Example sentences of "[noun sg] [is] [v-ing] [prep] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | THE Northern Ireland School 's Football Association is looking for talented young players for the coming international season . |
| 2 | THE Country Landowners ' Association is calling on local planning authorities to help farmers understand new planning controls on farm and forestry buildings . |
| 3 | Saltburn Residents ' Association is pressing on alone to take part in Britain in Bloom . |
| 4 | A great deal is riding on those words and what they produce . |
| 5 | Chairmen of other Institute technical committees may also attend to get an early impression of the way the wind is blowing on contentious issues . |
| 6 | And the odour can be carried as much as a mile away if the wind is blowing in that direction . |
| 7 | He was familiar with Pound 's writing on Japanese drama , and had been impressed by the first performance of At the Hawk 's Well when he had seen a well-known Japanese dancer take the role of the hawk . |
| 8 | And by coincidence , while this little episode is happening in downtown Deptford , in uptown we have very much the same thing . ’ |
| 9 | DOUG LAUGHTON , whose Leeds side is struggling with three wins from eight Championship matches , last night vowed : ‘ The good times will come back to Headingley . ’ |
| 10 | On a brighter note , the survey indicates that the North-South divide is continuing to narrow . |
| 11 | If high unemployment continues what good is training to most people in West Belfast ? |
| 12 | And despite a large membership , the club is appealing for new bowlers to join . |
| 13 | The anti-dog programme is meeting with some encouraging success , using poisoned bait which is hidden under dark ledges . |
| 14 | ‘ It shows how the estate action programme is combining with other initiatives to bring comprehensive improvements to run-down estates . ’ |
| 15 | They also believe that their programme is working as most privatized companies are reporting increased turnover , investment and profitability . |
| 16 | Outside Africa , desertification is occurring in many other arid and semi-arid regions . |
| 17 | The problems are most acute in Africa where population pressures are also greatest , though modification of South American savannas is increasing ; desertification is occurring in some areas as a result of overgrazing . |
| 18 | While your subconscious mind is searching for some final point to include in the margins , go on to the final stage . |
| 19 | The gardens outside my window are bowing down to the heat of the afternoon , but my mind is racing in this stillness , like a dust devil on the apparently windless plains . |
| 20 | It often involves the modern mind 's entering into old concepts for which there is no modern equivalent . |
| 21 | On an application for renewal of registration , the Law Society may require the registered foreign lawyer to provide to the Society evidence satisfactory to the Society that the registered foreign lawyer is complying with any indemnity rules or is exempt from them . |
| 22 | Dreadco is appealing for middle-aged identical twins , one to live in the low-pressure laboratory and one outside , while microscopic examination compares the rate at which grey hairs appear on their scalps . |
| 23 | My Department is writing to all those who have been registered as objectors to the applications , with details of the arrangements . |
| 24 | Here are some guidelines , derived from the New Testament 's teaching on these matters ( cf. |
| 25 | ‘ Car 's coming in half an hour , ’ he said . |
| 26 | Testily she said : ‘ The car 's going in five minutes . ’ |
| 27 | R.5(6) provides that a shareholder shall not exercise any voting rights in respect of any share held in breach of any part of R.5 — a breach could come about either because a shareholder is not permitted to be a shareholder or because a shareholder is holding for another person who is not permitted to be a beneficial owner . |
| 28 | We will also assume that on 1 April the money market rate of interest is 10 per cent and the long-gilt future is trading at 91–21 , i.e. 91.66 ( per 100 nominal ) . |
| 29 | A difficulty with conducting this type of research is controlling for outside factors , for example , international recession , or war , or a disastrous crop failure . |
| 30 | Research is continuing into alternative uses of straw — but for most farmers it 's a waste product . |