Example sentences of "[is] [v-ing] [adv] a [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The membership of the teams is bringing together a unique combination of experience and expertise in developing services for carers . |
| 2 | Ongoing promotion of Institute membership is bringing in a steady stream of enquiries from potential members . |
| 3 | No , her right one 's hanging down a little bit . |
| 4 | However , the company is still hauling 750,000 tonnes of potash each year from seams deep under the North Sea and is building up an increasing export market . |
| 5 | Is climbing primarily a mental or physical challenge ? |
| 6 | This time he 's a cyclist he 's a racing cyclist and he 's keeping up a steady twenty . |
| 7 | With gloss paint the cause is painting over a dirty or glossy surface without preparing it properly and applying undercoat before the gloss finish . |
| 8 | Here Barnett is opening up a whole store of perceptions , aims , and criticisms which marked out important features of the class relationship in the period ( and which were also relevant to age relations ) , such as the alleged pauperization of self-respect among the poor ; their grasping of excitement ; and the superiority of middle-class culture which made contact between the classes so crucial . |
| 9 | Orders for the HP 9000 multi-user Unix systems grew more than 40% during 1992 and although revenue for the HP 3000 declined , unit shipments of these systems increased about 20% for the year — striking given the move away from proprietary systems , but then the company is opening up an enormous Open bolt hole for HP 3000 users . |
| 10 | I anticipate that because that 's becoming now a key question . |
| 11 | Move your arms as little as is necessary to achieve your purpose , and always move them together so that if the front hand is knocking down an incoming punch , the rear is executing a counter-punch . |
| 12 | Thus , this paper is adopting explicitly a particular position along the spectrum of views currently being expressed about comprehensive , multidisciplinary assessment of older people , and , as well as proposing a model for practice , is also an attempt to stimulate amongst professionals and managers a debate , which is now urgent , about how the development of assessment and care management systems should proceed . |
| 13 | ‘ The fifty-metre array is picking up an odd waveform . |
| 14 | Romania 's telecommunications development will require $7,000m to $8,000m in investments , according to a senior Ministry of Communications official quoted by Reuter , which notes that that is despite the fact that it is seeking only a modest 25% phone penetration rate by the year 2005 ; Siemens AG and Alcatel NV had offered credits of more than $85m for switching equipment manufactured in Romania and the country aims to install 500,000 new phone lines , 3,125 miles of fibre optic cable , setting up a private television channel and obtaining between 5,000 and 10,000 mobile phone subscribers over the next three years . |
| 15 | John Hutchinson is writing up an initial impressions report of the work in the region . |
| 16 | Part of the reporting and accountability process is filling in a monthly time sheet which reinforces the emphasis on tasks . |
| 17 | Des , whose singing is the butt of dozens of jokes , is releasing both a single and a 12-track album in time for the big buying season . |
| 18 | There is no indication that Hollywood is turning over a new leaf , free of bloodstains . |
| 19 | In other words , the author is turning round an obvious accusation made against fascists . |
| 20 | SUNDERLAND manager Malcolm Crosby is lining up a late assault on the promotion play-off places in the New Year . |
| 21 | ANOTHER dispute is looming over a five-a-side soccer development in Middlesbrough . |
| 22 | Meanwhile , DEC is pulling together a central NT engineering-cum-marketing group under Jesse Lipcon and has picked Dennis Schneider , who rolled out DEC 's Desktop Direct programme , as director of marketing . |
| 23 | A MOTHER is suing over an alleged medical slip which led to her having a handicapped daughter . |
| 24 | well that 's going back a long time , is n't it ? |
| 25 | but that was an old woman 's tale really , that 's going back a few years ago |
| 26 | She 's buying quite a cheap one I think she 's buying a million |
| 27 | The club is revving up a grand welcome for four-wheel fans from all over Britain . |
| 28 | For example , a basalt flow which is moving over a dry , sandy surface is quite well-behaved and peaceful , but if the same flow were to advance on to an area of wet , boggy ground , or on to a snow-field , the water trapped beneath the lava may be heated up and turned into high-pressure steam . |
| 29 | He 's wearing only a new white dhoti and his body looks old , its loose flesh striated with veins and sinews . |
| 30 | He is emanating quite a powerful golden light himself , he notices . |