Example sentences of "[is] [v-ing] in a [adj] " in BNC.
Next page| No | Sentence |
|---|---|
| 1 | Cynical readers might be forgiven for thinking that concentrating on the minutiae of standards is a convenient way of avoiding the subject of how the industry is faring in a depressed market — but they would be wrong . |
| 2 | His 'ead 's hanging in a funny sort of way . ’ |
| 3 | Using that technology — which it picked-up from its acquisition of Multiflow 's Customer Support Division — Bell says it is collaborating in a joint venture with an unidentified ‘ up and coming ’ multi-processor specialist which will roll-out a Sparc system of that genre by 1993 . |
| 4 | Jonathan also successfully attended a course at Dartmouth naval college and is competing in a national contest to be chosen for a month 's holiday in South Africa organised by the sea cadets . |
| 5 | One of these others , the bestselling Focus on First Certificate , is appearing in a new edition in colour , together with Focus on First Certificate Grammar Practice Book . |
| 6 | In addition TML is devoting 8.8% of its total wage bill to training and is cooperating in a major programme with the national and regional governments which has provided 2,000 to 4,000 people with new jobs or skills . |
| 7 | You want to know what is happening in a Third World trouble-spot . |
| 8 | All that is happening in a beautiful country which has been the holiday destination of thousands of British people over the years . |
| 9 | At this stage of recognition , using the Mothercare catalogue or the Ahlbergs ' witty The baby 's catalogue , the young reader is learning some of the conventions we have mentioned , is finding a relationship between the content of books and outside reality , building up a useful vocabulary , and — if this is happening in a relaxed and loving environment — having a good time . |
| 10 | It is impossible to see , hear and participate in everything that is happening in a given social environment . |
| 11 | They are industrial sections concerned with what is happening in a particular industry , or a group of industries . |
| 12 | Where a group of persons is acting in a threatening manner , the pre-Act cases established that conduct of the defendants taken together should be considered . |
| 13 | David Jones , chief executive , is acting in a determined way to remedy the ills of the past and will reverse some of George Davies ' more grandiose schemes . |
| 14 | ‘ He 's living in a whole houseful of them . |
| 15 | ‘ An organisation is operating in a self-interested way if it is dealing with stress , ’ said . |
| 16 | If a firm is operating in a good , competitive market then , notwithstanding the problems associated with accounting measurements , profit does give an indication of how well it produced goods : the market was willing to pay more for the finished goods than it cost the firm to produce them , if the firm made a profit . |
| 17 | That such qualification may occur outside the language-system , through paralinguistic means and in the observation of and judgement on which language-system , dialect etc. is operating in a given context , is irrelevant , Lyons would claim , to his central point . |
| 18 | The once powerful arbitrageur , who dominated the takeover scene on Wall Street until his arrest in November 1986 , is living in a Federal centre in the suburbs of Brooklyn , known as a halfway house between prison and the outside world . |
| 19 | Anyone suffering from a mental handicap and who is living in a mental hospital must complete a declaration that he or she wishes to register for the right to vote . |
| 20 | HOMELESS baby Heidi Grady is living in a rusty old Toyota in a public car park … right under the nose of the council which refuses to house her . |
| 21 | She is living in a superficial world appearing to act as the ‘ lovely creature ’ she is . |
| 22 | These are some of the arguments : first , the Black community is living in a hostile environment , therefore we should not wash our dirty linen in public as this would be used by racists against Black people . |
| 23 | Now , with filming still going on , he is living in a converted barn just 10 miles from Mayle 's own home . |
| 24 | But our internal press and politics is living in a mad euphoria . |
| 25 | The jury is out on whether the Government is ushering in a new golden age of private railways or whether , in the words of one of its sworn enemies — Jimmy Knapp , the RMT transport union leader — rail privatisation will turn out to be ‘ the poll tax of the nineties ’ |
| 26 | IT HAS BEEN in the air for months : Charles Saatchi , according to New York 's uniquely garrulous and paranoid clan of dealers and artists , is selling , and he is selling in a big way . |
| 27 | It 's growing in a mental |
| 28 | it 's going in a single lane |
| 29 | This is where is lacking in a little bit of er you know authority or she 's not quite sure right . |
| 30 | Of course , as he is moving in a random direction at a random speed , he is quite likely to whirl out of control and hit either side . |