Example sentences of "[is] [v-ing] on a [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Has the Secretary of State read the last sentence of the Cardiff Business school report , which states : " If as we are led to believe , Wales is drawing on a new era , nobody has informed Mountain Ash about it . " ? |
| 2 | Now it 's been so successful , it 's opening on a permanent basis . |
| 3 | In many ways , he believes his situation to be a microcosm of what is happening on a larger scale in the industry . |
| 4 | The Ulster branch annual general meeting at the House of Sport , commencing at 7pm is operating on a new constitution and offers the chance for all affiliated players to gain access to the table tennis , with delegates from clubs carrying voting rights . |
| 5 | Everyone knows — Pepe says he 's going on a foreign tour and wo n't be back for months . |
| 6 | teachers have found to their cost that merely telling teenagers what is the Church 's teaching on a particular topic fails to motivate or interest . |
| 7 | Work is beginning on a geotechnical database , extending the current holding of shear-strength measurements to include values of moisture content , liquid limit and a variety of further data . |
| 8 | On the the hon. Gentleman 's second question , he will know that work is proceeding on a statutory code under the Northern Ireland ( Emergency Provisions ) Act 1991 . |
| 9 | Adacom group , part of of Harris Adacom is embarking on a substantial product and organisational expansion . |
| 10 | If your centre is embarking on a European project , or if you have an enquiry where SCOTVEC could help , Moira McKerracher , European Development Officer will be pleased to hear from you . |
| 11 | Wilkinson Sword is embarking on a seven-fold increase in advertising spend for the launch of its Protector wet shaving system . |
| 12 | It is embarking on a two-stage effort to bring a data dictionary , and eventually a repository , to its relational database management system , fourth-generation language and CASE tool environments . |
| 13 | The European Commission is embarking on a four-year , £52 million study of climate change , named Epoch , as Europe braces itself for its third year of severe drought . |
| 14 | THE BRITISH Nuclear Energy Society ( BNES ) is embarking on a major recruitment drive . |
| 15 | Coleraine 's Decidedly Average Theatre Company is putting on a devised comedy called ‘ All Wired Up ’ . |
| 16 | Atkinson is relying on a revolutionary machine to help cure a stomach strain . |
| 17 | And Oxfordshire 's Harry Taylor , here on the left , is relying on a small tent for shelter . |
| 18 | There are many interesting facets of this complex diagnostic process and three are worthy of re-emphasis : firstly most of his information comes not from positive signals , stimuli or cues but from their absence , secondly he is relying on a hybrid model — a mixture of rules , mental pictures and symbolism , thirdly it all happens without very much conscious guidance — one mental or physical event leads to another and each event in the chain plays its part before handing over to the next one . |
| 19 | Now Livingston appears to be fighting a losing cause , especially since he is relying on a scientific defence rather than a claim the BAF testing procedure was suspect . |
| 20 | If the source of the sound is standing on a solid object , like a radio on a table , or a washing machine on a floor , the vibrations will be set up in the solid object , and will travel along it , carrying the noise through to the next room , and even to the next house . |
| 21 | DECEMBER 1989 IN A SUITE ON THE 24TH FLOOR of the Mirage Hotel , Muhammad Ali is sitting on a small white sofa near full-length windows that overlook much of the east side of Las Vegas . |
| 22 | The Obergruppenführer , meanwhile , is sitting on a large leather revolving chair behind a vast expanse of desk . |
| 23 | However , the music entrepreneur , who is sitting on a near 50% stake worth £10m , is about to make a fresh foray into the records business . |
| 24 | Uninterruptible power supplies , because if the set of master files is sitting on a single server machine you ca n't afford to lose that either . |
| 25 | The other company , a more recent entrant into the market , is investing on a considerable scale . |
| 26 | ‘ Fru Blicher is laying on a cold buffet for the audience and performers after the recital and we shall be introduced to the singer and his accompanist . |
| 27 | Silicon Graphics says it 's working on a proprietary set of benchmarks that it 'll share with others in the fall . |
| 28 | Indeed , it says it 's working on an Asynchronous Transfer Mode SBus adaptor board , also expected by the end of the year , for use in Sparcsystem 1 , 2 , and 10 workstations : occupying a single SBus slot , it will support the Local SONET Synchronous Optical Network 155Mbps Physical Layer as defined by the Asynchronous Transfer Mode Forum . |
| 29 | As well as developing an AS/400 H-series processor around the Rios 2 RISC , IBM Corp is working on a parallel project to develop a single processor architecture that would become the basis of all its mid-range offerings in around 1995 , the May issue of IBM System User believes . |
| 30 | As well as developing an AS/400 H-series processor around the Rios 2 RISC , IBM Corp is working on a parallel project to develop a single processor architecture that would become the basis of all its mid-range offerings in around 1995 , the May issue of IBM System User believes . |