Example sentences of "[is] [verb] [verb] be [v-ing] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Meanwhile Mick is reported to have been seeing glamorous 21-year-old Aussie model Peta Wilson in Los Angeles . |
| 2 | However , Smith effectively confirmed Muhlfeit 's assertions that a case is to be brought against an electronic bulletin board service company , which is reported to have been distributing software for free as part of its service to its subscribers . |
| 3 | The Edmond family is reported to have been running crime rings , in a small way , for generations . |
| 4 | He is said to have been trying to get his ship into port in a force nine gale with almost no visibility — and guided by a pilot on shore . |
| 5 | House broker Smith New Court is said to have been promoting the stock to its clients . |
| 6 | The Emperor is supposed to have considered giving up the Province , and Seneca , who , as one of his advisers was well informed , is said to have been calling in his , or the Imperial , loans . |
| 7 | IBM top brass is said to have been meeting with Hewlett-Packard officials at various locations around the US over the last few days to lobby for their support and an announcement may now be imminent . |
| 8 | But what makes HP 's claims more convincing than most is the support from traditional IBM mainframe software suppliers , something HP is said to have been putting together for the last 18 months . |
| 9 | Iraq is said to have been spending something like 25% of its GDP on arms , and others are not far behind . |
| 10 | Another Pyramid OEM , Siemens Nixdorf Informationssysteme AG , is said to have been working closely with the company on R4000-based systems ( UX No 357 ) . |
| 11 | The mystery man seen leaving a restaurant with the Princess of Wales is a former Coronation Street actor who is thought to have been giving her voice coaching , it was disclosed last night . |
| 12 | THE Princess of Wales is understood to have been objecting to two claims . |
| 13 | He 's understood to have been smuggling cigarettes from Gibraltar into the Spanish Enclave of Ceuto . |
| 14 | ‘ Mr C S Jones ( Lab ) , Leicester NW — Will the Government now publish the report on which Mr S J L Summerchild is known to have been working at the time of his death ? — The report has already been published as Cmnd. 4078 . ’ |
| 15 | HP is known to have been casing the industry for new directions — a process witnessed by the winding down of its New Wave interface efforts — and is now thought to be closing in for a piece of Taligent Inc ( UX No 417 ) , the Apple Computer Inc/IBM Corp joint venture on object-oriented operating system technology . |
| 16 | What is more , Gavel 's largest shareholder , investment group Stratagem with 31 p.c. , is still refusing to sell out and is rumoured to have been buying Gavel 's convertible shares in an attempt to block any capital reconstruction . |
| 17 | Mr Dunn is believed to have been enjoying a morning 's fun in the spring sunshine . |
| 18 | The gunman is believed to have been waiting for the women and chidren to come out of the shop . |
| 19 | The man is believed to have been waiting there as his ex girlfriend came out of the shop with her daughter and two young grandchildren . |
| 20 | Mr Renaudat is believed to have been arranging a deal for a large supply of arms captured by Chad during the war with Libya to be sold to the Lebanese Christians , through intermediaries in Tunis and Iraq . |
| 21 | ‘ Mann is a black market dealer who it 's believed has been smuggling drugs into Nicaea . ’ |
| 22 | From these observations the task before the court on this appeal can be distilled in this form : the court is concerned to inquire as to the persons with respect to whom Parliament is presumed to have been legislating when using the expression , ‘ any person , ’ and in making that inquiry Parliament is to be taken to have been legislating only for British subjects or foreigners coming to the United Kingdom , unless the contrary is expressed ( which it is not here ) or is plainly implicit . |
| 23 | THE fictional firemen from ITV 's hit series London 's Burning have been looking at how American actors tackled blazes in the movie Backdraft , released this week on CIC Video . |