Example sentences of "[is] [v-ing] [adv prt] [prep] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Even in the realms of technical and long document publishing the Macintosh is catching up with PC-based systems ; Interleaf Publisher usually needs a PC/RT or a Sun workstation yet it runs just fine on a Macintosh II . |
| 2 | One is contracting out to private sector firms the production of goods and services which the state provides free or at subsidized prices to consumers . |
| 3 | In a board reorganisation , Sir Brian is stepping down as chief executive . |
| 4 | MAURICE SAATCHI , who with his brother Charles created Saatchi & Saatchi , the world 's biggest advertising group , is stepping down as chief executive . |
| 5 | Daryl Foster is stepping down as Western Australia 's coach after 17 seasons . |
| 6 | International : Cotton republic is hanging on by slim thread |
| 7 | Everyone who is ahead of me is hanging on like crazy to their rung of the ladder . |
| 8 | It 's building up to critical . ’ |
| 9 | How the Queen is cracking down on young Royals |
| 10 | ‘ Some years ago , Eritel had a captive market , but that 's opening up to non-state owned companies , ’ he said . |
| 11 | But that is looking back to pre-war pre-Blitz days . |
| 12 | More and more money has been spent on the police , and it has n't worked , and that 's why everybody 's looking round for new initiatives , that 's why Patrick Sheehy who after all is chairman of a very successful commercial corporation , was asked by your government to put forward recommendations , that a lot of very unsuccessful police forces rejected out of hand . |
| 13 | Cable & Wireless Plc says it is teaming up with said it was teaming up with Telstra International , the international arm of Telecom Australia , and Benpres of the Philippines , to conduct a feasibility study into forming a new company to expand the telephone service in the Philippines . |
| 14 | But the future is also looking good for veteran companies like Harland & Wolff , which is teaming up with overseas firms to assure its future prospects . |
| 15 | SOUTHERN Water is pulling out of Stalwart , its joint venture with French-owned Saur ( UK ) in the refuse collection and cleansing service business . |
| 16 | WORK in the community is paying off for dedicated staff at Corporation Road Baptist Church in Darlington . |
| 17 | The investment in Penguin 's 12 merchandisers is not high , he says , and is paying off in increased business . |
| 18 | While pregnant Senada Causevic and her four children begin to recover from their months of hell , Bob is mugging up on Russian so he is better able to share the fears and hopes of his new friends . |
| 19 | Where this factor-augmenting technical progress is going on at constant exponential rates , the production function may be written ( 8–15 ) where K denotes the rate of capital augmentation and the rate of labour augmentation . |
| 20 | But these caricatures do not tell us much about what is going on with real , complex individuals behind the scenes . |
| 21 | Much research along these lines is going on in various parts of the world ; the quantum Hall effect is an offshoot that derives from curiosity about the effects of a strong magnetic field applied perpendicular to the plane of the two-dimensional system . |
| 22 | To understand what is going on in physiological psychology one needs to know what these assumptions are . |
| 23 | That is a quite legitimate interest , but surely what is going on in other parts of the country should be of interest to all of us . |
| 24 | In general , it can often be difficult for us to be sure just what is going on in supposed examples of communication . |
| 25 | Now I believe it 's the duty of the G M B and the trade union movement to first publicize the problem then we need a campaign and a strategy to avoid it , and that is going back to decent pension funds . |
| 26 | And if they say well , we want erm seventy five different locations served with crisps stands by ten o'clock tomorrow because our advert is going out on national T V tomorrow can we do it ? |
| 27 | And I do n't think everybody 's going around in eastern Europe thinking oh what we need is to get back to the old Stalinist system where you , you know , you had someone telling you what to do all the time . |
| 28 | Er erm not too bad , it 's going through to bad . |
| 29 | ‘ Hard to tell what 's going on for sure . ’ |
| 30 | He 's going on about damn baths at the moment . |