Example sentences of "[is] [v-ing] [prep] a [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Malvern-based chartered accountant Alan Kay is helping with a detailed investigation of the activities of certain copier companies that are widely criticised for malpractice , as well as the leasing companies that finance them . |
| 2 | This utility will total up the number of bytes each directory is using across a given path . |
| 3 | THE cab driver who was forced to carry an IRA bomb to Downing Street is recovering with a double birthday celebration . |
| 4 | Patrick , who joins Michael and EastEnders actress mum Lizzie Power for a family holiday in Sardinia on Wish You Were Here , was born with cerebral palsy and is recovering after a major hip operation which his father describes as ‘ monstrous ’ . |
| 5 | I also regret to say that our chairman , Mrs Dorothea Garnons Williams , who would I am sure have liked to attend , is recovering from a serious operation . |
| 6 | And three-times 1930s champion Perry , in a letter from the American hospital bed where he is recovering from a triple heart bypass operation , added : ‘ To the youngsters who will use this centre , I say , use it with pride . |
| 7 | The chough , the rarest member of the crow family in Britain and Ireland , is recovering from a severe decline in numbers . |
| 8 | Paul Dodge , once the hard centre amongst England 's backs , is recovering from a pulled hamstring and expects to make the Orrell trip , but there are still doubts about the fitness of John Wells , the England B flanker whose hamstring problems may keep him out for two more weeks . |
| 9 | And for the biggest test of the season Town are missing three regulars Micky Hazard … is recovering from a minor knee ooperation … and with Craig Maskell still out Steve White has the task of leading the goal hunt |
| 10 | But he 's singing like a romantic lead . |
| 11 | A packed run of the ‘ The Wind in the Willows ’ at the National Theatre is drawing to a close , but it is clear that Alan Bennett has launched a new Christmas tradition in London . |
| 12 | The scene of life , Bransby ’ , continued he , ‘ is drawing to a close : although my career has been a most happy one , I feel much less regret than I expected in leaving it , for I have full confidence in the mercy of God . ’ |
| 13 | It is this era which is drawing to a close and , with it , the peculiar mixture of promise and peril which long characterised Soviet life . |
| 14 | In 1838 Captain ( later vice-admiral ) John Washington [ q.v. ] , secretary of the Royal Geographical Society , remarked upon these West African surveys : ‘ this tedious undertaking is drawing to a close , and will then be of equal utility to the fair traders , and to the anti-slavery cruisers . |
| 15 | Has the Secretary of State read the last sentence of the Cardiff Business school report , which states : " If as we are led to believe , Wales is drawing on a new era , nobody has informed Mountain Ash about it . " ? |
| 16 | Cynical readers might be forgiven for thinking that concentrating on the minutiae of standards is a convenient way of avoiding the subject of how the industry is faring in a depressed market — but they would be wrong . |
| 17 | His 'ead 's hanging in a funny sort of way . ’ |
| 18 | More usually , this is done by attaching lights to the wrists or to other parts of the body , if the light is flashing at a known frequency the relative time of particular positions as well as the sequence can be measured . |
| 19 | He dismisses fears of a second-half slowdown and is sticking with a year-end profit forecast of £417m ( £364.5m ) . |
| 20 | Phil Clarke , Andy Platt , Martin Dermott , Steve Hampson and Jason Robinson are already out of the televised first round encounter , while Joe Lydon is struggling with a twisted ankle . |
| 21 | But again Dostoevsky is fumbling after a creative or regenerative suffering , because it is of the essence of Raskolnikov 's questions , desires , feelings , and so forth ( which of course do appear in the novel ) that they should be agonized . |
| 22 | Using that technology — which it picked-up from its acquisition of Multiflow 's Customer Support Division — Bell says it is collaborating in a joint venture with an unidentified ‘ up and coming ’ multi-processor specialist which will roll-out a Sparc system of that genre by 1993 . |
| 23 | Oh well usually when you get T C P it 's because the chlorine 's reacting with a phenolic compound within the tap washer . |
| 24 | But she 's being encouraged in her fightback by a young rider who 's recovering from a similar fall . |
| 25 | Large firms make more sense when the UK is competing within a large European market . |
| 26 | Jonathan also successfully attended a course at Dartmouth naval college and is competing in a national contest to be chosen for a month 's holiday in South Africa organised by the sea cadets . |
| 27 | Ken is rowing at a constant speed , he covers eighteen metres in three seconds . |
| 28 | All of the world 's savannas have been affected by human activity and , as Table 7.2 shows , deforestation is occurring at a rapid rate due to agricultural development and fuelwood collection . |
| 29 | Given the revival of interest in local radio and the fact that this is occurring within a general context of economic and financial difficulty in the country as a whole , it is rather surprising that so little attention has been paid to the potential role of radio in contributing to local economic development . |
| 30 | But the growing body of evidence that the onset of massive winds occurs right up to the dividing line suggests that a phase transition is occurring from a hot , magnetically confined corona to a cool , open , massive wind outflow . |