3.5% ) and video software ( +10% ) . |
| 23 | Traditional civil-law interpretation would say that it is : the words amount to a demonstratio rather than a causa ; the testator is suggesting a means of satisfying the liability under trust rather than indicating that it is to arise only if the estate of Gaius Seius is entered . |
| 24 | A recent paper * submitted to the Faculty of Actuaries in Edinburgh gave a good example of how divorce is bringing a change in the way we live . |
| 25 | ‘ I prefer Mr. Carus 's submission that an Orthodox rabbi is pursuing a vocation and has no choice but to accept the Chief Rabbi 's disciplinary decisions . |
| 26 | We might wish to be tougher on large firms if the government is pursuing a policy of protection with high import tariffs . |
| 27 | While the ‘ Last Word ’ column in The Independent on Sunday stated : ‘ Last night the service went off air because the BBC can not afford the annual budget of £5m and is pursuing a policy of cost cutting . |
| 28 | It is plain that Brussels is pursuing a policy of ‘ regionalisation ’ of industry and agriculture and , in the over-all plan , Great Britain does not feature as a coal producing region nor , in that case , as a chemicals producing region . |
| 29 | Instead of driving a modern combine harvester , he 's using a binder to cut the corn into sheaves . |
| 30 | He 's declaring that he 's using a taxi and it costs him a hundred and sixty pound a month , every day back and forwards to work , well everyone knows that 's a lie cos she takes him to work |