Example sentences of "[is] [v-ing] [prep] [verb] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Zanadi is recovering after crashing at 170 mph during a practice session before this Sunday 's Belgian Grand Prix . |
| 2 | Er , on paragraph nine the government 's own figures show that there is a shortfall of glee while the others who have a a social conscience , a and that they 've mixed , the site provision is n't keeping pace with the growth of the number of caravans and yet , what it 's proposing to do in this paper will make the situation worse by removing any incentive erm and any requirement on local authorities actually to provide the sites that are needed to make up that shortfall and it 's quite clear that what this is about is actually what it is happening in housing in general and that is shifting provision from the pri , from the public to the private sector . |
| 3 | Its hard to see that there will be much demand for it at that price , but AT&T Co has introduced a phone called Picasso Still Image Phone , which enables people that both have one to transmit television-quality colour still images over standard phone lines while still talking to each other — but it costs a cool $3,300 for one ; Picassos will be installed at 39 Marriott convention hotels under an agreement with Washington , DC-based Marriott Corp and AT&T is looking into co-operating on image technology with Eastman Kodak Co — the phone , designed mainly for advertising , design and photography agencies , will work with the Kodak 's Photo CD system . |
| 4 | The friend he 's looking for served with the Royal Military Police in Austria from . |
| 5 | It is however essential at this stage to understand the ‘ God ’ the person practising Yoga is seeking to brought into union with . |
| 6 | Hewlett-Packard Co is crossing itself to ward off any demons that would give it the same misery Sun Microsystems Inc is going through moving from Solaris 1.0 to Solaris 2.0 . |
| 7 | Er , the coffee next week is going to made by Jane and Peter . |
| 8 | The decision to avoid this sector was consciously taken , but now Boyden is moving into recruiting in investment banking . |
| 9 | Even if the yolk sac is not visible , still be sure that is feeding before parting with your money . |
| 10 | The proposal reflects the fact that the business of the world 's biggest banks is shifting from lending to the trading of securities , securitised loans , foreign exchange and derivative financial products such as swaps and options . |
| 11 | IBM Corp 's James Cannavino took some time out to explain exactly what Louis Gerstner is doing with regard to the company 's restructuring — Gerstner , he says , ‘ has stopped any organisation in IBM that was creating a subsidiary just for accounting reasons ’ — instead , he decided it was better to change the accounting practices — ‘ which is great ’ declares Cannavino , ‘ because it means that the accountants are staying up as late as we do now ’ . |
| 12 | Cannavino took some time out to explain exactly what Louis Gerstner is doing with regard to the company 's restructuring — Gerstner , he says , ‘ has stopped any organisation in IBM that was creating a subsidiary just for accounting reasons ’ — instead , he decided it was better to change the accounting practices — ‘ which is great ’ declares Cannavino , ‘ because it means that the accountants are staying up as late as we do now ’ . |
| 13 | The speaker feels — and do n't we all ? — that if he had been around then he might have had the good fortune to cut a greater dash in the subject than he is succeeding in doing in present circumstances . |
| 14 | Asked if he accepted Mr Hume 's word , Mr Trimble replied : ‘ I think a very serious question-mark — I am sorry to say — has to be placed against Mr Hume 's motives , because he is persisting in talking to republican paramilitaries at a time when other people are anxious to see positive dialogue taking place . ’ |
| 15 | ‘ Who 's talking of dying on a fine day like this ? ’ |
| 16 | Does anybody understand vaguely what Clare 's talking about heard of this example . |
| 17 | And if it 's going to be relevant , from July onwards if Paul 's talking about moving into different premises , |
| 18 | try as one might , one ca n't change the group , but , but clearly these are not th the examples that Freud chooses are really big groups where the kind of factors he 's talking about comes through very clearly because y y you can not explain what happens in the Catholic Church or an army . |
| 19 | As he waited for a colleague delivering mail to Mr Reenan 's £300,000 Oxfordshire home , Ron said : ‘ One minute he 's talking about going to Diana , the next he 's gone to a newspaper . |
| 20 | But the former Director of Public Prosecutions — who quit after he was caught kerb-crawling in King 's Cross , London — is talking about acting on stage . |
| 21 | Now Mr Brown , who is 59 , is talking about running for governor . |
| 22 | It might be that a friend says to the young man who is thinking of living in Bali ‘ You do n't really believe that nonsense , you 're playing at being Gauguin' . |
| 23 | The gossip is that she is thinking of resigning from the practice and going back to her home town . |
| 24 | I know he is thinking of going to France . |
| 25 | ‘ He 's thinking of going into business , ’ Stella said . |
| 26 | He 's thinking about sitting near me and straining to be near without touching . |
| 27 | Middlesbrough Council is hoping at qualify for a further year 's Government grant to finance champion coaching sessions for young sportspeople . |
| 28 | Er you get , sa instructor and they say that if a training course which is gon na start at half past eight on February the tenth , erm yeah well that 's what we got ta do then you got ta start looking to the planning towards have n't you ? |
| 29 | Could I make the point , that I think the footings were already there , because they 'd started their double garage , which they then were n't allowed to have , and I think this is gon na stand on the footings . |
| 30 | The point that this motion makes is to try to make action , the facilitating attitudes over there is gon na lead to five hundred people losing their jobs in April . |