Example sentences of "[is] [v-ing] [adv] a [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | when we erm , er when we were doing those projects we erm , we had a comments book and more , more people were in favour of them and saw them as an improvement to the town and so it needs something that 's really interesting actually , it 's er , erm the work 's department have said , as a result of those graffiti projects they can shift two officer 's from the graffiti team to the highway 's team , so it 's actually cut down on the work of actually clearing up unwanted graffiti , so it 's had a positive effect , so we , we 've got these two people work with the other people and we 've got Dorothy who 's working with , with black people and ethnic minorities in the town and erm for people who were here when this presentation was last given , er Robin who used to be in the local The Policy Team of the Local Government Unit is now actually a Community Development Officer , one of the decision 's , Robin use to do video work for the Authority erm , and we decided we asset whether the the need for that kind of , k ind of work to continue , and we thought on balance not erm and he now is running the music rehearsal space over at Latton Bush , that again is a project for young people , to enable , it 's a place where band 's can practice and that 's the problem in Harlow erm and er that 's really exciting project because it 's bringing in a lot of income for the Council as as well as providing the service that people want and , and it , I mean it is important at this time that we are doing limited projects where we are bringing in income , cos at , you know we estimate that erm we can get that erm rehearsal space properly resource , that project could be self financing , so your providing a service but your also getting paid , your getting paid for as well , so erm that is who we are now and were er , where were located , we have an open door policy as people will know . |
| 2 | THE National Information Forum is drawing up a directory of hospital-based services for disabled people . |
| 3 | KENYA is drawing up a list of pesticides and medicines to be banned under laws that will pass through parliament this year . |
| 4 | At the same time , it is drawing up a list of preferred suppliers and aiming to reduce the total number . |
| 5 | In a challenge to the perceived order of things MIT Press is bringing out a book that turns the accepted view of Modernism on its head . |
| 6 | Is nursing purely a matter of imitating and repeating rote tasks , and therefore unworthy of anything more than the sympathetic application of a set of predetermined rules ? |
| 7 | Leeds MP Tim Kirkhope is building up a reputation as a quiet but skilful Enforcer but the other junior Whips are relatively inexperienced . |
| 8 | AGE Concern Cleveland is building up a stock of nearly new clothing in preparation for the opening of its RAGS centre in Linthorpe Road , Middlesbrough on June 15 . |
| 9 | Many existing maps concentrate on urban areas , but the National Register of Maps for the Visually Handicapped in London ( 071–873 2599 ) is building up a library of rural maps too . |
| 10 | Alongside the programme of developing the franchise chain — Wilmslow and Bromley open shortly , with Belfast , Harrogate and Kingston planned for the end of the year — Rodier Hommes is building up a network of approved stockists around the UK . |
| 11 | For instance , if a new service is building up a clientele base then one could naturally expect the efficiency ratio to improve over time . |
| 12 | SSL is building up a collection of databases on CD-ROM ( compact disc read-only memory ) in business , scientific and technical subjects . |
| 13 | Now it 's sticking out a mile , but the time home that make up another ruddy story to give |
| 14 | you make an arrangement to have a game of tennis but the weather , you know i it 's snowing or it 's raining so a lot of them get rained off which is er quite sad . |
| 15 | When Florence of Worcester draws elements of his account of the battle of Assandun in 1016 from Sallust he is revealing quite a lot about the classical interests of twelfth-century historians , but also raising doubts about his own reliability , and William of Malmesbury , whose methods so often find favour with modern scholars , nevertheless records miracle stories which his critical faculties ought to have led him to doubt , and perhaps did ; and like historians of all periods , William , Florence and their colleagues were at the mercy of the bias and inadequacy of their sources , as well as their own prejudices and errors . |
| 16 | It 's gettin' so a fella do n't know where he 's dippin' it . |
| 17 | It 's not desperately moist , although certainly one of them is cracking quite a bit , and if that helps to dry it up and make it more comfortable then it 's worth giving them a soak ten minutes a day . |
| 18 | There was a man who went off to Amsterdam to buy some diamonds , I helped his secretary book his ticket , first class , and his limousine , smooth as clockwork , and as he 's walking along a canal admiring the house fronts someone stabs him in the back , destroys a kidney , gangrene sets in , now he 's dead . |
| 19 | ‘ It 's becoming just a fashion statement . |
| 20 | Police Constable Harry Evans is driving along a country road when he sees strange lights in the sky and an object larger than a bus hovering in the road ahead of him . |
| 21 | thank you it 's cooling down a bit now , it 's been a gorgeous day though , that sun |
| 22 | A Black Hairstreak has been spotted , and it 's causing quite a flutter . |
| 23 | An argument over which bulls are best ; British or Canadian and American is causing quite a rumpus . |
| 24 | What we have is picking up a ragbag of stable door legislation , that came out of other Acts , and that 's why we have offices , shops and railway premises from the Oswald Acts which were neatly tucked in the back of Oswald 's Act . |
| 25 | Yeah I think he 's dressing up a revolution |
| 26 | Provided that Ali 's analysis of Hacihasanzade 's motives is correct-and one must remember that Ali is writing nearly a century after the event it would appear that already at the beginning of the sixteenth century the career of a kasabat kadi was regarded as a dead end . |
| 27 | A hospital is investigating how a woman patient went missing from a ward and was later found dead . |
| 28 | A major problem the country has right now is an economic one ; the Soviet Union is pulling out a lot of its aid programmes and has obviously bankrolled the Country since nineteen seventy nine , so there 's a tremendous economic problem added to the er battles of the Khmer Rouge are causing the government to fight . |
| 29 | In the campaign of February 1910 Mr Punch is peering down a well . |
| 30 | In this way , the hypnotist is not making me attack against my will , he is conjuring up a set of circumstances in which to attack seems the lesser of two evil courses . |