Example sentences of "[pron] is [v-ing] [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The justification is that while someone is receiving acute care they have the prospect of returning to an independent life in the community , with consequent retention of personal housing . |
| 2 | For example , if you 're an ardent feminist and someone is telling sexist jokes , you wo n't find them funny . |
| 3 | There is ‘ a conflict ’ with USL , says Unix Solutions Ltd , which is seeking legal advice on the matter . |
| 4 | Barrie Lamb stated that the job would have been completed earlier had DRPS not been diverted into rescuing additional rolling stock such as their current working steam loco , a Peckett 0-4-0 ST which is undergoing extensive winter repairs . |
| 5 | Given the comments of the right hon. Member for Bath ( Mr. Patten ) , when he was Secretary of State for the Environment , that national parks were the jewels in the crown , does the Minister not think it fair that that should apply to the entire United Kingdom , not least to my constituency which contains Loch Lomond which is facing ecological disaster as a result of the political intransigence of the blockheads in the Scottish Office in Edinburgh ? |
| 6 | Areas facing irreparable damage include the Dee estuary in Wales where port , road and recreational development and pollution threaten 105,000 birds ; the Wash , where 260,000 birds are threatened by industrial development , an airport and oil refining ; the Mersey , where a tidal barrage and airport development threaten about 60,000 birds ; and the Thames , including the Medway and Swale , which is facing immediate damage from development and pollution threatening 177,000 birds . |
| 7 | You betray an ironic and unfair image of a decent country which is facing difficult times when you refer ( December 1st ) to Colombia 's ‘ worn out political system ’ ; to its ‘ corrupt and self-serving political elite ’ ; to assassination as ‘ the usual fate of Colombian reformers ’ ; and to drug traffickers ‘ who will get lighter terms in Colombia 's porous prisons in return for squealing on their colleagues . ’ |
| 8 | This applies also to the British Council , our arm of cultural diplomacy , which is facing unprecedented demands from the newly liberated countries which are looking out for English language teachers . |
| 9 | Siemens AG has now acknowledged that it is looking for a strategic partner for its troubled Siemens Nixdorf Informationssysteme AG , which is facing growing woes over the next couple of years now that the German economy is plunging into what threatens to be deep recession . |
| 10 | The Apple-Novell effort is said to have the blessing of Intel Corp , which is providing technical assistance and compatibility testing . |
| 11 | ‘ But I 'm not convinced that Genesis are doing stuff which is breaking new ground so much now . |
| 12 | Thus the implication is that if the State Department issues a mild statement in response to an issue which is provoking inflammatory articles and speeches in the press and Congress ( for example , over the Agrarian Reform Law ) , then it is simply that the government is hiding its ’ real' intentions in order to deceive . |
| 13 | It has a 38kW gas-fuelled unit from Combined Power Systems which is achieving net savings of £2,700 on energy bills with an annual gross electricity cost reduction of 61% . |
| 14 | Although the disability movement has taken the initiative in articulating this shift , it is a shift which is affecting all sides of the disability issue . |
| 15 | Again this contributes to a continuing shift from manual to non-manual occupations which is affecting most parts of the economy . |
| 16 | The reason why there is so little progress is horribly tangled up in the overall failure of Italy 's public life , a failure which is arousing mounting concern among her EC partners . |
| 17 | The 55-year-old coach of Grove Athletics Club has already begun her new role by encouraging local sporting and musical groups to consider visits to Mari and has formed a link with a Wantage-based company , Autotype International , which is sending two executives to Mari El in July . |
| 18 | It will use a similar technique to that currently being used by a Japanese group , which is monitoring solar neutrino reactions with water . |
| 19 | Ethan Nadelmann , a drugs expert who heads the Princeton Working Group , which is developing alternative ideas to prohibition , notes that legalisation of drugs was given a serious hearing . |
| 20 | Perhaps the most significant lexicon under development is that of the EDR project in Japan which is developing bilingual resources for Japanese and English ( Uchida , 1990 ) . |
| 21 | The French car company , Peugeot , which is developing electric models , estimates that by 1995 a total of 200,000 electric cars will be sold in Europe each year . |
| 22 | This is mainly dealing with the Social Fund which as you know , is erm , go undergoing changes , which means er loss of money and breaking up the fundings to twelve monthly amounts , which is creating great difficulties . |
| 23 | With the other legal deposit libraries , NLS is participating in a preservation microfilming project funded in part by the Andrew W. Mellon Foundation , which is devoting some $2.5m to this purpose in the UK . |
| 24 | South East Sumatra : Production is currently at 180,000 bopd ( 6,500 net to LASMO ) , with the major contribution coming from the Widuri field which is producing 100,000 bopd . |
| 25 | It must enable farmers to continue to do the job that they are trained and best qualified to do , which is producing essential food for the nation , at a price that the taxpayer is prepared to pay . |
| 26 | In the Southern Region we have introduced a retention system which is producing positive results as you will see in our regional report . |
| 27 | Increasingly , it is this type of study , rather than more expensive excavation , which is allowing new discoveries to be made at Pompeii . |
| 28 | A smell near the property boundary is likely to be a blocked interceptor trap which is allowing dirty water to get to the main sewer but is creating sludge in the bottom of the inspection chamber . |
| 29 | And anyway , it could also be argued that it is the accounting system which is allowing this manipulation ( perhaps even inducing it ) and therefore the accounting system should be modified to prevent it . |
| 30 | A spokeswoman for tour operator Thomson , which is taking 80,000 people away , said : ‘ We are going to have people further afield this Christmas than ever before . |