Example sentences of "[is] [v-ing] [pron] [adj] [noun pl] " in BNC.
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| 1 | All these people are doing is using their psychic faculties . |
| 2 | That he 's using his vast profits from drug-smuggling to finance his terrorist activities ? ’ |
| 3 | Or if you 've got a solicitor who is handling your legal affairs , then perhaps they do it er for nothing or cheaply . |
| 4 | BY VOTING overwhelmingly to reject the Vance-Owen peace plan — 51 votes against , two for , with 12 abstentions — the Bosnian Serb parliament is defying its own leaders in Bosnia , its own mentors in Serbia and almost the whole outside world . |
| 5 | Limited duration : e.g. The professor is typing his own letters ( these days ) . |
| 6 | The professor is typing his own letters for the time being . |
| 7 | News from the northern and western frontiers is that Chris Oake has a class going in the Isle of Man , a full complement of clubs , and hopes of a second class , and that Rosalind Garton in St Andrews is enjoying her contrasting sessions — a daytime one catering for the 55–70 age group , and an evening one for the younger and nimbler — with the occasional supplementary advanced class . |
| 8 | Thus , I may consent to my daughter 's marriage , to be governed by the decisions of the majority , or to my friend 's handling my financial affairs . |
| 9 | That should be a paramount objective er in financial institutions because D T I inquiries have indicated er that the work is less adequate er when er they 're relying er on when a man is checking his own figures or those of a colleague , that was er er in at the roadships erm re report . |
| 10 | As a special Mother 's Day treat , Bartjan is revealing his secret recipes for a delicious three-course meal to serve eight people : |
| 11 | All they are concerned with is keeping their own jobs . ’ |
| 12 | Santa Cruz Operation Inc is re-aligning its European operations . |
| 13 | Ram 's star trip is driving everyone fuckin' nuts . |
| 14 | It 's staging its own marches to counter the official demonstration and it 's changing some street names back to what they were before the revolution . |
| 15 | I hope everybody understands er , Alton Towers is launching its new things today , Chessington opened this weekend , so we have n't been trading until this weekend in effect in our parks business . |
| 16 | Durham Green Party is launching its own women 's campaign this week in the run up to International Women 's Day on Sunday March 8 . |
| 17 | Except to note that now that the right honourable member for Chesterfield is publishing his former speeches as a video , it is rather a cheap operation to come and repeat them in the chamber er rather than putting them out er for public consumption there are places where he could repeat the kind of speeches just given , unfortunately the government is closing most of them down at the moment and putting the cut the inhabitants out in the community er but it had no relevance to the er the subject we 're dealing with today . |
| 18 | ‘ KITS now has weak middle management and poor internal communication ; that 's causing us big problems . |
| 19 | The UK is meeting its international commitments to reduce acid rain , according to the government . |
| 20 | O&Y , which is meeting its 91 bankers on Monday in Toronto to restructure its debts of about £10 billion , is already in its grace period on a $62m payment due on an $800m Eurobond secured by an office block in New York 's World Financial Centre . |
| 21 | He 's operating his own hours . |
| 22 | The complainant may not know the precise details of the agreement or arrangement or conduct which is damaging its competitive interests in the market place . |
| 23 | She 's smoothing her sappled hands up and down my thighs . |
| 24 | Spenser at this stage is establishing his own claims to rational soundness by having Eudoxus , with his common sense English perspective , be seen marginalising the apocalyptic claims of Irenius . |
| 25 | P S Your point about W Is owning their own halls has been noted . |
| 26 | The only way to stop us now is selling our best players . |
| 27 | In [ 17 ] ( repeated below ) the author is recalling his initial impressions of the writer , John Gardner . |
| 28 | For one week only in the middle of this month ( 8–13 May ) , the Contemporary Art Society is exhibiting its recent acquisitions at the Camden Arts Centre before distributing them around museums in this country . |
| 29 | One of the biggest problems in working with these young people is overcoming their anti-school attitudes and convincing the former that they do have the ability and the latter that education is essential if they are to make a success of life . |
| 30 | TWA is heavily in debt and is slashing its European services by almost half . |