Example sentences of "[noun sg] be [v-ing] in [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | As the implications of another disastrous election defeat begin to be analysed , it is clear that calls for the Labour Party to embrace PR as a way of breaking the Tory stranglehold are gaining in strength . |
| 2 | Claims that the President is acting in excess of power would allow individuals to interfere in the conduct of foreign affairs : a successful domestic legal challenge to an agreement reached with Iran would have undermined the negotiation process and cast doubt on the efficacy of future negotiations with the United States . |
| 3 | ‘ Your mind is wandering in line with your conversation . |
| 4 | where the registered foreign lawyer is practising in partnership with one or more solicitors , the partners of the registered foreign lawyer ; |
| 5 | That the LIBF is growing in importance is not longer in doubt . |
| 6 | Its commercial success inevitably resulted in the production of inferior imitations such as Joseph Zito 's Missing in Action ( 1984 ) , Lance Hool 's Missing in Action 2 — The Beginning ( 1984 ) , George Cosmatos ' Rambo : First Blood , Part II ( 1985 ) , and Aaron Norris ' Braddock : Missing in Action III ( 1988 ) . |
| 7 | They 'll give us an up to date assessment of what 's been happening , what 's being done to reduce the effects of the factors I 've just mentioned and , more importantly , how the industry is changing in tune with the changing demand , or lack of it . |
| 8 | With the development of rights of appeal against tribunal decisions , the significance of judicial review is diminishing in relation to such tribunals . |
| 9 | The Pairs class can be useful if your horse is lacking in confidence or rather lazy , as you can go round the course with an experienced friend to lead the way . |
| 10 | Thus , although the equation is changing in favour of the regulators , the skilled operator with nominee accounts and bank secrecy laws in off-shore centres is still often beyond the reach of the authorities . |
| 11 | Hypnotics should be prescribed , preferably for short periods only , where insomnia secondary to distress is undermining in individual 's resources , such as during a severe grief reaction . |
| 12 | Further large-scale deforestation is occurring in response to government-sanctioned development projects , many of which involve cash cropping and ranching . |
| 13 | In other words , we cite the rules governing the conduct of business in this arena of social life and show how the agent was acting in accordance with them . |
| 14 | Nonetheless , provincial ‘ conurbations ’ , all in the North , suffered appreciably more than other types of area in both absolute and proportionate terms ; the effect was devastating in view of their inherited history of decline and levels of unemployment . |
| 15 | Maisie was sitting in front of the television , glaring sullenly at a man in a pink tracksuit . |
| 16 | Carlie was sitting in front of the television when Harvey arrived . |
| 17 | Evidence that Perot 's candidacy was growing in popularity in late October led to hints by both the Bush and Clinton camps that Perot could be included in a future Cabinet . |
| 18 | ‘ But the Devonport proposals for nuclear submarine work are going in parallel to that , and that was put forward by ourselves really delinked from what the chairman was saying , as our initiative to attract and secure work . ’ |
| 19 | The employees in such departments are often out of touch with changes in public opinion , relying instead on research data which may not be framed in a context most likely to discover what changes of attitude are occurring in consumer habits . |
| 20 | Overall , Sun is putting in place commercial software tools aimed at the development of new client/server applications , the cross-development of hosted applications and the migration of existing applications . |
| 21 | The younger boy is recovering in hospital after a kitchen knife was plunged into his chest at his home in Bath , Avon . |
| 22 | A ten year old boy is recovering in hospital after being savaged by his neighbour 's dog . |
| 23 | The topic of genealogy is growing in popularity every year as people search out their roots . |
| 24 | Bearing in mind that canoeing is gaining in popularity , along with the leisure industry , the situation will get worse before it gets better . |
| 25 | He contributes his ‘ explosive ’ talents to an atomic energy team in Milan and claims the sport is growing in popularity . |
| 26 | Certainly the private services sector is growing in output and employment and suffered little from recession . |
| 27 | Yes , it 's the County Council canteen , but the City Council is putting in money to subsidize it . |
| 28 | A TWO-year-old girl is recovering in hospital after a savage attack by her family pet dog . |
| 29 | A NINE-YEAR-OLD girl is recovering in hospital after being struck by a car near the North-East coast at the weekend . |
| 30 | I 'd rather take that approach , and what I would suggest is that , wherever possible , teachers should think about involving parents in the kinds of difficulties that the child is having in school , and thereby becomes a team effort rather than parents working one direction and perhaps teachers working in another . |