Example sentences of "[noun] be [v-ing] [prep] an " in BNC.
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| 1 | We know HP and IBM Corp are working on an early sample version of COSE code , which will include interface widgets , and HP 's VUE look and feel dominated the COSE desktop shown at the original announcement ( UX No 428 ) . |
| 2 | We know Hewlett-Packard and IBM Corp are working on an early sample version of the Common Open Software Environment code , which will include interface widgets , and VUE look and feel dominated the COSE desktop shown at the original announcement . |
| 3 | Zaher el-Khatib ( Sunni , of the ‘ Marxist Bloc ’ from the Chouf ) and two other deputies are campaigning for an end to confessionalism . |
| 4 | According to the Brazilian government 's own figures , two-thirds of the population now suffers from some degree of malnutrition and in the north-east nutritionists are talking about an epidemic of dwarfism . |
| 5 | EXPERTS are preparing for an event billed as the biggest controlled explosion in Europe since the Second World War — the demolition today of two multi-storey blocks of flats in Glasgow 's Gorbals . |
| 6 | One reading of this situation is that society 's thought patterns are developing in an anarchic fashion , with their adherents less able to communicate meaningfully with each other . |
| 7 | Market-watchers are talking of an approaching crisis , as recession spreads from east to west . |
| 8 | Sales of X-Windows software and X-terminals are still booming , according to the X Business Group , which estimates growth in the X-terminal business at around 100% , while sales of PC X-server products are growing at an astonishing 300% ( UX No 398 ) . |
| 9 | Tory strategists are banking on an upbeat message about the prospects for lower taxes , lower mortgage rates and more jobs to build a last-minute lead . |
| 10 | Microsoft , Intel , Novell and SynOptics are working on an open , common set of application programming interfaces that will enable management of individual micros on a network , providing a reference implementation and an open architecture . |
| 11 | He told the Scottish Grand Committee : ‘ The days of the Victorian mental institution are coming to an end . |
| 12 | Dozens of vintage aircraft are converging on an old airfield for a nostalgic flying display . |
| 13 | She let us stay with her for a week after Dada — ’ She paused , and again her hesitation appeared as if her mind were groping for an answer or a revelation to something she could n't understand ; then she said , ‘ After Dada … died . |
| 14 | On March 29 Moscow radio reported that almost all Ossete villages in South Ossetia had been razed by Georgian militants , and on the following day there were ominous reports from officials in North Ossetia that 12,000 armed Georgians were massing for an assault on Tskhinvali and surrounding districts still under Ossete control . |
| 15 | The purpose of the writer 's research ( Tweddell , 1988 ) was to examine practices in arts INSET for serving teachers at a time when the government 's intention to develop a coherent programme of INSET through GRIST was being initiated ( at Easter ) 1987 and to find out how the arts were faring in an educational climate which many observers were declaring inimical to the arts . |
| 16 | An answer came from Huddersfield , where the Town Football Club were looking for an assistant to their secretary-manager Ambrose Langley , who had partnered Chapman 's brother at Hull before the war . |
| 17 | The rhythm is responding to an external influence that has not been controlled in the experimental protocol . |
| 18 | It is possible that the deletion is encroaching upon an important part of the protein and altering the conformation of the complex . |
| 19 | ‘ And , since Owen 's lectureship in the States is coming to an end and he 's intending to return permanently to Britain , between the two of us we ought to be able to manage the old girl ! ’ |
| 20 | When Glamorgan College of Technology , the future Polytechnic of Wales , was visited by the CNAA in 1967 , it had recently set up an Academic Board , and the visiting party felt that ‘ very belatedly the College is developing towards an academic structure ’ and towards the kind of academic independence now ‘ established for some time in most other Colleges ’ . |
| 21 | Violent crime is increasing at an alarming rate , and more and more of our members are at risk of becoming victims . |
| 22 | The Indian software industry is growing at an average rate of 35 per cent a year . |
| 23 | Claudia Cohn-Casson is sitting under an enormous African fig tree near by , at a camp table spread with a Somali cloth . |
| 24 | Between them , Whitaker and Coburn devised the first episode 's opening in an English school . |
| 25 | DRI/McGraw-Hill is looking for an individual to join its sales and support team in its London office . |
| 26 | Mr Salmond may well be right in supposing that Labour 's Scottish high command was looking for an excuse to wriggle out of its reluctant commitments to constitutional co-operation . |
| 27 | Yet , while one part of my mind was reaching this decision , while horror and moral indignation were mounting within me , another part of my mind was working in an opposite direction . |
| 28 | When Ruth went into the house Hester was sitting on an upright chair by the table , peeling potatoes . |
| 29 | David was speaking to an Australian radio station shortly before lawyers acting for the Princess issued writs against and the gym owner . |
| 30 | Thus , when in Trusthouse Forte Albany Hotels Ltd v Daejan Investments Ltd ( No 1 ) [ 1980 ] 256 EG 915 the lease under which the rent reviewer was acting as an expert did not provide for interest to compensate the landlord for the tenant 's delay in paying the increased rent , the court refused to imply the missing term . |