Example sentences of "[is] [v-ing] [prep] [adj] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Clift said , ‘ Marlon is sloppy — he 's using about one-tenth of his talent . ’ |
| 2 | More optimistically , facilities management company Northern Computing Services , acquired in May , returned to profit as did Integrated Engineering Products Ltd , which is seeing in 1993 with healthy order books . |
| 3 | A decision is binding upon those to whom it is addressed , and may operate to create individual rights which must be protected by the courts of the member states . |
| 4 | Erm and the difficulty is proving to some of the L E As that you 're actually self-employed . |
| 5 | Comparison is also used to explain a current phenomenon by comparing the past experience of the group where it is occurring with that of a group where it is not occurring . |
| 6 | In Nepal , dolphin habitat has traditionally been in deep clear water with swift currents , but hydro-electric development is occurring in many of the susu 's favourite remaining areas . |
| 7 | He is walking about Nice with dark glasses and bruises . |
| 8 | ‘ It 's happening to both of us ! ’ he bit out . |
| 9 | But the fact should also be faced that these two developments represent in microcosm what has happened and is happening in many of Britain 's older industrial towns . |
| 10 | No I , I think there is , there is a lot of evidence that this is happening in all of the villages |
| 11 | Sun Microsystems Inc had to do something to prove it 's muscling into retail like Hewlett-Packard Co so it went and sold Dunkin' Donuts $8m worth of IPC machines to network more than half its 1,600 franchise operations over the next four years . |
| 12 | Now watch this , as we go through the tack the sail is driving for most of the time just flapping briefly as the sail turns through the wind . |
| 13 | FYT is acting as one of the Congress Partners . |
| 14 | As one lawyer who is lobbying against many of the bill 's provisions told New Scientist : ‘ The very early aims of data protection laws were to protect the individual , and this particular bill was put forward by this government to protect business interests . |
| 15 | At the moment he 's living in one of brother Sidney 's caravans . ’ |
| 16 | If the position of power that comes about when shareholders combine their property in a company is damaging in either of these ways , then an invocation of ownership rights will not constitute a conclusive justification . |
| 17 | ‘ Ken is a very talented and composed young player who is developing into one of the game 's best , ’ said Davis . |
| 18 | ‘ This is turning into one of those mediaeval disputes which split hairs endlessly , ’ he said . |
| 19 | And for , our children when they grow up cos I had three children nearly every one that had come into the town had little ones so you see we were trying to build a town for our children to benefit which I do n't know whether you think that it 's a town worth living in but I think that we have done very well and it 's a town that is caring for such as the elderly they really do care ! |
| 20 | Greg is lying on one of the Palace 's luxuriant couches , gesticulating wildly and fixing me with a stare that is part ultimate artistic earnestness and part repressed pathological violence . |
| 21 | However , biotechnology is growing into one of the largest research fields of the nineties . |
| 22 | DEEP , deep down , on a level only recognised by hints and murmurs , an inchoate , undefined sense of oneness , of coterminous identity is growing among some of the peoples and some of the places of the Pacific . |
| 23 | Indonesia 's ambition to become the top paper-producing nation is leading to some of the earth 's finest forests being felled , according to a report from an international environmental group , Down to Earth . |
| 24 | No one can deny that professional tennis is going through one of those periods when a sure thing in the betting sense is a short cut to bankruptcy . |
| 25 | Seve Ballesteros is going through one of the worst slumps of his career . |
| 26 | This summer he is going to American in the hopes of meeting Darlene from Roseanne . |
| 27 | What 's going on all around you so then you concentrate on the ball again . |
| 28 | Okay so it 's being fairly cloudy this morning around er , well the last half hour or so and it 's going to black for a fair while across lunchtime . |
| 29 | Erm I also have a letter er from a Kate , I 'm not sure from which school she goes to , but she 's fourteen and she 's going to one of the local schools , |
| 30 | Well I think we 'll have to re-look at the whole question of village envelopes in certain cases , where it is decided that low cost housing is desirable , and see if in some way , they can encourage the farmer to make land available so that he can make some money which he badly needs at the moment , as agriculture 's going through one of the biggest depressions it 's been through for years . |