Example sentences of "[is] [v-ing] [adv prt] [prep] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Cumbria have a wide ranging programme including the Pilkington Roadshow in October at Workington , Egremont , Kendal , Keswick and Kirkby Lonsdale whilst David Pears is helping out at Workington on September 2nd and Wade Dooley at Kendal on September 15th . |
| 2 | A plant that may only flower once in a hundred years but grows at up to seven inches a day is catching on with gardeners . |
| 3 | Now the idea is catching on in Britain , so Lydia Ascroft says have a bash at massage and look forward to a sexier , slinkier you for the long , hot summer ! |
| 4 | The ghost of christmas future is catching up with Scrooge , and the news is grave . |
| 5 | The company is catching up with IBM UK , Bennett said , pointing to the respective performances of each . |
| 6 | Chances are , a Boeing jetliner is touching down at New York right now . |
| 7 | ‘ In any case , ’ Finlayson went on , ‘ all those Huns the Kaiser is bringing back from Russia are fagged out . |
| 8 | He 's struggling along at present with fifty or so sheep , growing a bit of food for himself along with his winter feed for the beasts . |
| 9 | What pissed me off is , is he 's hanging about with James and that lot now right , but when you talk about James and that lot to him its , oh they 're a bunch of chiefs . |
| 10 | After his Mirror Group Newspapers is floated in April , Robert Maxwell is stepping down as chairman of Maxwell Communication Corporation , and making his son Kevin chief executive . |
| 11 | There are two safer bets : Lord ‘ Derry ’ Irvine , Labour spokesman on legal affairs and long-time favourite for the Woolsack , who is backed by John Smith ; and Peter Archer , the former Solicitor General , who is stepping down as MP for Warley West . |
| 12 | The film tantalises us — and Evelyn , who is hanging on to Ninny 's every word — right to the end . |
| 13 | The Green Party is pitching in with policies on Rubbish recycling and transport . |
| 14 | In a sense Lecercle ( whose own name doubtless encouraged him to consider the surplus meanings language provides ) is sticking up for parole , the language as she is spoke ( or written ) . |
| 15 | " So I was , sir , but I thought my bride had better see something of what 's goin' on in town before I take her back and bury her on the Moor . |
| 16 | Interest is building up in Waterford Wedgwood , makers of the famous crystal glassware and bone china . |
| 17 | Erm she is struggling out of dependence on others into independence is n't she ? |
| 18 | What with Windows World upon us , Unix System Laboratories Inc , possibly a victim of show envy , is branching off into show business . |
| 19 | What with Windows World upon us , Unix System Labs , possibly a victim of show envy , is branching off into show business . |
| 20 | THE BRITISH Technology Group , the UK 's technology transfer organisation , is branching out into Europe , patenting and licensing technology from researchers throughout the Continent . |
| 21 | Software Partners/32 Inc which has laboured long in the DEC vineyards is branching out into Unix for the first time . |
| 22 | And it 's catching on with arachnaphobics everywhere . |
| 23 | Mr Lamont will take heart from the manufacturing figures , which could be an early indication that Britain 's beleaguered industrial base is climbing out of recession . |
| 24 | How does the market recognise that someone is trading on inside information ? |
| 25 | From now until the year 2000 , the arts calendar is silting up with festivals , memorials and monumental events . |
| 26 | I was less impressed by a news story in the Sunday Times announcing that the Pope is cracking down on sinners for Easter week : ‘ The Pope has ordered priests in the confessional box to clamp down on sin as churches prepare for the traditional Easter rush of sinners seeking forgiveness this week , ’ it announced knowingly . |
| 27 | The woman is oozing out of sight behind the door , back to applause on her TV . |
| 28 | GUERNSEY 's Mike Nicolle created the biggest upset in the history of the Midland Bank World Indoor Championship when he beat the defending champion , Ian Schuback , in yesterday 's opening round in Preston . |
| 29 | More than this , he even showed that horses use clairvoyance — the ability to see mentally something that exists or is happening out of sight — but to a much lesser degree . |
| 30 | Violette is driving up from Geneva with from what I can make out is her latest beau and two friends . |