Example sentences of "[noun] [is] [v-ing] the [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Northern Arts is giving the money on top of annual grants from a special Drama Production Fund , money ‘ unclaimed ’ by Newcastle-based Northern Stage after it ceased production while looking for a new artistic director . |
| 2 | LENTON and Wortley Hall Association is following the lead of Convocation and asking the Hall 's alumni from these years to make a special effort to attend the 1992 reunion which is to be held in the Hall from 2nd-4th October . |
| 3 | THE Co-Ownership Housing Association is celebrating the success of its Brand New Start Scheme launched in April this year . |
| 4 | THE NEWLY formed North Liverpool Business Association is turning the tide against cowboy tippers who by night increase the environmental blight of the north city docklands area . |
| 5 | Pamela Stephenson is upsetting the apple cart with her war against harmful pesticides in our food . |
| 6 | LASMO is sponsoring the team by paying part of the cost of court fees , referees [ for league matches ] and kit . |
| 7 | Meanwhile , the president is filling the time with less provocative suggestions . |
| 8 | Recently , two of Mr Gorbachev 's advisers , Vadim Bakatin , a member of the new National Security Council , and Georgy Shakhnazarov , the president 's personal political adviser , have said the president is reconsidering the idea of a coalition . |
| 9 | In the meantime , Jean is keeping the blanket cupboard well stocked for the winter . |
| 10 | Consider the simple sentence in commonsense language , ‘ Look out , the wind is blowing the baby 's pram over the cliff edge ! ’ |
| 11 | A plague of uniformity is sweeping the world , numbing the taste buds and reducing the gene pool . |
| 12 | The new flood of refugees consequent upon the Russian withdrawal from Afghanistan is straining the relief services . |
| 13 | Such is the demand that the club is taking the road up to Southport for regular Monday night sessions at the Palm Court . |
| 14 | Naturally , the loss of this sort of money is a blow to us , but every club is feeling the pinch . |
| 15 | Liverpool Motor Club is running the Brenig service area near Denbigh on the Lombard RAC Rally in the afternoon of Monday November 23 . |
| 16 | However , if an agent is enjoying the wine with a Bryan Adams , he or she may be drinking the vinegar with a manager 's smaller act who makes much more work than the bigger act , with absolutely no income . |
| 17 | Robert this , this presumably implies that the agent is suing the name |
| 18 | erm well it does n't necessary apply that the agent is suing the name , the question is whether , what any right the agent has got , er the fact of the matter is as I understand it and tell me if I 'm wrong , that your client has erm received a demand under clause nine er , er which he has failed to comply , I think that must follow because er if he had complied with it , then that would never of got as far as the central fund |
| 19 | Card fraud is costing the industry £165 million a year and now the battle against it is taking a hi tec turn . |
| 20 | Despite the unremitting hostility of the Opposition Front-Bench team , I am glad to say that the majority group on the present Liverpool city council , in contrast to its predecessor , is showing interest in a housing action trust and my Department is discussing the matter with it . |
| 21 | Wyre Borough Council 's community services department is running the competition . |
| 22 | When the main army is far ahead , and the rearguard is entering the pass of Roncesvalles , it is suddenly attacked by an immensely superior force of Saracens . |
| 23 | The conclusion is irresistible that Mr Mandela is exploiting the government 's growing dependence on him to extend his influence to the many black organisations whose adoptive leader he is . |
| 24 | Next locomotive to be outshopped from Bridgnorth works is likely to be GWR 2-6-0 No. 9303. this former Barry inmate is nearing the end of its restoration and is expected to move again under its own steam this summer . |
| 25 | The cost of Christmas cards , free parcels and telegrams is costing the taxpayer millions of pounds , it was claimed yesterday . |
| 26 | Trainer James Fanshawe is considering the Christmas Hurdle at Kempton on December 27 or the Bookmakers ' Hurdle at Leopardstown two days later . |
| 27 | There must be many who are touched to the heart by that phrase ‘ earthly father ’ and yet who do n't believe a word of the novel 's religion ; just as , and more obviously , Raskolnikov 's kissing the dirt in the middle of the Haymarket does n't stand or fall by Dostoevsky 's Soil Philosophy . |
| 28 | A fast food restaurant chain in the United States is pioneering the use of pagers for its waiters . |
| 29 | Yer archetypal mad-dictator is threatening the world , so our rock-'ard , square-jawed hero is dropped into the danger zone by chopper ( he fell on his head , so he should be okay ) . |
| 30 | It is difficult knowing how far to credit such stories in twelfth-century sources , although given that the Ramsey chronicle is recording the history of its own house , and that the Peterborough source refers to trouble there at the same time , it is reasonable to believe that trouble of some sort there was . |